the thankful list

I have a confession to make. I've actual been "blogging" [in a way] since 10 years ago. Yes, you heard that right: TEN YEARS. It all started my junior year of high school, when I took Driver's Ed at a neighboring school and met a guy named Jay. He had a weekly email called "The Jay Newsletter" that he sent out to all his friends (and me).  It was witty and weird and I loved to get them in my email box.  So of course I started my own for my own friends.   I called it "The Litterbox" Because my name is Cat, and that's just downright cool when you're in high school.

So anyway, in its heyday, my 'Lbox' had over 50 subscribers (including my AP Econ teacher), its own Geocities website (R.I.P.), and articles written by some of the greatest 17-year-old minds in suburban northeast Atlanta.

I was thinking of doing a "what I'm thankful for" post to celebrate the upcoming holiday, but then I remembered that I had already done that!  I still remember going around and asking my high school friends what they were thankful for and then compiling a list for The Litterbox.   And thanks to floppy disks, hard drives, and flash drives, with no thanks to defunct geocities, I am bringing you this article today, in its original form.

So here it is, the Thankful List, originally published in issue #21 in November of 2001 (my senior year of high school).  The only edit is that I've added a few links into the mix to help you out if needed.

The Litterbox
(A place to deposit crap)

Topic 1)  The Thankful List:

Compiled By Me

      In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I asked around for a few days, and here are the many wonderful, Litterbox-worthy things that people have said they are thankful for, in random order:

      Bowel regularity . . . a cappella music . . . duct tape . . . cheese . . . genitalia . . . Comic Sans . . . Poptarts . . . breathmints . . . email . . . Pez . . . disposable diapers . . . dumb people who make others look smart . . . "my clavicle" . . . the Shakespeare Tavern . . . cheesy pickup lines . . . monkeys . . . Fibercon . . . the BBC . . . German exchange students . . . clear skin . . . Homecoming dances . . . Jell-o pudding . . . toes . . . 2-ball blue . . . optimism . . . homeostasis . . . Burger King . . . sexual innuendo . . . the way girls' hair smells after they wash it . . . the Dollar Tree . . . deodorant . . . Pop Rocks . . . boxer shorts . . . 3-ring binders . . . indoor plumbing . . . "that I'm not Afghan" . . . rainbows . . . Velcro . . . sidewalk chalk . . . long underwear . . . Harry Potter . . . Grant's t-shirt collection . . . mojos . . . cargo pockets . . . parallelism . . . "myself" . . . curly hair . . . peristalsis . . . green M&M's . . . mix tapes . . . SparkNotes . . . the Naked Chef . . . dirty jokes . . . processed meat . . . Rodney Mullen . . . March 15th . . . "my musical nose" . . . Dr. Seuss . . . my mind . . . Frau . . . ambiguity . . . bliss . . . unslurred speech patterns . . . LIFE

What are you thankful for?  And what were you thankful for 9 years ago?

As for my old Litterbox newsletter, I'll definitely pulling some more articles from there to re-post here!