christian ross

I’m Thankful

It’s that time of year again, my second annual list of random things I’m thankful for. Here, in no particular order and by no means an exhaustive list, are some of the things I am thankful for this year:

God, Jesus, Melanie, Cohen, Keegan, mia famiglia, Vitesse, Chipotle, reliable transportation, two-teeth smiles, A Fashionable Thursday, Instapaper, Modern Family, Dinner at the table, Dribbble, portable DVD players, Baylor Medical Center (Irving & Grapevine), welding, nebulizers, setting my own hours, plastic baseball bats and balls, hand-drawn type, automatic watering timers, MailChimp, Ben Sherman, people I’ve only met on the Internet, Netflix, good laughs, Tweetie, grilling, the means to travel and the desire to stay close to home, Ego app, the right to vote, Art Direction plugin, babysitters, Toggl, My wife’s Thursday night food adventures, that skipping a meal doesn’t do long term damages to kids, Transmit, wood, kids books, music, Gowalla, Banana Republic, people who put others first, Dave, CompleteSite, Mad Men, iPad, GOOD, pictures, Starbucks, people I’ve met because of the Internet, mix tapes, Woopra, referrals, the library, Fireworks, Instagram, full-teeth smiles, downtown Grapevine, Christmas trees, Square, Mision Para Cristo, Tumblr, talk radio, Amazon, Fusion Ads, Goodnight Moon, headphones, TOMS, iPhone, freedom, Reeder, Whataburger, SlideRocket, football, matching shirts, WordPress, discovery of flight, Simplenote, radio controls on my steering wheel, Apple, illustrators, J Crew, HOW, toys, quiet times, Buon Giorno, Vimeo, New Balance shoes, modern medicine, Twitter, Sausilito, people I’ve met in spite of the Internet, Sprout TV, Sprout Farmer’s Market, those who serve, poker, steel manufacturing & custom fabrication, Google, Christmas music, our Church, Woody & Buzz, the Internet, baseball, letterpresses, Wufoo, iChat, coat drives, Skype, logo designers, gardening, good design, clients, Grace, and of course, you.

I’m Thankful

Idea stolen from @blankenship.

In no particular order, the things I am thankful for this year:

my wife, my kid, my second kid, family, toggl, eating out, cookie monster diapers, muxtapes, station wagons, iChat, Pei Wei, WordPress, friends, Adobe, Twitter, the enjoyment on Cohen’s face when reading books, presentation inspiration, Gotham Bold, our yellow house with a (now) solid foundation, ESPN, abc’s spoken by two-year olds, Banana Republic, QuadCamera, clients, Monday & Wednesday afternoons, Canadian dotcomrades (and a few American ones too), Woopra, the American version of The Office, skype, Helvetica, iTunes, YouVersion, A Fashionable Thursdays, Jesus, the sound my kid makes when eating an apple, Apple, El Taco H, Art Direction plugin, the Internet, Sunday afternoon naps, NYC, decent cooking skills, flickr, Woody & Buzz, J. Crew, our Church, McDonald’s, taking laps around the mall with the family, Netflix, The Sartorialist, Akismet, quality ties, Vimeo, Chipotle, slab-serifs, Tumblr, iPhones, über-talented web designers, the means to fix our house, Instapaper, Chick-Fil-A, Mad Men, GAP, 960gs, Clarendon, grillmaster abilities, Google, TiltShift Generator, Nicaragua, RSS, health, insurance, music, working from home, the library, Frank Sinatra, service men/women, rarely having to do the dishes, being able to do the dishes sometimes so I feel like I am being helpful, Starbucks, Tweetie, MAMP, Delicious, freedom, moderate amounts of Christmas music, FireFox, fried turkeys, and of course, you.