Thankful list :: January 2012

• Fireworks,
• Babysitting the well-behaved Higgins boys,
• Nice, fairly-comprehensible English/Dutch/Slovak conversation while waiting at the foreign police,
• Erik getting off work early sometimes,
• Being engaged,
• Found a wedding dress online for 90€,
• The 90€ wedding dress fits and it's pretty,
• We got to sit on the bus to Nitra,
• The wedding dress selling people drove us from Nitra Autobusova Stanica to their house, and then back to Bratislava,
• The wedding dress people also serving us tea, and giving us all the cookies from their kitchen table, and the bag of apples next to their door,
• The 40€ suit for Erik,
• Simonka playing some music at CityLight,
• The new piano stand,
• Time off from work at the beginning of January to spend with Erik and other friends,
• My mint plant is still alive,
• The flowers from Erik,
• Second Hand store trousers for Erik (3 pairs for 6€) (in December),
• Brown heavy jacket for me from the Second Hand store: 2€ (in December),
• Skyping with Jenn S. (December),
• Skyping with Antonia,
• My finger is healing,
• Clearance tomatoes,
• Clearance chocolates,
• "Italian night"
• Erik's late starts at work so he could go with me to the foreign police and insurance offices,
• The angry man at the foreign police didn't come back with a weapon,
• The overhang to stand under at the foreign police,
• Erik translating for me,
• The successful trip to the insurance office,
• Feeling comfortable and welcome around Erik's family,
• The nice relaxing weekend in Esztergom,
• The useful information from the lady at the office in Stúrovo,
• All the nice people at the church in Esztergom (even though I couldn't understand them myself, I could just feel they were nice),
• Getting my haircut,
• The flower on my houseplant is blooming,
• So many days of blue skies (even when the temperatures are below freezing),
• A little bit of snow,
• Calvin and Hobbes comics online,
• A new student in my low-attendance teenage class,
• There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,
• The pizza party to celebrate the January birthdays,
• Getting paid to speak natively at a gymnasium,
• I have no shortage of things to read,
• Being in Europe during the US presidential election campaigns,
• Tomek getting to speak at the Catholic church in Poland,
• All my needs have always been met,
• Just happened to have an extra little activity on hand for when I couldn't log into the laptop during a lesson,
• Finding some wedding band options that we both like in our price range,
• Heather comes home soon,
• Finding wedding napkins and plates at IKEA in exactly the colors we want,
• The hand blender set at TESCO for cheap,
• The spice containers for less than 1€ each at IKEA,
• The meatball deal at IKEA (plate of 10 meatballs for 1€),
• Seeing Lucka and Marcin at IKEA (my first time running into people I know in months!),
• Erik being favored by the head chef and other supervisors at his work,
• Cheap flights to Rome, 
• A really good deal on rooms at Sheraton hotels for employees,
• All Paja's help with bank things,
• The Melos are feeling better after being ill,
• Meeting another international couple on Sunday,
• Getting to know the bus connections around the city a little better,
• An easy week at work before new classes begin