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So it’s Thanksgiving, and the first thing I can be thankful for is the nice balmy weather in the mid-20s that is decidedly uncharacteristic of this time of year, but much welcomed. I remember last year the first snowfalls outside of the city were happening at the end of October, and the scenery was so beautiful with a dusting of snow over all of the trees.
I am also thankful for other things: I am grateful my girlfriend, my grandmother and that she is still in good health, my home, my family is a (little) more connected these days even if some members are not, I am grateful that I still have employment in spite of the recent turmoil, and I am also grateful that I’ve found a passion in the online world. Something Steve Jobs said in his 2005 Stanford Commencement Address is that the dots will be connected when you look into the past, but not toward the future. That makes sense to me as I look back and see how things have changed and improved over time.
Posts of the week
- Steve Jobs, Entrepreneur and Capitalist Extraordinaire
- The CAPE: How to Beat Stocks With a 50–50 Portfolio
- Never Give Up: The Lesson I Learned from My Parents About the Importance of Believing in Yourself
Weekend Reading
- Argentina’s Emerging Shale Oil and Gas Play (Beating the Index)
Carnivals
- Canadian Finance Carnival #56 (Canadian Finance Blog)
- Yakezie Carnival – October 2, 2011 Welcome Fall Edition (Family Money Values)
Financial Blogger Conference
- Financial Blogger Conference 2011, Behind the Words (Money Reasons)
- Ten Takeaways – Financial Blogger Conference (Financially Consumed)
Investing
- My online conversation with Barry, the dividend-investor millionaire (My Own Advisor)
- What You Can Learn About Investing from The 4 Hour Workweek (Prairie EcoThrifter)
Miscellaneous
- Confessions Of A Protester (Financial Samurai)
- Occupy This – Rebuttal to Nonsensical Occupy WallStreet Demands (Darwin’s Money)
- Planning for the Future (Live Real Now)
- Sports: Too Much Or Too Little? What Say You? (Dr. Dean)
- Stuff You Can Steal From Korean Hotel Rooms (101 Centavos)
- World’s weirdest jobs (Aaron Hung)
Personal finance
- Cross Border Shopping (Sustainable PF)
- Easy ways to save more money (Common Financial Cents)
- How Do We Grow Or Maintain Our Wealth? (Andrew Hallam)
To my fellow Canadian readers: Happy Thanksgiving! And to everyone else, I hope that you had a great weekend so far.
Thanks for including my post on Korean hotel rooms in your roundup. There are always things to be thankful for, every day.
Thanks Kevin. Fall is one of my favorite times of the year. Such a short season but so much happening. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
Thanks for the word Kevin:D yeah it’s weird that you’re coming up in my spam box for some reason
Thanks for the reminder to be thankful for what you have. I also enjoyed Steve Jobs’ connecting the dots theme. Let’s make sure our dots connect in the best way possible!
Hope your weekend was great. I cannot believe the weather we have been having, it is amazing. Although I did have to chuckle being from the US and reading how the temperature has been in the 20s, like it is a good thing. 🙂
Hope you had a great weekend and Thanksgiving. It is nice to hear people actually express their thanks for the good things in their life. We celebrated our wedding anniversary this weekend so being grateful for finding each other was the theme.
Thanks for the mention Kevin! I hope you had a great weekend, I can’t BELIEVE how fast this week is flying by.
The week’s already over again! Definitely flew by… thanks for stopping by guys and hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving weekend!
Lol, I was so confused by this article (Thanksgiving in October), that it caused me to pause before commenting on it.
I finally googled Thanksgiving and Canada, and now realize that the Canadian Thanksgiving is in Oct. (lol, my bad).
Anyway, hope you had a great Thanksgiving and thanks for the mention.
I don’t think you were the only one! I probably should have mentioned it was the Canadian Thanksgiving. 😉
Thanks for stopping by.