I am thankful…
- For another day, because every one is a gift
- For El Hub’s love, patience, support and respect
- For TABS!!!
- For modern dentistry (aka floss and fluoride, yo!)
- To live in a country that with all its faults provides people with clean drinking water, cheap produce, tremendous opportunities, the rights to vote and then to badmouth the government, and the freedom to make a complete fool of yourself in public
- To have family, because many people do not
- To be lucky enough to witness kindness, compassion, gut-busting laughter, and love on a regular basis
- To have made it this far (35 years and still going strong-ish!)
- To have ever tried blogging, because 1) I wasn’t cut out to be a legal secretary or a literary agent, and 2) it gave me the chance to feel useful and appreciated
- For the opportunity to put my humungous library of humiliating childhood photos and my radical repertoire of 1980s pop-culture references to good use
- For emails like this one:
Hi Karen,
I just wanted to let you know how very much I enjoy your blog. It’s informative, helpful and very funny. I have started to find that I cannot start my day without my daily injection of Karen and Tabs! Thank you so much for your hard work and commitment in putting out your blog. I hope this email goes a little way to letting you know that even in far flung corners of the world (Sydney, Australia in my case) there are people who think you do a wonderful job and have come to rely on your honest and helpful posts. Thanks again and I look forward to many more mornings filled with Makeup and Beauty Blog goodness!
-Alison
- For MAKEUP (of course), with a special shout-out to concealer today
- For you 🙂
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Happy Thanksgiving to you too!!!!
Thanks, Kajal Couture. Have a great T-day!
Happy Thanksgiving Karen and fellow readers! We are all so grateful for you! You have the never-ending ability to always cheer me up! Hope you have a wonderful day.
Hi Tiffany!
It’s so good to hear from you. I take it you’ve been crazy busy! How are things on your end? Are you and the baby doing okay?
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. 🙂
Hey girl! Things are good – just busy! School and work and now all these holiday events! It’s tiring! The little one and I are doing well though – we found out we are having a girl! It’s gonna be hilarious to see my husband surrounded by all the girliness! Anyway I hope you had a wonderful day and lots of yummy food!
Happy Thanksgiving Karen and all readers. Thank you so much Karen for your blog, it helps us a lot! Have a wonderful day, today and forever.
Hi DiBonD,
Thank you for such a sweet note. 🙂 Happy, happy Thanksgiving!
What are you up to today?
Nothing much. We Indonesians don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, but thanks for the wish! 🙂
Have a great holiday!!!!
You too!
That email was very sweet. You do work really hard and it hasn’t gone unnoticed. 🙂 Have a great Thanksgiving Karen!
Hi Lauren,
You have a wonderful Thanksgiving! What are you up to today?
Happy Thanksgiving to you too!!! Have a wonderful day and a great weekend 🙂
Thanks, Appu! You too.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and everyone in the States!!
Karen you and your blog and Tabs are my favourite internet time. :))) I have such a good laugh everyday plus I learn something too! You are just the greatest.
Have a great holiday!
Hi Tracy,
It’s been great getting to know you! I always look forward to our zombie chats on the site, LOL!
I know you guys had your Thanksgiving earlier… do y’all do turkey and fixings like we do here in the US?
I love our zombie chats too! I think there’s only a couple of episodes left though-arrgh!
Yes-we do all the turkey goodness too here in Canada. It’s in October, because that’s when our growing season is pretty much done in most places.
I Love Pumpkin pie!!!!! Eat lots for me!!! 🙂
ooh, this post almost made me cry 🙂 you are truly a wonderful person, and beautiful too !
me too read you almost daily, from Romania, europe 🙂
Thank you and big hugs to you, Saby. 🙂
You have a wonderful day!
Happy Thanksgiving Karen and fellow readers!
I’m thankful for my family and friends and that I have a nice social place here to virtually hang out! 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving, Glosslizard!
Have you guys had your turkey yet?
Happy Thanksgiving, Karen, Tabs, and everyone!
I am thankful for my Mom, my cat Missy, my friends, and to Karen and Tabs for always making me smile everyday (and encouraging my makeup passion)!
Happy Thanksgiving Karen… from one of your blog readers in Lisbon, Portugal :o)
Hey Karen!
I have to say I totally agree with Alison’s email!
I love your blog, I love how you keep it original and you’re yourself, jokes and all (which I totally love 🙂 .. )
So thanks for all your hard work!!!!!!!!!!!!! I look at your blog every day 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving Karen! I’m thankful that I found your blog. You’ve been so helpful to me with your product reviews and photos. I love your humor! I look forward to coming here each and every day!
Hi Marian,
I’m happy to hear you like the site and find it helpful.
How was your Thanksgiving?
this was so cute 🙂
Hi Danielle,
How was your Thanksgiving? I hope it was great!
it was very tasty thanks for asking 🙂 hope yours was good too
Hi Danielle,
Mine was pretty good. We had fun here with El Hub’s family, but I missed mine a lot. I ended up texting with my brother — he kept sending pics of my mom, dad, dog, the food… so I felt like I was there. 🙂
What did y’all eat?
turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, salad, dinner rolls, gravy, cream corn, peas, pumpkin pie with vanilla ice cream and whip cream 😀
Aw, this is a great post! We love you too, Karen!
Hi Chris25,
Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Big hugs to you. 🙂
This just made me “awwww” big time. 🙂
Hi Nika,
🙂 Happy (belated) Thanksgiving. How’s your holiday going so far? I hope you’re having a good one.
i am thankful for love, life and friends, both real and virtual! 🙂 i hope your thanksgiving was great, karen! 🙂
Hi Nina,
I’m thankful for all my virtual friends too!
My thanksgiving was pretty good. I went for a run in the morning and noticed how all the neighborhood dogs — which usually bark like crazy when I run by them — were silent. Then I noticed that a few of ’em were chewing on some big bones… I guess they were all pacified momentarily by meat!
Hope you, the hubs and the furbabies had a great one. 🙂
What are your plans for the weekend, btw?
were taking it easy today (saturday) … i went black friday shopping yesterday (i always go) — it was COLDDD!!! 🙂
Hi Karen,
I’d like to confirm Alison’s lines, I love your blog too and thank you Karen! 😉
Suzy from Budapest, Hungary