Just a week before Thanksgiving my sister and our family got some very disturbing news. One of her childhood friends was killed in a one-car accident (as detailed in the first item listed here.)

Here's the deal with my little sis, once you become her friend you instantly gain one older brother and two extra parents absolutely free of charge. So when I got the call from my dad a few days ago about Meagan's accident my heart dropped. I'm not one to sit around moping all the time and what's made me feel worse is not that she is no longer with us but I can't stop thinking about how broken up her parents must be. Meagan was their only child and I can't possibly imagine what it feels like to lose the single most important person of the last 23 years of their lives.

I don't want to really get into too much more about that here. It's just that with Thanksgiving being a few days away I wanted to say don't wait for some phoney-baloney holiday to come along to be thankful. Be thankful now. I ain't preaching here, I haven't found religion or anything but sometimes we get so caught up in our day-to-day routines that we do forget to appreciate the people we know, the places we've been, the experience we've gained and the time we've shared.

So many times we've used Killoggs to voice our frustration over a girl, a guy, a job, a co-worker whatever and quite frankly I think that's a good thing. For once, though, I'm not going to use this space to moan about something that hasn't gone my way. I am using this space to say to each and every one of you whether I've broken bread with you in person or not: thank you. That's all. Just thank you. Even if it's only been through the magic of the internet I appreciate the chance to bond with all of you anyway.

Again, I say thank you.