Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

I take my mother and her mad sewing skills for granted. She made my prom dress for about $100, and another formal dress for under $50, both beautiful, unique, and perfectly fitted. She has made several Sunday dresses and skirts for me over the years. When the tech crew suddenly decided they hated the costume I was wearing for a scene where I was semi-prominent, my mother was able to make a beautiful period dress in about three days.

My mother does not sew.

I take my car for granted. And having a cell phone. (I love me a cell phone.)

My own room. Two bedrooms, in fact, where I spread my stuff.

I tend to take for granted that I'm the oldest. That's a responsibility/privilege that I'd say most people don't have.

And other things that many people do have: two loving parents in a stable home with stable support, literacy,

...actually, that would be a really long list. I do take for granted my large and very happy extended family! Yay cousins.

Both my dad and my husband are really techie guys, and my husband especially can fix anything around the house. I can't fathom what my life would be like if I had to pay people to get things fixed around the house! I told Hubby once that if he died, I would just have to sell all of his home theater stuff because I barely know how to turn it on by myself.

I take for granted that my wife and all of my in-laws (except for my mother-in-law) like to play Halo 3 on the XBox 360 several times a week and that we can do so even though we're spread out from Texas to Utah.

Also take for granted that I actually like my in-laws.

Damasta wrote:I take for granted that my wife and all of my in-laws (except for my mother-in-law) like to play Halo 3 on the XBox 360 several times a week and that we can do so even though we're spread out from Texas to Utah.

Also take for granted that I actually like my in-laws.

Oh. My. Goodness. That's awesome. I hope my wife likes video games, especially Halo-ish ones. Mario is all well and good, but it's just not that hard. You know?

Literacy. I [i]so[/i] take it for granted that I can read, and read well, and that I have a litany of books available on any topic I care to peruse.
Also, potable water. Not just potable water, but potable water that is readily available (kind of like books, I guess. Hm). It's always an interesting sensation to come back to the States from a third world country and think, "oh, drinking fountains. Yeah, we have those here."
Also, I once made a formal in high school for about $20- pattern, fabric, thread, zipper. Fabric store sales on New Year's Day are amazing.