We got stranded due to snow, so an impromptu gathering with a group of friends at noon. Dinner at 5. Lots of scotch in between.

cool. a Thanksgiving to remember. I'd totally go for some impromptu holiday, the routine has become a bit too routine the last few years.

oh hey,


You gonna buy a Panda hat?

No. I'm not a 14 year old girl or pseudo fan.

I don't like the deal.

We don't have thanksgiving here but I've always wondered: isn't it just like having two christmases?

Pretty much except there's no presents on Thanksgiving just food

football on thanksgiving, basketball on christmas

Cowboys on Thanksgiving

We don't have thanksgiving here but I've always wondered: isn't it just like having two christmases?

No.

No. I'm not a 14 year old girl or pseudo fan.

I don't like the deal.



rly...wait till opening day, the deal might make more sense then.


You'll get 2, probably even 3 outstanding years from him. He's the rare born hitter who knows it and has an ego about it. He likes the pressure and I think that's part of why he left here; to find out if he can meet the east coast challenge, so to speak.

he's got a fresh start...I'd throw the regular season metrics on him out the window, because if he figures out how to hit in Fenway he could win a batting title.

oh yeah, and he's a Gold Glove worthy 3rd basemen when his weight is down. Most athletic fatty you've ever seen.

No.

explain how

No religious overtones, no gifts, no tree or specific way to decorate the house, more focused on secular things like food, booze, and football

The eve of it is nothing special

explain how

Christmas is a Christian religious holiday turned into a capitalist assault.

Thanksgiving is wholly secular with no consumerism tied to it and is focused on family and friends. It is a celebration of pilgrims landing in America and sharing a meal with the native Americans. The pilgrims then introduced diseases that wiped out the tribes, but hey whatever.

I think it's fair to say that Christmas is pretty family and friends oriented, at least to some people. I dunno maybe it's different for you guys cause you get that stuff a month early but the whole "get together with your family, eat lots of great food and get drunk" thing just sounds like how Christmas goes to me. I don't really know about your 'not tied to consumerism' argument though because i've seen video footage of thousands of people acting like fucking animals at monolithic sales you guys have the day after.

Plus I've done some research about those pilgrims and uhh... there's a bit more to the story than that.

Well the sales are for Christmas

Aussiesplainin' to Americans

I think it's fair to say that Christmas is pretty family and friends oriented, at least to some people. I dunno maybe it's different for you guys cause you get that stuff a month early but the whole "get together with your family, eat lots of great food and get drunk" thing just sounds like how Christmas goes to me. I don't really know about your 'not tied to consumerism' argument though because i've seen video footage of thousands of people acting like fucking animals at monolithic sales you guys have the day after.

Plus I've done some research about those pilgrims and uhh... there's a bit more to the story than that.

Those sales are for Christmas, the day after Thanksgiving traditionally is the start of the Christmas shopping season.

There's a lot more to that story, yeah. :)

you eat turkey on thanksgiving, not christmas

Ive been in the US in a family on thanksgiving. The food was heavenly, the indigestion hellish.


Its kinda boring compared to xmas though.

big quiet dinner at home with tim. then to my friend tyler's house with pumpkin pie. sure wish i had pictionary party edition.

will probably take some sort of board and card game. we'll see.

I just found a can of pumpkin pie filling in the cupboard from like 3 years ago which my gf had bought and we never did anything with. Im gonna be making a pumpkin pie and eat it on thanksgiving. I've made the decision there's no reason why i can't celebrate american thanksgiving. TRY AND STOP ME.

And then maybe ill have hmm....turkey...breast sandwich. It'll be the saddest thanksgiving. Wrong country, no real turkey, eating pumpkin pie alone.

dinner @ mom's at 3pm. probably lots of sleeping. i predict some crying as well. i just feel some sadness building up. :/ but not at my mom's house.

I'm hosting my immediate family, which is my Mom and older Sister. They are going to bring all the food, my Mom will do the brunt of the cooking, but I will assist as needed. I'm guessing the appeal for them is that they will not have to do cleanup, which I don't mind, since I don have to travel this year.

Anyway, nobody gives a shit, but I hope all you N -phorians have a happy and healthy holiday.

going to husband's aunt's house with all his uncles and his mom, and probably his brother and his wife and neighbors to eat. then out of town about half an hour to our friends house to drink.

makes me wish i was back in the USA :(

Cooking and eating with the fam

Putting a sausage in my soup.

Just put the turkey in. I'm making mash pot, gravy, green beans, baked beans and cherry pie. I cheated and bought pumpkin pie at safeway. I can't make it.

i plan to give many thanks, in the true spirit of the holiday.

i'm going to do a bunch of smack and pass out on the floor

It is a celebration of pilgrims landing in America and sharing a meal with the native Americans.

An age old love story.

did it even happen?

remember when Wednesday burned down the camp's reenactment.

do you guys know that my boyhood crush was Wednesday addams

Gym, study, football, and food. Probably arguing and awkwardness, because family. Hopefully a nap in there somewhere.

is it tomorrow or when is it?

happy "thankers" all

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remember when Wednesday burned down the camp's reenactment.

do you guys know that my boyhood crush was Wednesday addams

mine too.

i remember saying that to someone and this woman goes "that is disgusting. she was like 14." and i was like "I was also 14."

somehow this didn't matter? i dunno.

did it even happen?

I think it just happened spontaneously. Two groups of people were hungry one day. They shared some food and the natives were happy so they danced and celebrated. We tend to have a lot of "thanksgiving dinners" and celebrations year around... and round dances for any excuse we can find...every thing involves as much food as possible.

MY boyhood crush was Debbie Gibson. I got lost....in her eyes. And i felt my spirit rise. And soar like the wind. Was that love that i was in?


By spirit i mean....:erm:

i'm going to do a bunch of smack and pass out on the floor

jealousssss

HA but my inlaws didn't wanna see me dopesick on the holidaze so my mother in law stole some vicodin from her sister to give me. Ah, family.

well that certainly is thoughtful

Not doing nothin

ugh his grandma died about an hour ago so that kind of changed everything...:(

Wife and i stayed home today. Ate sushi for lunch and I made pizza for dinner. This afternoon we rode fatbikes in the snow and went to the humane society to walk dogs for a couple of hours.

This is Gerald. He's a great dog.

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HA but my inlaws didn't wanna see me dopesick on the holidaze so my mother in law stole some vicodin from her sister to give me. Ah, family.

im sure you promptly took it all and will be dopesick again tomorrow?

vicodin makes me nauseous. i get 30 min of nice buzz then I throw up

I had vicodin for a week straight because of a tooth problem recently and it really brought me back to my addiction days.

They're all gone now and I have oral surgery next week, maybe they'll give me some more.

HA but my inlaws didn't wanna see me dopesick on the holidaze so my mother in law stole some vicodin from her sister to give me. Ah, family.

wtf? seriously? your inlaws gave you drugs?

I thought you said your family is white trash

yeah.. why didnt they give you meth instead?

My white trash family drowns their sorrows in weed and cheap booze

good drugs gotta wait til payday, duh

and we're rarely out of weed over here, it's a given we'll be smoking

smoke a hemp rope in Pahrump