thanksgiving is horseshit.

kitty fabulous · Nov 23, 2004

my family really can't argue since i do almost all the cooking. suresh actually does the turkey, although sometimes i have to coach him. we never seem to have enough mushroom gravy, or potatoes. i'm trying to find a substitute for the carrot fruit-gel salad this year; we've made it with success with the seaweed gel dessert mix, but both kids are terribly allergic to nuts, so i'm going to have to come up with something else.

why can't handsome, naked (straight) men float down from the sky and offer me chai and back rubs? that would be something to be thankful for.

grace · Nov 23, 2004

one holiday i personally can't stand is valentines day. all the others are fine with me. thanksgiving lets me get together with distant family, and christmas gives me an unusually warm, toasty feeling. it's all that christmas whiskey.....

logicalway · Nov 23, 2004

Understood...but -->

You always have the option of politely excusing yourself from the house...

Chill & enjoy the leftovers...

nightmarehippygirl said:

i guess the idea behind thanksgiving is to get together with your family, and be thankful for each other and all that sappy crap. the thing is, when i get together with all my family, i am mostly thankful that i only have to get together with all of them a couple of times a year. this year, i am supposed to go buy a bunch of groceries that i don't have money for, so that i can cook a bunch of shit i don't even like, to take to the THREE different thanksgiving ordeals that we are obligated to attend. first there will be my maternal side of the family (minus mom, who just moved away). my sisters and i aren't good cooks, so i'm sure there's going to be ruined food, and pissed off cooks to start the morning off. without a doubt, my sister and her fiance will be fighting, and there's about a 50/50 chance that my sister will indeed be sober. everyone will act like a jackass,as usual. we never make it through the day without some kind of drama. after that, it's off to dad's house to see his family. we only get together 2 times a year, thanksgiving and christmas. i barely know them. everyone spends the whole time quizzing me about whether and when i am going back to school or work, and when i'm going to have to babies for them and so on. i leave feeling like i have been interrogated. it's more like being at a job interview than hanging out with family. finally, we'll be going to hubby's family get together, where his sister in law is sure to act nutty. she's my husband's family's equivilant to my crazy sister, lol.

if it were up to me, hubby and i would just stay home and order food in. i love my family, but i hate dumbass, meaningless traditions that we just do because we are "supposed" to.
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interval_illusion · Nov 23, 2004

grace said:

one holiday i personally can't stand is valentines day. all the others are fine with me. thanksgiving lets me get together with distant family, and christmas gives me an unusually warm, toasty feeling. it's all that christmas whiskey.....
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heh.... i dont celebrate valentines day either. i celebrate my love all thru the year.

logicalway · Nov 23, 2004

I'm still thinking about starting Thinksgiving. We'll serve turkey for the mind...

Small_Brown · Nov 23, 2004

I don't celebrate "thanks"giving. What do I have to be thankful for? Europeans stealing native land and killing my people? pfff, No thanks.

logicalway · Nov 23, 2004

Probably the best thing you can do is to be pissed about something that happened a couple hundred years ago instead of trying to figure a way to smooth everything out...

Thinksgiving...

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