You too, SX.

Happy Thanksgiving

yay!

*dive tackles a turkey*

I had chicken, like I do every year. Turkeys love me because I don't eat them. ;D

*gobblegobble*

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

We still have enough turkey left over for about a week.

Wiiiii @ 26 people at our house... and 16 kids under 12 ><

Thanks be to God for a Wii to distract them =)

I can't say as it was particularly happy this year.

Let's start from the top. We're going to church on Thanksgiving, which we usually don't. Means I'll miss a fair chunk of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which I always like to watch on Thanksgiving, but since we're recording it, I decide to go anyway. (Technically I didn't have to - they explicitly told me this - but why break the family up? Unfortunately my little brother decided to stay home, though, although we had Grandma to watch over him.)

Anyway, church is churchy enough. Mom's in a fair enough mood, and has some conversation with my sister - seems a little bit heated, but probably nothing. Only, I notice come hand-shaking time (just prior to Communion) that Mom seems to be noticeably pissed off, without any particular reason. After she gets Communion, she doesn't return to her seat, but rather goes to the car.

Anyway, back at home, she finishes dinner, then quite angrily comments that dinner will be ready, and once it is she doesn't want to be bothered for the rest of the day. Won't even eat with us. The rest of the family eventually just eats Thanksgiving dinner without her.

We don't hear much from her for a while, but whenever we do, she's just as pissed off as before. I eventually shirk back down to the basement computers (way underpowered compared to my own - one of them can't even have four instances of Internet Explorer running without problems, though it runs a fair game of DOOM), to see if anyone's posted this thread yet (and if so, post this lengthy rant). No dice.

Dad comments that he wants me to do something that doesn't use the Internet for a while, so I oblige, turning IE off and loading DOOM up. Play that for a while (playing maps from FreeDOOM, but with everything else from vanilla DOOM 2 - that WAD is pretty damned hard, even on the easiest mode). I'm not sure what Dad was trying for at this point, until I hear him sigh with an "oh well". From what I've gathered, I think he was trying for that Amazon.com $100 Xbox 360 deal they were having. Heck, that'd have been pretty awesome, although I already have a Wii for an early Christmas present, so...

Anyway, a little while later, Dad offers to take us to see Happy Feet. I honestly dunno what to expect from the film, but on the drive to Church they were discussing some glowing reviews. That, combined with my urge to not be a hassle, drive me to oblige. Of course, my sister isn't being so cooperative; Mom's screaming at her again, this time to get out of her bed and get out of the house. This much she does, but she refuses to go with us to see the movie. I wind up having to sacrifice my car keys to let her stay in my car, while we go see the film.

Film was good, though. Got a free game rental from Blockbuster (with the non-free rental of another game), which was cool. As for the movie, highly enjoyable after all.

Anyway, we get back, and my sister's not in the car like we left her. (Car door's unlocked, though. How thoughtful.) So we get back in, and it's not long before Mom's screaming at Dad for not forcing my sister to go see the movie with us. (Seeing a pattern here? For the record, she found out my sister was home when the latter had to go on a potty break.)

So yeah, this is pretty much how the whole day's been. Constant teeter-totter between some (awkward) peace and quiet, immediately followed by mother screaming about the stupidest things. This isn't what Thanksgiving should've been like at all. Christ... Why does this family have to be this way?

BTW, I don't really like turkey. Ham FTW. Not that we didn't have turkey today, mind, but it never really tastes all that good on its own. Although, this time I tried the stuffing on top, and that worked pretty well... whenever I could get the stuffing to stay on the fork along with the turkey.

Meh, I'm sorry to hear that SH. :/

The only thing that I can compare my day to with yours was that I also saw Happy Feet. Not quite my pot of gold, particularly with the ending. It felt a little forced. But it was quality time with my sister.

Then we went home and had pizza. Our dinner isnt until tomorrow. :p

I keep telling my family that we should just have a Thanksgiving pizza. Much less hassle and us yelling at eachother to get the food done.

I took a shower at about 4:15, way, WAAAY before dinner should have come, and when I get out and dressed, I find everyone at the table EATING. Without having waited for me to pray with them, and they didn't even set me a spot at the table.

On top of that, I ended up having to get the greasiest, fattiest, nastiest part of that bargan turkey. =(

But I'm good. I have lots of things to be thankful for, so the fact that dinner didn't go too well doesn't bother me.

On this Thanksgiving, I'm thankful I had to work a shift at the newspaper that began at 1:00am and ended at 11:45pm.

Oh wait, what's that thing that's the opposite of thankful.

Oh yeah. Filled with loathing

Hahahaha, you Americans and your late Thanksgiving.

I already got this stuff out of the way a month ago =3

as my flatmate's mum is coming over for the weekend, i've spent today tidying and cleaning and washing and cleaning and tidying.
so with any luck i'll get to go to a resturaunt for dinner tonight!

..which is the closest i'll get to something like thanksgiving.

*hugs to those who didn't have a good day today* may turkey day no.2 (christmas) be better!

SH, I just renamed out of my Thanksgiving alt ("Inevitable Family Fighting" - Was the most SXy Thanskgiving thing I could think of.) Maybe you should take it? XP

Hey, yesterday marks the first time in a long time I spoke with my mother without a single cuss word being used!

Blah, sorry your Thanksgiving wasn't all that and a bag of chips, SH. If it helps, your mom is pretty much like mines...usually when arguing with me as we argue over even the littlest mundane things.

That said, my Thanksgiving consisted of not just average Thanksgiving America food (which mom forced me and sis to stop at our local Giant like five times because we needed another three bags of corn or whatnot), but a craplod of Korean foods, and like gazillion pounds of sushi.

20+ people came over, including kids, half of which spoke nothing in Korean (they just flew in from Korea), so I had struggle to speak in that language while keeping them entertained with materials for them to draw or video games (incidentally, Jak II being the only one with korean language option), because my sister fell asleep in her room and couldn't help out (I don't blame her though, work and college really takes her toll at times).

Luckily, they were also dazzled by Katamari Damacy (one boy absolutely loved me rolling up tall buildings and people), and eventually one little girl wanted to watch Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when she spotted the DVD, so I obliged and let her.

They left, I sigh and proclaim I'm tired, then fall asleep at 1AM regardless.

Happy belated thanksgiving, everyone!

I had a much better thanksgiving than last year ^^ Spent most of my time watching my baby (second?) cousin so my cousin (her mother) could socialize. That was pretty fun, though I realized how exhausting chasing a two-year-old could be. We watched a LOT of Little Mermaid. :3

The food itself was wonderful as always. We cooked up a small turkey and ham as well as other favorites like mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce and beans and whatnot. Also, croissants FTW.

We were stopped in traffic for an hour on the way home due to a nasty car crash, but it didn't phase us all too much ('cept maybe my dad ;3 ) as we blasted the RENT soundtrack and shoutsang along.

But overall, it was a fun time. 😀 I'm sorry to hear some peoples' Thanksgivings weren't nearly as nice, but there's always next year, ey? And Christmas! **hugs to all!**

~Shadowed Spirit Sage

Nope, I get to work all day on Christmas too. Daily newspaper. No such thing as a holiday.

Newsday and I'm pretty sure the NY Times as well take either Christmas or New Years Day off, which makes them only publish 364 days of the year (or 365 during a leap year).

Does anyone know how to get cranberry sauce stains out of a white couch?

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Nope, I get to work all day on Christmas too. Daily newspaper.

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it's inconceivable that everyone works every day of the week to me o.o surely there's some kind of staff rotation thing?

Happy thanksgiving and to all a good night!

Wait that's christmas o.o

We haven't done anything but immediate family since I was a "wee laddie" or Wii if you prefer the standard satire for the season.

My day was simple. Get up, go to the folks, eat food, mill around for a bit, then leave. After that I spent the rest of the day at my cousins being beaten and tormented by the kids.

Pretty normal for me.

~Rico