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Are you thankful? It’s Thanksgiving

Are you thankful?

It’s Thanksgiving week, guys. That means, I get Thursday and Friday off of work. Yay! A short week. Of course, that also means I’ll have to crunch a weeks worth of work into three days.

Anyhow, Thursday is Thanksgiving. I had to ask someone today because for the life of me I couldnt remember when it was. I thought it was Saturday originally, then I thought no it’s always on a Thursday, but Friday is the 24th, which is Thanksgiving Day. Well, it’s all settled now. Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday. Whew!

So, here’s what I’ll be doing for that special day. Around noon I’ll head up to spend time with my peeps. The family-types. There will be little snacks all over my aunts house for us to nibble on. Half of them I wont be able to eat, because of my allergy to nuts. Someone will come up to me and ask if I’m still working for “that internet company” … they’ll never remember the name. Actually, it’s just polite conversation. They dont really give two shits about it. See with the family, it’s more of a game. How much time can you get rid of talking about nonsense. See, we all arrive around noon and we’ll probably be there until eight or nine at night … maybe later. Thats at least eight hours to get through. By the third hour, you’ve used up most of your material and so you have to start winging it. Or, better, time to turn on the TV. Yeah, we’ll all get deeply involved in Entertainment Tonight. Of course, dinnertime breaks up the evening pretty well. I mean, it only takes twelve hours to cook the damn meal and it’s gone in half and hour. Of course, you get at least half an hour of quiet time after dinner to digest. This is the period where you dont have to talk to much, because it’s assumed that you need a little time to digest and regroup. Of course, dessert follows and then usually some games are brought out. My aunt has a Playstation which is a good way to get the family together without actually having to talk to each other.

Okay, so now it sounds like I dont like my family. Quite the contrary. I actually like my family, the problem is that much of it seems like an act when we get together. Everyone is so busy being polite and well-mannered that it almost seems like you are a visitor in someone’s house.

Anyhow, there is one thing for certain. We’ll all eat too much, we’ll all have too much to drink and we’ll all have a good time.

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