...so i hope everyone else does too! *snarl*
i have to drive the entire length of cape cod to take my son to doctor appt. on the busiest fucking most miserable crowded travel gridlock day of the fucking year! every asshole from boston and environs will be headed over the river (the cape cod canal) and through the woods to fucking grandmother's house to eat some big dead bird.
THEN, as if that were not horrible enough, i STILL have to go to the godamn grocery store which will resemble feeding time at the lion enclosure at the zoo.
i REALLY want to beat the shit out of someone with a steel baton.
i always plan ahead! i had no damn room in this damn fridge for a damn turkey. i'm so efficient normally that it borders on anal-compulsive.
and i just cancelled on the doctor, i am not going to torture myself that way even for my son.
Don't worry, my day is will be crap too. My house is a mess and I still have to go to the grocery store. I already bought the prime rib, but I don't have any of the side dishes. I also have a hangover which explains why I gave Opie a positive rating yesterday
Tomorrow we are going to the beach. Walk along the shore and have lunch at some small cafe. Maybe fly a kite and look for shells. Friday I will go to the grocery store that will be empty and buy a nice fresh bird and all the fixings. Saturday we will have Thanksgiving. I have never been held constrained to certain dates on the calender. Stress is such a headache and life is short. Why put yourself through all that?
i agree with Maggot. why should the calendar dictate what we eat when? when i was working i was glad to skip all that crap and let people with little kids have the day off. (did the same for Christmas)... turkey the next day or so was fine!
i just came from grocery store, raining, very foggy and traffic getting crazy. i refuse to feel guilty over cancelled doctor appt. i can go dec. 2.
now i am going to relax, make stuffing and cranberry sauce, play on computer and let it goddamn rain or snow, i don't care!
Jesus, i saw that turkey sausage that Frank has as an avatar at 24 in the store, and really did laugh out loud! i guess people eat that shit.
(11-25-2009, 01:39 PM)Ordinary Peephole Wrote: What do you do at Thanksgiving apart from stuffing your face?
Do you go to church?, or play games?, or set of fireworks and shit?
We torment ourselves by visiting family.
Fireworks are for the Fourth of July.
Today I have to work on this damn computer most of the day and then bake one of my kick ass apple pies to drag with me for the family torture tomorrow.
There's a whopping 4 of us not counting Matt. We don't get along and it's a giant bicker fest. Why on earth does my mom bother?
Hell, I hardly eat what she puts out - I don't dig turkey and God forbid you make something different! Insane brother will pitch a fit that isn't worth listening to.... the brother that we see ONLY on holiday's - not even phone calls.
Restaurant Bro will sleep through the whole day unless he's eating. We'll be stuck watching football regardless of what anyone else is interested in because insane Bro is the No 1 son and gets his way.
Mother will bitch and moan that no one else cooks holdiay meals and dare I even sit down to relax for five minutes she will fnd something for me to do instead. Keep in mind I've been offering to do this at my house sind 1995 but Insane Bro and mother have every excuse on the planet to not come "so far south to your house".
Excuse me but the mileage is the same TO her house from mine. STFU and stop complaining then!
Hurry up and eat so we can have dessert!
I do not eat desserts - no one does. She bakes 4 cakes, my pie, an assortment of Italian pastries and a platter of cookies. I have a cup of coffee. Matt forces himself to eat a piece of pie.
Insane and Restaurant Bro's do not even come to the table for dessert.
Who can eat dessert when you've only finished dinner 20 minutes ago?! Not me.
Remember, 5 people total - she cooks a 25 pound bird and enough sides and stuffing for a small army. She wants to know EVERY YEAR why there is so much 'bird' left.
Now, let's not forget she rushes us there before noon and we get there and you see a spread of dip and chips... which she bitches about if we don't eat that too!
and then we get to repeat this shit again for Christmas.
There are no children in the family anymore - why does she bother? I hate the holdiays.
(11-25-2009, 01:39 PM)Ordinary Peephole Wrote: What do you do at Thanksgiving apart from stuffing your face?
Do you go to church?, or play games?, or set of fireworks and shit?
We torment ourselves by visiting family.
Fireworks are for the Fourth of July.
Today I have to work on this damn computer most of the day and then bake one of my kick ass apple pies to drag with me for the family torture tomorrow.
There's a whopping 4 of us not counting Matt. We don't get along and it's a giant bicker fest. Why on earth does my mom bother?
Hell, I hardly eat what she puts out - I don't dig turkey and God forbid you make something different! Insane brother will pitch a fit that isn't worth listening to.... the brother that we see ONLY on holiday's - not even phone calls.
Restaurant Bro will sleep through the whole day unless he's eating. We'll be stuck watching football regardless of what anyone else is interested in because insane Bro is the No 1 son and gets his way.
Mother will bitch and moan that no one else cooks holdiay meals and dare I even sit down to relax for five minutes she will fnd something for me to do instead. Keep in mind I've been offering to do this at my house sind 1995 but Insane Bro and mother have every excuse on the planet to not come "so far south to your house".
Excuse me but the mileage is the same TO her house from mine. STFU and stop complaining then!
Hurry up and eat so we can have dessert!
I do not eat desserts - no one does. She bakes 4 cakes, my pie, an assortment of Italian pastries and a platter of cookies. I have a cup of coffee. Matt forces himself to eat a piece of pie.
Insane and Restaurant Bro's do not even come to the table for dessert.
Who can eat dessert when you've only finished dinner 20 minutes ago?! Not me.
Remember, 5 people total - she cooks a 25 pound bird and enough sides and stuffing for a small army. She wants to know EVERY YEAR why there is so much 'bird' left.
Now, let's not forget she rushes us there before noon and we get there and you see a spread of dip and chips... which she bitches about if we don't eat that too!
and then we get to repeat this shit again for Christmas.
There are no children in the family anymore - why does she bother? I hate the holdiays.
Jesus.
Well happy Thanksgiving anyway. Maybe you can enjoy the bit when you get back home?
We need to punish the French, ignore the Germans and forgive the Russians - Condoleezza Rice.
I was going to post in this thread but, after reading it, I've decided I better take my cheerful, joyful, loving crap someplace else.
I'm pretty happy! The fire alarm went off at work right about at lunch time, so we evacuated the building... and base. hehe
And I just got my gorgeous pizza, of which I'm going to post a photo and read rude remarks about how <insert name> has had better looking puke sessions after eating his girlfriend out when she was on her period, but I can assure you, this tastes great. That's roma tomatoes and spinach you see that's making a cheerful Christmas combo of colors.
(11-25-2009, 05:44 PM)Jurassic Wrote: Am I glad we don't celebrate Thanksgiving, it sounds just like another excuse to bitch and groan about the holidays.
JB do you really have to wait another week for a doctors appointment? that sounds worse than the UK for waiting times.
yes, because doctor and everyone who is able to will take a 4-5 day holiday. but the appt. was not urgent, and in view of how weather has been, i am glad i did not go. wet, foggy, like England!
as for bitching and moaning, it's part of the fun of the holidays. ::bigsmile::
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