Americans just had Thanksgiving Day, the last Thursday in November. Other countries may have similar designated days, so this discussion is intended to include those, although I'm prompted to start this thread because it's 2 days after ours. What is your favorite part of Thanksgiving celebrations? Did you make any good memories this year, or recall good memories from the past years? What would you share with others of the good things that came out of your Thanksgiving celebrations?
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There was much coughing and sneezing amongst my family, so we postponed thanksgiving. Uncle Fred and crew had confirmed covid. Bren and crew had some some kind of coughing and sneezing, not confirmed as covid, but they have been passing it around back and forth to each other ad infinitum.
Dad and I both had some kind of sneezing earlier this week, but it wasn't much. We threw cold-eeze at it for one day and it ran off. Like a punk. Like the little punk that it was. Like a silly little bi...
Okay I'm done.
But we are not going to miss thanksgiving. My family loves family dinners and we are going to have it. We take it personally when we have to miss one. The universe owes us now.
Dad and I both had some kind of sneezing earlier this week, but it wasn't much. We threw cold-eeze at it for one day and it ran off. Like a punk. Like the little punk that it was. Like a silly little bi...
Okay I'm done.
But we are not going to miss thanksgiving. My family loves family dinners and we are going to have it. We take it personally when we have to miss one. The universe owes us now.
Our Canadian Thanksgiving is the second Monday in October, a good six weeks before America. Hmmm, well,
I had a nice meal with my daughter and her aunt, and came home with leftovers. Last years' was a bit more
memorable because auntie was on a cruise at the time and my daughter was scrambling to get the family
home of over sixty years ready for moving out of, since they had just bought a new home which they moved
into the beginning of December last year, and are still settling into. Getting the house ready meant going
through everything, the majority of which was not hers, but left to her to deal with, which included selling
a lot of things online as well as giving things away to whoever showed up first to claim them and cart
whatever it was away. It was a lot of work for my daughter but she leaned into it and got it done. For our
meal then I loaded up on traditional goodies from Whole Foods, and made sure we had enough for leftovers,
since that is part of the Thanksgiving theme, plenty for all and some to spare. I know in this economy there
are those who really struggle and I feel for them because inflation has soared since covid.
I hope y'all had a good one...
I had a nice meal with my daughter and her aunt, and came home with leftovers. Last years' was a bit more
memorable because auntie was on a cruise at the time and my daughter was scrambling to get the family
home of over sixty years ready for moving out of, since they had just bought a new home which they moved
into the beginning of December last year, and are still settling into. Getting the house ready meant going
through everything, the majority of which was not hers, but left to her to deal with, which included selling
a lot of things online as well as giving things away to whoever showed up first to claim them and cart
whatever it was away. It was a lot of work for my daughter but she leaned into it and got it done. For our
meal then I loaded up on traditional goodies from Whole Foods, and made sure we had enough for leftovers,
since that is part of the Thanksgiving theme, plenty for all and some to spare. I know in this economy there
are those who really struggle and I feel for them because inflation has soared since covid.
I hope y'all had a good one...
My Thanksgiving ended with everyone reciting a list of subjects that are NEVER TO BE BROUGHT UP at our family dinners, EVER -- if any of us is able to rope some poor soul (presumably a friend or significant others) to a family dinner.
Said list of TOTALLY TABOO subjects include:
1. UFO's.
2. Aliens.
3. Area 51 and all the things the US government may or may not be hiding.
4. The (alleged) moon landing.
5. Bowflex (yes, as in the fitness machine/system)
It all started when I mentioned an old family story, but was EXTREMELY CAREFUL not to mention the said Bowflex that was involved, but alas -- SOMEONE ELSE mentioned the Bowflex, and it was all over.
I would elaborate but since it's really other people's stories and not mine to tell. Now I suddenly see why I have no interest in discussions about conspiracies and various extremes -- I already get MORE than my fill within my own family -- especially at holiday dinners.
All I can say is that any mention of these subjects will result in long, over-drawn tangents from various family members (and yes, their tangents even longer than the ones I have here on the forum!)
This will be accompanied by a VERY strong landslide of emotions, along with a flood of tears (that eventually, hopefully, turn into laughter.)
I went home thinking all about the "prep talk" -- yes, a PREP TALK and not a PEP TALK -- that I would need to unleash on the poor, unsuspecting soul and...
This probably has a lot to do as to why I'm single.
Said list of TOTALLY TABOO subjects include:
1. UFO's.
2. Aliens.
3. Area 51 and all the things the US government may or may not be hiding.
4. The (alleged) moon landing.
5. Bowflex (yes, as in the fitness machine/system)
It all started when I mentioned an old family story, but was EXTREMELY CAREFUL not to mention the said Bowflex that was involved, but alas -- SOMEONE ELSE mentioned the Bowflex, and it was all over.
I would elaborate but since it's really other people's stories and not mine to tell. Now I suddenly see why I have no interest in discussions about conspiracies and various extremes -- I already get MORE than my fill within my own family -- especially at holiday dinners.
All I can say is that any mention of these subjects will result in long, over-drawn tangents from various family members (and yes, their tangents even longer than the ones I have here on the forum!)
This will be accompanied by a VERY strong landslide of emotions, along with a flood of tears (that eventually, hopefully, turn into laughter.)
I went home thinking all about the "prep talk" -- yes, a PREP TALK and not a PEP TALK -- that I would need to unleash on the poor, unsuspecting soul and...
This probably has a lot to do as to why I'm single.
This reminds me very much of my daughter's late paternal grandfather, with whom one might never desire to be caught in one of his monologues about UFOs, or the second world war (within which he served). These traps were especially to be avoided at holiday dinners where we would be seated around the dining room table instead of eating as we normally would at the kitchen table. One never desired to be rude to him to just up and leave with some paltry excuse, and yet his talks did not invite any true back-and-forth conversation, as they were simply long drawn out tales from several decades of a life lived longer than any of us, may he R.I.P. I was a few times caught in such traps, and at such times a rescue mission had to be sent in to disentangle me from the dilemma, for well his own progeny understood that drastic measures needed to be taken under such circumstances. Besides which, we needed the dining room table to play whatever game my daughter desired for us to play on such occasions. Our favourites were things like Balderdash, where answers had to be fabricated if one did not know the real answer, with the other players guessing which answer was closest to the truth. Great merriment was had at such times laughing our heads off at the outlandish answers.My Thanksgiving ended with everyone reciting a list of subjects that are NEVER TO BE BROUGHT UP at our family dinners, EVER -- if any of us is able to rope some poor soul (presumably a friend or significant others) to a family dinner.
Said list of TOTALLY TABOO subjects include:
1. UFO's.
2. Aliens.
3. Area 51 and all the things the US government may or may not be hiding.
4. The (alleged) moon landing.
5. Bowflex (yes, as in the fitness machine/system)
It all started when I mentioned an old family story, but was EXTREMELY CAREFUL not to mention the said Bowflex that was involved, but alas -- SOMEONE ELSE mentioned the Bowflex, and it was all over.
I would elaborate but since it's really other people's stories and not mine to tell. Now I suddenly see why I have no interest in discussions about conspiracies and various extremes -- I already get MORE than my fill within my own family -- especially at holiday dinners.
All I can say is that any mention of these subjects will result in long, over-drawn tangents from various family members (and yes, their tangents even longer than the ones I have here on the forum!)
This will be accompanied by a VERY strong landslide of emotions, along with a flood of tears (that eventually, hopefully, turn into laughter.)
I went home thinking all about the "prep talk" -- yes, a PREP TALK and not a PEP TALK -- that I would need to unleash on the poor, unsuspecting soul and...
This probably has a lot to do as to why I'm single.
