Thanksgiving

I couldn't think of a witty title... So sue me.

Thanksgiving is almost upon us. I can't wait. It's a great holiday. Being around your family... Stuffing your face full of turkey and whatnot... Watching a football game you don't really care about... And then going out to Best Buy at 6 AM on the day after Thanksgiving, hoping to find something at a cheap price.

Anyway, what does your family do for Thanksgiving? Anything special? How much time off do you get from school for Thanksgiving break? And, for all the people who don't live in the U.S., how do you celebrate your Un-Thanksgiving?

In my family, we always have lots of relatives come over to visit. Half of our family lives in Virginia; the other half, Illinois. So, both groups kinda meet in the middle at our house in Ohio. I'm going back home in a couple days. At my college, we get Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday off. Nice.

When I look at it, Thanksgiving is kinda a sexist time at my house. My mom and aunts spend the time in the kitchen, preparing the meal. My sisters help occasionally, but usually just get in the way. And the guys? We go to the basement living room and fall asleep watching football. Once, some of us tried helping the ladies with the meal, but they kicked us out of the kitchen...

Before we eat, we each say something that we're thankful for. It's kinda hokey, but it's neat. I love Thanksgiving. A time to get the family together and act really hokey.

On thanksgiving day I'm going to play on the compy until it drives me insane. Then I'll get on the gamecube and play on it for the rest of the day. Then we all eat turkey! Yay!

After thanksgiving sales are awsome too. At Kohls last year the lines went all the way around the edge of the store so that the lines met at the back. It was a really long wait.

One of my grand mothers always comes over and cooks the best meal I've ever eaten, they can both make some awesome gravy. After the football game is over we have a late lunch/early dinner usually ending in unbuttoned pants or groaning. I have sort of a strange family, but I like the time off, we have school today and a half day tomorrow then nothing until next week.

Oh man, I absolutely love thanksgiving, expecially nowmore than ever simple because right now I'm away at college, over 1,000 miles away from home. So I've got a few great great benefits with thanksgiving

1) finnally get to see my family again

2)Be at home, in my own room, some private time

3)A pantry full of food (free food) and a great delicious dinner

4) Get the see the girlfriend, sex etc.

Originally Posted by Jims

I couldn't think of a witty title... So sue me.

We forgive you. Your wit elsewhere is awesome anyways.

Same thoughts, minus the hokey, which my family dosen't get into it at all. I think its more of a catching up day, since we rarely get to see each other(not that we live far from each other, but I think we're too lazy). I just like the gathering and the food rocks. Nothing special really. I just visit my maternal aunt and uncle. Either house, we've never really considered my own since it ...well, it used to be about our old, crappy house but I'm less sure why now considering we live in a house better than theirs. But again, the mashed potatoes and stuffing are the shizz. About the only time I ever get to eat them anyways-- well, I'm a loser. It is something to have only me and my brother this year though. And even if my cousins get it off from college/work, eh, they just don't always show up. Not that I don't understand why-- but eh.

I will eat Tofu Turkey, Pumpkin and Pecan pies, and chestnut stuffing until my stomach explodes. Yay to this holiday! Even though it is best celebrated in America.

Originally Posted by vacumgod

4) Get the see the girlfriend, sex etc.

Heh, that made my minute.

I love thanksgiving. Get to see all the family together for a great dinner and have some fun. The football with the testosterone(sp?) of the family is also fun as well.

Weird Americans, Canada had Thanksgiving in October. I guess we have it for different reasons, Canada has it to cellebrate the harvest, I think the Americans have it for the Pilgrims.

I had thanksgiving last month, I live in Canada. Anyways, we just have the normal family gathering and turkey.

Thanksgiving…

^_^

Our family probably does about the same thing every single year. It’s nearly the same as every other family that celebrates Thanksgiving in the United States.

We all head over to my Grandma’s house (it takes about an hour to get to her house by car), and me meet up with other relatives that are already there. We usually talk to each other and all that other stuff.

A little while before lunch, all the older females flock to the kitchen to prepare meals. My chick cousins go out for a drive, and most of the time I’m still in the living room watching football with the rest of my male family and relatives. =P

So, we eat our meal together in the dining room, and everyone’s still talking to each other. It’s quite amusing to observer who is sitting next to who. I will be more than likely sitting between my brother and my mom.

Everyone might disappear for about the next 5 or 6 hours to somewhere. Some people still stay, but later at dinner, we reunite eat turkey AGAIN, just prepared differently. Afterwards, we all return home after bidding each other good bye.

Meh, my Thanksgiving's not very out of the ordinary...

My aunt and uncle, both sets of grandparents and occasionally my cousins come for Thanksgiving. We have turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, the works foodwise. Afterwards, my grandmother yanks apart about a thousand newspapers for the day-after-Thanksgiving sales that go on. Sometimes, I see something I like at a great price, but it's not worth getting up and going to a crowded store early in the morning, so I usually don't get too excited over what I see. My granfather, uncle and father have all the football games going on. My mother and my aunts talk for a while and watch T.V. And I usually do nothing.

Yeah, my Thanksgivings aren't very interesting.

Well I am from canada so Thanksgiving was in October. Normally my mom will cook. She makes a huge turkey and puts stuffing inside. Sometimes we make some other stuff to go with it such as roast beef. To drink my parents normally buy some tuscan wine. I normally finish dinner quickly and then I go onto the internet.

What we do for thanksgiving is that we all go up to Michigan to see my grandma. We bring the whole family there and we go there to eat turkey and stuff.

Originally Posted by Feline Witch

I will eat Tofu Turkey

*slap*


My "main" family all live in the same state, so we get together pretty easily. We all go to my uncles house. My uncle, my mom, my grandmom, and my uncle's boyfriend all cook the food. Yeah, my uncle.. he's umm.. .. .. ... yea. It's a great time of the year. I used to hate it, but now I think being around family is awesome.

my mom and grandma do all the cooking (exept for my trademark Tapioca Pie!) my dad and robert (grammas husband) talk about stuff. roberts cool. i sit on the couch silently with my dad doing random stuff. my sister always gets in trouble when we have guests for playing her gameboy. then we go shopping and eat somemore then everybody goes home. oh my uncle daril comes over too and sometimes my aunt cathey.

Odd, thinking of Thanksgiving this time of year....

Well, for me anyways. I'm Canadian; we have it on the 1st Monday of October. Anyways, I went back home for the weekend, meeting my family. It was my first day back after leaving for university, so they were all glad to see I was alive. We had the big meal, very different from what I had gotten used to. It was a nice time.

Now, when you Americans are eating your turkey, know where I'll be? I'll be up here writing a Chemistry Exam. Oh, how nice....

Go christmas shopping is what I would be doing on your thanksgiving. Schools will be getting ready for the summer holiday and I will be laughing at this joke from the Just for laughs gala. "In england they call it F'off Puritan day."

Ahh the old giving of thanks! The one day of the year, where you can't have eaten too much. I might break that though.

I have three seperate dinners to go to all in the same day. I won't go into detail, but I have a feeling my pants are about to become pretty tight.

Oh yeah who can forget the day after Thanksgiving. Black Friday. Thanksgiving seems to take all of ones thankfulness to others, cause when the stores open up, look out the old lady is whacking people with her purse to get the last barbie doll for her grandaughter.

we just , uh, eat rele. Mymom does all cooking b/c she won't let me near the stove.

Mmm... I'm so excited for Thanksgiving. Sort of. I'm more excited about the food and not having to work. Thanksgiving isn't as great as it used to be for me because all my cousins that are my age (20) moved across the country and the other ones never come to family gatherings, so it's just me, old people, dozens of screaming children, and a bunch of preteens who wouldn't understand my humor (Or shouldn't be hearing it).

We normally have a mix of oriental food and American food. I always go for the oriental food, but sometimes there isn't enough of it because... well... it's Thanksgiving and stir fry was not served to Native Americans on the first day of thanks....

I'm most likely going to sit there in a room far away from everyone else and play my DS. Oh yay.