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Thanksgiving Plans
My wife and I always spend Thanksgiving by ourselves because we are so far away from our families; trips home are usually reserved for a week in the summer and a week at Christmas.
So, the last 2 years it has been a tradition that we prepare way too much food for 2 people to eat, and then we eat it all.
This is supplemented with generous & continuous helpings of 'Holiday Punch' - a mixture of lemonade, grenadine, and rum - until a fattened and drunken state is reached.
Then we play video games all day long until we fall asleep (@ like 3pm). Last year it was Need For Speed Underground, this year it will be Need For Speed Underground: Most Wanted.
What are your traditions?
we're gonna eat pozole....with turkey meat of course 
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| Originally posted by Palladium we're gonna eat pozole....with turkey meat of course |
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| Originally posted by Ygrene What's pozole? |
my family is so spread out all over the US, so Thanksgiving is always at Ellen & Pete's house back in NY. they're longtime friends of my family and i pretty much grew up with their kids. every year they have Thanksgiving dinner and all their Jewish and Italian relatives from NJ and NYC make the trek up to their cozy house upstate. i think my family are the only ones who show up who aren't actually related to them, but we've all known them for so long that we're basically considered family.
it's so comfortably predictable, from the food we eat to the people who show up to the conversations that take place. it's really the only holiday that i still have a tradition for, so i look forward to it every year.
and this year i am draggin' an RJT along with me! 
usually i ditch my immediately family to go with my cousins/aunts/uncles to our house in upstate ny.. about 3 hours north of nyc (the damn town isn't even on the map, that's how bumblefuck it is!)
in the morning we cook breakfast for each other (i make an omlet for joe, he makes an omlet for fran, she makes an omlet for mike, he makes an omlet for me, etc, there are like 35 of us) and then we get dressed in our best scummy clothes and start the 4-wheelers, tractors and go riding in the woods, chase some wild turkey and shit.
then we come back from riding and jump on the trampoline and play stupid charades, imitating idiosyncrasies of each relative. maybe do some fishing if the lake isn't already half-frozen, then come in and help with the rest of the cooking and make a pumpkin pie, set up the dinner table, fire up the fire place.....
when everything's ready for thanksgiving dinner, ring the cowbell so everyone/anyone outside can hear it's time to eat (they're usually fixing up the house cuz it's like 150 years old) or making the bonfire, etc...and then we eat. and then we repeat the whole process all weekend. 
No plan. I'll probably end up getting something to eat from the drugstore again, since everywhere else will be closed.
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| Originally posted by Arbiter No plan. I'll probably end up getting something to eat from the drugstore again, since everywhere else will be closed. |
this year could sux or be cool
my sister wants to have it at her new apt in NYC, my brother wants to go out to restaurant but my sister didnt make reservations, so we'll probably eat at her place which sucks cause she cant cook and is a vegitarian. Not looking forward to being stuck in traffic for 1/2 the day but its good to see the family. I wouldn't have minded cooking thanksgiving dinner but everyone in my family are such pain in the asses who won't eat this or that. I'm tired of catering to each persons needs so I say let someone else do it.
Apparently i'm going to some relatives' house who I don't know. Joy. Maybe they will be watching the game, in which Dallas will crush their opponent. Na. I'd still loathe it.
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| Originally posted by igottaknow this year could sux or be cool my sister wants to have it at her new apt in NYC, my brother wants to go out to restaurant but my sister didnt make reservations, so we'll probably eat at her place which sucks cause she cant cook and is a vegitarian. Not looking forward to being stuck in traffic for 1/2 the day but its good to see the family. I wouldn't have minded cooking thanksgiving dinner but everyone in my family are such pain in the asses who won't eat this or that. I'm tired of catering to each persons needs so I say let someone else do it. |
Ygrene sounds like your in the same boat my wife and I find ourselves in during Thanksgiving. We are 3000+ miles away from any family so what we do is cook a turkey and then invite friends over who are also in the same boat. They each bring a dish or something of their choosing. Then in the evening we usually have a party to kick off the 4 day weekend.
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| Originally posted by Ygrene You need some HOLIDAY PUNCH! It's wierd being away from family for Thanksgiving but, it's soooooo nice that we don't have to deal with all the downsides. We don't have to leave the house, we cook what we want, eat when we want it, how we want, it's so much fun. I can't wait. |
Last year, my girlfriend took me home for Thanksgiving lunch with her mom, godmother, and their family. After that, we had dinner with her mom's "friends." Imagine my surprise when we knock on the door of their house, and a NUN opens the door. That was an interesting meal. Fortunately, I'd had a good deal of wine at the first stop.
Usually head up to my wife's parent's house up in Ft St John's.
The whole family gathers and they have the turkey with all the fixings. Then when all the family leaves, we smoke out. 
This year tradition will be broken though:
Bang Festival > Family 
I won't be celebrating Thanksgiving this year as I don't believe in it. Screw my family, screw the history behind it, it's all about me, me, me...
j/k I already celebrated it a month ago 
YAY. Know what I'm doing for thanks giving? DEMOLISHING A BUILDING.
Fuck.
So yeah, my family is up in LA and I can't go with them.... BUT, my GF is also working... so i'm thinkin we'll order a pizza at 8 PM when I get off.
This si gonna suck, but at least I wont be lonely like last thanksgiving..
Thanksgiving's coming on the 4th of July in the form of a girl with a needle in her eye.
Usually my family and I go to some other family friends house. Food is eaten, conversations are had, all the "kids" still pretend like we give 2 shits what going on in everyone's lives. I get a little drunk and hit on someone...it's all great I suppose.
This year, however, we're making a trip to London. Have no idea why, but whatever, get to go to London! So I guess this years Thanksgiving is gonna be spent hanging out with kr00t and any other UKTA's that'll be at Prehab
I'll be spending Thanksgiving with my Mom & Dad and most likely my brother and his GF @ my parents house. As per usual I will eat Turkey / Mashed Potatoes / Pumpkin pie until I'm about comatose and then have a couple beers while watching football until I'm totally passed out.
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| Originally posted by LuNaSeA or you can buy food ahead of time and store it in your fridge so that you have something to eat that day? |
I have a big family with german/polish roots, so we eat all kinds of food. Alot of family going to my grandma's house, and I am gonna have a good time.
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