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Thanksgiving Thoughts
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Posted by: laborat
(Some thoughts you can read while I go mull the cider)
Here it is about 10AM and the Turkey is looking good in the oven along side of the Beef Tenderloin w/Mushrooms and baby Carrots. I have been cooking since 6 and await a hungry horde of family, extended family, friends and extended friends for a Feast Time of 1:30.
All of these guests, (for some reason I even consider relatives as guests at least for the first day), will be bringing along something to add to the bounty at our table. If past experiences of Thanksgiving are any indication, we will all be offering up prayers of thanks that we can still walk after eating ourselves silly.
I baked gingerbread cakes last night and I thought at the time I must excited to be settled back into a family situation for the holidays. This is the start of the true Holiday Season that runs through Christmas into New Years. My significant other (she who must be obeyed) is also excited and anxious at hosting such a large gathering but is holding up well. (insert Bailey's Irish Cream into fresh ground Bolivian coffee here).
Since I lead such an unconventional lifestyle (at least by Bush and Ashcroft standards), I tend toward traditional on Holidays. After all you want your guests to have a good time and feel thankful that they are.
All of us have our childhood Holiday memories and spend the rest of our lives trying to recreate them for our own families and friends and I am no different. I don't like to mess with things that still work. If you ask me tinkering with stuff that has worked is one of the reasons we are in such deep doo-doo on the national level.
It will be a traditional meal with, yeah, green bean casserole, real mashed potatoes, stuffing, spinach (I was a popeye the sailor man generation), golden corn, jello, buttered carrots, fresh baked rolls, and all the types of pies imaginable to eat afterward with cool whip or redi-whip topping. For once we can all sit down and really enjoy the things that have meaning to us all. All this stuff I keep hearing about on the media sites and cable do not strike me as having much meaning to the average joe in this country or any other country for that matter.
I think I will skip football on Turkey day this year. The Chiefs and the Rams are serious contenders and thats something I can read about in my local paper. (one of the few papers by the way that is not owned by some guy from Austrailia named Rupert) I can read about PTA board meeting spats or idiot local politicians or developers instead of the vast left wing media conspiracy that the conservatives would have us believe have a stranglehold on the media. At least until Congress passes the media bill increasing the ownership ratios to a higher percentage or at least grandfather in CNN and other Mega-Corporation Mouthpieces, err, Conglomerates and the liberals succeed in wresting control from the MSNBCs, LimpBahs, UhReilly's, and Ruperts.
Anyways back to Thanksgiving and why I and You should be thankful. We should be thankful that it is taking longer than planned to take over the entire planet, trash its natural resources, then escape to whatever galaxy the people who seem to run the world come from. We should be thankful that on the basic levels of humanity, family values are still treasured and not used as platitudes to gain political office. We should be thankful that for whatever reason, that we are among friends or family for this Holiday. (If you are not, then you should call someone up and invite yourself or invite them, out to share Thanksgiving.)
Personally, I am thankful for life, happiness,love, my real life friends and my online friends both of which are a currency on which I base my true wealth. Happy Thanksgiving to the OTS Staffers and Volunteers who help our visitors with questions that even I scratch my head at sometimes. I am sure the visitors are Thankful that there is a site like this with the answers they need. Give the Laggy both drumsticks this year, he is numero uno in my book.
A Cheese Puff Fizzie for All and to all a good Thanksgiving.
Posted by: Canis Lupus
Back at ya, Lab man! I myself am not spending Thanksgiving the "normal" way ... I'm all alone in the apartment and my brother's spending his thanksgiving with friends (he's become westernized more than I am, hehe) ... doesn't mean I'm not enjoying it my own way - watching DVDs and playing the PS2 with ice cream, spaghetti and beer ... well, beer is for later tonight when some of my friends come in, so it ain't all bad ... another scheduled hangover ...
Anyway, Happy Turkey Day 
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