This is going to seem like a really un-American post. Truth is, Thanksgiving is not one of my favorite holidays. I'm a vegetarian. Yes, there are a lot of wonderful foods served (including pie... mmm pie), but let's face it, the meal and the whole day revolves around turkey. Now, I like to eat, but the gluttonous attitude some people have really turns me off. Eating until you fall asleep? Eating a lot just for the sake of eating? Plus I never bought that whole Indian - Pilgrim fable either. It just doesn't seem like a day of celebration for me.
Years ago my then-husband and I went to Southern California every Thanksgiving. We would hit Disneyland on Thanksgiving and then two of the other parks - Universal Studios, Magic Mountain, or Knott's Berry Farm. We avoided the obligations, the turkey thing, all of it. I did get pumpkin pie at Denny's though.
And that's another thing about Thanksgiving. It brings back a lot of memories. Some bad ones I don't want to think about and happy ones I can never relive. It's all a bit too much.
So, if it is your kind of thing, Happy Thanksgiving to you. If not, at least know you are not the only one muddling through.
2 comments:
husband and I escape to the local casino and are thankful to break even after eight hours of escaping our respective bad memories. You weren't alone either.
The day before Thanksgiving, the worse thing that could happen to a Mother occurred. For my second son, it meant going to the movies or riding to DC and hitting a museum or the zoo. I think his friends were jealous.
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