holiday Parade Around Your Thanksgiving!

[DrGravitas]

This is the thread to show off and chat about Thanksgiving and Black Friday! Chat about plans, post pics of your mondo-meal, recall old war-stories about that time you beat to death a 60 year old women over a tickle-me-Elmo!

 

It's cold and rainy where I'm at which makes for a rather cozy day. I'm heading up to my folks for Turkey Day, but I generally stay the hell away from stores on Black Friday...

 

Loving the new banner icon for today!

[LazerMaster5]

I get to work tonight and tomorrow. Fun.

At least I don't work in retail.

[Fossa]

@DrGravitas At first, I read that as 'Tickle me Emo'. I might fight over a cute one of those, but they are not usually found in Wal-Mart! I always stay in on Black Friday, perhaps venturing out so far as the local pub for fish and chips, and/or enough libations to forget about things.

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Huh, it'll be a quiet thanksgiving here. I'm planning to walk down to the store, and pick up something to make; not sure what, yet. Maybe a pasta dish with littleneck clams, a salad and whatever is there that strikes me. But seems like a rather somber day; trying to shake off this lingering feeling of depression...friends are out of town, my amazing foxy friend is in no-net land for a week, visiting family, and I've been fending off this ongoing feeling of being trapped/broke---the not being able to drive aspect of things is hard; it's almost been two years now.

But I am thankful my vision is still good enough to work and function, even as I am typing this; and I have a place to live that is warm, and enough to eat, and as I look around the city at so much poverty and homelessness, I do feel lucky I am not on the streets, as so many are. 

So if I can't be out buying the latest phone or laptop or TV or what not, I'm still lucky to have the friends I have and have had, and to have lived this long, while I have seen so many friends die young. (well, young being 21, 29, 34, 36, 40.). Cancer, suicide, an OD. Not to be morose, but having played with fire more than a few times, I am often amazed, and thankful that I've lived to tell the tail. (tale ; )

So, on that note, hope everyone has at least a decent day, and a few things in life you can ponder over, and feel good about, even if life seems like a struggle.

[Osrik]

Thanksgiving greetings to you all.

 

[Hux]

I'm getting my hair licked by my cousin's cat.

My head is covered in cat saliva, but for some reason I'm unable to move. Maybe it's because the cat will scratch me if I do.

Cats are horrible people.

Happy Thanksgiving!

[DrGravitas]

Watching the National Dog Show. So many adorable fur-babies!

[Strongbob]

Generally I try and go skiing on thanksgiving but as there is no snow within 500 miles of me this year I went on a bike ride instead.  Then I made an apple pie and now I'm drinking 12yo scotch purchased by my ex wife.  Life is weird. 

[Gator]

i tried to sleep but my grandma had the whole family over and when i woke up to pee i couldn't get back to sleep for like 2 hours so now i'm tired

and i have to leave for work soon, which means walmart on the beginning of black friday.  however, since i'm overnight at a "neighborhood market", that probably won't mean much compared to when i worked daytime at a supercenter.