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stoopbeckThanksgiving is not Thanksgiving without at least the following:
-One flight delay, usually caused by a ginormous storm, usually affecting my aunt, usually causing massive panicking and fire drills galore, either at beginning of the holidays or at the end
-One sleepless night worrying about all members of family arriving safely
-563 games of Slap
-Final showdown game of Slap of all cousins and some aunts against Dad, which is either not finished or won by him
-At least 563 arguements about rules of Slap, and about whose "slap" it was
-314 games of I-Doubt-It, all won by Elise
-At least 15 dog fights, preferably on someone's lap
-A trip to Waffle House [if I can get the strength to post again, I'll post that story]
-A fire drill concerning who will drive in what car with whom to where, repeated at least five times for each day of vacation
-Five grocery trips per day, all of which must include at least one loaf of bread
-A Thanksgiving play, put on extremely last minute, involving construction paper costumes, a relative's "death," and a dogfight
-60 total hours of teasing the dogs--- may include teaching them to howl, hiding their toys, pretending to be dead, making faces, etc.
-At least one trip to Barnes and Noble, in which we all get FREE BOOKS HUZZAH!
-At least three major disagreements between my brother and myself, not counting the usual sniping
-At least one dish for the Thanksgiving meal must catch on fire. Also, one oven mitt must be incinerated
-At least one practical joke involving parts from the turkey, preferrably heart or gizzard
-One trip to the park in which something crazy happens [hopefully not as crazy as the little-kids-wielding-golf-clubs-incident of yesteryear]
Thanksgiving as always was... insane. Thirteen people, three dogs, one cat, an xbox, a fireplace, three decks of cards, with a few jokers filling in for cards that were eaten during previous Thanksgivings by my aunt's bulldog, crazy family, inside jokes [Raisin Toast! Idoubttheydo... My pants... Uno! Dos! Tres! CATORCE!], hearing embarrassing stories about parents [like the time when dad was really, REALLY little and his older sisters made him stand outside on the front lawn in his underwear and scream "damn" at the top of his lungs, or the time they made my aunt pretend she was spastic so they'd get more sales from their lemonade stand... good times, good times], getting to know cousins again after not seeing them for a whole year and just when you think you know them it's time for them to leave again, playing Slap until your hands are one huge bleeding sore from people's nails and fists and rings, seeing family in people's faces [seeing my nose and my eyes on other people's faces is interesting], the constant sound of laughter and the dangerous sound of things cooking, enough food for several armies and all of it SO FREAKING GOOD, and, as always, over too soon. Thanks, guys. It was fun.
-One flight delay, usually caused by a ginormous storm, usually affecting my aunt, usually causing massive panicking and fire drills galore, either at beginning of the holidays or at the end
-One sleepless night worrying about all members of family arriving safely
-563 games of Slap
-Final showdown game of Slap of all cousins and some aunts against Dad, which is either not finished or won by him
-At least 563 arguements about rules of Slap, and about whose "slap" it was
-314 games of I-Doubt-It, all won by Elise
-At least 15 dog fights, preferably on someone's lap
-A trip to Waffle House [if I can get the strength to post again, I'll post that story]
-A fire drill concerning who will drive in what car with whom to where, repeated at least five times for each day of vacation
-Five grocery trips per day, all of which must include at least one loaf of bread
-A Thanksgiving play, put on extremely last minute, involving construction paper costumes, a relative's "death," and a dogfight
-60 total hours of teasing the dogs--- may include teaching them to howl, hiding their toys, pretending to be dead, making faces, etc.
-At least one trip to Barnes and Noble, in which we all get FREE BOOKS HUZZAH!
-At least three major disagreements between my brother and myself, not counting the usual sniping
-At least one dish for the Thanksgiving meal must catch on fire. Also, one oven mitt must be incinerated
-At least one practical joke involving parts from the turkey, preferrably heart or gizzard
-One trip to the park in which something crazy happens [hopefully not as crazy as the little-kids-wielding-golf-clubs-incident of yesteryear]
Thanksgiving as always was... insane. Thirteen people, three dogs, one cat, an xbox, a fireplace, three decks of cards, with a few jokers filling in for cards that were eaten during previous Thanksgivings by my aunt's bulldog, crazy family, inside jokes [Raisin Toast! Idoubttheydo... My pants... Uno! Dos! Tres! CATORCE!], hearing embarrassing stories about parents [like the time when dad was really, REALLY little and his older sisters made him stand outside on the front lawn in his underwear and scream "damn" at the top of his lungs, or the time they made my aunt pretend she was spastic so they'd get more sales from their lemonade stand... good times, good times], getting to know cousins again after not seeing them for a whole year and just when you think you know them it's time for them to leave again, playing Slap until your hands are one huge bleeding sore from people's nails and fists and rings, seeing family in people's faces [seeing my nose and my eyes on other people's faces is interesting], the constant sound of laughter and the dangerous sound of things cooking, enough food for several armies and all of it SO FREAKING GOOD, and, as always, over too soon. Thanks, guys. It was fun.
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HA!
Date: 2004-11-30 11:47 pm (UTC)Re: HA!
Date: 2004-12-01 04:30 am (UTC)