This the first Thanksgiving that will be exclusively me and mine (minus my oldest son). We lost my MIL this year. Until now Ms. Cutman and I would cook everything at our house and bring it across town to her and the gang of strays she always seemed to take in. The two children that we have with us are 14 and 18. Instead of turkey this year, we decided we will each cook our own Cornish game hen. That way we can do 4 different styles and share. All of the other trimmings will be included. A little less work though. As for the Christmas songs, fuck that, they can keep 'em until Christmas eve.
asahi needs to change his username to Grinch. And put this album on continuous play at home and work.
On the other hand, it seems perverse for the local Lowe’s home improvement store to put out Xmas stuff in goddamn September.
Cornish game hens are awesome. That sounds great, I hope you all enjoy it.
I’m with the OP on this. I already wrote a letter to Alaska Airlines telling them that November 14th is way too early for Christmas music. We’re hosting a few people for relatively mellow Thanksgiving (precooked turkey already ordered) but skipping Christmas this year. No tree, no lights, no nothing. The kids are all invited to join us at a Chinese restaurant and relax on 12/25.
I like THIS one way better.
I work as a cashier in a discount store. I get more hours, people are mostly nicer, and the store is more generous with their giveaways. OTOH, people dump more items at the register, there are more huge orders, and people get upset because we don’t have just exactly what they want.
This Christmas song is another favorite of mine.
Heh, can’t fool me. I’m a USAian, but I know when Canadian Thanksgiving is!
I agree with you, but the reason that airline does it is because their clientele, by and large, like them doing it.
One of the best thanksgivings I’ve ever experienced was a year when I was in between relationships, and my kids were doing the day with their mom. I was left with nothing to do that day.
My friend Billie heard about my situation and invited me to her home. She’s a bartender, and was throwing a dinner at her home exclusively for people who’d otherwise be alone that day. It was AWESOME! The Canadian blues guitarist/vocalist Anthony Gomes played T-giving Eve at the bar where Billie worked, and his band’s travel plans fell through due to weather, so they attended. A friend I hadn’t seen in years showed up; I never knew he knew Billie, and it was great catching up.
We had turkey, veggies, nachos, pizzas, etc and everyone brought beer, liquor, and drugs. Anthony and his band played a few sets. The party started at noon. When I left 24 hours later there was still a small group of revelers. There was a ton of debauchery, still people sporadically made speeches about what they were thankful for.
‘Kayaker’, man oh man, you lead an exciting life.(:))
One year we took the younguns to Disney, over the Thanksgiving week. The kids loved it. It kinda seemed strange to me.
My neighbors here in Austin already put up their Christmas lights in mid-October, as they have done in previous years as well.
Before Thanksgiving is questionable.
Before Halloween should be criminal. 
Pick your poison; ain’t nobody at deer camp that day.
One long ass day? Pfft. Piker.
Spidey! And here I thought we was friends. I see how you are. (:))
I do make it seem worse than it really is. I can always have a pain, DIL will put me to bed. (:eek:)
I tend to identify with the OP. Thanksgiving is not so bad, my sister always hosts (almost always, at least it’s never me) all I have to do is bring some wine, eat some food, avoid politics with the overwhelmingly Trumpy family and leave. Christmas is a different story. I was going to go into detail but…on second thought, I’ll just say Christmas season is something I’m glad to be past when it’s over.
Wow, that sounds great. I know who Anthony Gomes is, he played here recently and the venue he played at (C2G) records shows and plays them at 1:00 AM after SNL. Just saw his recently.
I went to Panama this year at the end of September/into October and even down there Christmas items were already being put up in stores at that time.
i remeber when i went in a fabric store and everything was christmas related ., i bought the sewing kit my aunt needed and asked about it…
the clerk asked me "ever see grandma sew/knit a sweater by hand? … thats why we sell the stuff to start start now… …
Do they live off Guadalupe, on or near 37th St.?
If so, that is acceptable. (Cite: I used to live on 38 1/2 St.)
Oh, my gawd, there’s a wiki article: