Well, I briefly mentioned it yesterday, but geez... it's almost Thanksgiving! I seem to have lots of readers from Outside the US, so I'll give a little short history lesson, exactly how I remember learning it in school:

Apparently, the Indians went crazy with the syphilis that the Pilgrims had brought over, and decided they'd pay them back by forcing them to travel across the land to visit their families and eat dry turkey. Just for fun, they all watched football on their Pilgrim TVs. And I think that they had a Pilgrim Parade with balloons shaped like cartoon pilgrims and shit. It was really a nice time for all, or at least the Pilgrims seemed to like the four-day weekend away from... um... pilgrimming, so we have done it every year since.

Except for the syphilis part. And the Indians. We now call them Native Americans, and about a hundred years ago, we forced them to live on some of the worst, most infertile land imaginable. They have rebelled by building casinos and forcing gambling on heavy-smoking white trash every since. God Bless America.

For me personally, I'll be doing something a little different this year. Every year, we've traveled to the farm my father grew up on to have some of the best dry turkey you've ever had, but with the aging of my grandparents and the fact that my cousin decided that she would get the maximum attention if she timed her baby's birth over the Thanksgiving holiday, we're going to have a non-turkey Thanksgiving at my sister's house in Dallas (that might be the longest sentence I've ever written). My grandparents are going to travel to Dallas, too, so we'll have a good time. We've decided to eat chicken, because everyone has finally admitted they hate turkey. This is what therapy does for families: it opens up the line of communication, and we no longer have to endure dry-ass turkey on Thanksgiving. That's worth the ten grand I spent on my shrink right there.

Well, that's all I have for you now. I'm thinking on Thursday, I might post pictures of our spread. No... not THAT kind of spread... our FOOD. Sheesh. Dirty minds around here...

Oh PLEEEZZE post pictures. The table is just going to be beautiful!! I'm so excited. Love ya, TC

Have a good Thanksgiving, sweetie! Tell your parents I said hi! I'll be having soooo much fun with my family in Bossier City. Aaaaaaayeeee! Cajun Thanksgiving at my bro's. Small house...lots of ego = fun time for all. :D