Well I had a pretty shitty Thanksgiving.
Normally I drive down to be with my Dad (he's basically my only family) and on the actual day he plops two cheap steaks on a Foreman grill at lunchtime and that is Thanksgiving dinner.
Which is fine by me, family-oriented holidays are more hassles for me than anything nowadays. I would rather not get presents on Christmas because basically I don't really want things. If I do want something I get it myself, because it's easier to get what you want yourself than to make other people guess.
Plus I hate the guessing what to get other people. It's bad enough that my Dad is like me in the not-wanting-things department. Last Christmas I got him a shelf to put some of his CDs on and some new pillows, and that was honestly the best things I could have gotten him. I've already started thinking on what to get him this year, but it's kind of useless until I actually get down there and see what he needs.
Really the whole point of me going home for Christmas and Thanksgiving is that I'm going home.
But I didn't this time because my girlfriend was really insistent that I go to her family's Thanksgiving (apparently they really wanted to get to know me better) this year when I indicated I was worried about the cost of gas for the trip (I'm low on funding right now).
Now usually when her family has a get-together they go to her grandfather's lake house and it's an all-day affair. That's what I thought it was this time. But it turns out this year Thanksgiving was an hour-and-a-half at Ryans where nobody spoke to me.
Seems kind of like a waste of my time when I only see my Dad 3-4 times a year.
So basically the rest of the day was me watching marathons on TV by myself, feeling guilty about not going home.
Good stuff.
Post that shit on your Livejournal
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Re: Post that shit on your Livejournal
this should set the stage with your girlfriend to decide any future Thanksgivings. However, you are probably going to have to compromise the Christmas holiday for her family.
A tactic to take with your gf next year are any (or all of the following):
"My dad and I are all the family we have for each other so I'd really like to spend it with him"
"My dad and I have a long standing tradition of spending thanksgiving together...it hurt him I wasn't there last eyar"
That way you don't make it about or snobbish family.
Anyway, that sucks, Seriously. I actually like Thanksgiving, but this year I was still feeling sick, fighting a recurring cough, windburnt on my face (from spending hours outdoors hunting), tired, cranky and hungry. When I got my to my mom's I found that my brother DID stop by (unannounced) and I had been waiting to look at his laptop I gave him. It wasn't playing DVDs. Had he let me know he was coming by, I would have gladly brought my cd drive cleaner with me to fix it.
The best part of Thanksgiving? Left over turkey, stuffing, cranberry sammichs!
A tactic to take with your gf next year are any (or all of the following):
"My dad and I are all the family we have for each other so I'd really like to spend it with him"
"My dad and I have a long standing tradition of spending thanksgiving together...it hurt him I wasn't there last eyar"
That way you don't make it about or snobbish family.
Anyway, that sucks, Seriously. I actually like Thanksgiving, but this year I was still feeling sick, fighting a recurring cough, windburnt on my face (from spending hours outdoors hunting), tired, cranky and hungry. When I got my to my mom's I found that my brother DID stop by (unannounced) and I had been waiting to look at his laptop I gave him. It wasn't playing DVDs. Had he let me know he was coming by, I would have gladly brought my cd drive cleaner with me to fix it.
The best part of Thanksgiving? Left over turkey, stuffing, cranberry sammichs!
Re: Post that shit on your Livejournal
Actually they're pretty nice people, except for her Dad but he's not invited to things.
This was more a breakdown in communication I think, they don't really know I don't have much family and don't see them often and she wasn't aware this Thanksgiving was going to be so casual and low-key until basically the night before.
But I decided that I still got to be irritated with the end result.
But it is true that there will be no more discussion over where I spend my holidays. A grand total of a week-and-a-half out of the entire year? Well, probably about 4 or 5 days now (that is as long as my Dad and I can really continously stand each other).
The way things are I see her family more than I see mine.
This was more a breakdown in communication I think, they don't really know I don't have much family and don't see them often and she wasn't aware this Thanksgiving was going to be so casual and low-key until basically the night before.
But I decided that I still got to be irritated with the end result.
But it is true that there will be no more discussion over where I spend my holidays. A grand total of a week-and-a-half out of the entire year? Well, probably about 4 or 5 days now (that is as long as my Dad and I can really continously stand each other).
The way things are I see her family more than I see mine.
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