TwistedLover
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Post by TwistedLover on Nov 25, 2013 21:15:47 GMT -5
What Will you be Doing for Thanksgiving?
It's that time of year again guys, Thanksgiving is just in three days! So I want to know... what is it you do then?
Do you go out to eat with your family at a restaurant, sit down at home with only close family or have a party with all your relatives? Do you enjoy having a great amount of turkey and rolls, or some other type of food? Or do you not even celebrate Thanksgiving this time of year?
For me, my family all goes to my grandma's forty minutes from home. My mother, step-father, and I arrive early around nineAM usually and then we spend the next several hours making the food. My step-father cooks a turkey in a pot outside and my grandmother makes a turkey in the oven so we have two different types.
I make the dumplings, rolling it out with the rolling pin and cutting the pieces as good as I can before happily plopping them into the boiling water pot we have to cook them in. I've been doing that for several years since they wanted me to get more involved, at first I would make them with grandma but now I'm good enough that I do it all on my own. Which is something to say, because I don't know much about cooking other than this!
After the dumplings I tend to go into the living room and play on my laptop, phone, or my DS. Not because I don't care to help but because by this point several other relatives will have arrived and want to help my mother and grandmother with all the food. So I just stay on the sidelines so I don't get in the way until dinner is announced. My step-father also usually ends up on the couch watching whatever is on TV at the time, because his turkey is still cooking and there's not much else he has to do.
Once all the food is done, typically around... 1-3PM, everyone arrives and we get a table set up out in the room with the front door because there's not enough space in my grandmother's kitchen for us all. So we separate out into two groups and eat dinner, chatting all the while. Dinner can last half an hour or longer.
We have two types of turkeys and enjoy some casserole that grandmother made. Some other stuff comes as well, usually a salad. We have multiple desserts, like upside down angel food cake, pumpkin pie (A must for Thanksgiving to us!), raspberry pie, and other things like that.
After everyone is done eating I make sure that I get an extra large thing of dumplings to take home to snack on for the next few days and we hang around for another half-hour before everyone starts to go back home. Then the rest of the day is spent doing whatever we want. ;3
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Post by Hige on Nov 25, 2013 21:23:27 GMT -5
My Thanksgiving is usually different every year... so there's not a main tradition. We usually eat at my Grandmothers then head on down about a hour and half to hang out with some other family members to continue eating. However, My Grandmother recently received a job back in May that messes up her schedule and will possibly have her work on Thanksgiving. My Grandfather had also had knee surgery last Tuesday, so He'll want to stay home. This leaves just me and my mom who said we could go to her friend's house and have dinner there. However I've been having this uncomfortable feeling around them so I'm avoiding that subject.
I'll most likely be heading over to Church to eat out with the church family. My City is around a military base so they'll be providing turkeys for us. Everyone else can bring dishes to share and there will be a dessert competition for those willing to enter. However it'll be great to hang out with everyone that I see as a second family to when I'm unable to reach with my main one. It doesn't start till about...6 PM. I'll head on over about 4:30 or 5 to help out. During the day? I'll most likely be spending on the computer and try to touch up on learning typography this break.
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Post by TidalMewMew on Nov 25, 2013 21:47:02 GMT -5
I'll be staying with my grandparents and having Thanksgiving with them and a few of my uncles. It kind of bothers me though, since I wanted to go home and spend time with my mother and that side of the family. At least there will be lots of food! We'll probably eat pretty early too, about 1-3pm just like Twist up there. Much food, many football. I don't really watch the football, so I'll be sitting in some corner somewhere texting my mother and Twist because I'm awkward even at family get-togethers.
PIE! Turkey, gravy, pie. That's what I want man!
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TwistedLover
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Post by TwistedLover on Nov 25, 2013 21:52:24 GMT -5
Hige
Oh no, that's awful! I really don't like how people have to work on Thanksgiving, especially this year when stores are opening as early as 9AM and not giving their employees any chance to enjoy Thanksgiving with their families. :c
I hope you get to enjoy your time with the church family you have, at least you'll have some family to be around on this great day! Are you going to be entering into the dessert competition or do you not have anything planned for that?
I've always found it strange how my family has Thanksgiving "dinner" at around 1-3PM... because that's not dinner. I've never known whether this was just something my family did or that it was simply the normal thing that people do, just misname it dinner when it should be more like lunch.
Tidal
At least you don't have to deal with your step-dad and them drunkenly yelling at the TV for football! Although maybe by this point even that would be more comforting than being around your grandparents. :c I wish you could come up here and at least be with my family, although it would be far better for you to be with your mother as you barely get to these days.
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Post by HydroPumper on Nov 26, 2013 8:00:47 GMT -5
It's interesting to read about your American customs first hand! Evidently, Thanksgiving isn't celebrated Down Under and we don't celebrate any other holiday similar to the concept either haha.  Maybe one day I will be lucky enough to experience it whenever I get around to going to the USA for a holiday! Everything is so much cheaper over there compared to Australian prices, so here comes the shopping spree. 
On the news, I heard a story about how some American stores are opening up on Thanksgiving.... looks as though it is causing a moral controversy between people! But I suppose businesses will do anything now days to generate a profit, even if it exploiting a holiday. :S They need some sort of justification for a sale!
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TidalMewMew
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Post by TidalMewMew on Nov 26, 2013 20:01:58 GMT -5
Well the day after Thanksgiving is Black Friday, and all the stores have MASSIVE sales. People sleep outside the stores just to get in there. People also die because they get trampled. Many Black Friday sales are online now, but they still start earlier and earlier, even at the stores. It sucks that people are going to have to work on a day for family and relaxation just so the company can make more money.
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Post by HydroPumper on Nov 26, 2013 21:50:53 GMT -5
I had to look up what Black Friday was lawl.
That's no good that some employees will be forced to work in the USA. D: During public holidays in Australia you receive double pay as well as the choice to work or not ($40AUD/hour come at me!). So if Thanksgiving was celebrated here, I'd imagine people would be happy either way since they aren't forced to attend work if they have plans with family/friends.  I've knocked back shifts at work before when there is a family event taking place during a public holiday. 
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Post by Hawksmack on Nov 26, 2013 22:39:28 GMT -5
I'll be celebrating thanksgiving with my mom this year, so it should be really toned down compared to previous Thanksgivings. My mom and I will probably just have dinner alone, and just hang out like we do every other day. This will be my last Thanksgiving with my mom before I go off to college, so I don't know if my mom will have planned anything special for the day. But I don't expect anything, and honestly prefer a very lowkey day with lots of cranberry sauce.
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Post by Silver on Nov 27, 2013 2:01:15 GMT -5
First I'll be going to my dad's parent's house for... dinner? lunch? ...breakfast??? It'll be around 12. We'll hang out and eat there. Usually my grandmother cooks a meal for all of us, but this year she decided to order food I believe? Usually just a few people come, me, my siblings and parents, my aunt, and my grandparents, so not too many people. We don't do much, we just eat and then sit around talking about random things and sitting in awkward silence. Because my dad's side of the family is full of awkward people, haha.
And then around 2 or 3 we'll be heading to my mother's mother's house to eat there. She's cooking like she does every year. I think a lot of my family on my mother's side will be coming to visit and eat too. So it'll be pretty crowded in there. Not really looking forward to that! I don't do well with a lot of people around, and I find it's worse with family because you're expected to make an effort to speak to them rather than being able to get away with hiding somewhere else. Oh well, it's always nice to visit my grandmother and the food she makes is great, so it's worth it. :3
Two large meals in one day, so close to each other too. I'm gonna explode from all the food =w= We usually do it mostly the same every year, though usually my grandmothers do thanksgiving dinner on two different days instead of the same one @w@ Ah, both anxious and excited about it. I want food but being around family is so awkward DX
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Post by Garashi on Nov 27, 2013 11:59:30 GMT -5
I'll be heading off on a 9 hour drive to Kentucky later today. To visit family that lives there. I'll be on my Aunt's farm and it'll be kind of boring, to be truthful. There isn't much to do there at all. The place we are going is an older town, that has slowly been dying. Most stores and business that used to be there have shut down. Only a few essentials and a random Pizza Place. Also! There is a Theater, though it's a 45 minute drive to get there. But it's a Drive-In theater that you pay to see 3 Movies! It's a fairly good price too! Thought hose 3 movies play the entire month... So if you've seen it you're out of luck. I will admit they can cook though.  Now if only they would make stuff I can eat... But in the end, there is practically nothing to do but sit around all day. And it gets REALLY cold since they don't have a heater either. We'll take down some vinisen with us back home, most likely, though. :L Also NO Internet. ;n; So I'll be gone till Late Sunday. So yeah.... joy... |
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Post by shinysharpedo on Nov 27, 2013 15:59:15 GMT -5
It used to always be that I would swap between my grandparents and my mom's side of the family to celebrate Thankgiving. On odd years, grandparents, on even years, aunts and uncles. However, this year I moved. This year, Thanksgiving is going to be REALLY chaotic lol.
This is the first year I spend it with just my immediate family, and this is the first year we actually have to cook dinner. Which is fun, because just about nobody in my family enjoys traditional Thanksgiving fare. The other night it was just "What do you want to make for Thanksgiving dinner?" "Meh"
Though I saw bacon in the fridge earlier today, so it should probably turn out alright.
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TidalMewMew
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Post by TidalMewMew on Nov 27, 2013 19:04:33 GMT -5
Garash come visit me!
I'm going to be going to my dad's the Sunday after Thanksgiving as well, so I might get pie and turkey twice!!
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Post by Garashi on Dec 1, 2013 21:00:15 GMT -5
That double dinner :9 Sorry I didn't visit you. No time to read your request. u.u Actually, turns out I was sick. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Except for today when we drove home. xD It was awful. I wanted to die. But I'll laugh at it later. :L |
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Maybe one day I will be lucky enough to experience it whenever I get around to going to the USA for a holiday! Everything is so much cheaper over there compared to Australian prices, so here comes the shopping spree. 
I've knocked back shifts at work before when there is a family event taking place during a public holiday. 
Now if only they would make stuff I can eat...
