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How Will You Spend Thanksgiving Day and Why?

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TimBob

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Hello peeps. I was wondering how others choose to spend their Holidays. What will you do on Thanksgiving Day and why did you choose that?

My ex-girlfriend invited me to spend Thanksgiving with her and her family, but I'll be staying home. I wouldn't be able to handle all the activity at her place; sensory overload. It'd be especially tough with how busy work and school have been.
 
I'll just spend it like any other day at home. My church is offering to deliver free Thanksgiving dinners to anyone who otherwise wouldn't have one. I'm wondering if I should sign up. (Free food is always good). The only thing is that it's a small parish, and most people know each other by sight, and I don't want people to know that I'm a person who could do with free meals...:oops:
 
My thanksgiving in canada was several weeks back, in the city we usually invited people over who didn't have family to go to. This past one was just my husband and myself, we roasted a small chicken instead of a turkey, and had cranberry sauce and stuffing and sweet potato pie.
 
We usually spend it as a family with our children's significant others, however this year, We are having company coming in town. While I love to see them, I am wondering what the will happen with overload, etc.
 
I'm going to my grandma's house with my family. My extended family is usually there, but I think this year my second cousins can't come, they both have to work. :( I wish they could come, as one of my second cousins had her first baby last year, and I barely got to see him last thanksgiving, and I was hoping to see more of him this here. At least I will still be able to see my first cousins, grandma, and great aunt.
 
I'm going to stay home alone for the whole of Thanksgiving weekend. :D The rest of my family is going to visit relatives but since I hate doing that (honestly it's such a waste of time; I don't even get to talk to them because my parents take up all the talking all day) I finally convinced my mom to let me stay home alone. She was hesitant because she thought a Thanksgiving spent alone would be "sad," but I'm a lot sadder among people than I am by myself.
So I'm really looking forward to next week. :) Five days alone, free to do as I please with no interference from other people, will be heavenly. And since I can't drive I have to take those days off work too. ^_^ I think a lot of people look down on me for being 22 and not having a driver's license (like that stupid guy at the store who thought it was his job to tell me how to live my personal life), but this is one big benefit of not having it.
 
umbrellabeach said:
So I'm really looking forward to next week. :) Five days alone, free to do as I please with no interference from other people, will be heavenly. And since I can't drive I have to take those days off work too.
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That sounds heavenly to me, too! Five whole days!:D

Anyway, I plan to spend Thanksgiving with husband and my Aunt, and any other relatives that show up. I am not looking forward to the overload, but she has been sick and is getting older, plus I haven't seen her since my mother passed away in '09. At first we were planning on going to a restaurant that serves a Thanksgiving all day buffet.
 
My cousin and I always go out for a dinner at one of the casino's Thanksgiving Buffets. Expensive, but good.
 
Over eat and watch football. I thought that was standard fare for Thanksgiving.
 
umbrellabeach said:
I'm going to stay home alone for the whole of Thanksgiving weekend. :D The rest of my family is going to visit relatives but since I hate doing that (honestly it's such a waste of time; I don't even get to talk to them because my parents take up all the talking all day) I finally convinced my mom to let me stay home alone. She was hesitant because she thought a Thanksgiving spent alone would be "sad," but I'm a lot sadder among people than I am by myself.
So I'm really looking forward to next week. :) Five days alone, free to do as I please with no interference from other people, will be heavenly. And since I can't drive I have to take those days off work too. ^_^ I think a lot of people look down on me for being 22 and not having a driver's license (like that stupid guy at the store who thought it was his job to tell me how to live my personal life), but this is one big benefit of not having it.
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My youngest son (a Aspie) is thirty-five and does not have a drivers license.
 
Another Canadian had Thanksgiving last month. Anyhow, Thanksgiving, or any holiday I have as a whole is always alone.
 
Gently, gently. My holidays are hoopla-free. :) A walk in the crisp air with my dog enjoying nature, :evergreen:then home for warmth and solitude. I have a gluten-free chicken pot pie, and I think I'll score some cranberry sauce and canned corn. A hot mug of tea will finish the meal. On holidays (and always) nothing beats a peaceful, quiet home and the love of my pets.
 
I'll be having 3 Thanksgiving dinners this year. One will be hosted tomorrow by my dads BFF, who will be out of town for work on the actual day of. Second one is on the actual day hosted by my dads other friend. Third one will be a small dinner that weekend with my dad, grandpa, and I. We don't usually do anything at our house, but for some reason my grandpa decided he wanted to do something.

Fingers crossed the weight gain is minimal!
 
Worried about having to drive in snow. Looks like it will snow on Thanksgiving. Never has before since I've lived here. :eek:
 
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