thanksgiving Q Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in the US. A long holiday is associated with the Day, as most people end work or school early today, if they bother to go at all, and have no work or school on Friday. Many people spend some of the long holiday traveling to be with family or friends for a day or more, especially for "Thanksgiving Dinner" tomorrow. The Friday after Thanksgiving Day is a major shopping day, said to be the first day of the "shopping season" for the December holidays. For many students this Friday is a major study day, as it is an extra day, albeit usually used in the breach, to get caught up with school work. In many states it is the start of three days of heavy-duty deer-hunting, as deer-hunting seasons, that started on the Saturday before, end on the following Sunday. Despite distractions like these, many people will have a lot of extra free time starting in a few hours and extending to Sunday night. Will this extra free time lead to an explosion in blathing here? Either way something will be revealed about those who have known or soon will come to know blather_red. Happy Thanksgiving! 021127 ... lulie Happy Thanksgiving to you, Q. 021127 ... yenaldlosi or will the tryptophan induced turkey-naps result in a very quiet blather-red 021127 ... daxle most days I am given a resounding "thank you miss alyssa!" chorus from the mouths of 6 year olds... not forced, sincere, innocent and open wide... one of those is enough thanks for all year long but i am lucky that i receive it so often, and this thanks is one of many things i am thankful for in turn. (i don't normally like being thanked... i'd rather just see the enjoyment in people's eyes, but this is an exception) 021127 ... jane i was born on thanksgiving, and yet i don't have the pleasure of having my birthday landing on that day every year i get angry. it always seems to be overlooked. people skip right from halloween decorations to christmas decorations. the exploitation of holidays goes straight from october to december. wait, maybe i'm okay with that 021127 ... Sonya I hope everyone is enjoying Thanksgiving Day (if you're in the states). Furthermore, I hope everyone has the comfort of a warm shelter and a good meal regardless of where you are. Take care. *hug* 021128 ... amy thanks Sonya. thanks to whatever it is that's killing cynicism and replacing it with controversy. (really.) thanks to humans who quietly become smarter and eventually act differently. and thanks for all the food and good company and health and everything. 021128 ... spoons my stomach hurts... I have no self control... 021128 ... jane depressing unsatisfactory lonely rejection forgotton nostalgia homesick adulthood responsibility 031130 ... guitar_freak "you're ugly" "you look like a vampire" "you look sick" "at least your cousin looks good" Thanks mom for making Thanksgiving a time to be grateful for not living with you. All I did was dye my hair black. How conditional can your love truly be? In my world, love isn't flesh deep. You only embarass yourself by insulting your daughter in front of your extended family. I am not ashamed of who I am nor what I like. No matter what you say I always have my self-respect and that is something that you can never take away. 031130 ... kali thank you for the warm welcome home, mom. our conversations always make me yearn to come home to my family even more often. oh how i miss the days when we spent all of our time in the same house. nothing like a little screaming and sobbing to make the holidays complete. apparently i am now a horrible son, on top of everything else. and spending time with my best friend only makes us contemplate dual suicide. 031130 ... now corn from the garden 041011 ... gja asks Tell someone from a faraway land what thanks giving is. What are you giving thanks for? And to whom? Its kind of a nice concept as long as its kept etheral and undirected. im sure its not. 070810 ... pro g you started it. keep talking to yourself. i always did. 070810 ... the exaporator In its simplest terms, the original occasion recognized by Americans (although there is a Canadian thanksgiving with an earlier background) was a combination of a harvest festival with a specific display of gratitude towards a group of people, namely the Patuxet tribe of the Wampanoag Confederacy of tribes in the Massachusetts region The European (English) settler's first winter in the region proved to be quite dificult, and they would not likely have survived without the aid of a delegate of the Patuxet tribe named Tisquantum (or "Squanto" for short) who taught the settlers how to better manage their crops and showed them the best places to catch fish and eels. To celebtate the success of that harvest as well as to thank the Natives and God, the settlers threw a 3 day celebration The cynic in me would say that nowadays, the thanksgiving weekend is typically a means to fotget the abuses that would later be heaped upon the Natives for another 150+ years or more (and even now), to eat ridiculous amounts of food, and to exchange varying mixtures of tense and tender moments with family members whom we have otherwise managed to sorely disappoint over the course of the year 070810 ... past happy thanksgiving red skies! 091012 ... auburn Happy Thanksgiving Petrie. 091012 ... raze a happy turkey-and-stuffing day to all you's 'skites who are in the states. 131128 ... raze and a happy thanksgiving to all ye who are in canada. 141012 ... past happy thanksgiving red_family. i'm thankful you're here still after all these years. 221009 ... raze (i second that emotion.) 221009 ... nr happy thanksgiving weekend, fellow canucks. 221009 ... tender_square happy thanksgiving canadian 'skites. i'm grateful for our little red_family here. now someone pass the pumpkin pie, please. 221009 ... nr happy thanksgiving, fellow canadians. gobble gobble. 241014 ... raze i feel like i'm still carrying sunday's second helping around with me. it was worth it, though. hope all y'all are doing something that brings you joy today. 241014 what's it to you? who go blather from