November 27, 2003
Happy Thanksgiving
I had a really nice day. I drove up to Muskegon for dinner with my family (I'm typing this there). The drive went really fast, and my right front tire didn't fall off (they're going to fix the alignment today). I got to meet my little sister's new boyfriend Jim and his son Chris. Chris is six. He has the most energy of any kid I've ever seen. After he tired out my mom's hyperactive Schnauzer, he actually spent about ten minutes just running around in a circle. Then he did jumping jacks. I got tired just watching him.
Part of Thanksgiving tradition is watching football. I don't watch much football, although I'm in a fantasy league where I was in first place until recently. The Lions beating the Packers senseless (tee hee, Shawn) might help me get back into first place.
Present at dinner were my sister, my stepdad, my mom, Jim, Chris, me, and my mom's friend Frenchie. Her real name is Claudine, I think, but everyone calls her Frenchie. She's French, you know. She was raised in Vietnam and I believe her husband owned a plantation of a sort over there until the Vietnam War forced them to flee. I'm sure she would be interesting to talk to about that, but the Lions were on.
After dinner we went bowling (I won) and played pool (I won, mostly). Accompanying us was my friend Moosie, who I haven't seen in a while. Since he probably doesn't read this blog, I can tell you that six-year-old Chris nearly beat him at bowling. It was good seeing him. The entire day was good, which is a happy surprise, because holidays usually end in screaming with my family. There was no screaming at all, except while we were bowling, and that was technically cheering anyway.
The only bad thing was that I left my pie in Chicago. Our office had a charity thing where chefs from fancy restaurants downtown baked pies, and the proceeds went to charity. I bought a pumpkin pie that I am just positive was baked by Emeril himself. It looked good, it smelled good, and so I left it in the refrigerator at work because I was so eager to leave early.
I hope my loyal readers had a good Thanksgiving too. Feel free to fill my comments with amusing or heart-warming anecdotes.
Posted by mike, November 27, 2003 11:40 PMYum. Pie. I'm glad you left it in Chicago. Save me a piece.
Posted by: Shawn at November 28, 2003 12:28 AMWe also went bowling and played pool, though not in that order. Thanksgiving was very nice and lots of good food was had by all. I still have cake left. I wish I could host Thanksgiving because then I would get the leftovers! I have a hankering for Thanksgiving leftovers but I'm not going to get any.
Posted by: Angela at December 1, 2003 10:29 AMHeh. Frenchie and Moosie.
Just reading about Chris gives me a headache.
As usual, I had a double Thanksgiving: dinner with in-laws at 1:00, dinner with parents at 6:00. I ate two kinds of pie: chocolate and pumpkin cheesecake. There was also wine and ping pong and foosball and much laying around. And a very late Wednesday night at a local bar with old friends, which was a good time indeed.
Posted by: Amy at December 1, 2003 10:47 AMThanksgiving hmmm lets see. We will start on Wednesday. I didn't get out of Best Buy until about 5 am. Got home and took a 1 1/2 hour nap then got up to get the apt ready for the 13 visitors I was having for Thanksgiving day. Small apartments don't make for good thanksgiving dinner places. But regardless dinner was good. Ended up playing Mario Kart double dash on the gamecube and watching my little brothers play halo on the xbox. Busy day all around and then I had to work at Best Buy on friday from 5:30 am to 6 pm. Which was well lets just say an experience.
But the Lions beat the packers so it was a good day.
Fuck Thanksgiving. What are you, gay?
Posted by: Shane at December 2, 2003 10:22 AMHeh, heh. That was the "in-joke" of the weekend. I didn't really mean it. Seriously, if you didn't get my Thanksgiving email, then you are out of luck. But I have some good news. I just saved $200 money on my car insurance by switching to Geico.
Posted by: Shane at December 2, 2003 10:24 AMThat is a lie, too. Geico sucks. Another Thanskgiving "in-joke." Ha ha ha. You had to be there. But you weren't.
My Thanksgiving was not too unlike Mike's and Amy's, in that I went bowling, played pool, and had to go the the in-law's. Those were the good ol' days. Lots of fun. Now I gotta work.
Posted by: Shane at December 2, 2003 10:28 AMShane, your "Fuck Thanksgiving" comment made my day. :)
Posted by: Shawn at December 2, 2003 10:29 AMGlad to be of service. What I really wanted to do was JUST write that without the qualifiers after it. But I chickened out. I didn't want to offend anyone, even if it was just a joke. ;-)
It was so funny we were saying that about just about EVERYTHING all weekend.
Fuck this blog. What are you, gay?
Posted by: Shane at December 2, 2003 2:48 PMOne other thing that was not in my email that was interesting was that at Thanksgiving they put a paper cover over the table and gave us crayons to draw with if we liked. I drew a dinosaur eating off the top of a palm tree dressed up as Abraham Lincoln while a little witchdoctor danced below and sang a song about tacos. Then the evil dinosaur known as Steve Yzersaur came with his hockey stick and attempted to assault the witch doctor.
Ok. I think we're ready for a new blog entry now. :-P
Posted by: shane at December 3, 2003 3:40 PM