At any rate- HAPPY THANKSGIVING.
Gobble gobble. 8D My favorite holiday. Not because of the Indians and Pilgrims or the whole being grateful for your life thing. Nope. Hardly. My favorite thing about Thanksgiving, the thing that ranks it the number one holiday in my eyes?
Stuffing.
xD God I love stuffing. It is SOOOO amazing. And Thanksgiving is the ONE time a year that I actually get to eat it. Because who the hell makes stuffing any other day but Thanksgiving? Just like who in their right minds would cook an entire turkey except for on Thanksgiving (and maybe Christmas...but if you bake a turkey on xmas you are just weird...everyone knows that xmas is the honey-smoked ham holiday :p). Fortunately for me, my mother doesn't put meat or meat-based broth in her stuffing or I would have been really put out at Thanksgiving dinner. Granted, I have no idea how my mother makes the stuffing without the meat broth, but then again she is an, uhm, interesting cook. Not that I mind. I am a picky eater but if I like the way something tastes, I don't really give a flying fuck in space where it came from. O_o That is probably not a good thing...
Thanksgiving was especially interesting for me this year, seeing as I haven't told anyone other than my two sisters and a few close friends that I'm a vegetarian. Not that I'm ashamed, I just don't really feel like making a big deal about it, especially considering my reasoning is because of what happened to my dog. My sisters don't understand it, mostly because they weren't there as she was dying, but I can't get the images out of my head. And hence, no meat for Holly. At any rate, my parents have no idea. And the whole time we were eating dinner with my grandma it was like this silent little joke between my sisters and I because my grandma went on and on and on about whipping turkeys and my dad kept hustling me about not eating turkey, hell, just plain ol' not eating ENOUGH. Granted, he probably didn't think about the fact that we had yet ANOTHER Thanksgiving dinner to go to, but still. Yeah, that was an interesting dinner to say the least. Holding secrets is fun. -.-
My latest favorite Thanksgiving moment though? Hearing my dad tell me about the show WKRP. It's an old comedy about a radio station that has something like 4 listeners. Anyways, supposedly the station manager of the station is an absolute idiot (in the funniest way possible) and decides that as a promotional move he is going to fly up in a plane and drop turkeys from the sky so that people can get free turkeys for Thanksgiving. Live turkeys.
LOL. I almost peed my pants as my dad is telling the story of the famous episode. And famously, in his defense, the boss exclaims:
ROFL. I. LOVE. THIS.
And, better than telling you about the episode, I tried to find it online, but sadly, my internet sleuthing skills are rusty. All I could find was this Hulu link, and I'm not certain it will work. O_o So, here is a quote, from the reporter character in the show, that made my start crying in laughter (again):
"It's a helicopter, and it's coming this way. It's flying something behind it, I can't quite make it out, it's a large banner and it says, uh - Happy... Thaaaaanksss... giving! ... From ... W ... K ... R... P!! No parachutes yet. Can't be skydivers... I can't tell just yet what they are, but - Oh my God, Johnny, they're turkeys!! Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they're plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Not since the Hindenburg tragedy has there been anything like this!"
Oh the humanity!! ROFL. ROFL. ROFL. God I love old comedies, I can't believe I've never seen this before... :D
Oh also, random Thanksgiving fact. So, I always assumed that Thanksgiving was a national holiday, no questions asked, because of the Pilgrims and Indians story. What I did not realize was that the veritable Martha Stewart of the 1800s, Sarah Josepha Hale, actually petitioned President Lincoln to have it made into a national holiday. ALSO, she's the author of the nursery rhyme 'Mary Had a Little Lamb'. But anyways, apparently before Mrs. Hale's petition, Thanksgiving was only celebrated in New England. I know, huh? Why didn't they teach us this in grade school?? And so, thanks to President Lincoln's sensibilities and the need to stir up some more unity between the North and the South, in 1863, Thanksgiving was declared a national holiday (prior to that only Washington's Birthday and Independence Days were national holidays).
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