Today is November 23rd and one of my favorite holidays, Thanksgiving Day. It’s one of my favorites because I don’t have to buy anyone anything and I actually get to eat a lot of food without feeling like a total glutenous pig. At least not more then normal.
I not only get today off, but tomorrow as well. Saturday and Sunday too. If my math skills are not failing me, that’s four whole days off from work. Sometimes it’s good to be an American. Sure, the rest of the world hates you and you work more then the rest of the industrialized world, but the rest of the world doesn’t have Thanksgiving. Not even the Canadians, and everyone knows they copy us on everything. The rest of the world might have socialized health care and real mass transit systems, but they won’t be roasting any turkeys stuffed with favorable breadcrumbs today.
This year we are going over to my wife’s brother’s house for dinner. We are getting off easy this year. All we have to bring is a green bean casserole. Yesterday my wife made the same dish for her work party. It was kind of a dress rehearsal. I think last year we were responsible for the mashed potatoes which was kind of a pain. It involved a lot of peeling.
Today I’m not eating anything other then my mother-in-law’s corn bread dressing and cream corn casserole. She makes a corn bread dressing that it absolutely stupendous. The same with the cream corn casserole. It’s ridiculous how good they both are. I’m not going to waste any room in my stomach for anything else. No turkey, no mashed potatoes. No yams. I’m definitely not going to have any bread. Eating bread on Thanksgiving Day is a rookie move. It’s only bread and you get eat that every single day. You are much better off concentrating on the special food. The food you can only get on November 23rd. Like my mother-in-law’s cornbread dressing and cream corn casserole.
After eating, I will probably watch some football. American football. Then I’m going to top off the Thanksgiving Day celebration by going out and taking away land from an Indian. At least I’m going to try. Though I try to do this every single year, I have never been successful.
All the Indian land here in Maryland was already taken away years ago.
Happy Thanksgiving!
