Thanksgiving Sucks!
Why I Hate Thanksgiving
People look at me in shock when I say I hate Thanksgiving. I can't blame them really. I haven't come across too many people who feel the same way I do. Or if I have, they haven't outright admitted it to me. I know they're out there but I haven't personally met them.
Recently I was chit chatting with my husband and the subject of Thanksgiving up came up. He - ignorantly - asked me, "so what are we doing for Thanksgiving this year?"
Before he could say the word turkey dread set in. If there's one holiday in the year I hate its turkey day. Just thinking about it causes fear and loathing to resonate through me. It's the one day of the year that I think about at odd times simple because I hope to avoid it.
So I looked at my husband and whined, "Why? Do we have to do it again? Haven't we done Thanksgiving enough times by now?"
I know what you're probably thinking right about now. Don't I know that Thanksgiving is a celebration of all the things we should be thankful for? Don't I know its un-American to not celebrate Thanksgiving? Why would I hate a holiday filled with great food, family and friends and the kick off of the holiday season?
I wish I could say the answer is a simple one but it isn't because there was a time I enjoyed Thanksgiving.
When my mother committed her life to her religion she suddenly gained a new family so she threw huge Thanksgiving get-togethers. We played games, the kids played outside, the adults hung out and talked, there was a ton of food and best of all my dad's slow cooked, hot apple cider.
When I became disassociated from my family I wasn't invited to the get-togethers anymore.
I think this is why I go over the top with other holidays. Christmas is enormous in my house and Halloween isn't too shabby.
Then I started going to my husband's family's house. What a nightmare! It's the most boring Thanksgiving I've ever been to. Thanksgiving at my in-law's is a formal affair with only his parents, him, me and our children in attendance. It's quiet and quick.
Dinner by candlelight is served at precisely two, pumpkin pie at 3 and then back home by 4 or so.
Funny thing is, I'd be delighted to suffer from dinner by candlelight this year just so there'd be more then just the four of us at home for the holidays.Sucks to be me though, this year my in-law's have decided to go out of town for Thanksgiving and my oldest daughter just moved in with her finance and is spending Thanksgiving with his family.
Anyone have any ideas for livening up my Thanksgiving so I can continue to create memories for my kids? Feel free to pass them my way.
Staying inside your house year after year without socializing with other adults makes getting together for Thanksgiving a little bit difficult. In order to have friends over to celebrate one must HAVE friends. And I mean friends that one communicates with other than over the internet.
I guess I didn't think too much about the consequences of succumbing to my agoraphobia. I should probably make some friends. Oh grief!
Turkey sucks too. I do like the mashed potatoes, stuffing, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie though.
Well there's your public service announcement. Sorry for whining like a little girl but having to think about Thanksgiving for the rest of the month is more pressure than I want. I think I'm going to be sick...
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Post a CommentNow, if Thanksgiving was more like Okotberfest, I wouldn't have problem with it. When I have children I am not celebrating it. Great thing about America, you don't have celebrate a holiday, if you don't have too. So if you hate it, don't celebrate it.
I hate this holiday too! I don't know why we celebrate it. My family just celebrate it, because it's a holiday. It's stupid and waste of time. I don't see the point in celebrating it. It's a day celebrating the harvest and stuff, but who harvest anything here in the USA???? Like nobody. If I had to hunt down my food and pray I had food on the table because I had to grow it, ok that is a good reason to celebrate, but we live in country where you go to the store and we just buy our food. Another thing I don't understand. My family isn't religious, so I don't understand why we have to say grace during the holidays. Thanksgiving is yet another holiday that has lost it's meaning and the real purpose behind it. People there own purpose why their is Thanksgiving. Like God, friends, family, but that isn't the purpose of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is celebrating a good harvest. Same is for Christmas, it all about the companies making money off of you.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one. Unfortunately I also hate Christmas. :S
Guess what I had for Thanksgiving? A bread slice. And some water. Reason for that is because I wasn't feeling well on the day before I'm on my Thanksgiving vacation so I told my foster mother I was going to make some soup. She insisted on making me something so I asked for something vegetarian. She got angry and started saying I should just eat meat before saying I can cook my own damn food. I can't help but be picky with food because of how I was raised and because of stomach ulcers. So now I haven't eaten anything in a week except a granola bar, some applesauce and a bread slice. I refuse to eat anything my foster mother makes me now because that was the last straw. *sigh* Here's to a great Thanksgiving *raises imaginary glass*
Oh how I would love to rip the month of November off the calendar. This year I have to put together a Thanksgiving meal for my FIL who has to be on a restricted low sodium, low vit. K, and all liquids have to be thickened due to swallowing issues. I have always dreaded Thanksgiving...mainly I dislike cooking the food, cleaning the mess. I am so stressed out over thing this year I have had to endure 2 root canals with crowns due to grinding my teeth. I would love to leave town and go eat seafood!!!
I'm with you. I hate the stress of this pain-in-the butt holiday. Would prefer 4 days off for some r&r.
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part 3 -Those who came out were shot or clubbed to death while the terrified women and children who huddled inside the longhouse were burned alive. The next day the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared "A Day Of Thanksgiving" because 700 unarmed men, women and children had been murdered.
Cheered by their "victory", the brave colonists and their Indian allies attacked village after village. Women and children over 14 were sold into slavery while the rest were murdered. Boats loaded with a many as 500 slaves regularly left the ports of New England. Bounties were paid for Indian scalps to encourage as many deaths as possible.
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But as word spread in England about the paradise to be found in the new world, religious zealots called Puritans began arriving by the boat load. Finding no fences around the land, they considered it to be in the public domain. Joined by other British settlers, they seized land, capturing strong young Natives for slaves and killing the rest. But the Pequot Nation had not agreed to the peace treaty Squanto had negotiated and they fought back. The Pequot War was one of the bloodiest Indian wars ever fought.
In 1637 near present day Groton, Connecticut, over 700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe had gathered for their annual Green Corn Festival which is our Thanksgiving celebration. In the predawn hours the sleeping Indians were surrounded by English and Dutch mercenaries who ordered them to come outside. Those who came out were shot or clubbed to dea
Want to know why i hate Thanksgiving?
REAL
STORY OF THANKSGIVING
by Susan Bates
Most of us associate the holiday with happy Pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast. And that did happen - once.
The story began in 1614 when a band of English explorers sailed home to England with a ship full of Patuxet Indians bound for slavery. They left behind smallpox which virtually wiped out those who had escaped. By the time the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts Bay they found only one living Patuxet Indian, a man named Squanto who had survived slavery in England and knew their language. He taught them to grow corn and to fish, and negotiated a peace treaty between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Nation. At the end of their first year, the Pilgrims held a great feast honoring Squanto and the Wampanoags.
But as word spread in England about the paradise to be found in the new world, religious zealots called Puritans began arriving by the boat load. Finding no fe