Sooo...whatcha doin Thanksgiving?

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Don't know yet. I'll be moving out of this hotel a few days later and finally get into my new apartment. One of my best friends (and future roommate and co-worker) gets here the day after Thanksgiving, so I'll probably be packing my little bit of belongings, watching football and find a place I can eat a decent meal.

[Bigzax]

i'll get up around 8ish and help wifey out with whatever...she's cookin.

then i'll just chill with the kiddo, watch some Penguins of Madagascar...maybe play a little Modern Warfare 2 with him...keep catching up on curb your enthusiasm...i'm upto season 5!

around 2pm, we should be eating and some family is coming over...

to by that time, it's just chill out, see if the cowboys can lose, which i'm always thankful for, and try to get away for 15 minutes here and there to blaze it in the car...

when i toke, i'll be thinking of each and every one of you and i'll be wishing you a happy, healthy, and most pleasant holiday!

yeah!

[baseline bum]

BTW, that house that my dad bought now looks like a junkyard...it's surrounded by dead crashed cars (that they wrecked, like 5 in the last 5 years), piles of trash, head high weeds, beer cans and bottles etc. It's disgusting.

How do you think he hides the boat?

[Strike]

I guess what really pisses me off is that the little er gets rewarded for bad behavior. There just no telling how much money he has soaked my parents for. My dads too proud to admit he is being played even if he suspects it. At the same time, my daughter who is doing everything "right" is working two jobs, putting off marriage/kids because she knows she can't afford it, paying her own rent/bills to live in a modest duplex with a yard for her dog and she gets NO help at all from the grandparents...if you don't go begging you don't get . Naturally I help her some (although she is too proud to ask me either) but the fact that they just blow tens of thousands on that white trash loser piece of just because he blew a load in another white trash piece of really aggravates me. , neither my nephew or his wife work and they are driving a brand ing new Prius (because, after all they live so far out in the country that if they are going to eventually get a job they are gonna have to have a reliable car that gets good gas mileage) that clearly my parents/sister paid for. grrrrrrrrr.

Too bad your family continues to get played by this bag. That's exactly why all those people in my family aren't welcome in my parents' house. A few things that some of the fam has done to my parents over the years:

-My sister (during a clean streak) got my dad to co-sign a loan for a car that she ended up not paying after she went back to the crystal. Cost my parents 10 large to avoid it going against their credit. Even though my sis has been clean, sober and productive for the last 8 years, my parents haven't seen dime #1 of that 10K. When my sister showed up last Thanksgiving in a nice 2006 Ford SUV, my mom was livid at the thought of my sis dropping a load of money on a truck while never making any attempt to repay them. (I'm the only kid in my family with neither a criminal record, nor a drug problem. Not to mention I have a good union job. Have my parents ever agreed to co-sign a loan for me? Nope.)

-My nephew, after finishing Job Corps, got my parents to let him live in their house while he looked for a job. They then let his girlfriend move in a month later AND sold him my dad's old car. He never looked for a job, never made payments to my parents for the car, and when my mom kicked them out, they stole a bunch of collectible from her. (I needed a car at the time but the car was never offered to me.)

-Another nephew stole a ring (given to my dad for his 25th anniversary at his job while visiting from Fresno). After he (nephew) went home, dad noticed the ring was missing. Nephew's mom (my sis) noticed the ring on his finger and asked him where he got it. Nephew said my dad gave it to him. Utter bull . Didn't happen. To this day, he still hasn't copped to it or apologized. My dad never got his ring back.

-Another nephew brought his wife and kids over for Thankgiving last year. While there, a few of my mom's things went missing. A pair of wooden shoes from Norway, 1 piece of a 10 piece carousel collection (worth 5 grand together, nearly worthless incomplete) and all my mom's pain meds.

None of them are welcome in the house for any reason. Holidays or not, family or not, the breaking point has come and gone. The fact that my mom can't have her grandkids and great-grandkids over for the holidays tears her apart, but not as much as the reasons why.

[Fpoonsie]

Goin to El Valle to spend the holiday w/ a friend of mine. The best thing about being in the Valley for Thanksgiving is after the typical turkey, dressing, casserole spread, I can head over to Las Flores for taquitos, lonches, elote, etc.

[makedamnsure]

Going home! I am excited for some turkey and tamales and some football as usual.

[IronMexican]

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-My nephew, after finishing Job Corps, got my parents to let him live in their house while he looked for a job. They then let his girlfriend move in a month later AND sold him my dad's old car. He never looked for a job, never made payments to my parents for the car, and when my mom kicked them out, they stole a bunch of collectible from her. (I needed a car at the time but the car was never offered to me.)
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Man, I miss Job Corps. That program was the ing . Best time of my life. I am contemplating going back.

[DeeBo]

Going to grandma's for some turkey with all the fixin's!!

[florige]

So I guess the moral of CC's story and Strike's story are that good people stay getting ed no matter how good hearted they try to be.

[David Bowie]

Probably spending it wiht my parents and grandparents as always. Sometimes we even have two turkeys I always look forward to the food on thanksgiving.

[Strike]

So I guess the moral of CC's story and Strike's story are that good people stay getting ed no matter how good hearted they try to be.

Having a good heart is a good thing. Being a doormat is not. As far as Thanksgiving goes, I will enjoy spending time with my parents and brother. And I won't give my sisters, nephews, etc. a second thought. For a person to get banned from my mother's home, you gotta do something uber- ed, or you gotta be a repeat offender.

Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving to all of you.

[JudynTX]

We will be at the in-laws this year. The following Saturday, we are making tamales.

[Ginofan]

This year we will be at my in-laws. TheTruth's mom will be cooking pretty much everything we just need to make the green bean casserole which is super easy. I look forward to a day of pigging out, hanging with the family, and watching football. In the evening we will be heading to my side of the family for pie and coffee. Should be fun!

[Kori Ellis]

We are going to the Petroleum Club with timvp's family. They have a good, all-you-can-eat Thanksgiving dinner there.

The rest of the day, we will probably watch football and do some work.

[mookie2001]

stop saying petroleum club kori youre making me laugh so hard it hurts

[Kori Ellis]

stop saying petroleum club kori youre making me laugh so hard it hurts

I only said it to draw you into the thread.

So, you want to come?

Should we invite the maid?

[mookie2001]

press that little * button on yalls tahoe mirror and just say petroleum club please

theyll give you turn by turn directions

if you gave me a 40 hour work week i could not come up with a more neocon sounding name for a restaurant

chickenhawk gables, protestant house... cant even compare

[Kori Ellis]

press that little * button on yalls tahoe mirror and just say petroleum club please

theyll give you turn by turn directions

if you gave me a 40 hour work week i could not come up with a more neocon sounding name for a restaurant

chickenhawk gables, protestant house... cant even compare

We don't have a Tahoe.

It's not just a restaurant... it's a private members-only restaurant. It has to have such a name.

[AmericanWoman]

I'm cooking up a feast for about 20 family folk.

[SpursStalker]

Eating turkey and watching the cowboys lose ...

[SAGambler]

I'm cooking for the extended family at the Ranchito on Thanksgiving...I usually cook for 25-30 people...smoking turkeys and ham and a couple of pork shoulders for pulled pork for the weekend after. I'll probably do a big pot of beans, creamed corn and some other veggies...mom will do the dressing and some pies. My lazy ing sisters will probably show up with some chips and dip or some like that. BBQ, cold beer, and college football on the 65" big screen outside. Life is good.

, my lazy ass SIL will show up with her entire family, with nothing more than a big appe e. Bet she will want to take all the leftovers home with her too.

I just ing love holidays.