Thanks! Giving.

Well folks, Thanksgiving has come and gone. Barry Manilow woke me up this year. At 7:45 to be exact. He tends to wake me up with his beautiful singing now-a-days. Mom and Dad get up early and exercise in the morning in the garage. Guess whose room is right above it? Yeah. It's mine. But it's okay, who doesn't like to wake up to Barry anyway?

I headed downstairs to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Turns out the parade doesn't actually start until 9, but I found a channel that was showing it live and stayed there. I didn't really realize this until AFTER Daniel Radcliff performed. That's fine. A little upset about that though. The day progressed. We prepared food, took chairs and tables and dishes and decorations to Julie's to have Thanksgiving over there. Basically 6 hours of preparation for 1 hour of eating. I guess it's worth it though. It was really nice to be surrounded by loving family members. I love after everyone's done eating and you all just sit there and talk for 3 hours.

I got numerous mass texts from my friends this year. Here's my dilemma. If we were really friends, can't we just assume that we're thankful for each other? I mean I appreciated the whole...2...personal messages that I received. Those ones were really nice. And I even enjoyed the "Happy Hanukkah" message I got. But really, if you have to send a mass text to me to tell me that you're thankful for me..that's just rough. Tacky maybe? Don't think you're a bad person if you did it, just you know...don't fill up my inbox next year okay? I think we love each other enough :)

After we left Julie's, Ashlee, Keri, and I stayed up until midnight to do some door busting at Macy's. That was pretty awesome. I didn't have any money so I didn't get anything but it was fun just to be there. Sort of. But really, who doesn't love seeing 50 women flock over a table of boots, sending boxes flying, hitting each other. It's pretty fun. Ashlee and Keri went back out at 4, but I decided to stay and get some sleep. Good choice for me.

Today Mom and I put up Christmas. I love Christmas. I'm so happy that I can finally celebrate it without being persecuted.

So my Thanksgiving was pretty good. Minus some rough patches.

Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas...All that jazz.