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Anticlimatic Thanksgiving

November 26, 2004 at 9:57 pm · Filed under friends, life thoughts

Thanksgiving’s never been a holiday for my family and me, same with Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, just about any holiday. Maybe at one point we celebrated Chinese New Year, back when we were in China, we’d get together over at my grandparents’ house with all the extended family we had to eat together all this wonderful stuff. But for most of my life, namely the portion spent in the U.S., specifically the past 15 years, all of these holidays have been just another day in the neighborhood. So, like just another day at home, my family passed Thanksgiving and the day after rather peacefully, though my dad did assemble our token christmas tree last night. We have one just to be in the holiday spirit; we don’t really celebrate Christmas as a holiday.

But it’s nice to be home and relaxed. Even though I have loads of work hanging over my head, they somehow seem a lot farther removed when I’m at home. Maybe the environment change magically makes work go away. Well, it doesn’t really make it go away; it just makes it stop nagging my brain.

I called Ali for the first time today. I’ve been meaning to do that for a while, to see how she’s doing down in Houston. It was great to talk to her, find out about her new job, and all the Latin men that she’s meeting :) It really made me wish that I had called on her birthday even more. Hopefully, I’ll get to see her over Christmas; she’ll be home in Myrtle Beach for about 2 weeks.

Anyway, though Thanksgiving’s not really celebrated in my family, I still should make a belated list of important things in my live for which I am thankful:

My parents - who, despite their harshness sometimes, love me to no end
Ryan - who really tries so hard to make me happy
Friends - who keep me upbeat, give me advice, and in general accept me for who I am
My “bracket” in society - which allows me to have the things I need, as well as the frivolous things I don’t need, allows me to live up to my full potential (or at least have the potential to do so), and in general makes my live pretty darn good

I really shouldn’t complain too much; my life is pretty good.

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Conjured Activism » Blog Archive » wanting what we don’t have wrote @ November 23rd, 2006 at 3:56 am

[…] Remember the anticlimatic Thanksgiving of two years ago? I’m still sincerely and unsarcastically thankful for my parents, who unconditionally love me. Furthermore, I’m thankful that I’m not married to a prick. I’m thankful that Ryan takes time out of his busy Big Law Career Building to write me one-line emails. I’m thankful that I know a man who’s so caring and considerate of my time that he disappears off the face of the planet when he’s stressed out instead of calling me or replying to my emails because that would be oh too bothersome to me. I’m thankful that at least he still cares about me, or at least he tells me he does, and that must obviously be true because he said so. […]