I will readily admit it - I do have affection for Americans. I guess that makes me a bad Canadian or a bad left-wing type person, but there - I've said it. I always have, too. In particular, I have long admired the way they celebrate things. I enjoy how they go big or go home - it's a good motto. When I was younger my family travelled to the Detroit area for American Thanksgiving - for the football and the shopping and it was a fine tradition. This year, I decided to step it up a bit.
I took the day off of work and I celebrated American Thanksgiving. Even just taking a day off could have qualified as an Extraordinary Thing for me, I guess - but I wanted to make the day special - it ended up being our first snowfall, so that was special too. I headed out to the shops in the morning [tearing myself away from the quality Cold Case Files marathon on A&E - *swoon*] to pick up my fixins for the dinner. Got home in time to catch most of the dog show on NBC [I admit, I only watched the Macy's parade for about four seconds as I hate parades] - which is kinda becoming part of my American Thanksgiving traditions. Then I baked a cake for dessert [banana with chocolate chips] and settled down in front of the TV for beer and football. Finally, with Joseph heading home I cooked a fine Thanksgiving meal involving turkey and pasta [because I think Tofurkey is a crime against nature]. I guess I could round out the day by going to bed early and then waking up to go shopping @ 4am, but none of our stores are that crazy!
I would like to celebrate a bunch of holidays this year that have no real meaning to me - so any suggestions would be appreciated. They can be religious or not - I'm pretty open minded.
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