Thanksgiving as always was loud and chaotic and you know I would not change it for the world.
As in the years past: Every single year and I do mean every year someone asks "What time are we eating" Ok people we have had Thanksgiving at 1:00 for the last 20 years but being the nice person I am I roll my eyes, let out a big sigh and reply "Are ya stupid..it is the same time as the last 20 years..1:00"
The Feast: Stays pretty much the same..standard Thanksgiving food but we will throw in an occasional new dish...this year Red Hot Applesauce Jello and mom's yummy pumpkin cake with cinnamon glaze...ymmmmm.
The GAMES: Aunt Denise is the winner of the "Eat It" triva game...that woman she does know her snack food. Unlike other trivia games this one does not take us an entire day to earn all the pieces to the pie cause there are just somethings we know alot about...food, bodily functions, movies and TV. If we have any knowlege of history, science or geography, it is cause we pick up the odd piece of knowledge here or there by channel surfing.
Buzz word first place was taken by Team White Lightening...Team Nimrod would have won the first round if one of Team Nimrod's members had not let her child erase the score card. One of Team White Lightening's Team members fled the kitchen cause
"This game takes to much quick thinking and my brain does not work like that" Team White Lightening's replacement stepped in but replacement spent alot of time scowling at his teammates asking them if they were stupid. Holy cow...Man....that was fun.
Black Friday Stratgey Planning Meeting: After food is consumed...okay food consumption never actually stops it just sorta slows down and games have been played it was time to get down to business...Black Friday Strategy. First there is the whole argument about who is riding with who...Kim after several years of boycotting riding with Aunt Denise because Aunt Denise LEFT KIM AT BEST BUY AND FORGOT HER, decides to forgive Aunt Denise (only because Kendra opened her big mouth and told Aunt Denise that "Mom forget me and left me in the daycare at the gym when I was 10 and had to come back for me" Denise demands instant absolution which Kim had to grant. So Kim in a gesture of goodwill says she will ride with Aunt Denise this year. Tasha and Kendra (part of Team Nimrod) will ride together. Amanda would be going with a friend. Brad was on the fence until we told him that if rides with Kendra and Tasha he will have to pay for his own Black Friday meal but if he rides with Aunt Denise and his Mom he is likely to score a free meal...despite the fact that "his brain does not work like that" he was quick thinking enough to agree to go with his Mom and Aunt. The ads are brought out. Ads are a touchy subject in this house. No one wants to give someone else their ads because then they don't get it back. Aunt Denise hides her ads (to protect them and keep them safe for Friday. Aunt Denise and Amanda try to get everyone elses ads. Kim takes a sharpie and writes her name across the front page of every ad from her newspaper before she will let someone so much as touch her ads. Brad tries to look at Lucas ads. Lucas tells him if he touches his ads he is a dead man. Once the arguments over ads and ad ownership have been settled,the planning and list making commences. Kim is feverishly circling items with her official "Black Fridy" sharpie. When it happens...someone dares to interfere with the Black Friday Stratgey Committee's official meeting...the someone...a child. The children in the family have still not got a clear understanding that when we are having a stratgy meeting we are not to be talked to, asked things or bothered in anyway(unless someone is gushing blood or projectile vomiting). Poor Abby stands by her Aunt Kim and request crayons and paper. Aunt Kim tells her to go watch Underdog because she is busy. Abby again makes her request. Aunt Kim tells her no she is not getting up from the table. Abby asks at least one million times more before Aunt Kim says coloring is not a "Thanksgiving activity" we will color another time. Abby in a huff walks away and begins coloring on styrofoam plates with Aunt Kim's backup sharpie. And then another interference, Adam runs in to tattle ( a skill just recently learned). He advises his grandmother (Kim) that Abby is coloring on plates and taping them to the walls. Grandma tells Adam to "worry about his self and Abby is not hurting anything". Finally we are left in peace.
THE DAY:
It must be admitted that Kendra and Tasha are FANTASTIC black friday shoppers cause they got everything off the list that Team White Lightening had asked them to pick up at Target and Menards. Team White Lightening did well in getting all their items on their list but let down Team Nimrod by not being able to get the the "New Moon" game.
Despite their willingness to pick up items for opposing the team, Team Nimrod has a mean streak and when they hooked up with Team White Lightening's car they threw COMBOS in the open window of Team White Lightening's vehicle and laughed hysterically because a team member of White Lightening requested that her teammate unlock the car door (yeah yeah yeah the car window was down) . A member of Team White Lightening responded by throwing water at Team Nimrod's car which only elicted laughter and a response of "Thanks for the car wash".
END OF THE DAY: Shopper's went home..at least one member of Team White Lightening went home and slept for three hours..then got up for a couple of hours and then went to bed for the night. Evidently being able to plod/walk 13 miles does not guarentee the ability to stay up for 24 hours straight.
Tidbits:
You gotta love a person that you get in the Christmas draw that gives you a picture of her wishlist item torn out of the ad and hands you a coupon for $10.00 off at that store.
Aunt Denise is scamming Speedway by bypassing how the hot chocolate is instructed to be made on the machine and stopping and starting the machine mulitple times to make her cocoa triple chocolately.
Golden Corral is the place to go for Breakfast Buffet.
Overheard:
"Aunt Kim can I have a piece of pumpkin pie now?" "No, because you just ate your weight in dirt pudding and Aunt Kim is NOT cleaing pumpkin pie vomit"
