I thank God for my wonderful wife and beautiful daughter. I'm also thankful for my health. With those 3 things and a good job to support my family I am very, very content in life. I feel very blessed.
Posted by isis9968 (Member # 1780) on :
Me too Bigfoot. I am thankful that I have my mom here with me now every day, and that she can spend every holiday with us now, where before I would only see her every couple months-especially in the winter time.
I am thankful for having a fantastic husband, and a terrific kid, and we are all healthy and happy, and have been extremely lucky the past few years with everything, and we are just glad to be alive.
I am thankful for all the friends I have in my "real" world, but also for all the friends I have on the "Rewind". I am so glad I found this place!
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!
Posted by jlp937 (Member # 1877) on :
I am thankful for the fact that I get to meet my boyfriends family. We have two dinners tomorrow and I will also get to meet some of his friends from back home. I am also thankful for all of my family's health and happiness. I think it will be a good Thanksgiving this year.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by stitch_groover (Member # 2895) on :
Forgive my ignorance here, but we don't have Thanksgiving in Australia... is Thanksgiving celebrated on the same day each year, eg 25 November, or is it like the last Thursday (or whatever day) of the month? I've always been curious about this.
Posted by isis9968 (Member # 1780) on :
It is the last Thursday of the month of November every year.
It is basically to celebrate when the Pilgrims came to start the Colonies, they started the tradition to befriend the Indians who taught them how to do alot of farming, so they had a big feast to celebrate their friendship.
I was watching on the food channel last night, there is a place it is called Sturbridge Village, I think it is in Massachussets. They have real people that go around every day and do things there just like they did when they first settled there-like it is an actual village, with people walking around in costumes. I love that kind of historical stuff. It is a big tourist attraction. What flips me out is how we take for granted everything we have and how we have it made.
They make traditional foods, exactly the way they did with the same tools, and ovens, and they sit down and have a dinner, and the tourists come in and watch them eat. Traditionally people use to eat off their knife not their fork, that was a custom that changed over time.
Anyway, to make a pumpkin pie, they had to carve a pumpkin, scoop out the pumpkin and they had to go milk a cow, they had to go get eggs from a chicken, they had to take sugar on this big block, and scrap it off with a tool, they took spices and ground them up with another tool to make them powder, then they had to bake it in an old brick oven. That's a ton of work for 1 pie, but that's how everything use to be, they never used the word "instant" ever.
Geez, we just made 2 pumpkin pies like it was nothing, and alot of people usually order them from some place, nobody barely bakes anymore, just be glad you didn't live 100 years old.
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Posted by stitch_groover (Member # 2895) on :
Thanks for that Isis. It's a pity we don't have something like that over here.
And who ever said the Rewind wasn't educational???
Posted by ValleyCat (Member # 1322) on :
Wow Stitch I never thought that stuff that Isis made up was educational, but she does has a vivid imagination.
Life is cool and Thanksgiving is a day to remind me of it. Posted by Obscurus Lupa (Member # 2700) on :
Oh, man, I should be thankful for everything! It's so great, because my life couldn't have turned out better for me. You know when someone approaches you with a look at their face and you get anxious because you know you can either get really, really good news, or really terrible news? But whatever happens, happens for a reason, and God makes it all happen, and it all works out in the end, and I'm so happy for that.
I thought about that the other day, and I thought, "Man, I wish I could speak the way I sound when I think things up." I never thought I'd have a chance to say it (er, type it) in real life.
Isis, wow. O.O That pie stuff is mind-boggling. Thanks for letting us know!
Happy Thanksgiving, guys!
Posted by Ronnie (Member # 465) on :
i have loads to be thankful for. i am extremely grateful for my job, my daughter who keeps me smiling day after day and my new boyfriend who has changed my life for the better. i am of course thankful for family and friends and for overcoming many obsticles this past year, when it seemed like the world was caving in at times.
god bless you all and have a wonderful turkey day!!!! Posted by rhodes (Member # 3293) on :
What i am thankful for ....well to quote a line from BACHELOR PARTY "Let's have a bachelor party! With chicks, and guns, and fire trucks, and hookers, and drugs, and boose!"
i am most thankful for these things
CAPTAIN RHODES
Happy Thanksgiving
Posted by TheHornedKing (Member # 2691) on :
I'm thankful for the life I've lived and the people in it.
I'm thankful for my computer and my pianoforte.
I'm thankful for my voice and dexterity.
I'm thankful for the freedom to pursue whatever career I wish.
And, realizing this freedom, soon I will shed my image as a Britney-pop DJ and seek enlightenment as a blues man or whiskey rock-a-roller.
Posted by paulshrimpton (Member # 1022) on :
Ah, Isis - the root of the whole matter!
It's great that you Americans have a holiday to celebrate the day that the British moved in!
Posted by Smayt Gateford (Member # 1500) on :
You're a bad bad boy Shrimpmeister. Posted by paulshrimpton (Member # 1022) on :
Don't I know it!
Posted by Bionic Bigfoot (Member # 2490) on :
Hey Paul...4th of July is an even bigger holiday over here! (he he he)
Posted by paulshrimpton (Member # 1022) on :
I thought that had been turned into a day of national mourning.... no- wait. That's November 2, isnt it?
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