How was your turkey day

[strongbad]

 
Hmm where to start....
My family went to my grandparent's house and had dinner. The food was great, and after we ate me and my brother went to watch TV while I played Mother 3. Then we go to help with dishes, and my grandpa starts to talk about how he's dizzy. About 10 seconds later, he passes out on the floor with his eyes open, which scared the shit out of me, since i thought he died. We called 911, and were freaking out. He came to after about 3 minutes, during which time I had cried and felt like shit. The medic dudes got to the house and took him to the hospital, where we waiting in the waiting room (so that's why it's called that) for two hours. He was ok, he just had a really fucking low blood pressure.

how was yours

[Samus Aran]

i got a lot of new stuff and played a lot of video games and listened to a lot of music and ate a lot of food

so it was good

[Nyerp]

i ate shit and watched the same

[Hermione Granger]

i got a lot of new stuff and played a lot of video games and listened to a lot of music and ate a lot of food

so it was good

you get presents on thanksgiving?   |:

[Placebo Headwound]

you get presents on thanksgiving?   |:

It was his birthday.

[noodle_976]

I don't do anything special.
My mom boiled the turkey instead of baking or whatever the fuck you're supposed to do and it smelled like shit.
I played team fortress 2 and left 4 dead all day.
After the smell went away, I went downstairs and attempted to make hash browns with the mashed potatoes, and I just ended up warming mashed potatoes on a pan with butter....

[Pyrate]

I woke up at 7AM and wasn't tired. For some reason my mom made a whole turkey even though it's just me and her living here, and I hate turkey. Basically I just hung around the house all day.

[ME##]

My uncle came over around ten, we ate, we watched a movie and it was rather boring.

[Samus Aran]

you get presents on thanksgiving?   |:

it was my birthday, you fagort

[Skylark]

Mine was pretty good!

drank a lot of wine and ate some pretty great food and it was fun.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

i cooked the string bean casserole and it was delicious

[Claquesous]

When I first saw this thread, I didn't really care enough to post even just a little bit out of laziness or whatever.

Woke up at 10, went to my fraternal grandparents' house at noon, expecting my favorite cousin to be there. She didn't get there until about half an hour later. But, my cousin Joseph and sister Lauren were already there, along with their dad, and two other aunts of mine. Me, my brother, Joe, and Lauren went outside. I went over to "that one tree" that we "all" used to climb on in years past. It was unclimbable now, because of one of those new limbs that sprout up when you trim a tree. I still managed to hoist myself up there, but not without getting a few scrapes on my hands. I jumped down and stood there next to the others. Lauren, who is six, said that we all were lame. She excluded herself in this statement. We are now indeed lame. We never do anything fun anymore, like climb the tree, or take walks throughout the hundred acre woods and down "leaf hill", or play hide and go seek. My favorite cousin (and her mom, and another cousin and her dad and grandma) came, and the six of us cousins played Scrabble. We didn't use the wooden things obviously, because there are only four. My brother started it off with "GAY". Joseph accidentally put "TIT" when he meant to put "TILT", but he rectified this. After maybe fifteen minutes of Scrabble, the food was ready. And surprise, surprise, the food was actually done at two. Most of use Acuffs say we're going to do something, only to have it happen later, like my dad "leaving" but actually talking for an hour more before he leaves. This was the first time food was ready at two. We ate. We all sat in our regular spots at "the kid's table". Me, and two cousins got "our" cups, which were yellow for me, and orange and green for the other two. Back when we were kids, we'd use the cups all the time because my hair is blond, one cousin's hair is orange, and green is the other's favorite color. After eating, we (not including Joseph, Lauren, and my brother) watched Beauty and the Beast (how lame). After it ended, we noticed that the cousin that has been essentially excommunicated from the family had a picture on the table of him and his homely girlfriend kissing each other. What a weird thing to give your grandparents. We were beginning to watch another movie (Aristocats), when I and my brother needed to leave. I had to go to the other side of my family for another Thanksgiving dinner. I've done this for years, eating two meals in a day. My brother didn't go because he's actually only my half brother. All in all, a pretty good time with this side of the family.

I had to stop by dad's because I needed my inhaler because my grandparents have cats in the house and I am allergic.

I arrive at my mom's house at about seven. A few days earlier, my mom said she wanted me to be the taste-tester of her gravy. I obliged. For whatever reason, this did not come to fruition, but it still turned out amazing. My uncle called it "to die for" and I would agree. We still have some in the fridge that I would be more than happy to eat. Eventually, everyone on this side of the family gathered, including two uncles, two aunts, and two cousins. And then me, my mom, and my grandma. The only person not there was my grandpa, but he's dead. Most of the time I sat on that couch I always sit in that's in the other room, while everyone else sat in the "echo room" (named because it echoes in there) or was cooking. My uncle got drunk, I think. It sure seemed like it. Not staggering drunk, just a little, maybe. Anyway, we ate, and it was fabulous. My mom is an excellent cook. The turkey looked like one of those ones that are featured on the cover of Food And Wine or whatever kind of cooking magazine there is. My aunt, who is obsessive about taking pictures, took a picture of it. There was some oyster casserole that my other uncle brought that nobody but him and his wife eats. I tried it last year and it wasn't good. I like fried oysters, but turns out I don't like oysters in casserole. I realized after I was done that we didn't have mashed potatoes, but that was alright because we had enough starch already with bread, rice, and something else I forgot. Ate some pumpkin pie my cousin made. Everyone sat around about an hour talking or cleaning up in the kitchen. Aunt, uncle, cousin left, leaving my other cousin that was actually part of the family that just left but who wanted to stay behind so me and him and my mom could play Scattegories and just have a good time, and my other aunt and uncle. They helped clean up and then got their leftovers and left. My grandma went to bed, and we played Scattegories. It was incredibly fun and funny, probably increased by our tiredness and tryptophan high. We didn't use the timer just because. It allows us to think of stuff easier when not under pressure. There are really some funny answers that people can come up with. Trees starting with a P? We all three thought that we all had the same one, because we all thought this particular tree was obvious. Turns out, I thought of pine, my mom thought of palm, and my cousin thought of poplar. We had a good laugh at that. It was such fun that I suggested me and my mom should get my brother Scattegories for Christmas. My cousin left after we completed List 6, which was about 11:45. I went downstairs to listen to music and surfer sur l'Internet, until two when I was all but dead from sleepiness. Brushed my teeth and went to bed.

Don't read all of it, or do, I don't care. I just enjoyed typing this possibly overly detailed tale of my Thanksgiving adventure.