Goodbye Thanksgiving

Well I think it's finally happening, this is the last year of Thanksgiving. By next year, the Christmas ruckus will officially have overtaken it all, and Thanksgiving will cease to exist.

You know how each year the Christmas stuff comes out sooner and sooner? I mean it's done, it's officially done. This year I saw Christmas stuff out WITH Halloween stuff, and there are no Thanksgiving decorations or anything that I'm aware of, nothing I've seen promoting Thanksgiving, and here is the real kicker: on Sunday night, I went out running, and I happened to pass by an apartment with open blinds and do you know what was inside? A Christmas tree, FULLY DECORATED, and STOCKINGS UP and CHRISTMAS EVERYWHERE. This was on Sunday, November 15. November 15! Halfway through November! I even know people who are already taking their kids to see Santa Claus!

I happen to know that in London at least (maybe the rest of the UK?) a place that doesn't have Thanksgiving, even they wait until December 1 to kick of Christmas festivities!

I feel like Elaine in that episode of Seinfeld where everyone starts eating all their desserts with utensils... cutting their Snickers bars and cookies with a knife and fork and scooping M&Ms with spoons, and Elaine is looking around her freaked out and shouting "WHAT IS WRONG WITH ALL YOU PEOPLE?!" That's me.

I really liked you Thanksgiving, but somehow you've been vilified like a red-headed step-child orphan in a Dickens novel.

Halloweeve

It's Halloween Eve and I was very excited for this day. I like dressing up and I like the excitement and the holiday vibe etc etc. Well the joke's on me because even though everyone in my office dressed up last year..................................... I'm the only one to dress up this year LOLOLOLOL. We usually all take a picture against our map wall for things like this, but since I'm the only one celebrating, I figure that's not going to happen, so I had to take a super classy bathroom selfie.

I'm a gumball machine!! I got the idea from my friend Marisa who did it a few years ago, so she lent me her 25 cent sign, and I had the skirt shirt and shoes so I just had to buy the pom poms to glue on, and it's turned into a nice little appropriate work outfit.

Meanwhile, in funner parts of the universe, Kathleen's work dressed us as Mario Kart, and even Casey is a horse.

Haters gon hate!