Holy crap, I haven’t posted in a month. Sorry for partying.

The good news is: its the first week after Thanksgiving. Holiday season is now officially in full swing! And we all survived Thanksgiving.

I’ll be the first (well maybe the last, since I’m the youngest grandchild in the family) to say: my family is not normal. Not in any way. We celebrate in very nontraditional ways. And we like it.

My grandmother usually stands up and starts some long winded speech about how 1) she might not be here next year 2) we all need to say something we’re thankful for. I think she finally realized she isn’t going to die, so that tradition has been spared…only to have been replaced with a ceremonial singing of some sort of patriotic songs. And this is at 6pm, because everyone has been drinking too much to get dinner ready quickly. My cousin Rob is always picked to say grace at Thanksgiving dinner (our only sit down dinner of the year). I don’t know why. We aren’t a particularly religious family, but I guess we have to say it anyway. And I guess we pick Rob because he’s a doctor (and therefore closer to god)? That’s the only reason I can think of. And it’s illogical. Much like the rest of my family’s antics. This year, we added a new tradition in place of grace: thanks and unthanks. Things we are unthankful for.

Things we are unthankful for:

-The Phillies didn’t win the World Series

-The Canadian Dollar is now even with the American Dollar

-Our accountant got arrested for embezzling so we all need a new one.

This probably seems wrong to everyone else on the planet. The only thing that’s wrong is the food gets cold before we eat because we talk too much.

I hope everyone had a happy and safe holiday, with much to be thankful (and unthankful) for.