Something funny...and some brief thoughts on Thanksgiving

My friend Mayra sent me this link yesterday. It's pretty cool, especially to a man who listed his Top 40 favorite superheros here. I'm 95% Green Lantern. I think that's pretty accurate: I have a good imagination so I would come up with interesting ways to use the ring, and I've definitely got the strength of will to use it. And remember my friends who are reading this: you choose to be friends with me. That's right, the nerd who just wrote this. Your friend.

I came to a realization the other day: Thanksgiving is an adult's holiday. Here's what I mean. I grew up not liking Thanksgiving at all. As a child, I didn't really care for Turkey, and I have always hated football. Plus my grandparents lived close by so I saw them frequently, so getting to go see them wasn't that big of a deal.

Now, however, as an adult, my tastes have changed. I love Turkey once a year: on Thanksgiving. Or I should say once a week, on Thanksgiving week, because of leftovers. Now that I'm off living by myself, I miss my family very much, and love any time that we all get to come back together. I also appreciate Thanksgiving more as a segue into the Christmas season. It's a good, short, sweet holiday when your family gets together, and gets you excited for the greatest holiday ever: Christmas.

So as a kid who was annoyed by the bad food, bad sports, and tons of driving in bad traffic to see people who I could see any other time, I now really look forward to Thanksgiving, and I do give thanks for the time I get to spend with my family, who I love and miss very much.

I still don't give a shit about the football though. :-)

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!