What are you not thankful about? Biitch here...

ChristinS

Half of the office took today off, including my entire team, it's raining cats and dogs,Dennis is home today, I have a lot of things to do to prepare for holiday house guests and Thanksgiving and my sweater is totally itchy. Also, I forgot to put on make up this morning. For those that don't know me, I'm pretty fancy. I always wear makeup. So I feel extra icky. And itchy. I wanna go home.

jens_a_ten

I am not thankful that I keep coming into work 2-3 hours early, and still end up leaving 1-2 hours late. Working all the time is for the birds  I tell ya, I just want to hang out with my husband and watch tv. My coworkers were supposed to be back from their conference today, so I'd have some relief, but their flights got delayed.

I'm also not thankful for this friggin cold weather. 

I am, however, thankful that I came home to running water. Toilet flushes for everyone!

ChristinS

Oh Jens. You're just so Canadian.

samfish2bcrab

I won't be eatting a Turkey Dinner in the next two days.

It's going to be deader than normal on here AND at work Thursday and Friday.

I'm pretty sure I win.

Novemberrocks

I have to work on Friday.  I also just got an email from someone who wants to schedule a meeting for this afternoon.  Ummm, you realize it's the day before Thanksgiving, right?

SnShne322

Nothing really exciting or anything, but the office is dead, the nest is dead and I have class until 10:30PM tonight.  I had to ask H to make cupcakes tonight since we have to be at the IL's relatively early in the morning and he's whining like you read about...'cause making cupcakes is SO HARD!

boxerfan

I am not thankful for the fact that I just wrote up all of the things I'm not thankful for, and the nest ate my post.  What's with that, Nest?! To sum up: I'm not thankful for: migraines, busy grocery stores, unpurchased christmas presents, and doctors offices that make you sit in the waiting room for three hours.

jens_a_ten

ChristinS:

Oh Jens. You're just so Canadian.

Random:  I was watching "How I Met Your Mother" the other night, and they were making fun of Canadians and had them talking all funny and  I was like "GEEZ, we do NOT sound like that!" And then yesterday when  I was trying to make a video of Paige in my sleep deprived stupor,  I was listening to it play back and was like "Crap... I do kinda sound like that."

Double doubles and timbits for everyone in my igloo right quick eh? 

lmydogally

I am not thankful that I took today as a vacation day but the regional VP for Texas invited me to a mandatory conference call today at 7am at the last minute.  so I'm working at 7 am on my vacation day instead of sleeping in.

BobLoblaw

I seem to be cultivating a giant lip zit.

I have 2 heads of garlic roasting and all I want to do is spread them on some french bread, but I need to save them for a ressypee.

 

Ummmm. I dunno. I had to crack open a bottle of beer to make beer dip and I didn't want it to go to waste, so it's 9:48 and I'm drinking. That might be a problem.

_Fenton

I am not thankful that I have the day off today and yet I need to go help my mom clean her house. I know it's the adult thing to do, to help out with holiday preparation or whatever.  But damn, I wish grandparents lived forever so you didn't have to go through all this trouble even when you didn't feel like it because "it could be their last one!"  I would like one Thanksgiving or Christmas of not driving anywhere and just sitting with a handful of people in one place.

I am also not thankful for this short haircut that is not easy to put in a ponytail and just go, plus the short length means there is less room for my scalp oil to go and my hair gets super oily FAST.  And I still have not received a "thanks for the wig hair!" letter, so I'm worried they didn't get it, or it wasn't usable and this hatchet job was all for nothing.

I am also not thankful for gym memberships that you can't pay month to month.  I want to cancel and rejoin later, but then you have to pay that huge fee up front again.  Assh0les.

Lastly, I am not thankful for not having a laptop.  I am going to buy one, but I just can't choose between $800 PC or $1200 Mac.  UGH.

_Fenton

BobLoblaw:

Ummmm. I dunno. I had to crack open a bottle of beer to make beer dip and I didn't want it to go to waste, so it's 9:48 and I'm drinking. That might be a problem.

My fun budding alcoholism story is that yesterday I had a half day at work, and it was the last day that the Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest was showing in the theater, so I went and bought a 24 oz of Bud Select, stuffed it in my purse, then went into a mall bar, drank a draft beer quickly before I went into the theater, then drank the purse beer during the movie and got a nice little buzz going.  It was an excellent afternoon, but some may find this worrisome.

BobLoblaw

_Fenton:

BobLoblaw:

Ummmm. I dunno. I had to crack open a bottle of beer to make beer dip and I didn't want it to go to waste, so it's 9:48 and I'm drinking. That might be a problem.

My fun budding alcoholism story is that yesterday I had a half day at work, and it was the last day that the Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest was showing in the theater, so I went and bought a 24 oz of Bud Select, stuffed it in my purse, then went into a mall bar, drank a draft beer quickly before I went into the theater, then drank the purse beer during the movie and got a nice little buzz going.  It was an excellent afternoon, but some may find this worrisome.

I'm only judging your choice of Bud Select. They sell Sam Adams 24s!

ChristinS

I have no judgment for you Fent and Bethie. Fent, why not settle foe a $400 or $500 laptop? Or would that just not have what you need?

cmc714

I am not thankful that I'm currently driving from MA to VA. And posting from my phone sucks.

heyemilina

I am not thankful that I have to drive 12+ hours today to see my parents for Thanksgiving. They moved from PA to GA two years ago, and I still resent it. We have no family down there, save for my grandmother who my dad moved down last year to an assistant living facility when she was diagnosed with dementia. I am just resentful that they live so far away and we only get to see them a few times a year now, while we see my ILs at least once every other week, if not more. With the baby coming, it makes it even that much more painful that they won't be around for the various stages of pregnancy and they'll miss out on seeing their grandchild regularly.

It also irritates me because our visits with them our usually 5 days or so, which means by the end of the fifth day I'm either sick of having them in my house or sick of being at their house. So I get even more resentful that 1/5 of my time with them is spent being generally irritated.  

oklagirl

I'm not thankful that I'm at work. I've never attended or worked at a school or university that was open the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Until now. Boo.

I'm not thankful that I'm working Black Friday at my second job. It's going to be a madhouse. I've never shopped on that day because I hate the crowds. Now I have to deal with the crowds AND be nice to them. Blah.

 

_Fenton

ChristinS:

I have no judgment for you Fent and Bethie. Fent, why not settle foe a $400 or $500 laptop? Or would that just not have what you need?

I need sufficient memory to run my bootleg software.

noisy_penguin

I am not thankful for my stupid hair. I think I'm going to go get it all cut off today so I can stop worrying about how heavy and stupid my stupid bangs look and how thin the rest of my hair looks. Stupid bangs and stupid postpartum hair loss.

I am not thankful that both Lorne and I fell asleep in the living room last night. I wanted to have sex after I finished pumping, but he fell asleep waiting for me to finish and I fell asleep while pumping. By the time we woke up it was too late to do anything.

I am not thankful for the ball of snot that is currently sitting at the back of my nasal cavity and dripping down my throat.

Hezzerlah

I'm not thankful for the mess in my underwear. Not sure what's going on there, but if I didn't have a gigantic ball attached to my abdomen I'd think I was starting my period.

And if this does lead to labor, I'm not thankful for this selfish child making me miss my dinner.

And if it doesn't lead to labor, I'm not thankful for all the mind games of late.

noisy_penguin

A mess in your underwear that does not lead to labor sounds very unfortunate.

Hospital Thanksgiving food is not very good.

shanollee

I have a huge ball of snot too, Noisy. I'm not thankful for the sore throat it's creating, or the fact that it's made me snore like a rhino the past few nights. Also I have a slight ache in my left ear. Also also, I've been having to sleep slightly propped up because otherwise I've been having a lovely experience of choking on my own stomach juices when they defy gravity and rush up into my throat in the middle of the night.

If I were a horse they'd already have put me out of my misery by now

BobLoblaw

Fent, what kind of bootleg software? I ended up with a Sony Vaio on a recommendation and I really like it. I'm running bootleg Dreamweaver and PS just fine.

salimoo

_Fenton:

BobLoblaw:

Ummmm. I dunno. I had to crack open a bottle of beer to make beer dip and I didn't want it to go to waste, so it's 9:48 and I'm drinking. That might be a problem.

My fun budding alcoholism story is that yesterday I had a half day at work, and it was the last day that the Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest was showing in the theater, so I went and bought a 24 oz of Bud Select, stuffed it in my purse, then went into a mall bar, drank a draft beer quickly before I went into the theater, then drank the purse beer during the movie and got a nice little buzz going.  It was an excellent afternoon, but some may find this worrisome.

I was far more worried when i read it as you shoving 24 cans of beer in your purse and drinking them over the course of a movie!

_Fenton

salimoo:

_Fenton:

BobLoblaw:

Ummmm. I dunno. I had to crack open a bottle of beer to make beer dip and I didn't want it to go to waste, so it's 9:48 and I'm drinking. That might be a problem.

My fun budding alcoholism story is that yesterday I had a half day at work, and it was the last day that the Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest was showing in the theater, so I went and bought a 24 oz of Bud Select, stuffed it in my purse, then went into a mall bar, drank a draft beer quickly before I went into the theater, then drank the purse beer during the movie and got a nice little buzz going.  It was an excellent afternoon, but some may find this worrisome.

I was far more worried when i read it as you shoving 24 cans of beer in your purse and drinking them over the course of a movie!

If I had a big enough purse, this might have happened.

RFKD82909

Not worried about Fenton at all but I wish I could steal her idea.

I am not thankful that I have to work today and on black friday. Also not thankful that my boss is trying to guilt trip me into working on Cyber Monday. I work almost every single holiday. The only reason I don't work tomorrow is because I refused. There had better be some serious bribing going on for me to come in Monday.

krisdi78

I'm not thankful for this craptastic weather we've been having.  It's been snowy, icy, and is currently 15 degrees.  To top it off, people around here do not know how to drive in this weather and it's making me all sorts of stabby.  Tues. it took us almost 2 hours to drive 6 miles.

noisy_penguin

Krisdi - during one of those storms when I lived up there, my H and I tried to drive down to Portland to pick my mom up at the airport (she was stranded as there were no flights out). We left Wallingford at 2 PM. We made it to Fort Lewis around midnight. At one point we got off the freeway for gas, to pee, and to get snacks. We were off for roughly 45 minutes. When we got back on, we got back on in line behind the same damn car that was in front of us when we got off the freeway. In 45 minutes they'd only gone as far as the off and on ramps.

GroomzMcFinehiney

I'm not thankful that Cali is probably not coming to my house for Thanksgiving.

I'm also not thankful that my best friend is coming for dessert with her 3 kids.  I love them dearly, but they all demand a lot of attention, and my friend and her husband like to come to family functions, sit with the grown ups, and let others entertain their kids.  By dessert I will be exhausted, and just want to relax and not play 72 rounds of 'look what I can do.'

I am not going to be the fun dad.

FallinAgain

I'm not thankful that I no longer live in a city where movies like The Girl Who plays. I'm not thankful for rainy travel. I'm not thankful that my MIL cooks the turkey 2 days ahead and just serves a platter of cut up turkey on Thanksgiving. I don't even like turkey but I at least want the pretty brown skin.

Novemberrocks

FallinAgain:

I'm not thankful that I no longer live in a city where movies like The Girl Who plays. I'm not thankful for rainy travel. I'm not thankful that my MIL cooks the turkey 2 days ahead and just serves a platter of cut up turkey on Thanksgiving. I don't even like turkey but I at least want the pretty brown skin.

Who does this?  That would ruin the holiday for me.  RUIN IT.