Drink Some Booze, Smoke a Joint and Relax

[arcadian]

Drink Some Booze, Smoke a Joint and Relax: How to Have a Hedonistic Thanksgiving

http://www.alternet.org/story/144201/drink_some_booze%2C_smoke_a_joint_and_relax%3A_how_to_have_a_hedonistic_thanksgiving

You might not know this, but Thanksgiving is the best holiday of the year. You don't have to buy a gift for your most annoying family member or send your boss a cheese log. You don't have to pretend that the ten-year-old girl dressed up as Britney Spears is appropriate or deserving of a mini Snickers bar. You really don't have to fast. No, this is a holiday about three simple things: eating, drinking, and merriment.


If you haven't realized that yet, it's probably because you're doing it wrong. Maybe you're still stuck in the old family rut — dutifully flying home for a few days each November to eat turkey with mom, dad and great-aunt Mildred. And it's probably fine; the food is good, the conversation might be somewhat lively (especially if Mildred's had her schnapps), but you're still secretly counting down the minutes till everyone goes to bed and you can have a smoke and a proper-sized glass of wine. Or, maybe you're one of those Thanksgiving deniers who just pretends the whole thing isn't happening, staying at home and eating turkey lo mein with your cat.

Either way, you're missing out, and this year it's time to break the cycle. And it's not as hard as you think. Here are five ways to host your very own kick-ass, grown-up Thanksgiving dinner.


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[elocs]

1. It's deja vu all over again. Posted this morning:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7093504

[arcadian]

2. People aren't taking the message to heart

:D

[havocmom]

5. um, some of us are working very hard to put all that good food together

then there is the kitchen to clean up afterwards. :eyes:

The Big Eat Holiday (as my dog thinks of it) does not come on the wings of your fairy godmother.

[discocrisco01]

3. Sober Thanksgiving

Unlike you guys, boozing and smoking was no solution in my life. My best solution was get into the rooms because my life was unmanagable.

Just make sure that drinking and smoking does not make your life unmanageable. It ain't worth it.

[Xipe Totec]

4. Eat, drink, and meet Mary... n/t

[arcadian]

6. Eat, drink and meet Alice

B. Toklas

[Xipe Totec]

7. Sleep in Comfort

Between Alice, and Victoria, Texas.

- The Comfort Texas Chamber of Commerce.

[astral]

8. Yep, I guess the shopping, cooking, and cleaning up part is

left to the "Wymmen-Folke" -- eh?

I have done the whole turkey dinner for the family when I 'had to' or 'volunteered' to but I don't particularly find it relaxing or fun. By the time dinner's done I'm so tired and wound up I really would rather skip the rest and go to my room and close the door on everybody and say, someone else clean up please and don't leave me an leftovers.

Of course, the next day I usually hope I grabbed myself some leftovers.

The way to go is pot-luck or go out to eat. If you have a choice in the matter and don't have to do "The Family Thing."

Not having to "do" Thanksgiving at all would be my preference, or to just be invited to go to someone elses' house and bring one dish, is fine with me if I don't have to do the family obligation thing.

As the years go by so the expectations change . . . . or kind of vanish . . . .

So I think I should really if I have nothing 'planned' just go volunteer to do something somewhere.