😂 I couldn’t help but create the title.
Driving on the New Jersey Turnpike Thanksgiving morning felt like a near death experience. The drought of the last 1.5 months had car oil and fluids accumulate on the interstate. Combined with the aggressive rain, I was hesitant to go beyond 55mph because of the shifty feel of the roads.
The only great thing about this Thanksgiving is that I got to see Mom. And honestly, that’s really the main point of the holiday. Because of family stuff I have to split custody of her with my other family members. They get her for the Thanksgiving holiday but I get her for Christmas and it’s a coin toss up for New Year’s. It’s too much to explain 😂
I get to my old house and while the atmosphere itself was decent, Mom relayed to me the news that all throughout family friends’ families and even within our extended members there were….idealogical disputes. I needed Mom to explain it to me again in case I got it wrong but yes – there were people in my family and friends circles that did not celebrate with each other due to the election. Wow.
I wish the holiday gloom was localized to that only but I did not escape unscathed. As soon as I tasted the turkey and the salmon, I realized Mom didn’t cook it and had one of my other relatives there do the cooking. The food was dry and unenthusiastic but it was food, what can I say. It was a few steps below 2013’s ultimately lazy Thanksgiving when we just got food from Boston Market pictured here.
Mom did, though, make the potato salad and that worked out.
While it does seem like I’ve risen above the fray of idealogical confrontations, I do pick my battles. And one of the most important battles is about to crest into Saturday afternoon in Ohio as our annual rivalry game with our death nemesis (we don’t say their names) kicks off.
Their student body and alumni have gotten a little too comfortable in their celebrations from the last 3 years and that can’t happen again tomorrow!
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