Happy Thanksgiving!!

[Darth Mandarb]

To my fellow Statesmen, a rousing Happy Thanksgiving!

To the rest of the world, the same!  Even though you don't celebrate our holiday you can still give thanks on this day!

What am I thankful for?

- my family
- my friends
- my job
- the breath I'm taking right now

I just wanted to share!  If anybody else wishes to partake in my Thanksgiving tradition feel free to do so.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING Y'ALL!!

[color=555555]If you aren't interested in sharing what you're thankful for that's fine.  Or if you think it's a stupid American holiday that's fine too.  However, I would be "thankful" if you didn't bring that negativity into this thread.  Please be respectful.[/color]

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Have a great one, Darth.  And to you, my reckless agsers!

[Tuomas]

Wasn't thanksgiving last year?

lol. Happy thanksgiving to you who celebrate it, and loads of alcohol to us, thank you.

[Andail]

I'm thankful for my family, my wonderful girlfriend and my great friends who arranged a surprise-party for me last night.
I'm also grateful I don't have to eat turkey with distant relatives and say grace and listen to random people testify how they owe their God/nation/president this and that while they get tears in their eyes.

[Darth Mandarb]

I'm thankful for my family, my wonderful girlfriend and my great friends who arranged a surprise-party for me last night.
I'm also grateful I don't have to eat turkey with distant relatives and say grace and listen to random people testify how they owe their God/nation/president this and that while they get tears in their eyes.

You crack me up my pacifist Elf-friend

This Thanksgiving will be just my brother and I with our parents (so no distant relatives sadly.)

Have a great one, Darth.

Cheers!

[m0ds]

Have a good one, Americans!

Can someone celebrate their alarm clock? Afterall if it hadn't have gone off today you may never have woken up to celebrate Thanksgiving.

[thewalrus]

     Yes, happy Thanksgiving to all of our U.S. community members! I am thankfull for my fiance, my children, the rest of my family and all my friends that I have made in our wonderful AGS community!!! Peace and love to all!!!!!!

[ildu]

I guess thanksgiving kind of overlaps our own pikkujoulu ('tiny christmas') tradition, so I'll most likely be out being very thankful that christmas is about one month away. That's about all we celebrate right now .

[SSH]

pikkujoulu

Wasn't he some kind of electrocuting mouse thing?

[EagerMind]

Thanks Darth. A Happy Thanksgiving to you and the rest of the forum! Try not to each too much turkey today ... aw heck, go ahead!

[Helm]

I celebrate the raping of angels, the drowning of the baby jesus in menstrual blood and semen, the usual...

[Krysis]

Erm.... thank you for all the porn, USA.

[Darth Mandarb]

I'm thankful that people are worldly, decent, and respectful enough to not post meaningless negativity in this thread just 'cause they don't respect other people's holidays.

[SpacePirateCaine]

It's been Friday for a good 12 hours in Japan, but I celebrated turkey-day by going to KFC and getting myself a twister last night after work. I forget the holiday almost every year since I've moved here, both Canadian and American, so I was determined to do something even if it was kind of lonesome and more effigy than anything. Chicken for turkey, teriyaki sauce for cranberry... But yes. It was still thanksgiving, and I'm thankful for that.

As for things I'm honestly thankful for - The support of my friends and family, although I abandoned them and left for another country, unable to see them on holidays such as this; the friendship and companionship of a wonderful woman, (coincidentally 10 months to the day as well) though she may be away until the end of the month; a job I can tolerate that puts food on my... desk... and the consistency of the planet, which keeps on spinning at the same speed, in the same orbit around the sun, in the same manner that allows me to survive from day to day.

Happy thanksgiving to all you Americans, and happy labor day to the Japanese (Which was consequentially also yesterday). And happy November 23rd to the rest of the world, or whatever this day signifies to you.

[Vince Twelve]

I'm in the same boat as Caine, since it's now lunchtime the day after thanksgiving.  But I went to an American-ish buffet place with my family last night because they were having a special turkey dinner.  It's the first time I've had turkey in Japan.  It was... decent.  But when I visited my parents in June, I made my dad cook up a full Thanksgiving dinner to make up for the last two that I had missed.  So I pretended that I was eating that.  Mmmmmmm...

I'm thankful for my beautiful wife and daughter, both of whom get cuter every day.

[Nikolas]

I'm thankful for my beautiful wife and daughter, both of whom get cuter every day.

A little advice from your older buddy. While your wife gets older she gets uglier everyday (I know from personal experience), while for your daughter... Well it's illegal to even think about it! 

Now to be serious.

I'm thankful for many many things. Wife (who is relly cute , kids, work, studies, house, and also this: Father in law, with 1 lung (the other removed due to cancer), had also general break down 10 years ago (heart stop, or however they call it). He survived with minimal problems. Then last year he had an extra problem (almost died), but he surivved and had a quadraple by-pas (pretty dangerous for a man with his lung (no s). He sruvived. The last week he checked his prostate (sp) and well... what do you know? Cancer again! Had a surgery, survived (of course, you need to get used to that), without the cnacer having spread ANYWHERE, and thus today his at his home watching TV from his 32" screen, while waiting for the kids (my kids) to wake so he can video confrence them! His life is pretty nice. He's 60 years old. And from my perspective, although he has been pretty unlucky in the past 12 year health-wise, still his quality of life is...the same, plus it seems that with his "luck" he may outlive a lot of people at his age in the end. My father in law is a damn lucky man in his damn unlucky days. Does it make sense?

Anyways happy thanksgiving to the people who know what is the spirit of this holiday.

[Nine Toes]

For me, Thanksgiving was officially over about five and a half hours ago.  I don't really like to get all mushy, touchy-feely and crap, but I decided to reply because I just don't stop and think about the things I should be thankful for as often as I should. (Did you get all that?)  I just spend too much of my time being pessimistic and worrying about the "what if..."s of the future.

Obviously, I'm thankful for my wife, Ashely, and my son, Zachary.

I'm thankful that I have a decent job, and it's keeping my family fed, sheltered, and entertained.

I'm thankful that I'm not dead, or in jail (trust me, I've done a lot of stupid things in my life).

...That's the best I could do.  Happy Thanksgiving.