Hope you have a wonderful weekend .. even if you ARE in Canada!
You lucky bastards in Canada, with the free health care, cool Prime Ministers and all those girlfriends that dated guys like you back in High School .. you wouldn't know her! Heh. You already had your Thanksgiving, and this year it's VERY late arriving.
I wasn't sure if I was going to post a Thanksgiving caption or a Black Friday caption (I've done both in the past, sometimes both!) so I just sort of floated around the internet looking for some inspiration. This image just gave me the feel of the autumn season and gathering around the table, and it got me thinking.
The last number of years I've pretty much spent Thanksgiving by myself or with whatever girlfriend I am with, and the big celebration for me is Friendsgiving, which we usually hold on the weekend following Turkey Day. We hit chain restaurant and just sit around and bust each others balls. There's couples there, but you can go stag too .. and it's just an absolute blast. That and Winter Solstice / Longest Night are the two things I most look forward to when it comes to the Holiday season.
And I hadn't made a caption about Friendsgiving yet, and thought this would be a great way to do so, and also lean into .. what makes this blog what it is today. It's almost what I'd want to have if I could get all the people here on my blog to meet up in meat space, but with the ability to be who our internet selves are. I know I'd have a great time there at that party too.
Yeah, I'm not sure what that last line means either, but stuffing your cavity didn't sound great, so you get the gist, right? I hope that everyone that visits this blog has the happiest of Thanksgivings, or at the very least, a Wonderful November 27th! Be thankful and .. gobble up something you enjoy!
Feel free to use the "Search This Blog" feature by typing in "Thanksgiving" .. you'll get a bunch of captions I have posted in the past.
Also, I want to repost something I wrote in 2017, which still holds true today. If life is getting you down, it's usually a temporary situation. Here's a bit of my past.
Even when I'm a bit overwhelmed with life, I know that there are many people out there with much shittier lives than mine. I can remember days when I was living pretty much out of my car. I would work at a group home on overnights and wash my clothes there, eat the leftover food I was supposed to throw out, and shower when no staff was around. Then when my girlfriend moved to the area to live with me, we found a shitty little apartment for 400 a month (everything included) on the 3rd floor above a low level drug dealer. We thought it was heaven, mostly because we could afford to be together there, and with her hiding from her ex-husband, it WAS safer than the alternative. Every overnight shift, I worried about her, but we kept our noses clean and out of other people's business, so we were pretty safe.
Then the landlord sold to someone else, who cleaned up the property and got rid of most of the trouble .. and we were able to get visitation on my young daughter .. which turned into custody a year later .. once again trying times in dealing with MY ex in this case.
Each time that I encounter some valley in life, I'm been lucky enough that when I can crawl out of it, I tend to be at least a step or two ahead of where I was before. It might not seem like it at that moment, but it just seems to work out that way. I hope that it continues to be so, even though I can see where things could possibly get bad again. I mean, if one of us loses our job or gets hurt, we're probably homeless within 2 months.
But that is why I am thankful for what I have, as I know what it's like to be sleeping in that Bronco, and you just have to believe that whatever is around the corner, it will be a new opportunity to grow, socially, intellectually, financially, or emotionally. So that is my offering to you right now .. HOPE. That you embrace the now, and what you have, knowing that it can be taken away. But even then, with hope, something even better will take shape. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Of course, I had no idea that less than 3 years later, I'd lose my forever person suddenly without warning right before Covid shut everything down. But once again, The only thing that kept me going .. and still keeps me going .. is HOPE. I wish all the hope in the world for you. You ALL DESERVE IT!
Okay before I can comment on anything else I have to say that this scene is probably one of my all time favorites of American sitcom history. The timing of everything, the play by play of Nessman, and that closing line. Priceless. I can’t believe I forgot to wear that T shirt today.
ReplyDeleteI like this caption, partly because everything just sort of feels normal in it. But maybe I’m reading it wrong. I’ve never heard of Friendsgiving before though so that part is new to me. And that closing line, I thought it was funny. Just the sort of goofy innuendo a couple might share.
I agree. It's hard to find the entire episode now, or an entire episode of WKRP, due to the music licensing .. but it's definitely a classic.
DeleteYes, I was trying to make it feel almost mundane for the couple, but lean into the couples dynamic where it's ok to bust each other's balls, so to speak.
Friendsgiving was invented as a way to get together with people you actually want to hang around with, the "chosen family," and usually before the actual ARRGGHH-ness of the holiday season amping up. We've been doing it for 12+ years now, exempting the Covid year.
That sounds wonderful. We do something similar but less formal. Fortunately for my friends and I we all are pretty close with our families so less pressure from the actual holidays. I know that for many this isn’t the case.
DeleteThe DVD collection released a couple of years ago managed to get thee rights to about 80% of the songs originally used.
DeleteKate: Yeah, I get that. For me, once my grandparents died, most of the family sort of scattered, so I'll see my dad for Xmas, and that is just him, his GF, me, and my current GF .. sometimes his GF's daughter and son-in-law will make the trek too. I just got back from Friendsgiving and we had .. 14 people! .. and a few couldn't make it, so yeah. it's definitely a highlight of my holiday season.
DeleteAlison: I will have to try and hunt that down. There were some REALLY good episodes that I haven't seen since I was a kid. I was a huge Johnny Fever fan .. BOOGER!