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I had a Thanksgiving lunch with a friend yesterday, so I was thankful for that. I’m thankful for the second chance (or maybe about 5 or 6 by now) of life I’ve been given. I’m thankful for my loved ones.

And this one is going to sound weird, but I’m thankful for my cat. She has been a Godsend, since the day she’s been a part of my family. She knows me inside and out, and vice versa. She knows just how to help if ever I’m in trouble, and I treat her as if she was my own kid. I even share half of my food with her most days. Lol

I’m thankful for the little things in life. Like being able to look outside my window and see a blade of green grass (which sadly, is very scarce to find lately…hence why I’m thankful) I’m thankful that I’m my own person, with my own ideals and morals, and I’m thankful I’m able to help people as much as I can. I’m also thankful that there’s still good people left in this world.

We here at help.com should just have our own country, or even our own planet. Lol.

Even though I have it a bit tough right now, I am thankful for being able to live in a nice community where I am surrounded by farm land where I could just stare at it all for hours. Plus go to a college where I have friends and teachers who really care about me.

Also, I am really thankful that my parents decided to just have Thanksgiving with just the four of use (my mum, dad, sister, and myself) because I just got my wisdom teeth pulled out today. It shows that they were really thinking about me which recently I felt that they weren’t.

i have no Idea what thanksgiving means!!To what? To whom,and why?

Barbyman wrote:
i have no Idea what thanksgiving means!!To what? To whom,and why?

Lol. Thanksgiving is a big American holiday celebrating the time that the Puritans and the Native-Americans sat down and had a meal together for the first time. Canada has one too I think, but some different reasons, and in October instead of Novemeber.

A lot of people also look at Thanksgiving as the start of the Christmas season too. Australia doesn’t celebrate it, obviously, nor do I think we have anything like it. (Forgive me if I’m wrong, though.)

Shows my ignorance..

A lot of people in America even start to put up their Christmas decorations right after Halloween, way before Thanksgiving. Making it look like Thanksgiving was never there to begin with.

*my own little rant*

dragonheart wrote:
A lot of people in America even start to put up their Christmas decorations right after Halloween, way before Thanksgiving. Making it look like Thanksgiving was never there to begin with.

Heh. I put my tree and decorations up last night too. I tend to wait until Thanksgiving. I’m an odd sort who has almost an obsessive passion for the U.S. So I even try to switch my bodyclock onto UEST. I sleep during the day and stay awake all night. Of course, that’s also because most of my friends are in the US on Eastern time.

I found out yesterday too, that Trick-or-treating is FINALLY being introduced here. (At least in my city) Grr. They could have done it 12 years ago when *I* could join in. Oh well, I’m doing it next year no matter how ridiculous it’ll look to see a 23-year-old running around begging for candy.

dragonheart wrote:
A lot of people in America even start to put up their Christmas decorations right after Halloween, way before Thanksgiving. Making it look like Thanksgiving was never there to begin with.

I hate it when people make Christmas such a big deal so early. They started around here back in September. They have the malls blasting carols all day, the city streets had their decorations up, and our Christmas pageant (parade for U.S residents) starts at the beginning of November. I remember seeing the Christmas decorations/trees etc in grocery stores being set-up in some places around August/September.

How corporate and commercial can you get? Sheesh.

I hate that as well, Its almost as Thanksgiving doesnt exsit anymore, I guess that I should be thankful that I know most people still celebrate it ^^.

for my friends, family, health, opportunities given to me, and most of all my incredibly awesome wonderful boyfriend :3

Well, we don’t have anything equivilant to Thanksgiving here that I’m aware of, so I think it’s just people wanting to cash in on Christmas early.

What annoys me, is that here, it’s no problem to use Halloween to put scary movies on TV or Halloween specials, but we miss out on the good stuff. (Haunted houses, Trick-Or-Treat, decorations, etc) It’s extremely hard to find Halloween decorations, and even since I was a kid I’ve been dying to go Trick-Or-Treating. There are some rare occasions where the high schools have Halloween dances, but no one barely gets involved in dressing up, so it’s sort of pointless. I went to one in high school and they had a best costume competition. I won because I was the only one to dress up. Then again, I never was one to seem to fit in with the rest. Lol. I guess it just made me seem more nerdier and pathetic to them.

I think we should all just celebrate everyone else’s holidays. Like Australia can share Thanksgiving with the U.S, Halloween, Independance Day, etc. And the U.S Can have stuff like ANZAC Day and Australia Day. Incorporate it all around the world, then everyone’s happy and it doesn’t seem so darn egotisical like “our country is more special than yours!”

Halloween is overdone sometimes with scary movies and specials. *Halloween is my favorite time of the year* But I still dress up, especially when my college had a halloween costume contest. I came in close 2nd with my handmade costume.

I just hate it when once Halloween is over, thats when the Christmas Decorations go up, but they are up in the stores way before that.

They’ve even started doing Christmas in July stuff. Because our “official” Christmas is in Summer here (It’s Summer from December to January) They think because July is in Winter and most or the other countries have Christmas in Winter, that we should too. So not only do we have to deal with it around June and July now, it all comes back a mere few months later.

my family and my health.

I am thankful that I have all these wonderful friends!

Aborigine es never heard of Christmas before the white Man arrived!!I think Halloween and Thanks giving is similar to when i grew up in Germany Carnival .Its starts 11TH of 11, 11 a clock.You start become a Fool ,a Po per ,a King its all allowed in the month from November to February.Its great fun to be there and do it..

I am thankful that I’ve survived another year lol (well almost :P), and I’m thankful the Ravens are above .500

Im thankful for my mom being my mom, being alive and living this rocky but interesting live.

life*

thank you for the invite, and happy thanksgiving to you as well.. as for me, it was just another normal day… i havent celebrated thanksgiving or christmas in the last 5 years… just not the same with out my children here… i usually tend to sleep in on these days…
as for being thankful, i am thankful for a few good friends that i have.. (they know who they are :)…

Im thankful for the most loving, supportive, loyal and gorgeous boyfriend anyone could ever ask for. It’s difficult to believe someone like him exists.