Thanksgiving 2009

Holidays aren’t my best childhood memories, not saying I didn’t love what I had, but there was always a lot of alcohol involved, and I don’t have a big family or any of those big gatherings most people seem to have. So when it comes to having a good thanksgiving, christmas, new years, etc..I’m not that hard to please. Tonight may very well have been the best thanksgiving I’ve ever had. I woke up to 10 missed calls from Tyler and went and picked him up and drove towards Baltimore. Dinner was at his aunts house and there was a TON of people- family he didn’t even know. And I really enjoyed getting to enjoy a real holiday family dinner for the first time, just the way you imagine them. I was so thankful for being welcomed into their home, and for a real home-cooked meal. It’s funny how amazing something like that can seem when you don’t see it very much anymore. We stayed for about 2 hours, and drove back to Delaware. We hung out at his house for awhile, and then I went over to Garrett’s when he got off work. He wanted to find a cool recipe to cook, so we found a vegan ‘chicken’ pasta pesto recipe that looked good online and went in search of an open grocery store, we ended up at wal-mart, only to realize he had lost the list of food we needed hahah. It didn’t matter, nothing mattered, everything tonight just felt so good. I was geniunely happy for the first time in weeks. Plus Garrett felt like my friend again, something I constantly struggle with when we go awhile without talking. He felt like the best friend I had last March, I could go on about how happy this makes me forever. Anyways, we bullshitted our way through what we thought we needed and went back to his place and put together our own recipe instead. We danced around his kitchen cooking and blasting Morrisey and I couldn’t stop smiling. Kyle came over eventually and we ate, watched Food Inc, and played Bullshit until 2 am. I love little nights like this more than anything. I also love that I’m a 19 year old girl, and they’re two boys-20 and 17, and we’d rather sit around sober doing things like this than being out at a party or drinking or any of that bullshit. I’m so happy I have people like this in my life. I’m thankful I had a good holiday, despite whether it should be a holiday or not, any day glorified as a time to spend with family or loved ones- I want to be doing just that, and today that’s what I did.