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Saturday, November 27, 2004
Happy Belated Thanksgiving!
I hope everyone had a safe and fun holiday. No burned down houses or injuries or anything else here!
This year was an interesting turkey day that’s for sure. First off my GF, who’s in New York City this fall, made a surprise visit home to her family. Two weeks earlier when I came to visit her we decided she should come home for the holiday. She hasn’t seen her family since August and we both knew it would be a good idea to come home.
So, with my help we got her a plane ticket home for that Monday morning before T-Day. She ended up telling her father she was coming home because he kept bugging her to come home and she was feeling bad lying to him but rest of the family was in the dark. Come Monday I drove up to the airport and picked her up. She hung out at my place for the afternoon. Dinner time came around and her father took the family out for dinner. Little did they know that we would be there waiting for them at the restaurant.
Suffice to say the family was surprised and quite happy to have her home.
On Thanksgiving I went to her family’s get-together. I drove across the state to the festivities that were at my GF’s uncle Al’s place.
There were several rather interesting coincidences that I noticed. First off we are both named Al. Next we are both into computers. He actually helped setup the original Computer Science curriculum at the same college I graduated from. He flies airplanes and I thought about getting my pilots license. I’ve just never had the money to go do it. Finally, ok this one is a bit of a stretch I admit but I used to go to Kent State University. At the turnpike exit you get off of there’s a road, route 43, you normally drive south about six miles to get to the city of Kent, Ohio. Well if you drive north about 10 miles you get to her uncle’s house.
The food was great. Ok, I’ll admit I was a bit disappointed with it. Not to say the food was bad. Not by any means at all! It was good but just not what I’m used to. It was just fancier. At my family’s Thanksgiving it’s all about simple comfort foods. Dressing, mashed potatoes and desserts out the wazoo!
It doesn’t really matter. The point of going to my GF’s dinner wasn’t about the food. It was about meeting her extended family and spending more time with her immediate family. It’s the way I show my intentions of where the relationship with my GF will go. For me I wanted to show that I believe that our relationship is serious. It’s not just some casual dating thing; we are a couple that loves each other and see a long future together.
I handled all the flight arrangements and transportation to get her home in order to make her and her family happy. I was willing to sacrifice spending the holiday with my family in order to be with them. These are things someone does for someone they love and hopefully they will start to see this is the case.
So, anyhoo I took her back to the airport Friday morning so she’s back in NYC again. I’m just spending the weekend relaxing and chilling out. Work start early Monday and I know we’re going to be pounded. UPS shut down Wednesday so there’s going to be a backlog of packages to move from the four day break.
I can’t wait! NOT!
on 11/27/2004 at 05:07 PM