Happy Thanksgiving!

In which Americans gather together with their families and carry on the great American tradition of putting together a great big meal and eventually reenacting a personalized version of this scene:

My mom always says this movie is like documentary footage of our holidays in action. I ... can't really argue that.

What I'm thankful for this year:

-- I'm this close to getting published.
-- I have a full-time job again!
-- My car is paid off as of this week.
-- I have lots of great friends.
-- Smirnoff exists.
-- I have pumpkin pie smidgens and white chocolates with peppermint cream inside.
-- I'm going to see 2012 again tomorrow!

That's more than enough. :D

Excuse me, be right back, dying of laughter.

So I've been catching up on Christian and Olli while I write and as those of you who follow it might know, Andi (who was in the first couple of YouTube clips before leaving) has come back. Anyway, they're celebrating his return with a party at the apartment the other day and his reaction to Olli greeting Christian upon his arrival is priceless:

I just can't even imagine being THAT guy, all, "Christian and Olli are kissing?!" Way to be out of the loop, dude. Heeeee.

Random Thanksgiving bits

-- Apparently my seventeen-year-old cousin, who has dyed her hair black and now looks (by the majority of my family's assessment) like Violet from The Incredibles, has a lip piercing. Which her friend did for her at home instead of her getting it done by a professional. Yeah, okay.

-- I was sitting between my dad and uncle while they watched the Cowboys game and I screwed around on the internet waiting to leave, and when I put on Christian/Olli videos to kill time, both of them immediately got interested when the video cut to a scene of Christian and Olli making out, but only because they saw the subtitles and found it hilarious I was hooked on a German soap opera. They didn't really give a damn about the two hot guys on my computer sticking their tongues down each other's throats.

-- I showed my other cousin the Muppet "Bohemian Rhapsody", which made him laugh.

-- Aaaaand nobody managed to say anything uncomfortably racist, at least not while I was around, which was only half of the night since I spent most of it in another part of the house attempting to write while my painkillers started to wear off and my tooth started to throb.