Leftovers

Thanksgiving 2008 Best and Worst


The Best Things:
1. Bocce ball with a foul-mouth, elderly Scottish woman
2. Stuffed belly video chatting with my girlfriend
3. Tales involving “poop” at Tone and Melissa’s house
4. Season one finale of Battlestar Galatica (shit, another TV show I’m hooked on)
5. Free parking…EVERYWHERE
6. Libba’s homemade California style stuffing
7. Camp fire nightcap
8. The middle of Chip Kidd’s “The Learners”
9. Not freezing my balls off outside a Target store at five in the morning in North Tonawanda, NY (everything else about last Thanksgiving I miss)
10. Eating until I am satisfied, not until I’m bloated


The Worst Things:
1. Blues band downtown that started play music at 7:00 a.m. (!)
2. Meal starting a little bit after 1:00 p.m.
3. Being on-call for work
4. Going into work the very next day
5. Only one helping of leftover food from the day before
6. Missing family, friends, and other loved ones across the country
7. Regretting not taking advantage of Black Friday and getting a new digital camera—after all, it’s not that cold here (read: it’s warm)
8. Down to my last loaf of Great Harvest pumpkin chocolate chip bread
9. The Rosie O’Donnell variety show
10. It’s a whole ‘nother year until Thanksgiving comes back around
Most Egregious Number: The Wal-Mart employee who was trampled to death by the crowd when he opened the doors on Black Friday. Jesus Christ!