People Wonder Why

America is always griping, and being griped about being fat.

But we all know the real reason why we're such an obese country.   It's our holiday habits!!

Thanksgiving we make it an annual thing to gorge on food, and for the next couple of days we do nothing but eat leftovers of the food we didn't have room to consume.  It's crazy.

I bet I've gained like 5 pounds from one day of eating during this holiday, and of course I scold myself, but hey I've been working out.

Anyways, I just wanted to throw that thought out there.  Europeans are so lucky.

When We See Lights

Ok, so I know it's just Thanksgiving, and not even remotely near Christmas, but seeing all the lights outside inspired me to write about my annual light-seeing experiences with my family.

Also, I didn't know if I'd be able to post today, so I decided to type something up just in case.

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Every year around Christmas time my family has this thing where we all pile up into the car and drive to the rich neighborhoods to see fancy lights. Now, we do this EVERY year. We also make a annual trip to Santa Land, which is basically a Big Christmas Drive Through light show.

Well, whenever we visit the rich neighborhoods usually almost all the houses have lights, and if they do have lights, most of the time they're very extravagant.

We pass by a house with lit up reindeers, and there is a collective sound of "Oooh! Ahhh! So pretty!" from my sisters, and the usual response from my dad which really isn't a response to the lights, but my dad just checking to make sure our eyes are glued to the windows. "Do you guys see that, are you looking Stephanie? No? Well, someone lift her up so she can see the lights!"

And we pass another six houses that have various Nativity scenes, or Santas, or Giant snow globes and penguins; Again, we get the collective "Oooh! Ahhh! So pretty!"

Then we drive up to a house that is completly dark, and my dad says his ever so predictable, "GDamn, looks like someone's a Jew this year." line.

As we drive away, my sister looks up at me and whispers, "Hey Lizzi, isn't Daddy part Jew?"

And I reply, "Yeah, that's why we never put up lights."

Thanks for Giving me Candy

So today I spent most of the day at my grandma's house making food and whatnot for the upcoming holiday.

Jeezus, I will be so fat at the end of tomorrow. I have to eat two large Thanksgiving meals in one day. Fun Fun for my belly!

The thing that sucks about living in East Texas is that everyone is a Paula Dean wannabe so they automatically stick about 5 sticks of butter in everything we make, so I'll either gain five pounds, or have a heart attack.

Hehe, my grandparents crack me up! Earlier today we ate dinner at a tiny local Restaurant and some little scene kid comes out of the smoking section to ask for some pecan pie and all of a sudden we hear this sound come out of his butt at full blast:



And it starts at the 30 second mark of the song, which of course scared my papa half to death, and I had to calm him down and tell him that it was just a ring tone, and not a possesed demon trying to claw it's way out of this little scene kids' skinny jeans.

Haha fun times. Anyways, I certainly hope everyone has a safe holiday.... seriously. I had to spend last Thanksgiving in a hospital due to two giant 18 wheelers, and a bruised liver. Not fun. BE SAFE.

Joy in the morning

Ok, so I usually don't blog so early in the morning, but today is special.  Why?

Because I've discovered TweetDeck.  Basically, it's just another App for Twitter, but I get to customize it and make it look pretty.  Or, well I customize the colors to match my desktop, which in turn makes me think it's pretty.

Anyways, in other news today I'm going to be a good Samaritan by volunteering to put canned food into gift baskets for the less fortunate this year.  I feel all happy inside knowing that I'm going to be helping people out this Thanksgiving.

And of course, some of my friends and family have been harassing me about the fact that I'm organizing food for so called 'lazy people', but I always try to keep in mind that those 'lazy people' have families that need to eat.  No child should go without a meal because their parents were too 'lazy'.

Also, I get to hang out with Art Club and friends while volunteering, which of course is an extra plus.