How was your Thanksgiving?

[Fino]

At first, I was just going to make a thread asking if anyone else had a terrible Thanksgiving, because I don't feel like detailing how mine was and just wanted to know who could relate. Most or all the people I know in person enjoy Thanksgiving and holidays just like the people in advertisements. Sometimes I think maybe that's where they came from. Place of Origin: That One Commercial Where...

But once I started making it, I realized it'd be better to ask more generally to make it less negative and have it involve everyone! I realize a lot of people here aren't in the US, so you're involved by voting the last option!

Just to clarify, "Just like any other day," is meant as an option for someone who has completely ignored the holiday and continued as normal, which doesn't include people who live in places that don't celebrate it because that wouldn't involve any ignoring. There's a separate option for dem!

 

[Ezra]

It was alright. I used to not like a lot of the traditional items such as stuffing, yams, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie. But now I love all of it and ate until stuffed.

There's usually a Sunday family gathering between us and my dad's brothers families. So this wasn't that much different than the usual. Which is usually tolerable.

 

[SusanLR]

When it was just my parents and I, Thanksgiving could have been called a family togetherness day.
And a cook all day food appreciation day.
It was a happy day as we all worked together preparing the huge array of food, then the pleasure of eating it. Good memories, but, it's over now.
Now it is just like any other day to me, but, the food thing is always a big deal for the guy I live with.

This Thanksgiving though was the worst I've ever experienced because I had a virus that gave me a headache and sinus problems which upset my Meniere's and woke up with vertigo.
So much for a meal.
Ended up with a pot of Mac n' Cheese with bacon crumbles.

Even though I was so dizzy I could barely walk, he wanted to go to a store to redeem our $10.00
gift cards---Black Friday began 5 pm on Thanksgiving.
An hour wait on line to the cashier because he wanted a graphic tee with an old car on it.
I got a pack of 8 athletic socks and a tee.

Maybe Friday, if the vertigo is gone....Turkey dinner somewhere.

 

[sidd851]

Hey, Fino.

Just another day, but with the TG tag.

I spent the day in conversation by PM and researching on the interwebs(which my next, soon, thread will elaborate on).

My roommate had to work 2-10pm, so around 4:30-ish pm(ugh) I started making
a traditional-i-i-i-sh meal.

I'm somewhat isolated, don't speak to most of my family, and so I tend to take satisfaction by doing for others.
I've known my roommate for a very short time, but knew enough that she would be in much the same circumstance.
Sooo...
I made the whole meal, AND A CAKE!, and we sat down to eat it around 11:00pm, Lol.

All in all, it was satisfying for me, and pleasurable to do something for another.
I find that I enjoy doing for others, moreso than I enjoy doing for myself, so all in all,
eyeah-eyeah-eyeah...
it was a good day.

 

[Sherlock77]

My Thanksgiving was last month, here in Canada... As I recall it was rather quiet, my family is quite small and we didn't have a big function...

 

[clg114]

We have five adult kids, who have their own families. So every year my wife and I get invited to one of the kids house for Thanksgiving dinner. There is always lots of food and I always eat to much, even though my wife reminds me not to. There are always lots of grandkids and greatgrandkids to see and in some cases, relatives from out of town that we do not see very often. It is a large gathering of people, but when it is family it is OK. We had a good time.

 

[Pats]

I spent the day, as I said I would - recovering from the grandkids sleepover. I was invited places but declined. Felt kind of guilty for declining my daughter in laws family. They include me in all their family things and I love them like my own family. But my family is quiet, which is what I'm used to. I do have a hard time when I go over to my DIL's family and always drive myself because I can't stay too long. They are loud talkers and non-stop talkers and after a while it's too much. Especially if I try to keep up with conversation because everyone of them has conversations to themselves. Seriously - one is talking about her daughters friends and telling the rest of the family what happened last night. The next sentence if from another sister who is talking about work stuff. Then the mom is talking about something totally different - so you actually have multiple subjects being said and no one is listening to the others, just telling their own things. But that's not why I didn't go. lol
I was still exhausted from the sleepover. I hurt all over. @SusanLR - I was also feeling dizzy. And I get these head jolts that are from my neck that feels like an electric shock zapping through my head and sounds like a quacking sound and it would happen every time I moved my neck a certain way - it can be miserable. And my neck must have been more inflamed than usual because, even with the medicine I take to control it, the trigeminal neuralgia was acting up - it's like severe pins and needles over the left side of my face, topped off with a combined ear/tooth ache (from the nerve damage).
So my day was quiet and a typical day.
My daughter in law came down and I didn't really get to finish this. lol I got a group Thanksgiving text from my 2 sisters and my brother, each of them commenting on their day and sending greetings. I didn't respond because it was the group and they all know I have cut all ties with my brother - don't want to hear from him and not responding to a group text with him in it - I feel like it's their way of getting us speaking. My attitude was if you want to get a response, say something to me individually. ???

 

[Gritches]

Just like any other day. Went nowhere, did nothing, talked to nobody. I had the opportunity to go somewhere, but I didn't.

It was glorious

 

[Fino]

I'll have to go to a BPD forum to find someone to relate to for this one. Those places are depressing!

My family ignores each other for the most part throughout the year but feels obligated to spend the entire day around each other for holidays and seem to think it makes them good people for doing so, but they also don't alter their behavior during that time. 99% of it being terrible was because of my obviously mentally ill brother, who refuses treatment because psychology is voodoo or something, and our co-dependent mother that engages, resists, and supports him all at once.

I avoided involvement as much as possible but just hearing it and being nearby caused me to eventually dissociate and self-harm.

At least it's over now!

Until Christmas!

 

[tlc]

My mom had the day off so she stayed at home with me and made a mini dinner with everything pureed so I could eat it. And watched Planes Trains & Automobiles, my Thanksgiving must-see classic. She also got my computer moved out of the cold basement and I hooked it back up. I showed her how to run the snowblower and she snowblowed my driveway, she said it was fun. My friend stopped over and got the couch out of my trailer so I could take it today and get pellets. Unfortunately even though I barely did anything, I still overdid it because today I'm more sore than when I got out out of the hospital. Hopefully taking it extremely easy the next few days will make me ok to go back to work Monday.

 

[GrownupGirl]

Thanksgiving is in October here in Canada. This is only the 5,467th time I've mentioned it. So I chose that it was like any other day, although Thanksgiving is celebrated here.
Interesting how the US president pardons turkeys on the holiday each year. They must be the only Americans he has actually kept from becoming victims of gun violence.

 

[Book]

I had Spaghetti O's.

Book

 

[Mattymatt]

I honestly wished I had just stayed home and drank beer.

 

[Pats]

 

[tducey]

Option 5. We celebrate Thanksgiving in October here in Canada and it isn't celebrated as big here as it is in the U.S.

 

[TempeFan]

I honestly wished I had just stayed home and drank beer.

We know that feeling. We get it every year. This year we actually did it! Thats why I had to answer the poll "The best I've ever had." After formally being thrown out of the clan and shunned all year we were shocked to get a family invite, which we wisely declined. We just couldn't see the point of traveling all that way to please people who have always openly hated us, when we have everything we love right here at home. We love to cook. We love to eat. We love to herd cats. We love to cuddle up snuggly warm on the sofa and watch entertaining old TV shows. We had also already bought all the food on @Pats plate - except whatever that is between the rolls and the mashed potatoes. What is that??? We had corn instead. I don't eat mashed potatoes without corn on top.

 

[Pats]

We know that feeling. We get it every year. This year we actually did it! Thats why I had to answer the poll "The best I've ever had." After formally being thrown out of the clan and shunned all year we were shocked to get a family invite, which we wisely declined. We just couldn't see the point of traveling all that way to please people who have always openly hated us, when we have everything we love right here at home. We love to cook. We love to eat. We love to herd cats. We love to cuddle up snuggly warm on the sofa and watch entertaining old TV shows. We had also already bought all the food on @Pats plate - except whatever that is between the rolls and the mashed potatoes. What is that??? We had corn instead. I don't eat mashed potatoes without corn on top.

sweet potato casserole?

 

[SusanLR]

I hurt all over. @SusanLR - I was also feeling dizzy. And I get these head jolts that are from my neck that feels like an electric shock zapping through my head and sounds like a quacking sound and it would happen every time I moved my neck a certain way

Mentioning hurting all over and feeling dizzy: I have Fibromyalgia and Menieres.
Stress and axiety can trigger these things into a full blown attack.
They are both conditions of over active and faulty nerve transmissions.
Vasopressin a hormone our body secretes when highly emotionally charged constricts
blood flow and worsens these conditions until you take time to relax it out.
There are several immune disorders that the body's chemistry degenerates from emotions.
Wonder if this is what you could be experiencing?
I know I do.

 

[Pats]

Mentioning hurting all over and feeling dizzy: I have Fibromyalgia and Menieres.
Stress and axiety can trigger these things into a full blown attack.
They are both conditions of over active and faulty nerve transmissions.
Vasopressin a hormone our body secretes when highly emotionally charged constricts
blood flow and worsens these conditions until you take time to relax it out.
There are several immune disorders that the body's chemistry degenerates from emotions.
Wonder if this is what you could be experiencing?
I know I do.

No, I know what mine is. Arthritis in back, hands and feet and hip. The head stuff comes from my neck - degenerative disk, herniated disks and bone spurs. One of the affected nerves is the trigeminal nerve which leads to the face and the next one down, I think, is the vagal nerve which can cause you to pass out if you press it just right. When there's inflammation these nerves are more compressed and there ya go. I take an anti-seizure medication that helps a lot by slowing nerve impulses, but sometimes I've done too much (or after crocheting too long) there's more inflammation and the medicines are not quite enough to control it.
Stress and anxiety, I'm sure don't help with it, either.
Sorry, you have all your stuff going on, too. Not fun getting old, is it? (Oh, we're the same age) I was so depressed yesterday because I know this stuff will never get better, but only worse - including the tinnitus, which sometimes I just feel like I can't take any more.

 

[Mia]

but sometimes I've done too much (or after crocheting too long) there's more inflammation and the medicines are not quite enough to control it.

Do a lot of things so that I don't have to take OTC's like NSAIDS for the inflammation with rheumatoid arthritis in my hands and knees and ankles. But sometimes I have to take them, like yesterday after I shoveled off about a foot of ice and snow from the garage roof.

Drink teas with ginger and cinnamon and turmeric and black pepper, it helps for a few hours afterward. Take epsom salt baths, every other day. Helps too to eat food with cayenne and or other mildly hot red peppers. If your stomach can handle it. My Mom used to coat her hands in layers of warm beeswax when it was really bad, it's soothing but it doesn't alleviate it for long.