Well Turkey day has come and gone and now Christmas is looming over our shoulder. Luckily we don't care cause we're Jewish and already finishing up Chanukkah. Still I felt a write up of our past thanksgiving was still in order.
This year's thanksgiving is my lowest count of turkey day meals I've had since I've started counting. I believe the number this year is 3. That's not to say it was a bad one or that I'm not as loved as all the previous years it's just that this year has been more adult than every other year. By that I mean I had a baby with me.
No, it wasn't a spawn of my own, "Seester" was in town with her hubby and child. I got to spend an entire Thanksgiving weekend with them and I was so happy to be able to. It's sad that I wasn't able to see a lot of other people but hopefully they'd understand that driving for an hour with an unhappy baby makes for a miserable time for everybody. So, sorry folks if I didn't get to see you this year for turkey and such but I'm blaming the baby and she's still a bit too cute for you to be mad at.
The person I do kind of feel sorry for though was Seester's hubby "Toddles." Why? Because he came down here, wasn't able to spend turkey day with any of his folks and was kind of thrown into "Chinese Family World." Now CFW can be like any ethnic family gathering; we're loud, we make you eat too much, we bicker then we make up. The only real differences are two things. We do this all in Chinese or broken english and we actually prefer that most people stay in the dark about it.
I would say more but then it wouldn't be very Chinese of me to do so. That and the writing of this has taken entirely too long and anything funny or any clever way to deliver my points across have been lost due to my very siv-like memory. So here are my points:
1) chinese people tend to group together and really don't give a damn if you feel like you belong or not. They just aren't that welcoming of other people and tend to be very happy to stay that way.
2) I have family now who's not very chinese at all and I feel sorry for them when they get thrown into CFW.
3) This is to show that I understand why it sucks. I don't know how much it sucks but I do know THAT is sucks. As of right now I don't have any solutions for the problem other than taking no part in the conversations and just sit there and play translator.
4) Oh I wanted to put up this link too to show that there's yet more evidence that show how much (not why) we are crazy.
5) I wanted to write this to get it out of the way because I REALLY wanted to write about recent developments on wedding planning. But that'll come later.
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