Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends :) I always wonder what my friends who are living abroad do on the typically celebrated Canadian holidays...do you just give the day a nod in recognition? Start a tradition of your own to pay homage to your roots? Completely forget until a blog entry like this reminds you that today is a holiday here?
I'm a lucky girl and get to go to two turkey dinners this weekend. The girls and I went to Jesse's family dinner yesterday at his aunt's house, and today we are headed to a friend of my mom's for dinner. Three cheers for a no cooking weekend for me!
Today is also a good day because Jesse comes home today after a weekend away. He went with his mom to BC to the rehab centre that his brother is at for a visit and to participate in the family counselling program that they run. The girls miss Jes like crazy and will be so happy to see their daddy tonight when we pick him up from the airport.
My no sugar pact that I made in my last post has failed miserably :( I picked a shitty weekend to start, that's for sure! So, I have decided to be gentle with myself and start tomorrow when the temptation of pumpkin pie has passed.
I'm listening to "Iris" by the GooGoo Dolls right now which always makes me nostalgic. Reminds me most of a slow dance that I shared with my best friend during the Aberhart grad dinner. I don't think I have shared my soul as deeply or as thoroughly with anyone else in the entire world as I have with you, L, and I miss you SO much. I'm getting teary just writing this now...gawd I'm such a sap! I need you back in my life in a more prominent way...you better come back to Canada woman and not stay in Peru forever!
Anyways, here is the song in case you haven't heard it before. The video is kinda craptastic, but the song is beautiful. Here's to the one who saw me and understood me even when I wanted no one to see me and loves me unconditionally always~~~
4 comments:
How did you get the video to post? I can never get it to work.
When you're viewing a video on YouTube, right underneath the video screen there are a bunch of options...one of which is Blog this Video. Click that and follow the directions!
hmmm, since u ask:
to me thanksgiving is kind of mixed. basically, since i don't really experience it as one of the major holidays in the year, and in my family, it was always just sort of so-so celebrated....usually, but maybe not exactly every year...i don't have roots, perse in thanksgiving.
as far as "my country" and my roots, etc go vis-a-vis thanksgiving, my mind is wishywashed out with too many recollections of american thanksgiving...so i can't help but think it's a kind of holiday that started as a celebration of the colonialization and rape of canada's first people and land. that said, i see it now as an opportunity to give thanks....or a reminder that i should be doing that all the time anyway.
so i try to remind people around me who might not have any idea that canadian thanksgiving is in a completely different month than the american one, and also i call home.
that's about it i guess.
did i answer your question???
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I never even noticed that 'blog this' option before. I'll be sure to look for it now. Thanks!
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