Thanksgiving Day

Today is Thanksgiving Day in America and I am stuck here in Canada at work and hungry. Thanksgiving in Canada was on October 8^th and somewhere in-between October 9^th and today I wish I had moved to the states so I could get today off. For those of you who think I’m being unreasonable I can almost pinky promise you that if I took two Thanksgiving breaks it wouldn’t be for the day off to relaxing or the amazing food I would stuff my stomach with. It would be a second chance for me to re-state and re-word what I am thankful for. Regrettably my speech didn’t go so well at this year’s family dinner and I would like a do-over. Each year my family goes around the table saying what they are thankful for in a few short sentences. My father started it off with the usual, “I’m thankful for my family and good health of all our loved ones” and everyone repeats the same phrase with a little bit of words mixed up so they sound original. I decided that it would be a good idea to say something different so I started looking around the room and thinking hard of what to say because my turn was coming up quickly. Unfortunately the last thing my eye’s looked at was my new puppy on the floor eating one of my slippers so I said, “I am thankful for my puppy and my parents should be too because she makes me not want to have kids for a very long time.” I really thought it would be a good thing to say since I am very young, living at home and in-between men. Just my luck apparently everyone’s hearing stopped working at the same time and they all missed the part where I said ‘not’ and thought I said I did want to have kids. No one informed me of what they had heard until the drive home when my sister’s boyfriend said, “So let’s talk about that shocking comment Alana made at dinner.” That will be the last Thanksgiving I try to be unique with my speech.