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aurillia

Thanksgiving and gratuitous cat photos

Oct 12, 2009 09:08

HAPPY BIRTHDAY miyyu!!!
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Comments 14

_ocelott_ October 12 2009, 18:02:35 UTC

I'm pretty sure we just stole the Americans' Thanksgiving and moved it ahead to accomodate our earlier harvest.

aurillia October 13 2009, 00:49:25 UTC

I honestly wouldn't be surprised, but I'd like to think there was something special about it!

_ocelott_ October 13 2009, 05:15:59 UTC

And it turns out we do have an event! There are a few different stories, so apparently lots of reasons to be thankful this time of year.

aurillia October 13 2009, 12:40:13 UTC

I like this: "The theme of the Thanksgiving holiday also changed each year to reflect an important event to be thankful for." Why don't we do that anymore? (Well, I guess families do, independent of each other, which is fair enough, but it does sound like something that could unite people across country.)

firefred October 12 2009, 21:24:04 UTC

Love the cat pics! Mil = mother-in-law?
It's Columbus day here. Big deal. All it means is that there was no mail service :(

aurillia October 13 2009, 00:51:10 UTC

Yeah, mother-in-law. I'm not technically married, "just" common-law or de facto as we say back home, but as far as I'm concerned I am, so she is. If that makes sense.

Columbus day. Exciting. Do they celebrate what a scam he was? ;)

miyyu October 12 2009, 21:48:40 UTC

Thanks for the birthday wishes! The icon is perfect. :)

I want to pick up and squeeze all your cats! They are so damn cute!

aurillia October 13 2009, 00:51:53 UTC

:D I thought it was apt!

They are tempting aren't they?! I don't get to cuddle them often because of my allergies, but it's always so nice to get a hug from them :)

bookwormwhit October 13 2009, 01:29:48 UTC

The cat pictures are adorable! Happy Thanksgiving to you as well.

aurillia October 13 2009, 12:40:55 UTC

Happy Thanksgiving! I know I whine a bit but it was a pretty good dinner - not the food, but other stuff ;)

ext_84342 October 15 2009, 06:21:33 UTC

Damn that Cotton for being so stinking cute!!!! :D

It's a lovely one of Gaia too.

From what I understand it's giving thanks for the harvest, which would mean that we'd celebrate it in April I suppose. Which would collide with Easter from time to time, which is why I reckon we don't do it. Who knows......

Tell Adam's Mum to stuff her chicken up her arse!! I know you never would though. :)

aurillia October 15 2009, 15:05:48 UTC

Anna (above) pointed me in the direction of Wiki which says that the indigenous people did offer thanks for the harvest, but that the colonial settlers sporadically used it to give thanks for various different things, and that for a long time something new was "thanked" each year - a practice that they don't do anymore. And it seemed to say that it was an older tradition than the colonial American one - but the indigenous people throughout the continent seemed to practice it as giving thanks for the harvest.

Yeah no I didn't, and everything's always very nice and friendly in person. She just tends to take it out on Adam over the phone, which is hardly fair.

ext_84342 October 16 2009, 11:42:21 UTC

I can't handle it when people can't confront their problems face to face. But I think Adam's Mum needs to confront herself first.

Again, we'll know it'll never happen.... although I do live in hope, maybe coming to the wedding, pulling her out of her comfort zone might open her eyes a little.

aurillia October 16 2009, 15:23:30 UTC

I'm sending you an email - my reply got too personal for this space!