{"id":1424,"date":"2009-11-29T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2009\/11\/a-thanksgiving-recap\/"},"modified":"2017-01-26T22:39:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T03:39:48","slug":"a-thanksgiving-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2009\/11\/a-thanksgiving-recap.html","title":{"rendered":"a thanksgiving recap&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026 2:00 pm Wednesday afternoon arrived at the familia\u2019s, chaos ensues.<\/p>\n<p>2:05 pm begin drinking.<br>5:00 pm more guests arrive, more drinking<br>6:00 pm festivities in full swing, beer run<br>7:00 pm take out chinese dinner<br>8:00 pm card games, drinking games<br>10:00 pm completely inebriated, let\u2019s go grocery shopping!<br>10:45 pm almost thrown out of Food Lion, MVP card surrender to store manager. BANNED!<br>11:00 pm return home with enough banana pudding ingredients to feed an army<br>12:15 am sleeping it off<\/p>\n<p>8:30 am Thanksgiving morning, up and dressed. My hair even hurts. <br>9:00 am start cooking<br>10:30 am decide I\u2019ve been awake long enough, start drinking<br>12:00 pm the rest of the familia waits till noon to start drinking, pretending to be proper. I have no such qualms.<br>1:00 pm salsa and reggaeton music comes on, drunk kitchen dancing ensues. <br>1:30 pm phone calls to out of town family and friends, slurring on the phone.<br>2:30 pm lost my shoes<br>3:00 pm placing bets to see which idiot standing by the deep fryer propane tank smoking cigars blows up first. <br>4:15 pm everyone still alive, wives suspiciously disappointed. <br>4:30 pm first family fight over place settings, nothing is thrown<br>4:45 pm second fight about too many cooks in the kitchen, wooden spoon thrown<br>5:00 pm third fight about eating all the food before dinner is served, men banished from kitchen, children sent outside.<br>5:45 pm boys set fire to front porch and say it was a boy scout project<br>5:46 pm ring leader spanked mercilessly<br>6:00 pm DINNER!<br>6:01 pm giving thanks to God for our marvelous one of a kind family.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/18613340-5137073757882695049?l=thecrescat.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 2:00 pm Wednesday afternoon arrived at the familia\u2019s, chaos ensues. 2:05 pm begin drinking.5:00 pm more guests arrive, more drinking6:00 pm festivities in full swing, beer run7:00 pm take out chinese dinner8:00 pm card games, drinking games10:00 pm completely inebriated, let\u2019s go grocery shopping!10:45 pm almost thrown out of Food Lion, MVP card surrender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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