Thanksgiving

Yeah, I know it has been a couple weeks since I lasted posted. Things have been kind of crazy at work and I really try not to be online when I am home because I am on it so much when I am at work.

Well Thanksgiving was awesome this year, and not because I had three T. dinners in less than a week. It was awesome because Christi and me went up to folks house Thursday for dinner, and it was the most relaxed and enjoyable Thanksgiving I have had since the two of us started dating. In 2000, my grandpa was diagnosed with prostate cancer a couple of months before Thanksgiving. So that year was good because I realized what it meant to have such an awesome grandpa and grandma, but sad and scary because we were affraid that the treatment may not work. That was the last relaxed Thanksgiving I had till this year, and it is amazing how several stressful years of holidays at my folks made me not want to be there for the holidays. What really amazed me is that I realized that the largest source of stress came from one person being there. I did not realize how much of a negative impact this person had been having on my family and how we spent the holidays till this year.

So is it bad that I was thankful that this individual made other plans this holiday and was not able to spend it with us? After all, I was very glad not to have answer questions to the third degree nor worry about my wife, brother nor sister being grilled as well. And I think my parents were also glad and relieved for this reason too.

Oh well, it was a good Thanksgiving and I am not going to feel bad for being happy that a certain was not there this Thanksgiving.