BONUS DOSE: Giving Thanks, and the End of an Era.

Hello everyone, I hope that all of your Thanksgivings were safe, fun, and bountiful. I know that mine was a little boring, but generally filled with good food and good family-- so I'll take it. Basically, any day that starts out with turkey at grandma's and ends with pizza at my sister's is solid on all levels.

And lucky me-- I got Thanksgiving: The Sequel Saturday night Knor Acres, since me mudda worked Thursday, and all. Which meant MORE TURKEY. MORE PENNY. and MORE DRINKIN' IN WESTMORELAND COUNTY WITH THE KLIQ. Which, honestly, are three of my favouritest things. Although Saturday fun did put me even further behind on this whole "Term Paper due Tuesday" thing. Luckily, however, I'm still as good at this stuff now as I was three years ago~ A Liberal Arts Educumacation: I GOT IT!

Woah.. check it out-- I used a tilda. I think the North American world needs a little more tilda, so I'm going to set out to bring the tilda-ruckus. Digression over.

So yeah, it's been an interesting TGiving Break. Because, folks, yesterday was officially the End of an Era. Adam Boyce Kupchelitis, my heterosexual life partner, has moved out. He's headed back to dear old Huntingdon and he continues to await his secuirty clearance, and he is already supremely missed. It's going to take a few days, and some free time, for me to put together some sort of Adam&Adam sapfest retrospective. You probably won't get to read it until it sinks in that he's actually gone, and that I probably won't live with him again until I get disbarred and move into his basement as an alcoholic, disgraced shell of my former self. At least the junior-Kuppers will have fun playing Nintendo 256, or whatever it is by then, with Dear Ol' Uncle Adam! In the meantime, some more seasonal thoughts:

So here we go, some stuff I'm thankful for:

I'm thankful that I got to play X-Men Legends with my baby brother, Gooder, on Tgiving. We kicked monster ass, and I finally got to truely geek out with someone while playing.

I'm thankful that Adina invited Gooder and I over to her house. "Her" house is really the house we all grew up in, but she has surely made it her home. My super-badass bro-in-law Chris is the bees' knees, and we had a good time watching Mission:Impossible, drinking milkshakes, and playing board games. It was kind of creepy, though, to realize we were sans parents and at my sister's HOUSE on a holiday. It was like, "hello, next fifty years." I actually found myself picturing the house full of wives and kids. Like I said-- creepy.

I'm thankful that Gooder dropped back to pass that fateful day in the mid-'90s, threw into triple coverage in the endzone, and lost the Blue Cup to the Geezer team. I'm not thankful that we lost. I'm just thankful that I can make fun of him for it, and never let him live it down (the only kids' Thanksgiving Day loss... EVER.).

I'm thankful that my folks are awesome, and that my mom cooked another turkey. She worked Thursday, and is making a turkey for no other reason than her sense of duty. And my dad...well, he's just awesome in his own special way.

I'm thankful that Penny's still alive and kicking, though she's pushing 11.

I'm thankful that "sweet potato pudding" is the new black.

I'm thankful that I finally downloaded myself an MP3 of "Riders of Rohan" 'cause it's freakin' GORGEOUS.

I'm also thankful for all the amazing friends I've got, all over this crazy map. And I'm thankful that I get to share many of my irrelevances with yinz here in the Kingdom. I'm also thankful for daffodils, pine tar, and standard transmissions. I fear a world where these things don't exist.

I'm thankful for the year that was, despite some shallow lowpoints, there have certainly been a fair share of highlights. I'm thankful for Rob Mackowiak, Hines Ward, and the 10 NFL teams that passed on Big Ben.

I'm thankful for important stuff, like family, and not losing anyone this year. I'm thankful that life goes on, despite the fact I have no idea where it's going. I'm thankful for all the beauty in this world among so much chaos, like starry nights and and girls with big beautiful eyes.

I'm also thankful for every time I've seen Orion's belt, the Pittsburgh Skyline from the Hot Metal Bridge, and a paycheck from BSH.

Finally, I'm thankful music, sports, food, air, people, movies, comics, animals, planets, and this one big happy f*cked up thing we call the "universe." Yeah-- that should pretty much cover it all.

Be good to each other, I'll be posting later today, I'm sure.
Rules Tuesday!
-apk