Happy Turkey Day

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Aaah, Thanksgiving - holiday of all holidays. The American salute to eating and falling asleep in front of the tv watching football.

I love Thanksgiving. It was always the only big holiday that my mother had constant direct control over the food because Thanksgiving was always at our house. I have fond memories of Thankgivings at our old house in Brooklyn. We were the only ones in our family to not live in an apartment at that time so Thanksgiving and Christmas was always at our house. There were so many people in the house back then. It seems as the years went on despite the family getting larger due to new cousins arriving, the amount of people slowly dwindled.

Thanksgiving always meant awesome food - you know all the usual foods but my absolute favorite that eventually disappeared off the menu was freshly made giant ravioli and my Mom's sauce. Yeah - ravoli and Thankgiving? I didn't argue because it was damn good.

I used to get up to watch the Macy's Day Parade. I was totally enamoured with that parade. In High School I actually got to march in the Parade with the All-City H.S. Marching Band. Our song for the cameras was Michael Jackson's "The way you make me feel" - gee what a holiday song! What an experience that was.
After being in the parade twice I stopped watching it on tv but now that I'm becoming an old fart and getting nostalgic I like to watch the parade again. Weird thing is I've never been a spectator for the parade. When I was still living back in NYC every year my Dad would ask?, "Who's up for going to see the parade tomorrow?" He never had any takers - we were too lazy and didn't want to stand out in the cold. I used to love the Underdog balloon and hated when Santa showed up in the end because that meant that the parade was over. Damn central time zone. I'll have to be up at 8am if I want to watch the parade. It's not looking good for me to catch it from the beginning.