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Thanksgiving...definitely has grown to be one of my favorite holidays of the year. Our plans? Edgar is coming home from Penn State for the holiday. Mikey will be hanging out at home. Mom will be setting the dining table. Dad will be cooking our traditional Thanksgiving dinner...roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, homemade cranberry sauce, peas with melted butter, rolls, salad, and of course, the rice. (Can't forget the Filipino influence here!) Unlike the past few years, Thanksgiving has always been a 50/50 holiday, but this year, Hassan and I will be spending this Thanksgiving with my family 100%!!! We will be taking Murry with us to my parents house...he's apart of the family too! This year, I will be trying out a sweet potato dish from the Food Network. I'm not crazy about sweet potatoes, but when I saw this dish, it made me think twice.
For me Thanksgiving is not just the generic "Be Thankful" holiday, but a time to thank others and treat one another with kindness. The commerical below reminds me of my own philosophy...always look out for others and someone will look out for you. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Why am I the one to cry at the most ridiculous times? I have a soft spot for both sad and not-so-sad movies. Yes, I have cried like a baby in a movie theatre before. My brothers and Hassan remember it fondly...we were watching "A.I." Remember the one with Haley Joel Osment where he played a robot wanting to be a boy? I cried twice in that movie...what really did me in was when the cute little robot teddy bear was like, " You mean this David?" and pulled out a lock of his "mother's" hair so that they could clone her. I know, I know...sounds like nothing big, but it was enough to start the waterworks in the theaters. Waaaaahhhhh! I fell to pieces at that point in the theatre...the teddy bear was so cute and it was devoted to his friend, David. Waaaaaahhh! AND the fact that David would do anything to get his mother's undivided attention...to wait even hundreds of years for that darn Fairy Godmother at Coney Island to wake up and grant his one and only wish! Waaaaahhhhh! I was balling in the theatre and my brothers were so embarrassed. My eyes were swollen shut, my nose clogged up, and I was sniffling uncontrollably. I was a mess.
I think my issue is that I have a tendency to relate these fictitious movies to my own life.
There have been numerous movies where I have cried and cried...those typical romance movies, but there have been several not-so-typical movies where I've also cried such as:
1) Disney's "White Fang": I had a dog at the time, okay? Buster was the best dog in the world and in the same family as wolves. In the movie, White Fang was a very loyal wolf to his owner...a very young Ethan Hawke.
2) Disney's "A Land Before Time": Waaaahhhhh! I couldn't even finish the movie because I was crying. I found it very sad to think that these adorable baby dinosaurs were going to meet their fate, die, and eventually become extinct. Could NOT get over that fact.
3) Disney's "Little Mermaid": When Ariel said good-bye to her father and sisters. Never to see them again. To sacrifice all of that for the man that she loves. I was only in the 4th grade at the time when I saw it in theatres. I was delirious at the time...came down with pneumonia the same day after the movie. Waaaaahhhh!
4) And most recently, "The Butterfly Effect": I found that the ending was particularly disturbing. Killing himself?!?! While he was still in his mother's womb?!?!? How awful he must have felt to realize that HE was the one to screw up everyone's life including his mother, girlfriend, and best friend just because he was born? Sacrificing his own life so that his loved ones will have a better life? Waaaaahhhhh! Hassan had to leave me in the room alone because I was crying so loud.
5) And thanks to my brother, Mikey...watch this video and imagine me crying uncontrolably. You couldn't imagine the state I was in. Emotional overload. Cute animals with big eyes. Animals CRYING!?!?!? You have got to be kidding me...I could watch this over and over and still bring out the tears. Heck, all I have to do is actually think about this poor little animal. Where's my Murry? Murrrrryyyyyy!!!!!! I want to hug him and kiss him and hold him and pet him.
