Hokie Bird Holiday!

I cannot wait for thanksgiving! !! ! I’m sure the same goes to you guys too! I just can’t wait to be home in my house for more than two nights with my family. And I’m so excited to live my old life with high school friends for a week. It’s going to be so comforting and I will be completely ecstatic to see my best friend Cate.

Cate and I have been going to school together since first grade and we became best friends in seventh grade. Everyone else that went to our school lived a good twenty minutes away, but Cate lived across the golf course fairway; a short five minute walk. Therefore we did everything together, we drove to school and sports practices together, watched tv together, and most of all ate lots and lots of ice cream and junk food together. One of us would go to the other’s house every day and now it’s been nearly four months since we’ve seen each other! Our reunion is going to be epic. It will be so nice to be around people that I can completely 100% be myself around, I have friends here I like a lot but, it’s just different.

With regards to my family though I miss them so much more than anything. It’s weird coming home from here though because, I feel like a guest in my own house. I guess I sort of am, it’s weird growing up yeah? It’s weird how much more thanksgiving means to me this year. I’ve never really been that excited for it-only thankful for the break from school. Now the holiday offers a time for me to spend time with my family something that wouldn’t happen if the holiday didn’t exist. I know from now on one of the few times I’ll get to see my family through the school year is Thanksgiving. I’m glad holidays like this exist because they truly do bring people together and I never understood that until this year.

There’s some quotation that says something to the extent of “absence makes the heart go fonder” or something like that and it truly does. I always got along really well with my parents and we’re all really close but toward the end of the year I couldn’t wait to leave them and go to school. Now I just feel like I’m away from two of my best friends, haha I know cheesy but my parents and I did everything together.

I also can’t wait to help my parents cook and bake pies and everything. I loved baking and cooking. I used to make dinner for my parents all the time and I was the head of baking club at school, so I’m excited to all that stuff again. Ah just being in my house! I’m so excited it!

The other thing is my mom and I are trying to plan a big birthday for my Dad. I had the idea when my parents came up for parents weekend. We went to the cascades and my Dad was taking pictures like he always does and somehow I just came up for a birthday idea. So my Dad is obsessed with photography and has been ever since he was little. As a result of this our entire house is filled with his photos, there are boxes of them in our basements, and thousands of them in our computers. So my idea was to create kind of a gallery opening style party for him. I want to find somewhere downtown to have it, I was looking for an empty gallery but so far I haven’t been able to find anywhere. But there are party venues downtown so I might try one of those. Anyway the game plan is to pick out a bunch of my dad’s photos and get them all printed, matted, and clustered and display them in this “gallery”. Then we want to invite a whole bunch of his friends and family to the gallery at night and have a cocktail and appetizer thing going on. So hopefully he’ll enjoy that but, I’ll be planning that over break. It’s going to be awesome planning it too because, that’s my dream job is to event plan and this will be my first stab at it! Hehehehe!

In other news though I think our holidays are going to be a little more mundane than usually because my great uncle just passed away last weekend. My mom just drove he mom up to Buffalo New York today to go to the funeral. She’s not coming back until Tuesday which is also sad because I won’t be able to see her right away when I see her. And then both my Dad’s parents went into the hospital two weeks ago and they’re still there and not doing so well, so my poor Dad is miserable. I’m trying to think of a lot of things to do to try and cheer him up but there isn’t that much I can do because they’ll still be in the hospital. I love my grandparents a lot but I feel much worse for my Dad, which is the saddest part. Hopefully they’ll get better though both of them are always like the little engine that could, they always seem to withstand everything.

Nonetheless I’m sure thanksgiving will be a great holiday as always. Just having my brother, my parents, and I all together always makes everything better. My brother too haha I almost forgot about him. It’s so weird how much better we get along now that I’m in college. He’s a junior in high school this year so he’s younger. I think just because we aren’t around each other all the time we’re not at each other’s throats. The main thing too is that we don’t have to drive to school together and that’s when we both wanted to kill each other. One of us was always late, when he wasn’t running late; I was running late, and vice a versa. We never got to school on time and which lead to detentions for the both of us. Basically the trip to school was tearing us apart haha. I don’t think he misses me that much though but, when we’re together now we can actually have a conversation. I also like taking him home with me, which I think he enjoys because he feels cool hanging out with all my older friends. So that will be fun.

I hope you guys all have or had a great thanksgiving! Get excited for our gmail CHAT! :D