Thanksgiving is a holy day for me because I own the kitchen like some Iron Chef Ninja Warrior. I usually spend weeks planning, prepping, and cooking and everyone / anyone is invited cuz I love it.
A relocation a few weeks ago finds us in an apartment while we wait on a house. Living situation is fairly primitive. Given the opportunity, I could still pull a Thanksgiving out of my ass, but.....
The consensus is to visit my wife’s (no pics) 94 year old grandmother (also no pics) and hang out on the outskirts of Jacksonville, TX with random family there. The in-laws asked if I wanted to help plan the festivities, given my T-day proclivities. No thanks. Leave me out of it.
We can’t cook. No one in the family has a properly working kitchen. Don’t get me started.
We can’t go out. The olds don’t like to go out. And where the fuck you gonna go anyway?
We can’t find catering.
We don’t even have reliable options for heating shit up if we happened to actually bring stuff.
So...what is there to plan?
All I know is, I’m bringing a goddam flask to a Pentacostal family holiday. This Thanksgiving is gonna blow.