{"id":40016,"date":"2014-11-19T12:48:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T16:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40016"},"modified":"2020-07-14T12:48:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T16:48:20","slug":"derailing-tradition-much-to-my-dismay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40016","title":{"rendered":"Derailing tradition, much to my dismay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, if I felt that my recent lack of angst and anxiety were reason for having difficulty finding things to write about, consider it my brog\u2019s lucky day as both angst and anxiety have returned with but just a few mere phone calls with my family, to put me back in a state of mind where I want to vent to people around me, but don\u2019t really want to burden anyone, so it turns into ultimately a great big vomiting of words onto whomever wishes to read them.<\/span><\/p>\n

I won\u2019t get into extensive detail, but I\u2019ve made no secret about my parents getting divorced, and as much as I\u2019d have hoped it would have been an amicable and clean separation, naturally it was and is not, and suddenly my plans over the Thanksgiving break that I had leisurely looked forward to have turned into a period of time in which I am basically dreading.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why?\u00a0 Because I\u2019m going home for Thanksgiving.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I do not have any genuine problems with my family and extended family, but there\u2019s no denying that I\u2019m kind of a black sheep in the family by proxy of my choice of career, general life\u2019s choices, the fact that I live far away, and that I\u2019m the youngest of my generation that is still unmarried and therefore\u00a0has<\/em>\u00a0to have his life in disarray.\u00a0 Needless to say, I\u2019m often prime target for lectures, unwanted advice and prayers, and criticism in general, all things that I really don\u2019t ever want to listen to.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such are large contributors to why I\u2019ve generally had an aversion to going home for the holidays, because it just seems like everything\u2019s going to be a greater headache than something enjoyable.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, another large contributor to why I\u2019ve not gone home for the vast majority of past Thanksgivings is that I\u2019ve basically got my own annual Thanksgiving holiday traditions established, and I don\u2019t have any need to go anywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our doors open up for those friends and acquaintances of Jen and myself who are in a similar boat and live in the greater Atlanta area devoid of local family, whether by proximity or choice, and we have a massive Thanksgiving dinner like the vast majority of Americans.\u00a0 But instead of judgment, pissing contests and lectures, it\u2019s a more relaxed atmosphere of food, board games, and trashy television.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then the remainder of the evening, into the AM hours is typically spent doing shitloads of online shopping and\/or strategizing braving the nightmarish battlefields of retail for Black Friday.\u00a0 Usually, thanks to the advancement of online shopping, I can tackle some of the big ticket things I want to purchase online, leaving the actual Black Friday itself for Jen and I to go out and leisurely clean-up duty of retailers, and seeing what\u2019s left from the ransacked shelves and racks of clothing stores and random miscellaneous shops.<\/span><\/p>\n

Capitalistic?\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 But it\u2019s still something I\u2019ve enjoyed doing over the last few years, and something that I\u2019m actually quite sour about knowing that I\u2019m going to have to forego it this year.\u00a0 I typically purchase a lot of clothing and accomplish a good bit of Christmas shopping during this time as well.\u00a0 I\u2019m still likely to be glued to my tablet or laptop on Thanksgiving, but Black Friday itself isn\u2019t looking too promising for my agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the fact that I\u2019m kind of being forced to walk away from my traditions and into a proverbial wolves\u2019 den is what makes me upset the most.\u00a0 My family is my family and I have unconditional love for them sure, but the circumstances this time around are not necessarily the most appealing, and despite the fact that I will still be going up, it will be under obvious protest.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, if I felt that my recent lack of angst and anxiety were reason for having difficulty finding things to write about, consider it my brog\u2019s lucky day as both angst and anxiety have returned with but just a few mere phone calls with my family, to put me back in a state of mind … Continue reading Derailing tradition, much to my dismay<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[116,71,15,115,110,65,27],"class_list":["post-40016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-brack-friday","tag-famiry","tag-og","tag-thanksgiving","tag-tradition","tag-travel","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40017,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40016\/revisions\/40017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}