This YEAR, alone again, Naturally.

[yuiyoshida]

My parents are going to Las Vegas for Thanksgiving. My dad likes to gamble sometimes, and my mom goes along. I am not a big fan of Casinos, or even hotels on a holiday like this, so I will be staying at home by myself for Thanksgiving, but Hey Not to worry... I will still be with a ton of Friends... on line...even if the food is Virtual!


We have space for 12 people and yeah... eating is not a problem!


where will this take place?? In My home town of San Francisco of course!


I expect there will be a whole website full of lonely souls stopping by for some virtual grub...and there will be music and dancing! I expect it to be fun... and it sure beats sitting in a hotel some where on the Las Vegas Strip while my parents hit up a show.

I will be okay!

[hifiguy]

1. Take care and have a good day.

I have been alone for the holidays for years and you get used to it.

Beer and football help me get by.

[roguevalley]

22. for all of us alone, I salute you. :D

[riderinthestorm]

2. (((Hug))) Feel free to catch a flight to Chicago and join me!

Id get a crab for you

[KamaAina]

4. It'd be ever so much easier for her to take Caltrain down to San Jose.

After she picks up the crab, of course.

[yuiyoshida]

12. Found out that CRAB is off the menu now...

peking duck is my alternative go to ...dinner.

[KamaAina]

13. I hate to say "I told you so", but...

Okay, you can take the duck down here on Caltrain.

[yuiyoshida]

14. Naw...I will be here in the City...

I am pretty sure it will be a fun night...I can play all my Jpop and Jrock tunes and freak everyone out in my chat room!

[Person 2713]

63. Oh that looks so tasty ! Yum

[Turbineguy]

3. The full compliment of the "usual suspects" are not showing up at our house either.

It will take one bottle to give everybody two glasses of wine.

And as you say, there is the DU Community.

[KamaAina]

5. Nice post, Gilbert O'Sullivan!

[Half-Century Man]

6. Ashita ni Ganbatte.

I'll be here off and on tomorrow. I'll have quite a few hard core right wingers coming to dinner. I'll have to stay strong and not blast into them for their bigotry. They have a lot of displaced anger fed by Faux News.
I'll need some sanity at some point.

[yuiyoshida]

25. hai!!

arigatou!

[question everything]

7. Just curl up with your favorite book, listen to your favorite music

Or walk the neighborhood. This being SF, you won't have to worry about snow, ha.

Don't think of yourself and of your virtual friends as "lonely." But as someone who enjoys your own things. People in crowded casinos can, too, be lonely.

Cheers.

[mindwalker_i]

8. Checked my meetups and there's a Benicia makerspace project night on Thanksgiving

I'd go and build a robotic cannon but it's my spouse's b-day.

[mopinko]

9. i'm having dim sum w friends.

ex got custody of the holidays in the divorce. since two kids wont come here, one is far away, and another wont leave, it doesnt make any sense to try and make something that will never be the same, anyway.
last year i did a sort of tradition free version, but it was sorta pathetic. had a couple friends over. just made the empty chairs that much more obvious.

so, this year going out w a couple good friends and their parents. fuck it.

[yuiyoshida]

43. mmm dim sum

My favorite place is out of crab, so it looks like its the peking duck again this year.

[lpbk2713]

10. Glitz and glitter is not my way to spend Thanksgiving either.

I'll be thinking of you.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

11. I've turned down invitations to crowded meals.

Whole Foods and Goode & Co. BBQ is providing dinner and DU. and Netflix will provide the mind candy.

[lovemydog]

15. Happy Thanksgiving to you

and to all DUers!

[yuiyoshida]

17. back atcha!

Though i am a little disappointed I won't be having crab but... Peking Duck is just as yummy!

[FLPanhandle]

16. I have reservations for 1 tomorrow afternoon

Stuck out of town on a work trip, so no family (on the plus side, I avoid my in-laws).

[yuiyoshida]

18. Well if you want...

you can sign up with IMVU.com and come to my party! In fact, if you sign up today, I am on line right now, so you can find me..I will give you the location of the room I am in, Join us for virtual turkey!

[FLPanhandle]

21. Thanks but the site is blocked at work

I may just go for a hike and get back in time to eat.

I'll have fun.

[madokie]

19. Enjoy yourself

I'll spend the day with my wifes two brothers and sister. We're all older people. my wife just turned 63 yesterday, (don't tell her I told you that,) and she'll be the youngest one there.

It'll be good food and good company but I'd rather be home, alone if need be.

[yuiyoshida]

20. or you can see the post above...

Come to our party!!

[SoapBox]

23. Join us!

In Los Angeles!

We have an exciting day planned.

Picking up a gal that used to work for us...she retired and is in her 70's...then, we're going to call in an order for 3 dinners to go from Norm's (for those that know them!), picking them up at about 1:30P to eat at 2:00P. After that she'll probably be ready to go home...and then we'll fall asleep after that.

True excitement.

Hey, the menu:

Roast Turkey or Brown Sugar Glazed Ham
Cream of Turkey Vegetable Soup
Mixed Green Salad
Bread Stuffing
Candied Yams
Mashed Potatoes and Gravy
Fresh Squash
Cranberry Sauce
Apple or Pumpkin Pie

$12.99
$5.99, children under 10

[Buzz Clik]

24. Just for you (wrong holiday, correct sentiment):

https://soundcloud.com/amazon-music/christmas-alone/s-glLdJ

[yuiyoshida]

27. haha cute

[Buzz Clik]

33. by the way...

Was this the inspiration for you thread title, or just a coincidence:

[yuiyoshida]

42. Probably

[Bubzer]

26. A big holiday hug to you yuiyoshida!

I'm with you...Vegas sucks!

[yuiyoshida]

29. well for one thing it won't be crowded there

so I am sure my parents will have fun. Its not for me..

[Hortensis]

31. Not for me either, Yui. You're part of a very large

community of who'll be relaxing in comfort and security at home, including us. Happy, happy from my husband and me in Florida.

[yuiyoshida]

34. yeah!!..

thanks. Hey maybe My dad will come home with a pocket full of money!

[Hortensis]

37. Sure. It happens. One night at Lake Tahoe I turned two quarters

into $14 at blackjack.

[Bubzer]

32. Its not for me either...for the same reasons.

[dembotoz]

28. enjoy

[yuiyoshida]

36. backatcha!

tanoshin de kudasai!

[Omaha Steve]

30. You can come to Omaha

But there is an ice storm on the way for tomorrow.

K&R!

OS

[yuiyoshida]

35. Um no thank you...

You should see me right now, bundled up by the space heater... in my sweaties, yoga pants and fuzzy slippers. I am thinking it might be a good idea to make some hot tea...and am considering it.. Hey! I am part Hawaiian, I don't do cold weather well!


we started the party early!

[arcane1]

38. Enjoy! This is a rare year that I actually have plans!

I usually do the stay-at-home thing too

[cwydro]

39. I've spent many a holiday alone.

Many times by choice.

I still spoil myself with whatever food I choose.

Hope you do the same!

[yuiyoshida]

44. I can't believe they are out of crab..

still, Peking duck is yummy, and I can't wait.

[cwydro]

46. I have ducks on my farm lol.

I'll pretend I didn't see this. These are my Cayuga ducks as babies.

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[yuiyoshida]

47. i had a baby duck as a pet once

it grew up and my parents sold it to their friends... I had heard later it ended up on their plate for dinner...at least it had a good long life..up until that point.

[cwydro]

48. Lol, the Cayugas are supposed to be very good eating.

They're safe from me, but our farm fox has had at least one of them. Sigh.

We have two Pekins as well and one mallard.

[restorefreedom]

40. i would prefer solitude to vegas, too.

i think you made a good choice.

enjoy!

[yuiyoshida]

45. plus all those hours in the Car...

No thanks.

[restorefreedom]

64. ugh....never! nt

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

41. You're virtually assured to be just fine. You may even have fun!

[yuiyoshida]

51. I will virtually be eating Turkey at the same time I am really

having Duck... It should be nice, and omg, my friend found and delivered a microwave oven to me yesterday, mine had died, so they just gave me one.. said they had it set up as a birthday gift for someone, but gave it to me as an early xmas present instead.

[DFW]

49. San Francisco doesn't sound too bad

I hate the cold weather, too, and look where I ended up--the German Rheinland. We're not going anywhere, either, but no need--the world is coming to us. Twenty people from as far away as Dallas, and as close as Austria, Frankfurt and even right here in Westfalia. It gets a little nuts, and at times too much for me, but it's a tradition now, and we can't escape it. Our friends from Dallas speak no German, and since I have always spoken German to the others, I have no idea how good their English is except for my wife and daughter (the other daughter is in Dallas this year). It won't be tranquil, but it won't be dull, either!

[yuiyoshida]

50. Westfalia

isn't there a town like that in the US? I remember that name but forget which state it was in. I am sure someone will know. I used to have some friends in Germany, they loved Japanese Rock music almost as much as I do.. and most I have met on line were very nice to me!

[DFW]

52. My grandmother in New York used to serve us Westfalian Ham before I even knew where it was

Of course, at age 8, you don't think of things like that.

My sister in law is from the Tokyo area, and I have visited there several times, although she now lives with my brother in the Langley area of Virginia. So, I get to try my meager Nihongo when I visit Washington, but it's usually the standard "wakaranai!" for me. My younger daughter studied in Hawai'i for two years, so we learned to appreciate the weather out there a LOT when we visited!

[yuiyoshida]

53. sweet...

My parents are from Hawaii. I been trying to get them to take me for years, but my Dad prefers to stay in the Bay Area. Some day I will get to go I hope.Westphalia Missouri...I just looked it up.

[DFW]

54. It is a very special place

Each Island has its own character. We only visited 4 of them, Oahu, Maui, the Big Island and Kaua'i. It is literally the other side of the world for us--twelve time zones. Go any further, and you start to come back to Germany from the other direction. So when we went, we made it a special occasion. My wife only came twice, and the second time was for our daughter's graduation. Our favorite was the Big Island with Kaua'i a close second.

You probably know this from hearing about it, but the culture does seep into you if you stay a while. At my daughter's school, they offered three languages, and you had to take one: French, Spanish and Hawaiian. She had taken French here in Germany, so she decided to continue with it. I approved though I love the exotic, and would have been just as happy if she had decided to learn Hawaiian, useless in Germany as it would have been. Well, after her first year there, we were in a car while I was visiting the States and a song in Hawaiian came on the radio. She started translating it for us, and telling us what it was about. I said, "hey, wait, I thought you weren't studying Hawaiian!" She looked at me in that all-knowing teenager's look reserved for the hopelessly ignorant parents, and said "I'm not taking Hawaiian, but ANYBODY can understand THAT much, sheeesh!" Yeah, anybody except her poor stupid Haole parents.

[yuiyoshida]

55. I have some Native Hawaiian in me...

But I know far more about Japanese culture than Hawaiian. My grandfather was full Hawaiian native. I have never met him, but mom say's he's pretty cool!

[DFW]

56. Time to go say hi!

My grandfathers were both fascinating characters in their own way. One born dirt poor in South Carolina, worked his way through college as a janitor, was deputy mayor of New York City before he was done. The other was also born poor from other southerners who came north fleeing debts in the Delta, took up painting at age 80 for something to do. My daughters loved him, used to cuddle up to him when we visited, not always a given for young kids and the very old. Grandparents are something special, and always have great stories to tell. Don't let him pass without having met him!

[yuiyoshida]

57. Well it may take me forever to save up to go

to Hawaii..I may never get the chance..at least I would have a place to stay there, so there is that.

[DFW]

58. What island does he live on?

If he lives in Kona or some place like that, I think I'd starve for half a year just to make the trip. I hope you make it and get to meet your grandfather.

[yuiyoshida]

60. lives near Honolulu

Not sure, where actually.

[YOHABLO]

59. You know what, I think about the little boys and girls who might be fleeing

Syria, with little to no food, perhaps on some rubber raft in the ocean, or trekking on foot with their family over land to cross a border somewhere. I don't buy into all this superfluous feasting during "the holidays". Not anymore.

[yuiyoshida]

61. I have friends who help out at

Glide Memorial Church, feeding the hungry. Maybe something like that would be worth while, ne?

[Quackers]

62. You're never alone.

Happy Thanksgiving!