This Thanksgiving was my first away from my family. It’s the first time in my life I’ve not lived in the same state as them. Because I’m going home anyways in a few weeks for the holidays, a wedding, and the PCA it seemed more logical to stay here for Thanksgiving. Also, if you’ve ever seen Funny People there’s a scene where the main characters and their friends, all young professionals and comedians, decide to stay in LA for Thanksgiving away from their parents. While it’s not that mind-blowing to not go home for Thanksgiving, for whatever reason the scene struck a chord with me and I wanted to have that.
My roommate Katie is for all intensive purposes the head of the household. Amit a.k.a online superstar Amak316 is my other roommate and we are both generally busy with poker so she’s the one who does all the planning. Fittingly, she planned Thanksgiving. We had nine people over including newly signed Absolute pro Trishelle Cantanella. Congrats by the way! We all really came together. Trishelle brought some homemade deviled eggs. Mmmmmm. Never had them before and man, were they legit. Katie’s boyfriend Aaron cooked the turkey and the stuffing. I made Mama Rooth’s recipe of sweet potato crunch and Katie made the cranberry sauce and sweet potato mash. I’m generally not a huge turkey fan but it was so juicy and the stuffing was amazing. The sweet potato crunch didn’t come out like my mom makes it but it was still really good. While it wasn’t intended to have a sweet potato competition everyone compared them and while mine was unhealthier than Katie’s everyone liked the taste of it more. So I won, kind of.
At some point things became a little hazy which generally happens at any gathering with a bunch of twenty-somethings. Towards the end of the night, I forget who, but someone found the Where’s Waldo coffee table book. Katie, being the head of the household, hated it being on the coffee table. I was just like, “No, you best respect Where’s Waldo!” So eventually she came around. It’s funny though because of the five books on the coffee table, Where’s Waldo is the only one people take the time to look at. For anyone born in the 80’s Where’s Waldo is completely a part of their childhood. While we were sitting around chatting we were all trying to find Waldo and after 15 some odd years it’s still tough to find him. I think Where’s Waldo was circulating around the room for close to an hour. There were a couple people who will remain nameless who were completely stumped. There’s this one Waldo page that’s 90% in black and white and no one could find it the entire night. The next morning I looked at it for a minute and found it. Now I’m not trying to sound like a pompous ass but I got me some Waldo skills. I’ll take anyone on!
Hope you guys had a great Thanksgiving and a great Black Friday as well.
P.S. Don’t go see New Moon but do go see The Blind Side and Boondock Saints.
