Comments on: Thanksgiving Open Thread: Time to Stuff a Tofurkey With Your Feelings

By: Kate B

Kate B — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:02:42 +0000

TINY BABY CLAIRE HELLO

By: Spuppyliecy

Spuppyliecy — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 02:44:09 +0000

The illusion is niegh! Looks at this website and open your eyes. Project Blue Beam is in effect! Watch the conspiracy unflold!

By: alex

alex — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:15:46 +0000

hehe. walked into the main room where the boys were watching football to my brother outing me to my dads half of the fam. I guess I had already kinda done it, my cousin asked me if there were any cute guys or girls at school and I guess my silence was suggestive enough to get the ball rolling. This is good I guess because now they know and the people my brother was talking to are cool. But I had to tell my brother to shush because my mom doesn’t want her side of the family to know and they were in the other room. Also, I was kinda buzzed because my twelve year-old cousin was feeding me hard cider to get me drunk so he could ask about my sex life. I didn’t get drunk enough to tell him about it, but I did get buzzed.

All in all a great Thanxgiving-really good food, lots of crazy happy family, and shopping with my best childhood friend at four in the morning (black friday traditions)

By: Shannon1981

Shannon1981 — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:41:15 +0000

The holiday season is a very depressing time for me. Always has been. From Thanksgiving to New Year’s, I hate life even more than usual.

Know what my most vivid memories are? Lying in bed at night while the Christmas lights mom puts around the windows are still on, and crying. Crying for having to visit with people who will never accept me, crying for the lack of control I feel when I am around my family, crying for my life being anything but MINE.

This is the last year I will spend here, come hell or high water. I graduate next month. I have to get out of here, for my own sanity.

By: Chloe

Chloe — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 04:14:28 +0000

I had Thanksgiving dinner with my family and neighbors. Nobody even made any inflammatory sexist/homophobic comments, and the daughter in the neighbors’ family gave me hot pink Essie nail polish that she didn’t want anymore, so now I can pretend to be part of Jenna Lyons’ family.

By: Deb

Deb — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 04:05:40 +0000

my paypal acct got hacked also. used it once, to start AS monthly pledge, next thing I knew someone bought $1100 worth of stuff online at Target. My WONDERFUL bank reimbursed me, even though they didn’t have to. They are a small local bank, not Wells Fargo or someone, whom I’m sure would’ve said “too bad”…
Never again will I use paypal!

By: Dina

Dina — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:00:37 +0000

Not yet! I still have all the beer in the world to finish…

By: softly

softly — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:48:02 +0000

Thank you all, internet support & love helps lots too! Life is just a bit nuts the way it sometimes landslides.

By: dizzy

dizzy — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:13:47 +0000

That’s the best Lizz!

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:58:52 +0000

holiday time studying far away, called my parents, and they were eating out some lamb and stuff. thanksgiving has been cooked at my house for years, for a medium large family. what’s happening while i’m at school??!

i will go back for christmas and feel the distance… family! always there, and they walk around like ghosts when i go back to visit. my parents kept sneaking up on me last time -__-’

now in school, i tell them about the places i go, and they’re like, “oh wow! see, that’s what you need to do!” or “i’m so proud of you my juju!” it’s so cute. juju. yeah. but too much pressure. i want to have the accomplished life they think i’m trying to start, but i am the one seeing all of the actual experiences. i don’t want them to feel like i’ve done something great, i want them to treat me like i have a normal life with ups and downs. i appreciate their support, but they don’t know what’s going on. it’s tough to face the dreams of your parents. parents, saying they’re proud and happy and excited. that’s like so much support it’s no support, because they don’t know what i’m saying actually means. they think it’s all good. it’s ok, support and praise is good. but now, in school, and far away, i see i need to do this on my own, cause they’re way far out. they are all happy cause they aren’t here seeing my life. it’s long distance smothering.
i still try to bring them back down to earth, to tell them, “no it’s really just normal life, it’s not that exciting or praise worthy, etc, it’s also not the end of the world: it’s just college! so maybe we can get on the same page and be real? and talk about a place that’s 2,000 miles away, you’ve never been to but i’ve been living in for over 2 years.” so no, they don’t listen, they just keep smiling. wow. my parents look old… and slow…… what’s happening?! am i really starting to live my own life? they have given up. or i have given up on them. i think it’s mutual. i can no longer take them seriously. they cannot take me seriously. i’m…. i’m… i’m…. i’m free. O__O woah damn.

wait. maybe they are actually just prepping me to take care of them when they start pooing themselves. which from all of this looks like it could be any day now nooooooo why… holidaze parental paranoia….nooooooooo
thank you thanks auto giving comment board, thanks a lot.

By: lilyv

lilyv — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:00:40 +0000

okay so for thanksgiving i decided that since the gym wasn’t open i would make cooking my work out for the day and make 7 dishes that all came from you autostraddle (you go autostraddle!). well i went to the store to pick up my ingredients two days before and i was confused for a dude ( achievement unlocked! convincing androgyny +3000pts!), which explains why i was getting str8 girl eyes and giggles. started cooking at 8-ish and somewhere along the way my 11 year old cousin became my assistant and helped me finish the last 3 dishes (achievement unlocked! finish improbable goal +5000pts!). after my twelve hour cookfest i decided to get ready for the dinner and i hear the frat boys who i went to florida with in my kitchen. one of them follows me outside and tells me to go in their car for a bit and offers me really really good weed FOR FREE! and i bailed out because i was already far gone on my pain killers. is this what growing up is? well i make it to party area and chit-chat with everyone there for a bit and have a long needed seat. half an hour later frat boy’s sister is telling me how hot i was/am and creepily staring at me for the remainder of the night. oh yeah, and she’s 13, ( -2000000pts) so it’s extra creepy. everyone loves the food blah blah blah, they can’t believe veggies taste this good, ladida. so a bit later on my assistant chef started craving lemonade and since she helped me out i decided to make some for her. well, i forgot how crazy this kid gets on sugar and end up paying the consequences later. to subdue her crazy i decide to go drink a cup of wine or three. a hyper active kid on lemonade and a hyper active drunk with wine end up playing countless rounds of connect 4, uno, and dominoes until 2 in the morning. i leave tired, drunk, and confused (don’t i always) and decide to get on asschat no one was on, i’ll just have to get foolish on cam around christmas time then.
i still have a head ache and can’t decide if i should go to the gym or stay in bed and alternate between eating food and sleeping…..hmmmm the gym does have hot girl at the front desk and cute femme who takes her shirt off on the stair climber…..but i feel sooo lazy today

By: Lizz

Lizz — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:59:11 +0000

Last night, after dinner, my whole family went on AS and caught up on all of my recent articles. I feel so thankful. Also my mom was hilarious about the one I wrote on Breaking Dawn Pt 1.