What are YOU thankfull for?

Happy Thanksgiving, well ... Happy almost Thanksgiving, Im sure we all will be busy tomorrow with one thing or another, plus I knew I was over due on writing, so here I am...... This year I will be going to Thanksgiving at my sister, Selina's, we seem to be trading every other year, so maybe I'll get it again next year?! It's crazy how it kinda creeped up on me this year, considering last year me and my roommates had the biggest Turkey Day blowout we had all ever seen!! For those of you who werent there, we all decided to invite our families to Casa Grande for the holiday so we could all spend Thanksgiving with our families and together, It turned out to be a great success with most of our families making the trip up to the Lake. The planning started weeks ahead, and everything paid off, i think everyone that was there had a great time, and were able to take some really positive holiday memories with them. This year will be a much smaller affair, but i will be lucky enough to be with even more family, the only problem is there is so much family, and unfortunatley I cant be with them all, but being around latley has been something to be thankfull for. Something that did carry over from last year and could very well become my new Thanksgiving tradition is making the homemade Mac & Cheese! mmmmmmm!!!! A much smaller batch of course, im not serving more than 50 people this year! Anyhow, in other news, lets see, whats been going on? Oh yea, so my neice Lilian came to visit, we did the whole family thing all weekend, which was fun, but now she has just been hanging out here with me, I told her it was boring, nut she said she is having a good time, I thnk she is like me, and is happy to just be hanging out, which is cool, I think we have gotten to bond much more just hanging out and talking about life than having to actually do all theese things and then get NO chance to spend quality time, so YAY for Lily!! We did go out to a nice dinner on Saturday night at this Japanese restaraunt, Torii's, it was cool, Jason & Jennifer drove down from Stockton to join us, and then came to hang out at My sister's place afterward, which was cool cause I havent seen them in ahwile, so YAY for Jason & Jenn! What else? Its raining, which is cool, I think tonight will be abother Notebook night! If your a bird, im a bird! Alright, Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Love you all!

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So, im sure you will all be happy to know that i got a haircut and i havent wore the hat for almost 2 weeks! This is probably the last known picture wof me with the hat! It'a pretty funny, right? I dont know what it was I just LOVED that damn hat! I went through a very big hat period the last few years, ive had a lot of favorite hats but somehow they all end up lost or stolen, but lout of all of them i really loved this one, im not getting rid of it or anything crazy like that but for now, its retired! lol! Anyways, i really miss The Ellis' you damn breeders you!!! I wILL be there for the baby's bday however, so I can't wait til then, just a few weeks away! I still havent done any MAYJOR job searching, i know I'm a slacker, Im just happy getting by right now while I am still really enjoying being around my family, which i really do love being an Uncle full time again. When i was in Tahoe I loved being able to duck out to Gville to be with the family, I come from a HUGE family, so something about just being with them I really love. I do miss my friends ALOT tho but I love our memories, I need to create more memories with my family and all the little kids i find myself surrounded with! Deeper on the family note, i contacted my two older long lost sisters last week. Rena & Mia live in Galt, Ca, just south of Sacramento, and I called them when I was at my cousin's house that lived in the same town. So we all went over there, and honestly it was pretty nice, not to mention me and my cousin's I was with had started drinking, and when we got to their place they were celebrating Rena's Bday, so that was something extra special, she turned 38, damn, right!? Mia is married and has three kids, her husband wasnt there, but her kids were a trip, I havent seen my sisters in over 10 years and last time i did Mia's oldest daughter was only a few years old, so to meet a teenage girl was really something, er youngerst is 5, and all three very cute, we all got wasted and spent the night, im sure I will be seeing them again soon. I also went to spend the weekend with my beloved sister Selina, who i love very much and told her the whole story, and that I think I need for them to meet before I can really move on with this whole thing, not saying that if selina didnt want to I wouldnt have a relationship with them, but it would make me feel better about it if they could at least meet to, ya know, i dont know, but she told me she thought that was really cool and was totally down for the whole thing, so thats cool, ill keep you posted. In other family news my oldest neice Lilian, also a teenager may be coming to visit for thanksgiving break, which is just like two weeks away, so thats very exciting, I really love Lilian, she is such an amazing young person, really truly brilliant, I love how she has grown up, and cant wait for the wonam she will be, she seriously is just a really cool person, im glad because that would be awful if she was lame! seriously! so yea, ill kepp ya posted!