Things I didn't know, but probably should have...

[hells_half_acre]

Did you know that Americans celebrate Thanksgiving on a Thursday?! I didn't.

I can't believe that I've watched American movies and television, read American books and stories, and lived just north of America for my whole life and I never realized that Thanksgiving is on a Thursday for them.

What a strange day for a holiday.

I will file this under: Things Unexpectedly Learned from Watching Supernatural (in this case, specifically learned by time-lining it.)

I never understood why Americans bothered to travel home for Thankgiving - I mean, American Thanksgiving is so close to Christmas, it doesn't make much sense financially. But, I suppose if you are getting a 4/5 day weekend, you might as well go somewhere. Plus, Thanksgiving seems to be a much bigger deal in the US than it is in Canada.

Or maybe it was just never a big deal for my family. My Mum declared that we could only afford turkey once a year, so we choose Christmas. Sam and Dean had their Thanksgiving bucket of chicken, and we had our Thanksgiving chicken stir-fry.

So yeah, cultural differences I suppose...Canadian Thanksgiving is on a Monday, so you end your long weekend with a celebratory huge feast, instead of beginning it with one. Thursday indeed! SO STRANGE!

Comments

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

That's true. Thanksgiving is like the last family-gettogether holiday you guys have that has not been overly commercialized.

I don't like Halloween because I don't like dressing up and I don't like it when people come to the door, but other than that, I think I like every holiday just the same. I'm not religious, so I mainly just like them for the days off work. :-P

But yeah, Christmas can be way too stressful, especially since it's the one holiday where I AM expected to visit my family. New Years is pretty annoying too, because people make way too much of a deal.

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

I like halloween fine as a children's holiday; the adult kind (at least that I see where i live) kind of creeps me out, and not in the intended way. It's so...depressing.

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly...I mean, I can get over my hatred of strangers at the door if I know they are cute little kids and all I have to do is give them candy...

...but I really don't like adult costume parties. Which is apparently a problem when one lives in Vancouver, because "themed" parties are all the rage here all year 'round. Arg.

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

I don't mind mild ones. My roommate threw one that was vaguely 'mad men' / 'early 60s' themed, and that just meant wearing kind of cool retro dresses and serving martinis and her usual midwestern appetizers, which were apparently all the rage back in the day.

I was pleased to have an excuse to wear a really cool looking dress that had been my grandmother's.

What gets me about the adult holloween parties here- especially the ones at the casinos/clubs- is that it's basically like - 'buy your costume at a sex shop' (though only for women). Men's costumes don't seem to matter at all, but some of my (girl) friends would get shit for not dressing like a porn star, and just get harassed all night about it- whereas the ones who were dressed like porn stars got harassed in other ways.

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Ugh, yeah...the sexy___ costumes. For halloween this year, I had to use the clothes I already owned, so what i did was get dressed up really nice and went as a "high class prostitute" because that way I was "playing along" but didn't have be more revealing than I'm comfortable with...plus, it went well with the fact that my sister went in drag.

But yeah...the things we do to be social.