So chances are the biggest holiday in your family is Christmas. Am I right? I'm right, arent' I? Don't deny it! But for the Pennington family, it's Thanksgiving. Everyone who knows my family in the slightest knows our habits about buying things. So of course a day where we can actually give gifts to ourselves (i.e. food) is a dream! So once a year, the majority of the Pennington family gathers at my grandparents house for a free meal. But this is the Pennington family... naturally it is extremely different from how a normal family is. Examples of these differences:
Pronounced blondness and epic failure abounds!
-Every female in the family becomes the blondest, country-est person you have ever laid eyes on. My mother, from Ohio, is a prime example of this. This year as I was placing a pan in the refrigerator, it would not quite fit. My mother, in all her brilliance, says, "turn it sideways." I turn to her and respond, "It's a square, mom...." Now any normal person would immediately realize that this means all the sides are equal! But not my mom! O no... she has to say, "Try it anyways!" Many episodes of these types of airheadedness take place all Thanksgiving day!
A time for news to be shared.
-For most families this would mean catching up or saying how life is going. Not my family! Whenever we get big news, we ALWAYS hold it until Thanksgiving. This has been everything from the announcing of a pregnancy to showing off a birth none of us were aware of. O! and even a favorite cousing coming out of the closet! Not by telling us... but by showing up with his boyfriend. Yes, tons of fun that Pennington family!
The stealing of food.
-Naturally, when there is vast amounts of food prepared, lots of it will be eaten before the yearly command of "dig in." But this is Pat Pennington food... So you know there is much of it and it is all delicious. One thing that is prepared exceptionally well is the deviled eggs. They are a veritable tradition! Every year, my dad fixes 2 dozen more. And every year.... they never survive to dinner! One year, they were all stolen and we STILL don't know who took them. Literally, the entire tray was gone! But this happens not only to the eggs. We never have food left over after Thanksgiving. Not because everyone eats it! O no... that's too simple! But instead because the entire family STEALS the trays back home! I live in a family of thieves!
Falling into the lake.
-There is a lake behind my grandparent's house. It is the Maywood lake. Every year, SOMEONE falls into the lake. In November. This has been because of a variety of reasons. Such as trying to shoot a snake with a BB gun, trying to catch a fish in a bucket from a boat, drunkeness, and even because they were on fire.... Gotta love the Penningtons!
The head bumb!
-My grandparents are short. The rest of family is not that short... My grandparents' door frames are very small.... Every year, many curses are shouted as people smack their heads on door frames constantly! My seven foot tall cousin wears a helmet over now. It took him 10 Thanksgivings to think that one up... We all look like we had been headbutting when we finally leave.
This is just the highlights of a Pennington family Thanksgiving. Of course there is much more to it. But this is just what I think of every year....
Holla!
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
THE GREATEST NAME EVER!!!!
This will so be the name of my first child, male or female. Igor just holds a special meaning for me.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Certainties of College
So if you are unaware of this, there are certain things that will always happen at college when conditions are met. Very rarely are they pleasant. I have compilied a list of things that happen when circumstances meet the need:
1)Rain- When ever I have my laptop in my backpack, am wearing a suit, or fail to have my rain jacket, there will be a downpour. This is a guarantee! No matter how much I try to carry my rain jacket or not my laptop, it will rain! Point of interest: If the forecast is a 90% chance of rain and I prepare, it will not rain. What's up wit dat?
2)Library- This is a major place of certainties! For example, whenever I have to work a late shift and remember to bring a book or something, they will have me shelving. Vice versa, if I forget to bring something, they will have me sitting at a desk. Forever and always. Also, whenever I'm shelving, if the books are crammed in really tight in the general area I'm shelving, then where I am supposed to place my current book will be on the top shelf where I can't reach. Talk about a pain!
3)Sleep- Whenever I actually can go to bed early, as in I'm back on time and have nothing to do that night and nothing is due the next day, I will never be able to sleep that night. Also the next day I will pass out in a class. Forever and always. Example: Sunday night I will have nothing important due on Monday. I will go to bed early. I will lay there most of the night wide awake. The next day I will fall asleep in Chinese.
4)Studying- whenever I study ahead, i.e. several days before a test, I will completely understand it the night before. However when that test gets in front of me I will draw a blank. Every time. You can sit there and quiz me the night before on every character I have ever seen in Chinese and I will answer perfectly! But as soon as that test gets in front of me, stick a fork in me cause I'm done!
5)Luckyday- Will always be my biggest tormenter and worst class. Yes, they will always give me needless requirements and pointless assignments to complete at the busiest times of my life. An essay for them will always be due the same day as my essay for a class that actually matters. And the Luckyday essay will always be more difficult!
6)Books- If I am ever behind on getting a book, let's say for Honors 101, and we are supposedly going to be on it for a month, I will skip class to go and purchase the book. As soon as I go to the next class with it I will be informed that this is the last day we are using it. Case in point: Working by Studs Terkel. O such fun!
There are more certainties, but this is really all I care to post about on here. Go figure. I hope maybe these certainties have helped you, they haven't helped me too much. If you have any of your own, go ahead and tell me!
Holla,
Max
1)Rain- When ever I have my laptop in my backpack, am wearing a suit, or fail to have my rain jacket, there will be a downpour. This is a guarantee! No matter how much I try to carry my rain jacket or not my laptop, it will rain! Point of interest: If the forecast is a 90% chance of rain and I prepare, it will not rain. What's up wit dat?
2)Library- This is a major place of certainties! For example, whenever I have to work a late shift and remember to bring a book or something, they will have me shelving. Vice versa, if I forget to bring something, they will have me sitting at a desk. Forever and always. Also, whenever I'm shelving, if the books are crammed in really tight in the general area I'm shelving, then where I am supposed to place my current book will be on the top shelf where I can't reach. Talk about a pain!
3)Sleep- Whenever I actually can go to bed early, as in I'm back on time and have nothing to do that night and nothing is due the next day, I will never be able to sleep that night. Also the next day I will pass out in a class. Forever and always. Example: Sunday night I will have nothing important due on Monday. I will go to bed early. I will lay there most of the night wide awake. The next day I will fall asleep in Chinese.
4)Studying- whenever I study ahead, i.e. several days before a test, I will completely understand it the night before. However when that test gets in front of me I will draw a blank. Every time. You can sit there and quiz me the night before on every character I have ever seen in Chinese and I will answer perfectly! But as soon as that test gets in front of me, stick a fork in me cause I'm done!
5)Luckyday- Will always be my biggest tormenter and worst class. Yes, they will always give me needless requirements and pointless assignments to complete at the busiest times of my life. An essay for them will always be due the same day as my essay for a class that actually matters. And the Luckyday essay will always be more difficult!
6)Books- If I am ever behind on getting a book, let's say for Honors 101, and we are supposedly going to be on it for a month, I will skip class to go and purchase the book. As soon as I go to the next class with it I will be informed that this is the last day we are using it. Case in point: Working by Studs Terkel. O such fun!
There are more certainties, but this is really all I care to post about on here. Go figure. I hope maybe these certainties have helped you, they haven't helped me too much. If you have any of your own, go ahead and tell me!
Holla,
Max
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