So an old friend of mine called me up and...huh? Oh yeah, Happy Thanksgiving and all that for those of you that partake in turkey/ham day and all its trappings both joyful and, considering that it generally involves a lot of family, rather trying. For those that don't generally speaking it's a happy day off except for those in the "movie industry" which in this case means theatre workers who sadly have to work Thanksgiving and Christmas because so many people insist on going to the movies because both holidays typically involve large family get togethers and after a couple of hours of that going to the movies is a great activity to do "together" that actively involves ignoring the people you're with which makes it strongly compelling but it's still wrong because all you're doing is insuring that theatre managers will never close their doors allowing their employees to enjoy the holiday as well which means you're actively destroying another's holidays when you go and thus you should avoid it BECAUSE FOR GOD'S SAKE I KNOW YOU ALL HAVE TOYS, GAMES, AND MOVIES TO KEEP YOURSELVES OCCUPIED BECAUSE IT'S THE BLOODY AGE OF BLOODY CONSTANT ENTERTAINMENT SO STAY HOME YOU INSUFFERABLE PRATS!
*deep breath*
But I digress. Or to be more precise, digest - something I did quite a lot of in fact. Yes...quite. I apologize for that last sentence. But after that - DANCE! - as well as quite a bit of jumping, yelling, swinging and all manner of rather alarming and loud movement was employed as we had a rather full night of Kinect oriented activities ahead of us which went on for so long that I'm fairly certain we burned off every calorie that we took in during the preceding dinner. Oh right the dinner! Thanks for reminding me!
It was rather traditional with turkey, stuffing, whipped potatoes and all manner of pretty tasty things that I won't mention because damons only eats the aforementioned tasty items with great vigor and then has seconds of those same items further insulting the offending non tasty food items that he won't touch.The meal was prepared by my old friend's wife, who did an awesome job, as well as her sister No. 2... or was it No. 4 (she has a lot of sisters and they all have the same name so they refer to each other by numbers "No. 2 called", "No. 3 is running late", blah blah blah) as well as my friend's mother who took me in oh so many years ago when I was young and my family had abandoned me to the streets. I honestly can't remember the last time I enjoyed a Thanksgiving so it was a rather nice surprise.
As I mentioned earlier, we all went Kinect crazy and were mighty sore and tired afterwards. We played Dance Central, Kinect Adventures, Kinect Sports, Kinect Joy Ride, and a demonstrated a little Kinectimals for his wife Ming. Dance Central was by far the best as it very accurately captured everything you did and involved the entire body so which made it rather challenging at times. I insisted on dancing to the now cl@ssic and highly respected street anthem "Crank That (Soulja' Boy)" by the esteemed modern poet and composer Soulja' Boy because it's the silliest thing I could think of doing. Yes folks...I did indeed Superman dat ooooooh so many, many times. Of course No. 2 got the highest rating as she is a professional dance so...duh, but my 2 star accomplishments proved you don't have to be good to be entertaining.
Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving! :)