Thanks giving

The Thanksgiving Story

The Pilgrims who sailed to this country aboard the Mayflower were originally members of the English Separatist Church (a Puritan sect). They had earlier fled their home in England and sailed to Holland (The Netherlands) to escape religious persecution. There, they enjoyed more religious tolerance, but they eventually became disenchanted with the Dutch way of life, thinking it ungodly. Seeking a better life, the Separatists negotiated with a London stock company to finance a pilgrimage to America. Most of those making the trip aboard the Mayflower were non-Separatists, but were hired to protect the company's interests. Only about one-third of the original colonists were Separatists.

The Pilgrims set ground at Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620. Their first winter was devastating. At the beginning of the following fall, they had lost 46 of the original 102 who sailed on the Mayflower. But the harvest of 1621 was a bountiful one. And the remaining colonists decided to celebrate with a feast -- including 91 Indians who had helped the Pilgrims survive their first year. It is believed that the Pilgrims would not have made it through the year without the help of the natives. The feast was more of a traditional English harvest festival than a true "thanksgiving" observance. It lasted three days.

Governor William Bradford sent "four men fowling" after wild ducks and geese. It is not certain that wild turkey was part of their feast. However, it is certain that they had venison. The term "turkey" was used by the Pilgrims to mean any sort of wild fowl.

Another modern staple at almost every Thanksgiving table is pumpkin pie. But it is unlikely that the first feast included that treat. The supply of flour had been long diminished, so there was no bread or pastries of any kind. However, they did eat boiled pumpkin, and they produced a type of fried bread from their corn crop. There was also no milk, cider, potatoes, or butter. There was no domestic cattle for dairy products, and the newly-discovered potato was still considered by many Europeans to be poisonous. But the feast did include fish, berries, watercress, lobster, dried fruit, clams, venison, and plums.

This "thanksgiving" feast was not repeated the following year. But in 1623, during a severe drought, the pilgrims gathered in a prayer service, praying for rain. When a long, steady rain followed the very next day, Governor Bradford proclaimed another day of Thanksgiving, again inviting their Indian friends. It wasn't until June of 1676 that another Day of Thanksgiving was proclaimed.

On June 20, 1676, the governing council of Charlestown, Massachusetts, held a meeting to determine how best to express thanks for the good fortune that had seen their community securely established. By unanimous vote they instructed Edward Rawson, the clerk, to proclaim June 29 as a day of thanksgiving. It is notable that this thanksgiving celebration probably did not include the Indians, as the celebration was meant partly to be in recognition of the colonists' recent victory over the "heathen natives," .

October of 1777 marked the first time that all 13 colonies joined in a thanksgiving celebration. It also commemorated the patriotic victory over the British at Saratoga. But it was a one-time affair.

George Washington proclaimed a National Day of Thanksgiving in 1789, although some were opposed to it. There was discord among the colonies, many feeling the hardships of a few Pilgrims did not warrant a national holiday. And later, President Thomas Jefferson scoffed at the idea of having a day of thanksgiving.

It was Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor, whose efforts eventually led to what we recognize as Thanksgiving. Hale wrote many editorials championing her cause in her Boston Ladies' Magazine, and later, in Godey's Lady's Book. Finally, after a 40-year campaign of writing editorials and letters to governors and presidents, Hale's obsession became a reality when, in 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November as a national day of Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving was proclaimed by every president after Lincoln. The date was changed a couple of times, most recently by Franklin Roosevelt, who set it up one week to the next-to-last Thursday in order to create a longer Christmas shopping season. Public uproar against this decision caused the president to move Thanksgiving back to its original date two years later. And in 1941, Thanksgiving was finally sanctioned by Congress as a legal holiday, as the fourth Thursday in November.

The days

Looking at myself in the mirror this morning, I found my body a bit thinner and my face looked pale. I tried to squeeze a smile, but the mirror showed me an ugly smelling face. I shaved, took a shower and even prayed some perfume on myself, but I just felt sad and lonely.

I’ve been living alone for weeks. I miss you, dear! Although I have no idea where you are or what you are doing right now, I guess you must be somewhere thinking about me too. This is what I always do to comfort myself. I know the fact that you have left me forever. I just don’t want to remind myself of it.

You’ve never come back home since you moved out, without even taking away most of your belongings. Working hard everyday, I feel lazy to clean up your stuff, so I leave them alone in the rooms. Whenever I get home, I would imagine that you are lying in the sofa and giving me a wel come hug, just like what you had been doing to me before.

The foods will be there on the table, though they are cooked by our maid. You always passed me chopsticks and spoons when I was ready to eat. You were a good wife, not until now did I realize how important you are in my life. Actually you’re already part of me!

Now I’m free to choose the TV channels, nobody will take away my right to choose the program I life. Now I can sit in front of my 21-inch-screen computer and talk to my net friends freely. Now I can play my favorite PC games until after mid night. Now I can go to bed without having washed my feet or even face. Now I can do anything I like at home, cause nobody will bother me any more. These things won’t bring to me any happiness at all!

I guess I’m used to having you as a member of my family. I bet I’m used to having you as my wife, my woman and my partner. Sure I know when I am used to having something or someone in my life; I won’t treasure her/it much.

Suddenly I realized how helpless I am. I don’t even know where my tie is, cause I had never worried about these trivial tiny stuff before. You’ve done lots of stuff for me, which have surely spoiled me much! How am I gonna get away from this sad and helpless situation?

I smoke three packages of cigarettes and I only take one meal a day, because I have no appetite! I go home late, always having fun with my friends until after mid night, cause I know you are not at home waiting for me. I don’t press the door bell cause I know nobody will answer. I’m damaging my health to kill the loneliness. I know this is not the correct way, though!

Honey, if only you know how much I love you…..

The Date!

The Date

Written by: Babydoll

"I will take you out for dinner!" Said him.

Is it a date? To be honest, I don't really know. But, yes, I considered it as our first date, since we had a more than friend situation, having a dinner together would be in term of a Date.

Gals are always keen on what to wear. Me, too. I always spend long time on picking clothes and shoes, and doing my makeup and hair. That's what a mature woman do, my gay friend used to say that to me. None exception for this day, I spent more than a hour to prepare myself for going out.

Dress? Too formal for the bar where we might go after the dinner...

Skirt? I never really like to wear skirt, beside it is kind chill at night...

Jeans?? Isn't it too informal for that kind elegant restaurant??

... Hmm... never mind, I finally picked jeans and kind classical black top. I like to wear simple stuffs. Hey, simple doesnt mean cheap! Elegant is an expression, an elegant lady would look tiptop all the time even in some simple stuffs.

I pulled my hair back to send the hair bun and a wooden hairpin, simple and classical Asian style, one of my favorite hair styles. Asian women with the hairbun and hairpin are so sexy, my friends always say that. But hairpins are dangerous, it can be very sharp!

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Makeup wouldn't be too hard for me, maybe I am very artistic, or maybe I am just plastic... I don't like to follow the fashion, but my own style. I like to wear different colors of eyeshadows and lipsticks in order to fit my clothes and my mood. Hmmm... this evening, I felt classical and sexy! Silver, gold, and rouge would be perfect. Makeups are women's magic! No wonder nowadays no matter how bleak the economy is, those stuffs have still been hot in the market! We women are the best consumers in this modern world!

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To be or not to be late?

Hmmm, for the rules of ladies, we suppose to be a little late for the dates all the time! Not to be catchy, just to be a little slippery. I followed the rules to play the game, so that I got to be 5 minutes late, as always ;) I would like to see this gentleman sitting there waiting for me to arrive.

Booo~~!! I walked behind to him, gave a lil shock!

He turned to me, smiled: Here you are, kittycat!

I joined him to the table, he's already got a bottle of beer! Guys guys guys...woooo

He ordered my favorite food, as it was his somehow as well. It's great to have a similar taste on food, yo know. I guess normally guys wouldn't bear having a dinner with a picky vegetarian chick! I hated to eat with some picky vegetarians myself! When I sat there looking at em chewing mouthful green salad, I would lose my own appetite! Betcha they felt the same when they looked at my stakes! LOLZ!!

The food was delicious! The conversation during this dinner was relaxing. Nothing involved to emotional affairs though! We were talking about our lives in different places, some funny kinky drunk experience, our project from work and everything. He's quiet, and polite. He wasn't so talktive. It's so typical Northic European though!

"Tom is actually very sick!" said him, looking straight into my eyes, while saying this!

"oh, really?" I tried to behave like nothing really effect me by hearing this," what's wrong with him?" Still I asked, guess that's what he led me to...

"He got some weird infection, his eyes nerves went really bad, he almost got blind. He's been in hospital for almost a month! I heard he's gonna stay for another 4 or 5 months there. and it wouldn't be healed easily, it is said." Said him, still he's staring at my face. I know what he's looking for.

" Oh, I am sorry to hear it." I behaved like normal, I didn't know if he really could look thgough me, however, I did feel worried or more caring to Tom, my ex fiancee, his best friend!

Is it insane? I slept wit' my ex's best friend! Yeah, I know that's bad, I was just doing a revenge but it ended up like a mess! I felt my heart has been lost!

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I didn't know how we changed this topic. I guess I behaved totally like a heartless gal. But sometimes ppl pretend to be careless just becasue they do care it too much! I guess my date, he doesnt dare to like me more or to love me, because of all these situations! Certainly dating best friend's ex isn't funny! At least not as fun as sleeping with the best friend's ex right next door of the best mate's hotel room! Puff... Drama, drama!!!

Anyway I made him a big treat for this date! We went on to a bar for more drinks and our friends in town were there for a party. The rest of night was more like a social night! We drank, we played some drinking games, we talked as harmless drunk talking shit! And he left early because he gotta get up early for work!

I finally got pissed, and came home like even I dunno when it was. I aint no surprised that I had a terrible hangover the next day, while my PC got crushed for no reason! What a date! I gotta say! More alike, this is leading us to the middle of nowhere!

"Send my greetings to Tom," I wrote this line on my email to him," please visit him for me when you arrive Oslo!"

He is on the way there now! And I know he will read my email today!

The City of Glass

Several years ago, when i was young, (by the way, i am also young right now, but at that time, i was a school girl, fresh and pure. ) i loved the movie named The City of Glass so much, it acted by HK actror Liming and Suqi, who were in pair in reality as well.

I ever promised to write something about it, but, not yet until right now.

If u are my old friend, u would know that when i love something too much, i would never collect anything about it any more. That's my special habit. Because, i thought, love doesn't mean to owe it, but to leave it in memory, only it is to be memorized can remain the most perfect impression in your heart. My friends always said, in that point, i was extrodinary, honestly, no one wants to lost her favourite ones as well as me.

Cherish it and make it perfect it for ever. That's my inner thinking.

Through that movie, i began to love London and Cambridge, i love the environment and the surrounding and all about it, even the feeling cross through the whole story.

I love all the songs appeared in the movie, such as never happened in life, cambridge, new year's eve, the most touching me is try to remember. I can always remember when Liming played the guita and saung the song, voiced"when i sing the song, i love u mostly" wow, at that time, he is very handson and gental.

You guys should think i am a daydream girl or such a infantility miss.No,I never like that.I am realism.

I love the movie just because there is anything happened in nowadays or there is seldom happened in our reality life. And there is anyone can deny u don't want to seek for the pure and frank love. No one can refuse.

Well, if u want to gain, please give the same way as well, that's what i want to say.

And by the way, if u were interested, please search the DVD and i promised u would never be regreted to view.

Thanks God. It’s Saturday

It’s 23:09pm now. It’s Saturday today. Having finished replying some of the essays in my beloved English Salon, I realized I still have one more relaxing day to enjoy. I felt good when I noticed it.

I hate Mondays, because there will be too many things for me to do. On Mondays, I will re-arrange my schedule on meeting some of the foreign investors in my city; check my email boxes to find out if I get new emails from my customers and friends; remind my boss what should be done and whom he should see in the week.

And I know from Monday on, I will keep working for 8-10 hours a day, and I will work hard for the next four days. I may feel tired, exhausted and frustrated. I may have to drink with some people I never like, and I may have to send my boss home and help him with his private things. Monday is always full of obligations for me.

On Mondays, I will re-join the vehicles tide to go to work. I may/will see some traffic accidents and many traffic policemen, who always hide themselves somewhere and won’t show up until you break the laws. On Mondays, I will still need to make my way out of the heavy group of those who ride bicycles and motorcycles, because they seldom pay respect to the traffic laws. And of course, I will see my QQ friends and give my greetings to them on Mondays.

Thanks God. It’s Saturday today! So I can still make plans with my pals for going somewhere in the city to have fun. My father has asked me to join a dinner with his friends the next day, so I would be able to hear more useful experiences from those who have been doing business for many years.

And since it is Saturday today and I have solved the problem with my wife, I will go shopping with her tomorrow. I’m gonna buy some really cool stuff to memorize this super unforgettable “incident”. My wife asked me to play badminton with her tomorrow. I said yes. You see, A Saturday could be wonderful day if you are in a really good mood!

Thanks Giving to Life

Last Thursday was Thanks Giving Day. How did you spend it, my friend? Although it's a western traditional holiday, nowadays, more and more Chinese young people like to live as western style, thus this holiday becomes well-known among Chinese. To most of them, this day means delicious turkey and a happy party at night, which you can easily have a picture in your mind.

But when it turns to one of my friends, it must be the other side of the coin. That day after that day, I read her dairy in her blog: "How rediculous it was!", she wrote, "I never thought about it could happen to me. As year's coming to its end, our company has dicided the new business plan for the coming year. According to the dicision, most of the employees have to be fired due to budget cutting down, of which two of my best friend will have this fate. And what shocked me was that I was the one who had to inform them this terrible news. At the moment my manager notified me, my mind turned bland for a few minutes and I could not move my body. I was so upset that I even had no right to refuse it. On such a day, Thanks Giving Day! Isn't it too dramatic? What a hell! What on earth shall we give thanks for?!"

At the end of this essay, she wrote down a sentence: "C'est la vie..."

To be frank, I was also shocked when I read her blog. Undoubtly, as expectation of all of us, the Thanks Giving Day should be happy and there shouldn't be any sadness. But as what she wrote, c'est la vie, this is the life, it always give us what we don't expect more than what we really want.

And let's have a look at my own Thanks Giving Day, what did I do on such a "holiday"? These days our team have to spend a lot of working time to support our Finance dept. to do the year-end audit, which made us work over time everyday during the last week. We have to prepare plenty of paperworks and we cannot stop the current projects which must be finished before the end of November. On Thanks Giving Day, I worked until 10:00pm in the office without eating anything when others were enjoying there feast. I was so tired both mentally and physically. That's my Thanks Giving Day, just like a nightmare!

Then, turn back to the question, what really worth of our thanks? The whole life seams dark and painful and full of sorrow. I asked myself this question over and over. Finally, I thought whatever life give, it is really a cherish experience, because it makes me unique and I could learn a lot from many aspects when things happen to me, different experiences make me different from others. From this point of view, life itself is treasure. No matter sadness or happyness, if we could both enjoy the experiences, I think that is the meaning why we live in this world.

I wrote a comment in my friend's blog, said that" Life is the best gift we get, everything happen to us must affect us and make our life brilliant. For example, after your colleagues were fired, they will find another brighter future for their careers. All these things have its internal reason. So the one who need our thanks is life itself. If we keep our mode in being thankful to everything we meet, the whole life should be much happier. And in that way, I do believe we will have a better life."