Thanksgiving How Much is Too Much

I'm a culinary management major which means food and cooking are a big part of my life. I love to cook so what better holiday is there than one pretty much dedicated to it and be thankful for it, that's right non. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday I get to cook to my hearts content and watch people enjoy. So every year since I was like fifteen I've made thanks giving dinner and invited as many friends and family as I can to enjoy it. Yet still it never ceases to surprise me at how greedy and selfish people can be. I love my extended family but they never cease to amaze me by their behavior. Almost all of them have it in their heads that my parents are made of money and that means anytime they are around us they can eat us out of house and home. I mean seriously my thanksgivings are no small affair of a turkey and 3 or 4 sides I have like 8 sides and never less than two 20lb turkeys at the minimum and I usually make double to triple the amount needed. So for them to even work their way through that in just a few days is amazing yet they do every year and for the most part I'm ok with that but this year took the cake. I decided due to funds and lack of time to do a quiet thanksgiving with just the immediate extended family so they came we ate and it was merry but then my aunt and three kids decided to stay till Sunday and that's when thinks took a turn. Well they went to town on the food even the vegetarian dishes I made for my non meat eating parents and then they went too far. My best friends birthday was coming up and we had decided to go out to celebrate but before we went out we decided to eat at my house because we are all poor college students. So I went to work making everything for the party. As I'm making the food I notice my cousins circling me like sharks around a baby seal. So I made sure I explained this wasn't for them I had friends coming over and please not to touch and no they couldn't work for food I wasn't making that much. Yet they still circled. My friends came we ate and we started heading out I asked one cousin who had been allowed to hang with us to put up the food and protect it from the other sharks. Well I learned a valuable lessen the next day. I didn't get to check up on the food till I got off work the next day and what did I find out that it was all gone. My cousin had taken it upon herself to eat as much of the party food as she could and to let everyone else take what they wanted as well. On top of that I learned form my mom that my aunt had proceeded to pack up all the thanksgiving left overs she and her kids hadn't gotten to and brought them home with her they left our fridge bare. I couldn't believe my eyes that was definetly too much.

What to do when someone dies?

The week before last my best friends grandfather died. It was something we were all kind of expecting but it was still a shock. I've known him since the eighth grade been to his house countless time and seen him be the kind patriarch of his family for years. So now knowing that he is gone is weird and I don't know what to say to my friend or how to really be there for her. I hope while she was home for the funeral I did what she needed. I still haven't had a death that has been close to me in my own family but losing her granddad kind of felt like it was. I have talked with him laughed with him spent holidays with him. I know him better than any of my three grandfathers. But at the same time he wasn't really mine so I don't feel like I have a right to be that sad. All I know is he was a great person and I will miss him and I know his family will to. I hope I don't experience a loss in my own family for many more years to come.

Why Can't I Escape Wawa!!!

Every where I go I encounter Wawa. Not only do I work there but it is also every where I turn. I can barely go ten feet in NJ or PA with out seeing the coffee cup the bag or hear someone talking about it. I am totally sick and tired of Wawa.I can't even eat the food there anymore I get sick. I enter one and the smell just attaches itself and clings to me. I swear next I'm going to be dreaming Wawa. I want a new job so bad if I have to deal with one more cranky person at the deli or register I might snap. It like really people I have a hard life to would it kill you to be polite when I'm being that to you. All I'm saying is why does Wawa have to be taking over the tri-state area.