AHHHH!!! I had a whole big rant here, and accidentally hit the backspace button while I wasn't in a text box, it went back to the previous page and deleted EVERYTHING!!! so now to try to reform it...

Okay, so as most Americans know, today is Thanksgiving, in other words, an excuse to close businesses and schools, get together with family, and stuff you face. Or at least, that's what most people see it as, the true meaning of Thanksgiving has been lost, it was actually to celebrate the harvest, how many of you knew that? Not many I bet, I think that, if I were to head to New York City and ask people who are watching the parade what the meaning is, they would say something about the pilgrims (which is true in a sense, they celebrated the "first" Thanksgiving) or just give me a blank stare. To be honest, I'm not one for holidays, having an extremely dysfunctional family, whenever they get together, it results in (from the adults) arguments, drunkenness, and belittling of the children, and from the children, boredom, being upset, and the older ones (such as my one cousin and I) watching all the others to be sure they don't get into trouble and to be sure her two year old half-brother doesn't get hurt. This is my mom's side. My dad's side, I no longer associate with, my dad included, but I hardly even know anybody on that side of the family. If I could, I would hole up in my room every holiday, and would be perfectly content with eating left over Chinese food (which I actually did several years ago, I refused to go into my aunt's with my dad because I was just tired of it, so I sat in the car for probably about three hours practicing flute, reading, and eating left over veggie lo mein, which the sad thing is, that was probably my best Thanksgiving) But really, on the days when everybody is supposed to be out celebrating and happy, I would prefer to sit in my room alone, reading, playing flute, piccolo, keyboard, listening to music, playing computer, sleeping, writing, anything!

On a happier note, yesterday, I went to a nearby music store and rented a piccolo, which I seem to be doing pretty well on seeing as it can take a while to get accustomed to the embouchure, but I can play every thing that I can on my flute on the piccolo, including the Super Mario Bros theme song (excluding three notes that don't exist on piccolos) and I may be getting a Piccolo of my own for Christmas!