Hey kids, just because a Holiday falls on Thursday, doesn’t mean we are off the hook. The haiku must go on, just like Celine Dion’s heart. I know most of you are busy today with your family, your football, your turkeys and your stack of sales flyers, and other traditional Thanksgiving distractions.
(I would like to ask that my friends who don’t live in the US to help pick up the slack today, as I’m assuming this is just another Thursday for you. Feel free to leave your haikus about us silly Americans and our Turkey orgy and Black Friday Mob scenes. )
But, I also know, many of you will need to wander away from all of that holiday glee for at least a few minutes, so you don’t strangle someone. So welcome to the first ever actual Thanksgiving/Black Friday Haiku Madness!!! Yay! So glad you’re here!
I’m okay with things being slow here today. I myself will be busy with my family today, so I just appreciate the fact that anyone is reading. No pressure, I got that brass ring of 10,000 hits last evening, so, no more whining, no more begging. Thanks to all who read that made it happen. I’m the luckiest dork in the world!!!
Read or don’t read. You’re all safe until the next begging benchmark comes around.
Now, without any more delays, on with the haikus, and I hope everyone’s holiday season is off to a wonderful start!
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Don’t want to do this
Spend all day in the kitchen
Rather stay in bed
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Gramma! What is that?
Pretzels? Whipped cream? Jello? What???
That is NOT salad
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Hi cousin Melvin
Don’t bother with the TV
I blocked Pay per view
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Okay who did it?
Can someone find the plunger?
“Go” at home, people!
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I have had enough
Of my freaking relatives
Only 10 a.m.
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Who invited you?
Snoot in the booze already?
Good Lord, Aunt Betty!!
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Hi there. What’s your name?
Are you with cousin Melvin?
That explains a lot.
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Okay! We’ve eaten
And we had a nice long nap
Let’s go stand in line!
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Open in an hour
The line’s around the building
I don’t have a prayer
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Look at what I got!
I’ve no idea what it is
But it was on SALE!
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See how much I saved?!
Only took all night to get!
WHAT?! No one wants one?
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Holiday lemmings
Line up to meet certain doom
Push, shove, grab, stab, JOY!
Charming tradition
Black Friday how I love thee
Stick with Amazon
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Okay kids! You’re up! ~ Hope I’ll have time to drop in and admire and comment on your lovely poems yet to be born!
TCD~
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eat, drink and be merry
enjoy this Thanksgiving Day
and shop til you drop
tomorrow
from a Canadian who could not haiku today
all comments welcome
you know here we don’t care about rules
thanks and happy holidays!
My kids are vegan
So the Grandkids are as well
Tofurkey just sucks
I tried vegan life
I’m a horrible person
didn’t last a week
I tried very hard
But animals so tasty!
Shame on me! She wails.
I tried vegan too
But that lifestyle’s not for me
Cheese and meat so good
Enjoy the taters?
it’s little consolation
Subway tomorrow?
Taters I enjoy
And I eat the turkey too
Vegans must adapt
lovely day
gratefully happy
smiles and love
Awesome thoughts from you!
My reply? Big fat ditto!
Happy day to you!
rolls and dessert done
stuffing in the crock pot
turkey in the oven
just about to do the cranberries
and then the potatoes
then shower
then set the table
then mash taters
make gravy
serve dinner
get wasted
Is that a haiku?
Oh, screw it.
no time for
counting syllables
only for stuffing our
faces and being
with loved ones
mm your table
sounds
Dyn-0-mite
delicious
Diva
dudette
don’t know about this stuffing
it looks pretty anemic
Oh well, huge bottle of wine, some Jack, some beer,
no one’s gonna notice,
right?
eat eat eat be merry
maybe with some jazz music
and water pistol
Love it! Water pistol? I would love to hear more about that tradition.
I’m in the UK
We don’t have Thanksgiving here
But still want turkey
(nom nom nom!)
Thanks! Nom nom nom yourself! I expect to hear that from my sons today.
Nom nom nom nom nom
nom nom football alcohol
ZZZZZ
I’m Canadian
Eating turkey just the same
No day off here though.
Trying to get through
Turkey at work makes day long
Stupid tryptophan.
Must have more turkey
But, now is time for a nap
A good night, gluttons
I did mine on Twitter… that still counts, right?
You did? Crap! I must have missed it. I was kinda busy with the whole cooking entertaining cleaning up thing yesterday. But sure, it counts! Hope my new unfollowers got to see it before they unfollowed me. I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving, my friend.
I did.
And I met a new baby, but you will find out about that all this week.
Really? Awesome! I love babies. But you know that already. In fact, I met twin babies the other day. Teeny weenies. 4 pounds! I was good. I held one and smushed on her and didn’t squirt her with anything! Aren’t you proud of me?
Yes. Good job. I was only 4 and a half pounds when I was born. But this baby is going to be a life-long friend… but it is a long story, so you will just have to wait.
DAMMIT! Ok, I’ll wait.
It will be worth it… it always is.
Of course it will. I don’t doubt that one bit.
I like you.
Keep spoon feeding these compliments, and you’ll end up on my Sally Field Page. I use the empty threat like you use the manipulation and misdirection.
We just want to be loved… is that so wrong?
I’m weeping. Good thing I have made a tissue box holder out of my Oscars. Sniff Sniff.
sssshhhhh… I am starting the new series of baby posts right now…
sorry, shooshing. Don’t want to wake the baby posts.
Ha. Now go feast your eyes.
I did! Now go feast yours on my sappy and nostalgic Christmas post.
Right.
I can’t find it…
you can’t? It’s my newest one. A Perfect As Seen On TV Christmas. Don’t know if you may have seen it by now. I realize you wrote this comment quite a while ago.
I will look again. Is it before Thanksgiving?
no, i posted it today
I will look again, but there is a lot going on right now.
http://wp.me/2BTAP
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