The Life of 3G: oh the reason for excitement

Alright everyone, I’m going to tell you about the McClenaghan family Thanksgiving of 2009, because it will give you a better idea of how excited I was for our feast this year …First of all, I’m going to go ahead and apologize for the grossness of this story…Usually I don’t talk like this, but because I feel like I’m in the presence of 3G, I consider it ok.

So here it goes… our Thanksgiving crowd has unfortunately dwindled over the past couple of years with my sister getting married and she having to go to Alex (her husband)’s family’s house and other reasons…so last year, we went up to our best family friend’s house two doors up from us. They are basically family so it isn’t weird or unusual for us to eat Thanksgiving lunch with them. So right before we ate, we prayed and blessed the food. During the prayer, the grandmother starts crying (if she is anything like 3G, she’s sick of waiting and ready to eat), and of course I’m beside her and I don’t really know her that well so it’s nice and awkward trying to comfort her. So then it’s time to eat! FINALLY…so the grandmother gets in line and I get behind her. Well as she is still stiffing and wiping her tears, she gets the tongs for the turkey and decides she wants one of the very back pieces of turkey. Now, picture a small little lady reaching for the back of the turkey plate…her head is hovering over the plate of turkey. Well, I guess she didn’t blow her nose well enough because as she is leaning over the turkey, SOMETHING starts dripping and just flowing out of her nose (again, I apologize). Luckily (I guess you would consider this lucky) she sniffs really hard and all of that grossness hanging about 6 inches under her nose just goes right on up back where it belongs. Yall, I almost started crying I was so grossed out. Sooooo I definitely skipped out on the turkey, and basically everything else because I was scared of the incidence happening over and over again. And THAT is why I could barely move after this year’s Thanksgiving, I had to eat double to make up for last year.

Sorry I had to tell y’all that, and you’re welcome for not taking pictures.

So this morning, I decided to go running. And here in Greenville, there are leaves ALL over the place and it rained a couple of days ago so they are all really wet and slick. Well I started running when it was getting darker and as it gets darker, I start to run faster because I get scared. Running fast (for me) and wet leaves don’t go too well together so as you can imagine, I definitely slipped and fell flat on my face, ripped the knees in the pants that was wearing and skinned my hands of pretty good. You better bet I didn’t go running anymore after that.

So of course I love spending time with my family, but here are some of the reasons why I missed 3G...

Passed by Elizabeth's house and look what I found! Marge's car in her driveway...Marge drove Elizabeth home from school on Friday because she was flying out of good 'ole Greenville/Spartanburg airport and left her car at the Nickles'.