I hope you had a good Thanksgiving.
Like many of you, Thanksgiving was different for me this year. Due to the pandemic, most of us could not visit with extended family. I couldn’t see any of my five siblings, any nephews or nieces or friends. On Thursday I wasn’t visited by my wife’s parents or any of her 8,000 relatives. Nobody came to my house on Thanksgiving.
But it wasn’t all good news.
I spent Thanksgiving with my family. Again. These are the same faces I celebrated St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Mother’s Day and everyone’s birthday with this year.
Nobody more, nobody less.
Comedian Jim Gaffigan’s Thanksgiving holiday was shared with the same people he’s been in lockdown with since March.
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I cooked brats for these same six people and their same six faces on Labor Day, 4th of July, and Memorial Day.
On Halloween, me and these six faces dressed in costumes and trick-or-treated around our own house, because we are not insane.
On Thursday I somehow found gratitude and over-ate with these same six faces, like I have on every other day for the last eight months.
I am grateful. Those same six faces are healthy, and with me.
But it occurred to me, if the year 2020 were a song, it would be “Hotel California” by The Eagles. Because if I’ve learned anything from this pandemic: You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
Hotel California (2013 Remaster)
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Too bad it wasn’t that song, “Take It Easy”!
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See also:
Week 1: Family life under lockdown
Week 2: Life in quarantine is like a sitcom
Week 3: Spring arrives!
Week 4: Lessons of “distance learning”
Week 5: Kids, quarantine and sanity are not compatible
Week 6: Consuming all news, all the time
Week 7: Jim Gaffigan discovers he misses strangers
Week 8: On sharing dinner with the masses
Week 9: On living in unprecedented times
Week 10: Are we REALLY all in this together?
Week 11: On not knowing what comes next
Jim Gaffigan on what dads REALLY want on Father’s Day
Jim Gaffigan on getting the whole lockdown thing wrong
2020, please turn your notifications off
Jim Gaffigan on his first drive-in standup show
On living in a time warp
On acquiring a green thumb
Back to (home) school
Summer memories, ’50s style
Blondes’ bad rap
On the painstaking, belabored marathon of an election
On saving face while wearing a mask
For more info:
- jimgaffigan.comFollow @JimGaffigan on Twitter
Story produced by Aria Shavelson. Editor: George Pozderec.