Back again...10 pounds heavier

After a much needed, and deserved break from my daily blogging, I'm back to highlight a few things about Thanksgiving that we are are hopefully familiar with. We all know that family bonding comes with the holiday, but what are the pros and cons of this most sacred of eating days?
Pro's:

1. Seeing cousins, catching up
2. Good food
3. Getting off school for a max. of 5 days
4. Sleeping in, staying up late NOT doing homework
5. College kids come home!
6. Movies are on all the time (Back to the Future, for ex.)
7. For some, Black Friday discounts
8. being THAT much closer to Christmas (less than a month now!)

Cons:

1. The drunk and disorderly aunts and uncles
2. Having to clean your ENTIRE HOUSE for your guests
3. Eating too much food and feeling physically ill for days afterward
4. Having crippling amounts of homework you save till Sunday night
5. Relatives talking politics, economics, and (gulp) your future. All the while managing to say something offensive or racist
6. Cleaning up the thousands of plates after the meal
7. Still being a month away from Christmas
8. Exams are right around the corner...

So as you can see, the scales are realtively balanced, with enough good and bad going around to tide you over until Christmas. Given, this is a slightly bias perspective based on my own crazy family but hey, I assume we're all relatively similar in our grievances right? If not, leave a comment and say what you love or hate about the day of thanks.