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40 Reasons To Get Excited for Thanksgiving

Being smacked in between Halloween and Christmas, this holiday needs some love.

Megan Showers

Nov 14, 2016

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40 Reasons To Get Excited for Thanksgiving

Stephanie Early Green

Ahhhh, Thanksgiving. It always seems to be underrated due to it being smacked in between Halloween and Thanksgiving. People start putting up their lights and singing Christmas Carols without realizing another holiday deserves some love too. Don't think so? Well here are 40 Reasons To Get Excited For Thanksgiving:

1. Guilt Free Eating

2. Naps With Your Furbaby(s)

3. Spending Time With Family & Friends

4. 31 Days Until Christmas

5. ALL. THE. SALES. (Cyber Monday, Black Friday)

6. No Pressure To Get Drunk The Entire Weekend (Unlike Halloween)

7. Leftovers

8. Rest and Relaxation

9. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

10. Football

11. Pumpkin Pie

12. Stuffing

13. Homemade Mashed Potatoes and Noodles

14. Charlie Brown

15. Presidential Turkey Pardon

16. SNL Thanksgiving Episode

17. Friendsgiving

18. The National Dog Show

19. History & Tradition

20. The Weather

21. A Secular Holiday

22. No Gifts

23. A Day Off Work For (Almost) Everyone

24. Everyone Is In A Good Mood

25. You Can Break Your Diet

26. Hand Turkeys

27. Cuteness Of The Kids' Table

28. Thanksgiving Break For Students

29. Thanksgiving Eve

30. No Pressure To Wear Special Themed Clothing

31. Food Drives

32. All Day Drinking Is Acceptable

33. Gravy

34. The Christmas Prequel

35. Walking Into A Grocery Store And Seeing The First Shipment of Eggnog

36. Putting Your Christmas Tree Up The Day After

37. 25 Days of Christmas on ~~ABC Family~~ Freeform Channel

38. You're Allowed To Put Bacon And Bourbon In Every Food

39. Pecan Pie (This one's for you Fred)

And last, but not least;

40. GIVING THANKS

The only thing I don't look forward to during Thanksgiving is the endless amount of questions from relatives demanding to know what I am doing with my life. But, I think these 40 reasons make those questions worth it.

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Coors Light Summer Brew:

Leinenkugel Summer Shandy

Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat

Sam Adams Summer Ale

Hell or High Watermelon

Blue Moon Summer Honey

LandShark Lager

Corona

75 degrees and sunny, plus, no humidity. I mean do I really need to say more?

Perfect Weather

You'll get an effortless tan

You can exercise with a view

You don't have to worry about bug bites

In n Out all day, every day

We have outdoor concerts

We live where people vacation

Because let's be honest, we all use lyrics.

1. “Don’t get too close, it’s dark inside. It's where my demons hide.”

2. “Tonight, we are young.”

3. “Cuz I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.”

4. “Tell me how they got that pretty little face on that pretty little frame.”

5. “I can’t wait to fall in love with you, you can’t wait to fall in love with me.”

6. “Sweatpants, hair tied, chillin with no makeup on.”

7. “Why you so obsessed with me?”

8. “We ain’t ever getting older.”

9. “I didn’t know that I was starving until I tasted you.”

10. “Didn’t they tell you I’m a savage?"

11. “I’m gonna make you miss me.”

12. "Cheers to the freakin weekend.”

13. “Love’s a game. Wanna play?”

14. “You don’t know about me, but I bet you want to.”

15. “Let’s set each other’s lonely nights, Be each other’s paradise.”

16. “Trippin’ on skies, sippin’ waterfalls."

17. “Wish we could turn back time, to the good old days.”

18. “But you will remember me for centuries.”

19. “Something about you makes me feel like a dangerous woman."

20. “Don’t act like it’s a bad thing to fall in love with me.”

21. “Darling, I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream.”

22. “Find me where the wild things are.”

23. “I’m high on lovin’ you.”

24. “If you’re gonna be somebody’s heartbreak, somebody’s mistake, if you’re gonna be somebody’s first time, somebody’s last time, be mine.”

25. “Don’t be afraid to take the road less traveled on.”

Everything Bruce says in his classic rock songs.

1. "Talk about a dream Try to make it real You wake up in the night With a fear so real Spend your life waiting For a moment that just don't come Well don't waste your time waiting." (Badlands)

2. "It's a town full of losers/ I'm pulling out of here to win" (Thunder Road)

3. "You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above" (Tunnel of Love)

4. "I got something in my heart/ I been waitin' to give/ I got a life I wanna start/ One I been waitin' to live" (Leah)

5. “God have mercy on the man/ Who doubts what he’s sure of” (Brilliant Disguise)

7. “Is a dream a lie when it don’t come true, or is it something worse?” (The River)

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1. "Talk about a dream
Try to make it real
You wake up in the night
With a fear so real
Spend your life waiting
For a moment that just don't come
Well don't waste your time waiting." (Badlands)