What kind of Thanksgiving dinner...

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...is gumbo? Only when you live with someone from Louisiana, could gumbo be considered a proper Thanksgiving dinner. It's bad enough that I don't get to be with ANY of my family on Thanksgiving (a holiday I've never particularly cared for anyway), it's bad enough that we both have to work on Thanksgiving day and are having Thanksgiving dinner tonight, it's bad enough that I'm told by Matt that he'll be preparing the meal and I'll have to cook it (for his family members that are visiting), but he calls to check on me last night at work (since I've been sick the past 4 days) and tells me we're having gumbo. It's not even turkey gumbo. I was looking forward to turkey and dressing and pie and green bean casserole and sweet potatoes and (best of all) leftfovers all to myself. But no. We're having gumbo. Gumbo. And the pie. We're not even having pumpkin. Pecan and...wait for it...lemon merangue. Now, I'll admit, in the pie category, pecan is my favorite, but lemon...for Thanksgiving? I want to cry.