Monday Morning Questions on Tuesday! What Do You Want to Ask Me During America’s Thanksgiving Week?

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Happy Tuesday! This work week is going to be short but horrible for me, thus the delayed Monday post. It’s a holiday week in America so a third of my staff are out, and apparently this year all of our clients decided “instead of taking it easy because it’s a short week, I am going to try to squeeze 5 days of work into 3 days”. I’m just cranking through the work day as best I can, and then debraining with Great British Bake Off in the evening. Americans are the WORST! Why can’t we just enjoy our holiday weeks?

Here is where you get to ask me anything from “What IS American Thanksgiving anyway?” to “hey, why no birthday posts recently?” Just keep swinging back here all week as you think of new questions!

And now, question for you! If Shahrukh is the Turkey centerpiece of the metaphorical Hindi film Thanksgiving dinner, who is everyone else?

I’m starting us off with Aamir is the pumpkin pie (spicy, vaguely good for you but not really, has a certain grounded quality) and Salman is the mashed potatoes (terrible empty calories but irrisistable.

25 thoughts on “Monday Morning Questions on Tuesday! What Do You Want to Ask Me During America’s Thanksgiving Week?”

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  2. Which season of Bake Off UK are you watching? For some reason BBC Lifestyle chanel is now open in my polish set-top box , and they show Bake Off during my breakfast and when I cook lunch. I have finished season 9 and watch 10 now. Can’t wait to watch the newest one because I heard one of the participants in Polish.

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  3. Do you or anyone else here know of a good financial advisor in the US who works with small income individuals? I feel so confused by everything here and concerned one day I’ll leave here and still be broke / will always be renting because it’s so expensive to buy.

    I had a tax bill shock today because I had not setup supplemental withholding. 😳

    Glad I had some money set aside as a buffer so I paid it, and don’t have to worry about how I’ll make rent.

    Why is your client being so annoying? Aren’t they American?

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    • They are American, but very pushy “let’s just work extra hard and earn the 4 day weekend!” instead of “let’s relax and prepare for the holiday”.

      Hmm, financial stuff. I don’t have any brilliant thoughts, maybe just your bank? They usually have a financial advisor on staff. Or at the very least can recommend one.

      I will say, I think everyone has had a shock tax bill at some point! I know I did, the first year I was working non-salaried at part-time jobs.

      And I happen to know you are living in one of the highest cost of living places in America/the world! So money stuff is kind of crazy for you in a different way than in other places. Genevieve can speak more to that, she grew up in the Bay Area and saw the change.

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      • Yes this place is so expensive. Even with my tech salary, I am still concerned about future.
        It is even more expensive than Sydney Australia – which is a joke! I do like my apartment here though so it’s not all bad 😃

        Financial advice – bad advice is so bad, I had experience with that in Australia. I’m just so wary now.

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      • I asked and my friend didn’t reply. I think he’s just too immersed in family and I feel hesitant to ask him again. Flowers it will be! I was thinking Indian sweets or snacks as another option as they are Indian origin second generation Americans but feeling so unsure of myself.

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        • Naina, what did you bring? How did it go? I’m curious to hear an outsider’s perspective of the holiday. But of course, every family does it a bit differently.

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          • I didn’t bring anything because flower shop was closed and there was a time mix up. I wish I’d taken Indian pumpkin sweets because they weren’t familiar with it, next time! My colleague said to not bring anything.

            It was really nice to be with their family. Their kids were so much fun and good conversation. I was there for roughly 2.5 hours and that was about the extent to which I could tolerate being there.

            I think it’s very much a holiday to spend with family, seemed similar to Christmas I spent with a white Australian family in Australia.

            How was your Thanksgiving?

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          • My favorite part of thanksgiving isn’t the big meal, but the late morning, early afternoon hike my family takes. We walk to a picnic table, pour out wine and sparkling apple cider, and go around saying what we are thankful for while munching on apples, cheese, and sourdough bread. But now my father can’t walk well so we go to a park and hike from the parking lot to a table.

            Then we go home and finish making the giant meal, which I like, but I don’t actually like it more than apples, cheese, and good bread.

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  12. Question – Is it better to see Dunki with the excitement of an evening showing, or (seeing as the last evening Indian movie show I went to had no excitement at all (even though it was a great movie)) would it be better to see a morning show? I can drive my self and all kids who want (mine and cousins) to go for an AM show, but I don’t like driving on freeways after staring at a screen for hours, so I would have to Uber to an evening show and then wouldn’t be able to invite all youths. I’m leaning towards a morning show. I could go the 22nd or 23rd, alas, not on the 21st.

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