So while we're at it, here are some things I'm NOT thankful for (2011 edition)

Admittedly, this may not be the healthiest practice, but creating of list of things I am not thankful for each Thanksgiving is slowly becoming one of my favorite Turkey-Day traditions. (Get a load of my 2009 unthankful list here and the 2010 one right here.)

Enjoy yourself today! Have a happy one, and stop feeling guilty. Just have that second slice of pie already.

This year, I'm totally not thankful for: 

• Hang nails
• Improper turn-signal usage
• Stuck drawers
• That Whitney show
• Cold noses
• Cold toes
• The cold in general
• (Also, having a cold)
• Armpit stains
• Commissioned-based sales people who follow you around a store
• Stale chapstick
• The time right between haircuts when your bangs are just slightly.too.long
• Questionable drops of water that fall from the sky on sunny days
• Bad puns in otherwise good television shows
• Errant hairs
• Realizing that your chocolate-chip cookie is actually an oatmeal-raisin one
• Spotty cell-phone service
• Layovers
• Delayed flights
• 3-1-1 for carryons
• A burned tongue and/or roof of the mouth
• Unwanted stickiness
• Tootsie Rolls, or any candy trying to masquerade as chocolate (the jig is UP, Tootsie Rolls--just cool it!)

Before & After

Hope yours was just as delicious as ours.

So while we're at it, here are some things I'm NOT thankful for (2010 edition).

After making this list last year, I thought it might be a fun (or fun for me, at least) exercise to do every Thanksgiving.

Healthy? Probably not. But neither is the second helping of sweet-potato casserole I've just heaped on my plate.

This year, I'm totally not thankful for: 

• Charlie horses


• Static electricity


• Birthdays (sorry. I am not a fan)


• Baked beans


• Cleaning a tub


• People who complain about birthdays (dilemma!)


• Wire hangers


• Password-blocked wifi


• Dead batteries


• iPad envy


• Passive aggressiveness


• Dust


• The M train


• Haughtiness


• Suduko addictions


• The Price Is Right--with or without Bob Barker


• Plaque


• Extreme body odor


• Unibrows

Image sources: Turkey Hat from LittleBirdLucy at Etsy; Ham and Turkey Altered Vintage Plate from BeatUpCreations at Etsy; Turkey Leg Baby Rattle from MayaBella at Etsy

So while we’re at it, here are some things I’m NOT thankful for.

• Morning breath


• Iceberg lettuce


• The taste when you drink orange juice right after brushing your teeth


• Meetings before 10am


• Bad wigs on actors (see Nicolas Cage, Bruce Willis)


• Tennis elbow


• Retainers after the age of 15


• Dry cake


• Flakes from a sunburned scalp masquerading as dandruff


• Pharmaceutical ads


• Bag checks


• Security checks


• Lice checks


• Greasy bangs


• Paper cuts. Paper cuts!


• Mysterious smells


• Anything itchy


• The last day of vacation


• Breakups


• Pigeons