I believe there are only nine different ways people celebrate Thanksgiving:

1. You wholeheartedly embrace the collision of football, gluttony and family.

2. You look forward to holiday shopping, which begins the day after Thanksgiving.

3. You dread the holiday season, which begins the day after Thanksgiving. Or does it?

4. You don't mind a day off work spent eating and napping, but don't help with the cooking.

5. You genuinely give thanks.

6. You believe that we've lost the meaning of the holiday.

7. You have to work.

8. You volunteer at a shelter as a way of reminding yourself how thankful you are for what you have.

9. You don't really celebrate it, but are glad for a day off work, which, if you take Friday off as well, adds up to a four-day weekend.

I'm No. 9. I'm going to get relatively lost somewhere in the desert near Moab for Thanksgiving, and will hopefully be picking dirt out of my teeth instead of turkey. Which number are you? Or do you have a totally different response? Here are some Thanksgiving observations YourHub.com users have been making lately.

Kelsey Page, of Highlands Ranch, is lamenting the ever-earlier start of the holiday season. Happy May Day, while we're on the subject.

Ann Himel, of Littleton, can't believe it's Thanksgiving already. But now that she has new shoes, she's ready for Christmas.

Health guru Daniel Polimino, of Highlands Ranch, explains why we get so drowsy after Thanksgiving dinner -- and it's not tryptophan, or the play of the Detroit Lions.

Hannah Smith, of Morrison, says we're forgetting the "thanks" in Thanksgiving.