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*whispers*

Yes.

I enjoy what I do.

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Which actually means I almost never get a day off, but that's okay.

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Mmm...

Yah.

My request off was approved, and my next quarterly will be *chef's kiss* 💫 stellar.

I don't work for bosses. I own my company. I am the whole shootin' match.

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Can we postpone?

I hafta take my gramma to get her INR checked at the lab and then I'm gonna want a salad and then we have to go see a man about some steaks.

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https://helplessduck.wordpress.com/2023/08/11/the-holiday-menus/

It's a bit of a wreck, but the first Christmas one is the one with the butter.

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Do you eat shellfish?

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Awe. 🥰

We never had to adjust locations, either. The beauty of the timing was that the administration had all manner of other shit to do after first period, so even when they did manage to make it to the Bojangle's on Hillsborough Street in futile attempts to catch us out truant, we were already back in that ol' Volvo, rollin' out. I probably flipped Kathy Hill one hundred thousand middle fingers. 3/

So, the men (usually more than one) would come flyin' up on two wheels behind the art department as Em and I absconded from the building and into an old Volvo. It was always a Volvo. Onward we would ride to the Hillsborough Street Bojangle's. You see, there is a lull in traffic at Bojangle's between the hours of 0900 and 1000. This is why we call it The Chickening Hour. 2/

Chicken is getting a lot of banter this morning.

Mayhaps, an explanation of The Chickening Hour.

When that vapid trollop sister of mine and I were in high school -back in the 1430's, as you well know- she had chorus at the same time I was in orchestra, first period. (0710-0900). I was banging half the marine biology department undergrads at UNC Chapel Hill, she was doing some... I dunno? some farmer from NC State. 1/

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Sobbing uncontrollably through the rest of that bottle of wine, lemme just say. The shouting won't come until morning. Early morning.

Exactly when no one expects it.

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Mmmm... I would like to very respectfully disagree.

First of all, I'll be out a whole chicken. And what of my clothes? There's gonna be a lot of shouting. 😂

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Ah. Okay. Pre-laundry makes sense. I guess shoe-horn the thing in there wherever it'll fit? Plumbing would be easily found in a kitchen. Still... I can just imagine being two-thirds of the way through a magnum of Pinot Gris and putting a chicken in the washing machine because I confused it for the oven.

There's a lot of butter on this menu...

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Yah! My little laundry room is super cute. Plus storage! Is the "in the kitchen" trend a thing in AU like it is in the UK/EU? That always kinda weirded me out a little. It's certainly better than on the back porch, though.

Who am I joshin'?

I had them planned and budgeted before the third of January.

Four days before we start planning the holiday meals for this year.

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If you find out, do let us know.

My washer and dryer were not inexpensive appliances. The idea of putting them in a dirty garage or outside (TF?!) makes zero sense to me.

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Ducks frequently eat snails.

You know that right?

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Oh, I do like to dance. Mayhaps we can cut a little rug, earn a little money and then gamble it away at the nickel slots in Vegas?