Your Unemployed Daughter

After all that turkey talk, guess what we ate last night? That’s right, a chicken.

However, and despite the fact that it doesn’t photograph well, it was a highly delicious chicken. And there was stuffing, and roasted Brussels sprouts, potatoes, butternut squash, shallots, and even a parsnip or two.

B did a very good job with the cooking; as well as the aforementioned goodies he whipped up a pumpkin pie according to Mom’s old recipe, which we ate with homemade vanilla ice cream that had an intriguing bologna aftertaste. Not to say that wasn’t delicious, too. I just ate another slice (sans ice cream) for breakfast, and it was even better. That’s the thing about pie.

And now it’s Black Friday, and we’re deciding whether to go to Where the Wild Things Are or the Pixies concert. Both great contributors to my youth, and so, it all comes full circle.

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photo credit: ShawnHasIssues

Hey, hey, so, news y’all! Remember how the peeps at Walmart got all shithouse-rat-CRAZY last year waiting in line to storm the barracks (I mean, store) when it opened at 5 am on the day after Thanksgiving? And some poor employee got stomped to death in our boisterous Middle American friends’ pursuit of a bargain-priced flat-screen?

Well, worry ye not. Walmart’s bigwigs have put their heads together this time and come up with a fail-proof plan. See, they know a lot of people are unemployed, or tightening belts, or cheaper than they ever were, cheap bastards. Thus:

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