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November 26, 2003
t-day all nighter
**update on the turkey adventure**
i've uncovered crucial information on how to *brine* a turkey -- who knew you had to do that? now i get what mike was talking about with his uber-geeky MS Project chart illustrating that he'll be pulling an all-nighter tonight!
when i was strolling down the aisle at trader joe's, i had images of plopping the turkey in the pot, stuffing something in the cavity, shoving it in the oven and it would come out all nice and brown in a couple of hours! apparently this is not true.
so tonight there will be a turkey brining, soaking, brewing, roasting all-nighter party at my house. it'll be just like college, cramming before finals in the common room with a bunch of stressed out, exhausted girls in footy pajamas only to end up getting shitfaced at 3am and making the horrible decision to bleach my hair, falling asleep...and waking up with distinctly chrissy snow hair at the precise moment that i needed to be 2 miles away taking my final. then driving like a bat out of hell down to campus, parking my 1972 red bronco in the middle of the lawn in front of the testing center, sprinting up the stairs in the same footy pajamas having completely forgotten what i'd crammed into my head the night before.
that will be me. tonight. only instead of finals it's turkey. and instead of my professor it will be my mother. this is much worse my friends, much worse.
so please, come on over. bring the hair bleach and a six-pack and save me from myself, and my predictably poor judgement.
Posted by heidijanet at November 26, 2003 11:53 AM
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This post made me laugh out loud. Great writing!
Posted by: Ryan at November 28, 2003 09:02 AM
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