so yeah, the chicken thing. i found a loophole. free range. t'was my sister who came up with this the other day. she was once a vegan and now shares the dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets with her son. and so we were talking about chickens, and their yumminess and isn't it a shame how badly we treat them before we eat them...and she said "what about free range?". what about free range indeed? so, the chicken loophole. there are still some things to get over. like, when the recipe you're reading says something like "season the carcass" or "save the innards". that's going to take some getting used to. my brother in law is very excited and is planning to make enchiladas next week to celebrate the chicken loophole.
one of our customers came in especially to wish us a happy valentine's day. how sweet is that? what a nice man.
as i didn't get home this weekend, i missed out on making reid's costume for the valentine's play. i also missed out on making pretzels with reid. bummer. so i have to think of something good to do next weekend. so i can be a cool aunt. i also plan to spend the weekend reminding my sister how OLD she is. as it is her birthday and she will be 33 (gasp!) because ofcourse life can't go on after 33. i've been conducting research on the year 1972...and i was planning a spectactular piece of modern art, but she seems genuinely bummed about reaching the hip breaking age of 33. so i think i'll just make the odd comment "you're as old as pong, but you're not as old as dirt". how would she know how much i care if i didn't torture her?
my parents didn't seem very upset about the "incident" with the car on saturday. my dad seemed relieved that the car wasn't dented. my mother said "well, you wouldn't have died, we know that". we know that because my sister has survived two horrendous accidents in the same model car i drive. why have children when you could have crash test dummies? they were in very good spirits all around. i asked my mom what they were doing for valentine's day and she said "we're going out drinkin" and i heard my dad in the background "she'll never believe that, tell her we're gonna stay home drinkin". the funniest part is my dad trying to find the most convincing lie to tell me.