The Chickens Were Wearing Yellow Polka Dot Bikinis
Posted by Moose on December 31st, 2006. Filed under: Tis the Season.Ten days off work usually means carefully color-coded lists filled with all sorts of improbable action items like scrub grout, alphabetize book shelves, and chew food before swallowing. (Why? What does ten days off mean to you?) My vacation was also to include a plane ride to Hawaii, but that got filed under Thinking, Wishful. But the manically organized lists joined my tropical vacation in the Not Happening basket when I decided I would rather incubate a virus than dust the window ledges with Q-tips. Instead of gleefully rearranging canned goods, I slept 14 hours a day and stared blankly at the TV for the remaining ten. I considered it a vacation well spent.
Until I woke up this morning with an inexplicable thought on constant loop:
“It was less a party than a seascape with chickens.”
Ever wake up to such a sentence? Either I need to lay off the cold medicine or I needed that tropical holiday more than previously suspected. I was clearly woken abruptly from a dream about fowl vacationing in the Bahamas.
Happy New Year, my friends. I’m back. And still not quite right in the head.
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December 31st, 2006 at 5:08 pm
and we wouldn’t want you any other way… happy new year!
December 31st, 2006 at 6:20 pm
Happy New Year to you and Mr. Moose! May 2007 be filled with blessings.
December 31st, 2006 at 6:35 pm
Happy new year back, good to have you round again! Fell better
and there is a huge ski vacation in Feb in the great state of “the Vermont” if you want! free place to stay, huge party and free beer, local shit too!
December 31st, 2006 at 10:24 pm
Happy New Year to you and the sea chickens! I’m sorry you got sick and couldn’t compulsively clean your house. Well…I’m sorry you got sick. And I’m really sorry you didn’t make it to Hawaii! (And as an aside, I do the slightly crazy perfectionisty list thing for holidays and weekends too and always end up getting sick. That might not be a coincidence.)
January 1st, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Feel better!