November 28

It was 85 degrees here on Thanksgiving. Even we think it was a bit warm for this time of year. Still, we did enjoy watching the snowy Thanksgiving Day Parade from New York, in our beds, with the ceiling fan on. And playing football in the grass while wearing shorts is pretty nifty. Even factoring in the gorgeous weather, our favorite thing about Thanksgiving is eating pie for breakfast on Friday. A little sliver of chocolate, a hunk of pumpkin and a slice of berry–the breakfast of champion Quill Sisters. As we head into the shopping season, we’d like to share just one of the brilliant ideas we have on a regular basis. We keep many of these to ourselves, but this one is perfect for today. It’s Black Friday – Get a Black Kitten! We think this is a marketing idea we could really get behind. Here, laugh at this stuff while we make up some posters.

1. The plague. It’s back. Every year we find a news clipping that brings up the plague. Maybe we’re stupid but we’re not exactly sure which plague they’re talking about. The Black Plague? The Bubonic Plague? When we looked it up, it seems that The Black Plague IS the Bubonic Plague. Shows what we know. What we did learn is that there are a whole bunch of plagues we didn’t even know about. Now we’re all freaked out. When we put in our symptoms into WebMD, turns out we might have all of them. That, ladies and gentlemen, is why the internet is bad. Anyway, the

We don’t know if this was THE horse, but still. Why?

World Heath Organization reports that 40 people have died from “the plague” and 119 have been diagnosed since August of this year in Madagascar. Turns out we’re not getting a lemur this year.

2. Brotherly love. The police arrested some goofball for punching a police horse. That alone is awful, and we think there should be a creative punishment for him. That’s not the funny part of the story because that’s not funny. Here we go. During his arrest, the police found marijuana and drug paraphernalia in his pockets. The moron in question stated that the pants belonged to his brother.

Oh, come on!

Nice. We hope his brother kicked his ass. But still, as Amylynn’s husband noted when she read him the story, “Weren’t his pants with him all day?” Dear god, we hope so.

3. We need a koala. The G20 Summit was held this month in Brisbane, Australia. All the leaders of the world show up to discuss important things like ending the Ebola epidemic (see plague above – we’re just sayin’) and fixing the economy. This is important stuff, we think we’ll all agree. But the most important thing happened when the koalas showed up. It seems the Sisters are never in the

Oh yeah, this looks delightful

right place at the right time. You can’t believe how envious we are that they got to actually HOLD A KOALA. No one will even let us touch one. Damn it! The Sisters are considering running for president. Two women are better than whatever else they can come up with. We don’t really want the job, but the perks are outrageous.

4. Sleeping in on Black Friday. Usually Amylynn is one of those crazies who gets up in the middle of the night (or more likely, just stays up. It’s easier in the long run) to go shopping on Black Friday. Not this year. Nothing in the ads really struck her fancy. We can’t tell you how much better it is sleeping in with Jojo the Cat than getting sweaty and annoyed in Target at that ridiculous hour in the morning. Besides, that whole being unemployed thing is really going to give us extra time to shop for Christmas anyway. Maybe it’s a new tradition.

5. Best pretzel rolls ever! Ava doesn’t really care for the part of Thanksgiving that includes turkey and the trimmings. We know, odd right? Maybe even unAmerican. In her defense, her family used to eat Chinese food for Thanksgiving so it’s not really her fault she doesn’t like turkey. Before you march to her house with pitch forks, she does like pumpkin pie so simmer down. Now to the pretzel rolls. For some unknown reason, Ava’s family got pretzel rolls for Thanksgiving dinner. At first, Ava was disgruntled. She might not like Thanksgiving dinner but if she’s forced to have it, she wants it traditional all the way. Crazy, right? After sharing one with the girl who lives at her house, she had to rescind her disgust – they were freakin’ fabulous!!! But here’s the best part – she perfectly toasted and buttered one up for breakfast today and it was the freakin’ best toasted buttered pretzel roll EVER. They came from Costco just so you know where to get yours.

And just to solidify why we need a koala, here you go. The answer is obvious.