hello jezzies. I am having a shit day at work. anyone want to swap places? (yeah it's monday here, I'm not just a time lord).

I love this, that must have been amazing for you. and nurses are just the best!

haha yes I do work for him, but he's a government minister, not a religious one. like a secretary in the US.

truly. and now I have leftovers for lunch and all my colleagues are super jealous.

thanks! good company and being stuffed full of sides is all that matters at the end of the day.

I thought my thanksgiving dinner was going to suck. nobody wanted to celebrate so I had to eat alone. work went really late and my minister was being an idiot all day.

can someone come down into the greys and approve the really important discussions about bouncers and intent? seems pretty disrespectful that the top reply is about someone completely different (and yes I know this is an update to an older article)

I know I'm a sad sack.... when I see things about how horrible thanksgiving is for some people I'm just thinking... I will take your place! my fam lives all over the country and I would love an excuse to get them together and make them pie.

my secret weapon is being a foreigner, but this is the first time in five years I haven't done any sort of thanksgiving/friendsgiving. i think tonight i might go get a little bit of turkey and maybe be sad.

I've seen this show once and then last night I had a dream that Michelle was like, my spirit guide. get out of my head charles!

I am only about halfway through this and I need to take a break. Anna, this is such fantastic reporting. thank you for telling this story.

your mom and i would be friends. we were never allowed to put them up until december 8, the day after my dad's birthday. now i overcompensate for that and put them up super early.

we don't have thanksgiving here (a travesty) so i console myself with early christmas decorating. go for it!

i'm putting up my christmas tree! such joy. forcing mariah carey on my housemates. they love me.

this always makes me roll my eyes because my male friends are so dramatic

Guy I had just started seeing:

yep, they are the worst. some people just can't separate them from the debate about the merits of GMOs. we don't have many GMOs in Australia but we have modified cotton, and cows eat the cotton seed, and we eat the cows.

and if you say anything remotely positive about GMOs you are a paid Monsanto shill! like I wish Monsanto paid me, I could use the money.

white chocolate & hazelnut cheesecake!

this did the rounds in the Australian government (where I work) earlier this year and I printed it out and stuck it on my desk as ~inspiration~