How is it on the shortest day we have the longest episode? Well, I'll take it! 

In which I present to you a short gift guide and of course, the food holidays for this week, and I only complain a tiny bit. 

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I have a scratchy voice, sorry about that.

In this episode we talk about holiday expectations of yourself and others, setting boundaries, advent calendars, my favorite bartenders,  and update to our plumbing issue, and who is profiting off of human suffering? 

UPDATE: I misspoke: 13th Doctor! What was I thinking! IYKYK. 

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At some point Twitter will be done and Patreon is where all my good between podcast stuff will probably end up. 

Just a quickie to get you ready for Thanksgiving, for better or worse! and finish out the month of food holidays. I'm considering entering a holiday cookie contest and need to decide which recipe. 

We got a $9000 plumbing bill to pay next week so if you're on the fence about the Patreon,  this would be a good month to join. :-)  You can check it out at patreon.com/twochocolatecakes 

Not sure what is going to happen with Twitter but you can always find me  at instagram and tiktok @jencoleslaw although I don't post a ton there, also @twochocolatecakes where I post even more infrequently. I'm sure if/when Twitter self-immolates I will pick up the slack on  the other  platforms. 

Hope everyone has the Thanksgiving they want and they enjoy, however that manifests. xoxo

*Thanks to the listeners who alerted me that I uploaded LAST WEEK's Episode-sorry about that!  Still got a little jetlag I think.  xoxo

A HODGE-PODGECAST! Yes I said it.  Back from the trip, falling through the doorway at the UPS store so now I got a swollen knee AND my achilles tendon is about to rupture, unpacking, thinking about the holidays, getting ready to bring a carload full of toys to our Hot Dog guy (Dave's Dogs)  who runs a Toys for Tots drop off. If you would like to throw a few bucks into the pot to increase our toy haul, you can venmo or paypal me @ jencoleslaw 

Do you have a good Thanksgiving Recipe to share? send it to me! Especially if it is a side dish or dessert. 

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Remote broadcast today complete with weird echo, and other noises I had no control over. Let's call them "ambiance." You never realize how loud your hotel room is until you have to try to record something in it.  Also, the slowest upload speeds ever. 

Here's the link to the Anthropocene Reviewed episode I mentioned--definitely give it a listen and if you haven't heard the entire run of 37 episodes, I highly recommend.  You can also hear most of the episodes as an audiobook but the podcast is free and actually has more essays than the book. 

I'll put some pics up of this past few days for the Patreons; please consider joining at even the lowest level which gets you digital content like extra posts and poetry corner, and even the occasional postcard from exotic places. 

Don't forget: Tuesday FIRST THING: RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT. Do not let me down what with Mid-term elections and all. 

Last weekend I went to CT to visit my mother and sister. It was a whole thing. And it wasn't all good things and so the pod kind of reflects that. 

Some of you know about my emotional support hippo, Fatniss, but not everyone knows the whole story so today on this special anniversary weekend, I'm sharing the Fatniss Friendship story with you. 

The Batter Top Cobbler is behind a paywall at America's Test Kitchen but if you have any of those cookbooks (baking) it might be in there. 

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In this episode I show my middle class ass by complaining about how hard it was to keep my pool clean this summer.  🙄😬

Also, I revisit something I talked about earlier in the year and that is about who curates our digital lives and taking advantage of opportunities to hear and save family oral history and why it is important to me to do that. 

And while I do not mention it in the podcast because I will probably do an emergency reminder podcast on Wednesday--Friday is October 1 which means what, people? RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT! 

Join the patreon now (before the end of September)  so that you can reap the spoils of my working vacation to the south pacific. 

In this episode, I talk about who we would line up 10 miles and 30+ hours to spend 10 seconds saying goodbye to, the way folks in the UK are with the Queen. There's also a little musing about how the media would cover big historical events like the JFK or MLK assassinations or other important news stories.  

I got my booster shot this week and I felt kind of unwell today but I had to put some time in at the animal hospital, helping out and I was exhausted so I apologize in advance for how bad the editing is on the pod this week. I've been overloaded the last few weeks but hopefully, things will settle down soon.  

OMGOSH I totally forgot to tell you about how the SHEEPOVER (well technically they did not stay the night but I just love saying that) went. 

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This is a short midweek episode with some thoughts about collective mourning, funerals and lack of due to the pandemic and how we might take advantage of this gigantic worldwide event to process our own losses. I'll be back this weekend w/ food holidays and an update on how the Lamb Mowing event went (tomorrow!)