So my husband came home last night, long after I was in bed and asleep. He’d had a long, difficult weekend already (and it was barely even Sunday), but he managed to take a few minutes to stop by the goodbye party for the guy he works with. He told me, “there’s a surprise for you in the fridge.”
I LOVE fridge surprises! I did mumble something about how if it was roadkill I’d be very disappointed, but really there was only about a 14% chance of it being that.
And then, being mostly asleep, I forgot about it.
This morning, AJ said, “did you look in the fridge?”
“No!”
I ran to the fridge like a hyperactive little kid hunting for Easter eggs, expecting maybe a chocolate bar (because sometimes AJ’s cool like that) or a bit of dessert from the party.
I was not expecting… THIS:
Pardon my language, but HOLY SHIT THAT’S A WHOLE LOT OF CRAB LEGS.
There was also deep-fried turkey, hashbrown casserole, and… I don’t know, ham or something. I kind of forgot about all of that when I saw the HOLY SHIT CRAB LEGS.
Do you guys have any idea? DO YOU?! The fact that I’m yelling might tell you that I like crab legs a lot. What you might not have guessed is that I haven’t had them in years. They’re expensive, and there aren’t many restaurants around here that serve them (at least, not at a price I can pay). I think the last time I had them was at Mandarin Buffet in Ontario, when my mom and I pretty much ate everything.
I’m not ashamed of that.
Not all of the surprises I wake up to are pleasant; cold cat barf squishing between my toes comes to mind when I consider the less-pleasant ones. But today… today shall live in my memory as a day of celebrating fathers (hi, dad!), unexpected blessings, and HOLY SHIT CRAB LEGS! God bless generous people with too much food at their parties.
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Now, about that Round of Words update (now that I’ve frightened everyone away): through an intense regimen of BICFOC* and all but neglecting my children, I’ve passed the 20,000 word mark for JuNoWriMo. There’s still a long way to go, and I’m not quite on track, but I’m catching up. I’m reading a little when I can, but on rainy days when I’m stuck inside, it’s all about the writing right now. I’ve started looking for an editor for Bound, though I won’t need one until after this round of revisions and a blasting from beta readers… and then more revisions… but I’m putting feelers out there. That wasn’t a goal, but it’s related, so there you go. Also not an official goal, but I’ve been reading a bunch of ROW80 blog updates from people whose blogs I don’t normally follow, and commenting. I feel good about that, and it’s fun; you never know what you’re going to find out there in Blog Land.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have more running around in circles and screaming to do before I go warm the butter.
That’s not a euphemism.
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*Butt in chair, fingers on keys
disregard the prologue 
June 16th, 2013 at 9:20 am
I’m allergic to seafood so the crab legs would have been no good for me whatsoever but I love unexpected surprises too! Congratulations on getting the wordcount up!
June 16th, 2013 at 10:22 am
Great post–you had me in stitches!
June 16th, 2013 at 10:50 am
You husband sounds like a great guy. I love crab legs too! Congrats on passing 20,000 words!
June 16th, 2013 at 12:49 pm
Yum! I had crabs legs last week for the fist time in at least a decade! Now I’m hungry again!
June 16th, 2013 at 1:18 pm
My wife LOVES crab legs. I enjoy them, but sometimes I’m just not willing to put in the work. 🙂
June 16th, 2013 at 4:40 pm
Hope you super enjoyed the nums. I’m not a seafood person, but I appreciate hubby num surprises. Though, mine is on a whole, “nothing junk food in the house” kick… Which, yeah, but le sigh…
As for ROW80: Awesome word count. You are doing awesome! Keep up the great work.
June 17th, 2013 at 2:16 am
That’s my son’s absolute favorite food. He could eat his weight in crab legs! Congrats on the word count.
June 17th, 2013 at 5:39 am
what a great surprise for the early hours – I hope you enjoyed your food fest and def. that called for language and capital letters:)
well done on JuNo – your’e catching up, I’m still a little behind but have a fairly clear week so am hoping still to get there, we can hold virtual hands as we streak toward the end:)
June 17th, 2013 at 6:01 am
Yum! I share your excitement and good going on passing 20,000 words.
June 17th, 2013 at 8:22 am
HOLY SHIT, CRAB LEGS!!!!! Yeah, I’d have been screaming that, too. Haven’t had crab legs in ages. Ages, I tell ya! We use to get a good deal on frozen ones by the case and would occasionally splurge, then gorge. Yummmmmm. *wipes drool* But, unfortunately, that deal has long gone and no crab legs in ages. Did I mention that?
Oh, writing . . . yeah . . . goals . . . good work. 🙂 Go have some warm butter.
June 18th, 2013 at 8:38 am
*note to self*
DO NOT laugh out loud, in bed, next to peacefully sleeping spouse.
But but but….
HOLY SHIT, THAT WAS FUNNY!!!
*shhhhhhhhhhhh!*
I married a chef I get plenty of custom-made surprises….but,so far, no HOLY SHIT CRAB LEGS…..*pouts quietly*
I don’t know if I am your ROW80 sponsor this week or not, but this was worth a comment….
Oh, and awesome word count, too! =)
June 18th, 2013 at 9:34 am
Thanks. Glad you liked the post, and I’m pretty happy with the word count. 🙂
June 18th, 2013 at 7:34 pm
Oh, Kate! That was a hoot. Though I have this weird little quirk every time I see crab legs (or frog legs) things of imagining these little Invalides type place with little frogs and crabs on crutches and wheel-chairs, and…
Okay so I am silly. 🙂
That’s good word count you are working on for JuNoWriMo. Keep at it.
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