Turtle & Canary; Monday [11/22].

[somethingwithturquoise]

Despite the long list of complaints that pretty much awaited her the moment she stepped foot into Turtle & Canary again from Apu, Astrid had done a fine job of keeping up the management duties in Summer's absense, but Summer had to admit, she was kind of feeling glad to get back into the swing of it, and Astrid really didn't seem to care one way or the other, but was grateful for the experience. She'd done a great job with making sure everything was well-stocked and ready for Thanksgiving, she'd decorated the place nicely for it, too, which just left Summer with not a lot to do except get back in on her old inventory and ordering rounds and maybe take a look at the budget and see if Shunsui had been taking out more for his personal drinking habits while she was gone or not.

She was pleasantly surprised and almost a little proud to discover that he actually had not. Which wasn't to say he didn't dip into the stores budget for his sake at all, of course, but it was still reasonably in line with how it had been when she left. Good for him.

And look at her, being a good manager by even sparing some time to listen to Apu go off on some new idea of starting a new country called Turtlecanaristan. As someone who had been a God-Empress of a planetoid before, she had to admit, he had some good ideas for governing this tiny little retail replublic, but she did think that immediately putting both Shunsui and Astrid up for trial for treason against best retail practices was a little much right off the bat.

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Cranberry Relish
Green Bean Casserole
Red

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[mother_love]

So, Mondays have pretty much become synonymous with one task Billy had always hated- shopping. But he had to admit that without the insanity of the crowds and all, it was much easier and almost enjoyable to it here on the island.

As he walked into the shop and looked around, giving a slight nod to Apu, he smiled as he saw Summer.

"Ah, this is where you were running off to this morning" he said with a smirk.

And no he was not stalking! When you are up early and need a smoke you see people. It was just a thing that happened!

[somethingwithturquoise]

A likely story! It was fine, you could just admit it, Summer was totally stalk-able

Summer had to snort at the comment. "Pretty much," she agreed with a dramatic roll of her eyes and a smirk right back. "Now that I'm not actively defending the galaxy, it's back slaving away at my ten ka-trillion other jobs."

She looked him over a moment before asking, "How're you doing? Recovered from Friday?"

[mother_love]

"Ah yeah, recovered just fine" he said with a smirk. "Takes a lot to get me knocked out for any length of time. I mean I was living in Cancun for the last five years after all" he added with a chuckle.

Billy... no... don't offer anything remotely resembling a challenge when it came to drinking... it would only end badly.

"Just here to do some shopping" he said being a little overdramatic with the eye roll. "Some basic essentials and what not. But also wanted to see if this place carried any clothes and what not. I so do not have the right clothes for actual winter weather!"

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Challenge fucking accepted," Summer decided, with confidence, because she would be behind the bar on Wednesday, Billy boy, and she had very loose interpretation of 'serving responsibly.'

"But, yeah, of course we've got clothes," she continued, "we have almost everything here. Aisles Handwavey and Handwavet. Mostly seasonal basics, if you want something a little more particular in style, definitely check out the couple of clothing stores in town. We can also usually special order stuff without too much trouble if you want something, like, way more specific and we don't already have it."

[mother_love]

"Look forward to seeing what you can do" Billy said with a confident smirk. He glanced down the aisle and nodded. "Yeah don't need anything fancy, just the basics to make sure I don't freeze to death. Ya know, delicate tropical flower that I am" he said with a laugh.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Boy," Summer's snort was a little wry this time, "I sure hope it doesn't blizzard this year, then, for your sake, especially since blizzards around here tend to attack.

"But, yeah," she allowed, "we've got plenty of conveniently handwavey gear in stock: coats, gloves, hats, boots, et cetera, et cetera....Or at least we should. I mean, I've been in space, I haven't gotten to that section yet, but my temp manager is pretty good, I'm sure she was on top of it."

Just ignore the scoff of derision from one of the aisles, no doubt from Apu.

[mother_love]

Billy glanced over his shoulder in the direction of the scoff and then shook his head.

"So long as there's more than tank tops, t-shirts, and shorts I will consider it an successful wardrobe upgrade!"

He considered Summer for a moment, contemplating whether he should as or not, finally decided to go ahead.

"So, anything special going on for the Holidays? Place seems a bit remote to get a lot of people coming in for holiday travel and all. Any island traditions I need to know about or does everyone just celebrate Turkey day on their own?"

[somethingwithturquoise]

"We do have a sale right now on Wrangler jeans," she offered, because she couldn't help herself, and then, grinning faintly, she just shrugged a shoulder. "I've always been stuck going home for it, personally, so I don't know if there's really much that goes on. Probably a whole entire feast manifests magically in the common rooms up in the dorms, I'll bet. Maybe if I have time, I can throw together some sort of Friendsgiving, actually, but I bet a lot of people are just kind of, you know, doing their own thing. With you being stuck here, though..."

She shrugged again. "Come on over. My family doesn't even know I'm back from space specifically so I don't have to go home for Thanksgiving, so I'll be around, reveling in the freedom. We'll make a party of it."

Did this mean there was now going to be an impromptu Friendsgiving at Summer's that everyone was going to get texted about the day of now?

This definitely meant there was now going to be an impromptu Friendsgiving at Summer's that everyone was going to get texted about the day of now.