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[personal/writing/whatever] Christmas + Meme

Dec 23, 2008 01:58

Officially finished my shopping at about 0130 this morning. Yay 24 hour Wal-Mart....(because shopping during the day is downright insane now).

Potluck at work tomorrow!!! It's going to be WAAAY better than eating hospital turkey on Thanksgiving. I'm telling you, working as an RN on my floor has taught me alot, including be VERY thankful you don't ( Read more... )

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dshae47 December 23 2008, 21:39:20 UTC

I still haven't even done my shopping for our Christmas dinner! :S...

Well, I'm happy that you posted this! I can make 10 requests if you'd like? 8DDD

*waves hand on the aaaair* I want Yukimura!! :)

arahannan December 24 2008, 08:15:56 UTC

Uh-oh!!! I hope you guys have some stores that are open! : ) My family usually has a pretty laid-back Christmas...gifts and a nice breakfast in the morning, and then special snacks and sandwiches the rest of the day. Good times.

If you really wanted to, I guess...maybe a new one for every day? ; )

Do you want ill Yukimura or healthy Yukimura? ; )

akillersmile December 24 2008, 09:19:52 UTC

I hope so too! We're planning to go to the supermarket tomorrow (on the 24th, that is... today!) so hopefully we'll make this work out... lol. I'll be baking brownies!!! :D

REALLY?? :DDDD Then I want ill Yukimura today and healthy Yukimura tomorrow, if I can request more than one? :DDD

Please don't hate me, Yukimura.

arahannan January 1 2009, 18:31:11 UTC

Sorry it took me so long...the holidays had me kind of swamped. : )

Ill Yuki Hates the Hospital (and Rashy Kids):

Seiichi doesn’t want to be in the hospital the second time. He didn’t want to be there the first time, but he’s supposed to be better now and instead he’s sick and he pukes up his pain medicine before it can do anything and the doctor says, “We should admit him” when his mom takes him to the ER.

He hates the ER and the hospital and he wants to bury his hands inside his sweatshirt sleeves when he sees the nurse coming back with an IV kit her hand. She blows the first IV and has to try a second time. Seiichi pukes again, but misses the emesis basin and hits his lap instead. The nurse says, Sorry, we don’t keep pajamas in the ER, just exam gowns. Then she tells him they need a urine sample and the lab needs to get blood cultures, which means two pokes, and oh, by the way, does he want a sticker ( ... )

dshae47 January 6 2009, 01:32:39 UTC

;_; Ohhh Seiichi (because this is Seiichi and I feel like hugging him ;_;). Poor thing. Are there really a lot of Taro-chans out there? I've actually never been in a shared hospital room, because out of the two times I had to be hospitalized, I had a private room on my first time and I had to stay in an emergency non-room on the second one and I was discharged right away. But I remember my great-grandmother complained about stuff like this, and my grandmother too ( ... )

arahannan January 6 2009, 07:02:19 UTC

My unit has both private and semi-private rooms, but I work in an older hospital and the trend is moving towards all private rooms. I don't know what the norm in Japan is, but the movies/dramas I've seen tend to show double rooms (bad source material, I know!). And most people are not happy to share a room and I've met lots of people who make dreadful roommates (noisy, lots of visitors, etc).

I've gotten pretty accustomed to the whole toileting issue, but I know most people hate it. I swear, the hospital is probably one of the most embarrassing, vulnerable places ever - even if the nurses are all "oh, don't mind, I do this all the time."

This piece has tonnnns of run-on sentences, so I'm glad you still enjoyed it. : ) And no worries about a late reply - you were on vacation with the fam!

I think Konomi's biggest mistake with Yuki was not doing a little background research. It leaves things too open-ended. That and his poor character ends up with so many issuesAww, thanks. To be completely honest, there are some days when I really ( ... )

arahannan January 1 2009, 18:31:35 UTC

(Healthy) Yukimura Finds Something REALLY SUPER AWESOMEWhen Seiichi is eleven, his grandfather dies and his family moves in with his ornery grandmother. The house is a lot bigger than the apartment they had in the city, and he gets a room to himself and there’s a backyard and a shed to put his bike inside. He pulls the bicycle across the lawn, glad to have a break from helping to carry in boxes. He glances over his shoulder to watch his parents going back and forth between the moving truck and the house, sometimes with boxes, sometimes with furniture carried between the two of them ( ... )

dshae47 January 7 2009, 07:27:11 UTC

The first sentence grabbed me right away and then I had to leave on the other day. And when I reread it, the same happened!! In my head, the default is that Yukimura's grandmother was the one who moved in, not the other way around, so having them move into a bigger place such as this challenged preconceptions I wasn't even aware that I had right from the start.

I'm very glad I asked for healthy Yukimura too ;_;. His gardening side is so cute and almost never gets written about! Seeing him so excited about a rototiller... so adorable ._.;. I had to make sure that this machine was what I suspected from the context, because I wasn't aware of the name for it! But it was! I loved this, thank you for writing it for me!! <3

Did his grandma agree to let him use it after all? 8D Grandmas are great for spoiling their grandchildren, and I loved how that was hinted at! 8D I also really liked the description for the shed, too-- I could see it, lol. I've been in places like that myself!

Randomly, I wonder if he forgot about his bicycle after ( ... )

arahannan January 7 2009, 18:08:21 UTC

Wow - I'm glad this little piece made you re-think a little bit. : ) Konomi gives us a lot of source material to use (i.e., Yukimura has a grandmother) but leaves a lot of things open to interpretation too. It's kind of fun to see how other people write the boys' families or home life.

I think Yuki would be pretty hyped about a roto-tiller after having to grow plants in pots and seed trays up until then. ; ) That, and the thing is kind of dangerous. And I'm glad you could picture the shed - my parents' is always kind of a disaster, and you practically have to clean the thing in order to find a place to put anything.

Grandma said no, but then later (when she wanted the ground broken up for her own gardening project) she probably let him help her use it. I tend to write Yukimura's grandmother as really, really hard to please.

As to the bicycle:

Seiichi stomps back out of the house and across the yard. What's the point of having a roto-tiller if you don't even let people use it? He's old enough, right? And he'd be careful. Besides ( ... )

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