I had forgotten that codeine tends to give me very weird dreams. Llast night I had a dream that involved me, Jenn, Vicky, Julie, plushie flowers with faces, homophobia, and me having a hysterical breakdown at My Dear New Orleans shonichi. I woke up about the time I was falling out of my B-seki seat sobbing. It was bizarre to say the least ( Read more... )

I've taken a break from staring longingly at the El Halcon Stage Graph[1] to be terribly productive today. Talked to the lovely Grandma on the phone this morning and then, while Jenn was busying herself on the computer, I made lunch and did four loads of laundry and reorganised the closet and my undergarment drawers, so that everything is in a ( Read more... )

Title courtesy of Haya-chan, for anyone who hasn't read wao_wao's translation of one of Haya's "E to Bun" columns. *giggles* Oh Haya, arlecchinic's powers of conversion and your overwhelming dorky adorableness make me love you more all the time. I do have to wonder how a certain someone feels about being referred to as "Shimi-jimi" in print, though. ~_ ( Read more... )

I gave in last night and caught up with all my girly pampering, which meant multiple step facial treatment with what's left of the Philosophy set I bought myself for my birthday last year, shaving my legs, slathering myself in the Japanese Cherry Blossom body butter I got with my coupon from Bath and Body Works, buffing my nails and sundry other ( Read more... )

Really, it was unendingly silly of me to put in the Tsukigumi Encourage Concert as background listening while I made lunch and attended to my to-do list. Frightfully silly. More silly than I can possibly express ( Read more... )

One of the lead stories on the local news tonight was about a helicopter that had to perform an emergency landing at University Medical Center. Said emergency landing had to be performed because there had been a mid-air collision that shattered the right half of the windscreen. Said collision was with a wayward seagull. Yes, a seagull. Not only ( Read more... )

So Thanksgiving, despite a brief and minor pastry disaster with the Chambord infused genoise, was a rousing success.

( Menu, for those interested. )

Rewatching At the End of a Long Spring/With a Song In My Heart, and there are two v. important things that I neglected to mention ( Read more... )