Festive occasions

[flemmings]

I don't know which is happier-making, money in the mail or a sudden loss of a kilo plus when you step on the scale in the morning. As it's Sunday, you can figure for yourselves which constitutes today's happiness. As an object lesson, I lugged a 10-kilo bag of road salt home yesterday (22 pounds for the imperialists) and even factoring in the unwieldiness of road salt, like the worst kind of squashy parcel baby, the idea that I'm carrying two of those about my person now is a great impetus to virtue. The realization that I've lost half a bag of road salt since the summer is extremely satisfying. My knees certainly have ceased to grumble as much as they did.

Meanwhile, if the book is correct, it's shiny_monkey's birthday. Happy birthday, shiny_monkey!

Ganked from kickinpants:

Leave a comment here and I will:

1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ.

Comments

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

1. And while I just was moaning to myself how the events of eight years ago are as yesterday at my age, I find I've misplaced the events of three years ago. The exact friending kikkake uhh 'precise occurrence that occasioned an event' has slipped my mind, and possibly there wasn't one. We shared a fandom and you were on incandescens' FL and that seems reason enough.

2. You are *so* Prince of Tennis.

3. You're cheerful. You smile in your icons. Even when you're bashing your head over RL hoohas I see you sitting back afterwards with a resigned smile and getting on with it.

4. We've never met so it's not a RL memory, but your trip to the US last year, whose details impressed me as straight from Une Saison dans L'enfer (packed buses, hours-late trains, endless plane rides) was crowned by your mind-boggling entry: "I'm home! 24-hour journey, more or less. Everything went without a hitch, so hooray." One does not end a 24-hour journey, however seamless, with the word Hooray! Oh thank God or Never again, but not Hooray. See #3 above.

5. How did you learn to *write* English?

6. The Aaargh one or the buddy Jesus one.

7. Not insisting.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I burn with envy at the Norwegian educational system.