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. Lessee- your pedigree is via mikeneko so I probably found you on her FL first and added you because you're cool. No, really. Anyone who can write remixes is cool. I don't even know what they are.

2. Those obscure (to me) manga fandoms you and Mike share- Wild Half, Uta-kata, MLR- that seemingly exist only as scanlated DLs. God knows, no one ever mentions a mangaka or publisher when talking about them grump grump.

3. You spent /hours/ uploading the live action 100 Demons. For that alone you qualify as a card-carrying gilt-edged certified Nice Person. Also you made me this icon.

4. qwerty family weirdnesses: the crayfish. Dear god. Crayfish wandering about one's apartment. Worse than Apollinaire and his lobster. What if one climbed into your bed???

5. What kind of Chinese do *you* speak?

6. It shouldn't be We Come in Peas but hell- I'm a suck for a pun. Am also fond of the well-rounded personality and the emo dormice.

7. If you like...

[xsmoonshine.livejournal.com]

1. Nobody knows What A Remix Really Is, as far as I can tell! Everyone does their own thing. ;)

2. Hee. Uta-kata is mikeneko's pet anime fandom... no idea if she sent you disks. The other two are indeed obscure manga fandoms I read in the local Chinese licence and mikeneko in the original Japanese, so... *goes to look them up* Wild Half, is from Shueisha, by Yuko Asami, and MLR is Kinoshita Sakura with Mag Garden. They are both very silly.

3. I like to share things! But it was mostly a matter of starting the uploads, then wandering off to surf the net and checking in every now and then. I was loafing about online a lot during that period. ^^;

4. What if one climbed into your bed???
O_O No way! They are safely restricted to their nice aquariums and will stay there forever so help me unless they evolve wings or something like that. Which they will do without my help or not at all!

5. I speak weirdly accented Mandarin (no one can agree what accent it is supposed to be, ditto my English, alas), and barely manage appropriate response noises and comments in Teochew.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I like to share things!

Nice person. QED.

I dunno. Your crayfish come without a pedigree, and I strongly suspect may be a mutant form of life.