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

[rasetsunyo.livejournal.com]

After dithering a bit -- bandwagon, here I come! :D

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

1. It can't be that you just turned up out of the blue in the middle of '06 with a picture of Goukou in civvies (http://pics.livejournal.com/flemmings/pic/000216qt), but that in fact is how it happened. And then I friended you. Or thought I did. And then I friended you again, for real this time.

2. You are full colour Hisui (http://pics.livejournal.com/flemmings/pic/000244cs)- traditional, graceful and elegant. And sometimes you're OP- modern, rambunctious and energetic.

3. As if you have to ask: you clothe my vaguely apprehended dragons, and give them faces.

4. Well, never met, but I recall with fondness the stages of putting Bleach shinigami on the Going Merry.

5. ('satiable curiosity) What kind of Chinese do *you* speak at home? Err- presuming you do.

6. Piggggeeeeee.

7. And you already did.

[rasetsunyo.livejournal.com]

Mandarin. Parents used to switch to Cantonese and/or Hakka when they didn't want the kids to know what they were talking about, so little pitchers big ears, picked some up as a matter of course, but with better listening comprehension in both than speaking ability. My Cantonese is better simply because it's more commonly heard around here both in real life and in TV shows (which I don't watch) and movies (which I do). Have only enough Hakka to wish Grandpa Happy New Year and please have dinner and thank you for the presents and bye bye. Hokkien, eh, only swearwords picked up from here and there.