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

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I was so obnoxious with the camera at Shoujocon! Got a number of deer-in-headlights looks but was too revved up to pay attention except in retrospect, which sometimes happens. ^^;

I'm sometimes made fun of by native speakers for grammar lapses (of the wrong gender type), and fairly often asked to repeat what I just said to the store clerk or barista. If taken off guard I can go blank in French, which never happens in English nowadays - worse, I open my mouth and it comes out in Japanese. XD; Other than that... pretty much fluent, I guess? I can write in French, which I don't really feel like I can in Chinese or Japanese. I find it more difficult to judge whether I'm writing well. But all this is applying the same standards to myself as I hold for English writing, which are high.

I have often wanted to send you a mix CD! Almost like a personal challenge, I'd like to produce something you'd enjoy. XD

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

worse, I open my mouth and it comes out in Japanese.

That *always* happens with me, but in my case it's my vying-for-second-language-status languages, not my third and fourth ones. OTOH I can't write in French but can- painfully- in Japanese, which is the difference schooling makes, I assume.

Good luck on the music, since I'm one of those modern anomalies, someone who can take music or leave it alone, and usually prefers the latter. Lovely lovely silence, the sweetest music there is.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Any language after English is liable to come out in Japanese - probably because it gets more practice. Was queuing up in Venice when a museum guard asked me a question out of the blue and I said "Hai! o_o" and all the old ladies tittered at la giapponesa.

I know, but I've been remembering all the songs you've occasionally said you liked all the same, because that's how my mind works. XD If you leave me your addy here (http://petronia.livejournal.com/544552.html) it'll be done by your b-day, I reckon? Think of it as a curio, not a gift, if you like.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

It's a kind offer but then, you know, I'd have to make time to listen to it because I can't do other things while listening to music; and given how I procrastinate evn with stuff I buy and presumably want, it wouldn't happen till... well, there's these tapes I bought back in '96 that I still haven't found time to listen to.