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cute kid's book, yamapi, easter
Apr. 12th, 2009 10:16 pmSo, I was in my mom's room talking to her about We Can't All be Rattlesnakes, by Patrick Jennings, which is an adorable book (children's chapter book) which I would link to on Amazon but I'm too fucking disgusted to do so. But it is a great book so you should, you know, get it from your local library. Or mine, as soon as my mom returns it. It's about a gopher snake who gets captured by a kid and kept as a pet and hates the captivity. He gives her a mouse to eat but she's on a hunger strike because she has too much dignity to eat something that she catches in a cage. So the mouse - henceforth referred to as Breakfast - sticks around in the cage with her. Breakfast isn't as bright as the other reptiles, but he's very sweet and excited once he stops being petrified, so he's like the snake's own pet. It's super cute! Most of the book is about her attempts to escape and it's just neat and charming.
But my point was that while I was gone - actually at that point I was using Sandman: Dream Country to show her what a comic book script looks like - I heard msn booping with someone messaging me. But I didn't want to run off, so when I got back I saw the following, from a friend who's studying in Japan:
B says: Hey
B says: I have to go to lab but I just wanted to say hi
B says: and tell you that my friend met Yamapi at his hometown's station!
B says: which actually might be yamapi's hometown
B says: take care!
B says: xxxxxxxxx
I got back to my computer, I was like "WHAT NOW?" XDD Not what I was expecting to see!
Easter was fun!! :D![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ayamachi came out to Long Island for Easter! I love showing people my house and my school and where I came from.
Last night we decorated easter eggs, it was fun. Susan is super-good at it, she drew an excellent vampire-bunny. XD I made a humpty dumpty egg, and he was very cute. (Speaking of art, I later showed Susan my portfolio, and she was generously complimentary. ^_^ Made me wanna draw more - now I'm just doing the occasional sketch when I'm bored at meetings. I'll show you sometime, Susan! :D I'm getting good at drawing ears from behind. It's a useful skill.)
We walked to my elementary school and high school (my elementary school happened to be next to the high school - there had been a golf course there, so I guess there was space for two schools) and looked in the windows at the classrooms and I showed her all the places on the playground where my friends and I played as kids. This included jumping around in our tiny dirty brook. :D And then at the high school we met a kid who was a junior in high school and was trying to get into the school to get his books. He did not realize Delaware was a state and he thought Susan might be 13, which is a little amazing. Susan, you're like the bustiest, tallest 13-year-old ever! He had an even smaller kid with him. They were a hilarious team and it was highly entertaining. Nice kids, overall, though.
And we had an easter egg hunt in the backyard! Except we didn't have any plastic easter eggs to hide and we didn't want all the real ones to get dirty or broken, so Katie hid some plastic toys that she found in the basement. I did pretty good with the finding. It was actually really fun. XD Of course, I had a big leg up on the competition because I was the only person searching whose back yard it was, and I was also the only person who's been doing easter egg hunts with Katie all my life, so we both know what sort of hiding places are expected, based on where our uncle would hide things. (Easter talk from years past.)
Then a bunch of family came over. 14 people, this time. Two cousins + 1 girlfriend, aunt and uncle, Katie's boyfriend, his parents, my grandpa, me, Katie, and our parents, and Susan. Actually, 4 of the usual crowd were missing - in Wisconsin, Seattle, and Boston, so Susan and David's parents almost made us a normal-sized bunch. It was fun because with so many people in my little house, we had to have a kids table set up in the living room. Which basically meant me and my cousins spent the evening giving each other a hard time. I did manage to make them laugh a few times, which was very gratifying - they're pretty witty guys and also a bit older than me, so it's only recently that I've started catching up with them.
Also, dinner was delicious! There was ham, which I don't eat (my dad, who's Jewish - but obviously doesn't keep kosher - was saying that for him, since marrying my mom, Easter=ham) but I had delicious salmon and this "easter pie" thing with cheese and spinach and mushrooms in it, that was way better than it sounds, and sweet potatoes with walnuts and marshmallows and brown sugar. And plenty of other stuff too, but mostly, you know, vegetables.
We played Trivial Pursuit, one of my family's favorite games. I ended up getting a couple right early on and my team was doing well at first, which managed to create the impression that I was doing really good. Very exciting, since I'm used to being dead weight at that game. But then the other two teams just got really lucky and totally overtook us. Whatever!
It was hard to be too upset though because we were soon awash in desserts. Brownies, trifle, chocolate chip cookies, almond apricot ring pastry, cheesecake, cookies with jelly in them, key lime pie, and there was also ice cream if anyone wanted. XD I had 4 of the 7 options. And have been slipping steadily into a food coma ever since.
So I will go now. Soon, to bed!
But my point was that while I was gone - actually at that point I was using Sandman: Dream Country to show her what a comic book script looks like - I heard msn booping with someone messaging me. But I didn't want to run off, so when I got back I saw the following, from a friend who's studying in Japan:
B says: Hey
B says: I have to go to lab but I just wanted to say hi
B says: and tell you that my friend met Yamapi at his hometown's station!
B says: which actually might be yamapi's hometown
B says: take care!
B says: xxxxxxxxx
I got back to my computer, I was like "WHAT NOW?" XDD Not what I was expecting to see!
Easter was fun!! :D
ayamachi came out to Long Island for Easter! I love showing people my house and my school and where I came from. Last night we decorated easter eggs, it was fun. Susan is super-good at it, she drew an excellent vampire-bunny. XD I made a humpty dumpty egg, and he was very cute. (Speaking of art, I later showed Susan my portfolio, and she was generously complimentary. ^_^ Made me wanna draw more - now I'm just doing the occasional sketch when I'm bored at meetings. I'll show you sometime, Susan! :D I'm getting good at drawing ears from behind. It's a useful skill.)
We walked to my elementary school and high school (my elementary school happened to be next to the high school - there had been a golf course there, so I guess there was space for two schools) and looked in the windows at the classrooms and I showed her all the places on the playground where my friends and I played as kids. This included jumping around in our tiny dirty brook. :D And then at the high school we met a kid who was a junior in high school and was trying to get into the school to get his books. He did not realize Delaware was a state and he thought Susan might be 13, which is a little amazing. Susan, you're like the bustiest, tallest 13-year-old ever! He had an even smaller kid with him. They were a hilarious team and it was highly entertaining. Nice kids, overall, though.
And we had an easter egg hunt in the backyard! Except we didn't have any plastic easter eggs to hide and we didn't want all the real ones to get dirty or broken, so Katie hid some plastic toys that she found in the basement. I did pretty good with the finding. It was actually really fun. XD Of course, I had a big leg up on the competition because I was the only person searching whose back yard it was, and I was also the only person who's been doing easter egg hunts with Katie all my life, so we both know what sort of hiding places are expected, based on where our uncle would hide things. (Easter talk from years past.)
Then a bunch of family came over. 14 people, this time. Two cousins + 1 girlfriend, aunt and uncle, Katie's boyfriend, his parents, my grandpa, me, Katie, and our parents, and Susan. Actually, 4 of the usual crowd were missing - in Wisconsin, Seattle, and Boston, so Susan and David's parents almost made us a normal-sized bunch. It was fun because with so many people in my little house, we had to have a kids table set up in the living room. Which basically meant me and my cousins spent the evening giving each other a hard time. I did manage to make them laugh a few times, which was very gratifying - they're pretty witty guys and also a bit older than me, so it's only recently that I've started catching up with them.
Also, dinner was delicious! There was ham, which I don't eat (my dad, who's Jewish - but obviously doesn't keep kosher - was saying that for him, since marrying my mom, Easter=ham) but I had delicious salmon and this "easter pie" thing with cheese and spinach and mushrooms in it, that was way better than it sounds, and sweet potatoes with walnuts and marshmallows and brown sugar. And plenty of other stuff too, but mostly, you know, vegetables.
We played Trivial Pursuit, one of my family's favorite games. I ended up getting a couple right early on and my team was doing well at first, which managed to create the impression that I was doing really good. Very exciting, since I'm used to being dead weight at that game. But then the other two teams just got really lucky and totally overtook us. Whatever!
It was hard to be too upset though because we were soon awash in desserts. Brownies, trifle, chocolate chip cookies, almond apricot ring pastry, cheesecake, cookies with jelly in them, key lime pie, and there was also ice cream if anyone wanted. XD I had 4 of the 7 options. And have been slipping steadily into a food coma ever since.
So I will go now. Soon, to bed!
