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Dec. 28th, 2001 04:28 pmYesterday was a relaxed day... sitting around the house, watching DVDs (Utena!), eating Chinese food, that kind of thing. At some point I got the idea to change the sheets on my bed, and through a series of coincidences... I ended up cleaning off most of a wall of bookshelves in the same room. So much for taking it easy. The momster is "proud and pleased." They were her bookshelves, you see. And I dusted them, which she hasn't done in at least two years. I also made more room for a few books of mine and found some of her art books for her.
I am sitting in the bedroom typing on LittleBoy, still in my pajamas. The window above my head is open, letting in the air from the outside. It feels like a cool spring day, around 60 degrees or so. The neighbors are outside chattering on their deck, and it's driving my cats crazy; they are hopping all over the window ledge and the shelf just below it, which is made by the bookcase-headboard. They are focussed like you wouldn't believe.
I forgot to mention that while I was walking around at EPCOT on Tuesday I got a really nice "Christmas present"... I was trying to keep warm, because it was chilly and rainy and rather unpleasant, so I was wearing a long-sleeved shirt under a merino wool sweater, and had topped it all off with my black hoodie with the kitty ears on the hood and attached "paw" mittens, and a "furry" black scarf that I'd knitted for myself. I wasn't too concerned with fashion, but I was trying not to look like a total idiot.
I was talking to the momster while walking along, after being in the park for perhaps ten minutes or so, and I made some kind of gesture with my hand like "arrrrr, I am fierce!" (which almost looks like a wave). About twenty-five feet away these two petite Japanese girls, probably in their mid-to-late teens and fairly hip-looking, started nudging each other and one pointed me out to the other. Their eyes got wide and they got noticeably excited as we got closer. They started waving to me, so I waved back with a smile, and as they passed one said "KAWAII !!!!!!" to me and grinned. Kawaii means "cute" and it's one of the higher fashion compliments that a Japanese teenager would give (especially when delivered with that kind of friendliness and excitement). So... I know it's kind of shallow, but that totally made my day. :)
I am sitting in the bedroom typing on LittleBoy, still in my pajamas. The window above my head is open, letting in the air from the outside. It feels like a cool spring day, around 60 degrees or so. The neighbors are outside chattering on their deck, and it's driving my cats crazy; they are hopping all over the window ledge and the shelf just below it, which is made by the bookcase-headboard. They are focussed like you wouldn't believe.
I forgot to mention that while I was walking around at EPCOT on Tuesday I got a really nice "Christmas present"... I was trying to keep warm, because it was chilly and rainy and rather unpleasant, so I was wearing a long-sleeved shirt under a merino wool sweater, and had topped it all off with my black hoodie with the kitty ears on the hood and attached "paw" mittens, and a "furry" black scarf that I'd knitted for myself. I wasn't too concerned with fashion, but I was trying not to look like a total idiot.
I was talking to the momster while walking along, after being in the park for perhaps ten minutes or so, and I made some kind of gesture with my hand like "arrrrr, I am fierce!" (which almost looks like a wave). About twenty-five feet away these two petite Japanese girls, probably in their mid-to-late teens and fairly hip-looking, started nudging each other and one pointed me out to the other. Their eyes got wide and they got noticeably excited as we got closer. They started waving to me, so I waved back with a smile, and as they passed one said "KAWAII !!!!!!" to me and grinned. Kawaii means "cute" and it's one of the higher fashion compliments that a Japanese teenager would give (especially when delivered with that kind of friendliness and excitement). So... I know it's kind of shallow, but that totally made my day. :)
