onlensreflex: (onstage)
It's been a bit mad around here since my last post! In the past...whoa, month, I have:
  • Been lucky enough to avoid any more random portals, thank Mickey.
  • Had to buy Gomamon a new bed, because he doesn't fit his old one any more. We also bought him a scratching post but he broke it the first time he tried it. Those claws are strong!
  • Been looking for something else for Gomamon to do during the day, because my friend whose classes he was going to is now studying abroad in Italy, and Gomamon's also now too big to be smuggled along in a backpack. Plus, giant claws. Suggestions are welcomed; his complaints are starting to drive me crazy.
  • Mourned Australia's quarterfinal loss to New Zealand in the Rugby World Cup. But at least we came third!
  • Started seeing a lovely young lady in my Spanish class. Seriously, world, she's awesome.
  • Turned twenty-one, complete with a big fancy party which was actually better than my little sisters' for once. (Their birthday is the day after mine, and there's two of them so their birthday's usually a bigger deal.) Dad, Gomamon, my older sister, and some of my friends did some nice and mostly not embarrassing speeches, Mum cried, and a few of our old flatmates even managed to come in from different states or in our old roommate's case, New Zealand. It was great.
  • Won a bit of money on the Melbourne Cup for the first time, though of course the lady won more than me. We also both looked pretty damn sharp at the races (well, Gomamon's still laughing at the lady's hat), if nowhere near sharp enough to win any Fashions on the Field prizes. I'd show off, but the photos are on her camera.

    So what have y'all been up to?
  • onlensreflex: (spiel spiel spiel)
    Since my friends kindly kidnapped me for my birthday, my family celebration got combined with my little sisters'. I don't feel twenty, but I'm more shocked the twins are fourteen. Aren't younger siblings supposed to be eight forever?

    My family's gone home now. I'm kind of jealous: As much as I love it here, it's starting to get cold, while the Southern Hemisphere heads into summer. I hate winter. At least it's not meant to get as cold here as it does at home.

    Disney being Disney, there are already tickets on sale for MK's Christmas party. It got me and my flatmates talking about Christmas: My family traditionally goes away for the holidays in even years (this year they went away for my birthday and the twins' birthday instead). Christmas 2002, we ended up on the Gold Coast with all the Dark Towers and all. One of my flatmates is actually from the Gold Coast; I hadn't thought to connect it: He was actually on the same beach the whole time, but didn't notice anything apart from some "now you see it, now you don't" with the Dark Towers going down. It's a small world after all.
    onlensreflex: (sleeping on the CP bus)
    My parents and my little sisters are visiting. The girls are loving the parks, and what's really good: They can take Pukamon around with them and it's a bit less weird looking than an almost 20-year-old guy bringing a stuffed toy to the parks, so Pukamon gets to have a good time as well.

    We're all staying in the Polynesian Resort, which we're finding a bit A) hilarious seeing as we're from the South Pacific, and B) ironic, because we're staying in the Aotearoa longhouse. I'm mostly just grateful for the bed. Going back to Chatham is gonna be murder...

    Some of my friends are dragging me to downtown Orlando for a Halloween party. And we've been kicking around the idea of stealthily drinking around the world for my birthday tomorrow. I like the idea, but underaged drinking seems risky in our own workplace. It's been done before, but still.

    I'm still pretty taken aback by how big Halloween is here. Anyone else doing anything for it? What did you go as, Hikari-san?
    onlensreflex: (Default)
    For lack of anything interesting to post about (the Halloween party was confusing and Shinjuku Ni-chome is never to be spoken of again), I shall picspam. A picture's worth a thousand words, right?

    Mmm, photos. )

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