Monday, 12 April 2004

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    Fruits Basket (Book 1)
    By Natsuki Takaya
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    [ I read part of the first book in this series on Saturday - they're as good as Hikari-Kayko said they were. Definitely something a deprived otaku (even a wannabe like me) can enjoy. ]

    This land's Llamaii Land, this land's lla-your land / from the crackling fire to the brand new island...  You guessed it:  We went camping.  Or rather, we went swimming...on land...  Friday was a beautiful day, disregarding the fact that my mom woke me up at ten after five.  Chased the dog through the trees, got called an elf about ten million times, wandered around the lake, ate more than should be humanly possible, crammed *pauses to count* nine people and a large dog into one tent and collapsed until seven thirty Saturday morning.  Beautiful morning.  Eggs and stuff on tortillas for breakfast - not precisely biscuits and gravy, which is what I wanted, but perfectly good nonetheless.  (I think I've adopted Cuervo's taste in food...bread, bread, and more bread, with some dead animal on the side.  Still partial to good salad though.  Don't think that'll go away any time soon.)  Sat around the fire pretty much all day; wandered around the lake a few times, and all that good stuff, but the critters kinda kept everyone out of the trees.  Set up the eggs with Mikoto, shooed off some other greedy little buggers, shooed off some other greedy little bugs (and some not so little - there was this one spider, a little smaller than my palm - he was sooooo pretty!  I'm serious!  His body was black and white, and his legs were blue-and-black banded.  He was absolutely gorgeous. And he was sitting on the water, which was even cooler.  Kreeno and I stopped to gawk every time we went past ^_^), picked up some new nicknames and handed out some more...ate again...then ate a bit more...  Then Granny and Papa showed back up with a printout of the weather forecast:  Possible rainfall of three to four inches per hour and temperatures down as low as forty.  So we kinda shoved things away from the tent walls, pulled out the tarps, and stoked the fire.  Hey, we had mudbugs going - no way were we about to fun off just because of a little weather! *grin*  It was rather funny, actually; the park was absolutely full that morning, but by four-ish in the afternoon it was only about half-empty.  The rain started sometime between four and five, I think (not really sure).  I ran around for a few minutes filling my plate and changing into my boots (white tennis shoes and muddy rivers flowing through the camp don't mix), then stood under the little tent fly thing my uncle set up and ate my potatoes...it was great ^_^  It dropped at least two, maybe three inches in forty-five minutes or less, then it slacked off a bit and dropped a few more over the course of the next hour or so.  There were hailstones in town.  After the sun set and we were all sitting around the fire (garbage bags thrown overtop of wet chairs are wonderful things), Kreeno and I kept jumping up and bilgeing the pop-up tent thing just in time to keep it from collapsing on the table...  Mummum and Brian and Mikoto and Kreeno and I sat up until midnight or so and talked about mucosciliary escalators (or elevators, depending on if you want music or not) and Lord of the Rings and Robert Jordan's books.  Ah, good times, good times.  All of our stuff was wet; Kreeno and Mikoto ended up on cots, since (a) we had them and (b) the floor was damp.  (I have a self-inflating mat thing, so I stayed on the floor with my head under the bottom end of Kreeno's cot; it worked.  Until I tried to sit up.  That just hurt.)  Clan MacVile now has two slogans:  "Mistakes Were Made" and "Alluvit!" (Do.  Not.  Ask.), and the next time we go to the Highland Games we're all wearing kilts made out of garbage bags.

    I forgot to mention that, didn't I?  At ten-ish on Sunday morning, Stanley pulled out his bagpipes and paraded around the lake wearing a kilt made from Hefty bags.  It was awesome ^_^ And we wonder why the new management doesn't like us...  *innocent grin*

    At any rate.  If you want more details, go ask Kreeno or Mikoto.  My fingers are frozen and I still have to update some other stuff.  If you're bored, check these out:

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