Well I'm glad you asked, blog. No, no I'm not because this requires coherent thought, but whilst I'm in a bit of a bad mood I suppose I shall do it.
I'm in a bad mood. Don't know why. Possibly spending too much time in Grantham at the moment. Which reminds me, could any of the Ass no Ryu contact me about availability for travel excitement in the next couple of weeks? I don't want it to get to the point where Daniel's almost about to go home and he hasn't seen London etc.
So, maternal parental unit has been home this week so we have been going on expeditions (and yet I am still fed up with Grantham??) Chatsworth House and Burleigh House were both very nice, although Chatsworth wins for the fact that they have some Egyptian artefacts and the lovely steward man let me go and have a good look at their Sakhmet statues when I said I was an Egyptologist. I also got to *shock horror* put my degree to practical use and tell the parents/helpful member of staff what it said on the stelae/statues. ^____^ Quite jolly to know I haven't had all my Egyptian fall out of my head post-finals.
Went to see Shrek 2 after that, during which Daniel and I may have been suffering from what I will term "School of Rock syndrome" (which anyone who came on the first Ass no Ryu outing to see that film will understand ^_^;;;;) because quite a few times we were laughing hysterically. o_0 If anyone is yet to go and see it, please do stay for the credits, it's possibly the best bit of the film (apart from the Donkey's added exclamation in the dinner-table fight ^____^)
Yesterday we went to Denby to the pottery which was surprisingly interesting. We got to make little pottery frogs and paint plates. ^__^ I will get round to painting my frog when I can find some black and red nail varnish. He will be a Hellsing frog, because I say so. :p
Where else have we been of late? I apologise for this being in no sort of chronological order, not that it really matters. We went to Nottingham and the *shudder* caves. (Un)Fascinating Fact: Katy really, really hates caves. I only went in because I thought it might be something interesting for Daniel to see, and I figured since I'm now All Grown Up I ought to have gotten over my cave-o-phobia. Noooooo, I spent the larger part of an hour-long tour of the teeny-tiny Nottingham caves wanting to be sick. o_0 I was extremely happy when we got out and I could flee to the relative safety of Forbidden Planet to purchase some Hellsing manga (only the English I'm afraid) and be incredibly lucky with a capsule machine and get a keyring of Auron. ^____^
Oh yes, I mention this with you in mind. Daniel and I binged on the Juuni Kokki dvds you left us. I. Love. Juuni Kokki. ^_______^ And you know what else? So does Daniel! ^_____^ He's incredibly taken with it despite the fact that we started at the beginning of the post-animesoc arc and every two seconds I had to dredge pieces of Juuni Kokki vocabulary back from the dark recesses of my mind. He really wants to see the rest of it now, as do I, so I think it's going to be on our "to buy" list. It's such a shame that we didn't get to show the next arc of the series at animesoc. For my tastes it's considerably better than the first one. Taiki is adorable, and the considerably larger role of Keiki is indeed welcomed. ^____^
Anyway, I'm going to bed, possibly to read more Lemony Snicket. However, I wish to remind all and sundry I love Juuni Kokki and so should you. o_0
Posted by Katyjag at July 10, 2004 12:25 AMHuzzah! All should love Juuni Kokki!
Um. Yeah. Can I have those discs back at some point before the beginning of August? My sister's not seen the Taiki arc and she, too, is a Juuni Kokki fan ^_^ I can lend you the first DVD of the next arc though. Possibly the first 3 again for Daniel's sake, I'll have to see how I'm feeling.