xiphias just posted about Joe Greenstein (http://xiphias.livejournal.com/633295.html). His title is "how cool the world can be" and I can't beat that.
Also, I went to the Salon des Metiers de Arts on my own and bought a bag for A, a big leather bag with straps that mean it can be a backpack or a shoulder bag, and leather butterflies in the leather. I nearly bought her the purse (wallet thingy) to go with it, but decided I was spending enough already. Then a few days later I went to the Salon with Z and A, and A saw this stall and fell on it with cries of "OMG these are so beautiful" and found the matching purse and would have bought it except that Z took it out of her hand before she saw the price and I led her gently away while he bought it for her. Now all I have to do is organize the present opening so that she gets these in the right order.
And I don't know if you've seen this (http://markreads.net/reviews/category/the-hobbit/) but it's somebody who has never read The Hobbit liveblogging his reactions to each chapter, and ooh, the narrative tension!
I lent my pencil with "Veni, vidi, vici" (and Julius Caesar's head in pewter on the top) to E next door for her entrance exam for the school she wanted to go to, and she got in. Her dad, seeing the pencil when she returned it, remarked that of course I had that pencil, obviously I did, it stood to reason.
And I am making afternoon tea for a whole pile of people on Friday, which will feature your cloudberry jam.
I'm curious: which is the right order for A to receive those presents? I can think of reasons for either order.
I still have the "Senatus populusque Romanus" pencil that my second-semester Latin teacher gave me. I used it for Latin tests all the rest of the way through college. :-)
I think the purse first, which she pretty much knows she's getting, so she can think "Oooh, my lovely purse!" and then when she opens the bag "Gosh, and a bag to match!" The other way around she might think "There's a bag to match that purse -- but I wanted the purse because mine is splitting! They bought me the wrong thing!"
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Date: 2011-12-20 12:06 pm (UTC)Also, I went to the Salon des Metiers de Arts on my own and bought a bag for A, a big leather bag with straps that mean it can be a backpack or a shoulder bag, and leather butterflies in the leather. I nearly bought her the purse (wallet thingy) to go with it, but decided I was spending enough already. Then a few days later I went to the Salon with Z and A, and A saw this stall and fell on it with cries of "OMG these are so beautiful" and found the matching purse and would have bought it except that Z took it out of her hand before she saw the price and I led her gently away while he bought it for her. Now all I have to do is organize the present opening so that she gets these in the right order.
And I don't know if you've seen this (http://markreads.net/reviews/category/the-hobbit/) but it's somebody who has never read The Hobbit liveblogging his reactions to each chapter, and ooh, the narrative tension!
I lent my pencil with "Veni, vidi, vici" (and Julius Caesar's head in pewter on the top) to E next door for her entrance exam for the school she wanted to go to, and she got in. Her dad, seeing the pencil when she returned it, remarked that of course I had that pencil, obviously I did, it stood to reason.
And I am making afternoon tea for a whole pile of people on Friday, which will feature your cloudberry jam.
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Date: 2011-12-20 04:31 pm (UTC)I still have the "Senatus populusque Romanus" pencil that my second-semester Latin teacher gave me. I used it for Latin tests all the rest of the way through college. :-)
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Date: 2011-12-20 07:42 pm (UTC)