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Jan. 4th, 2025 07:41 amHaving taken yesterday off went on to pay off, and allowed me to join everyone on a drive to Montauk Point.
And before we left, I finally got to sort things out regarding Starbucks. Brian defaulted to ask me for yet another peppermint mocha, but Emily selected a vanila sweet cream cold brew through the app, and I also threw in a second turkey sage danish (the first being one that I got her after clocking out on Tuesday, in case they'd be sold out later).
Mom and Marie also decided to grab a box of donuts before we'd head out. Mom asked each of us what we'd like, and I asked for one of those double-chocolate donuts with sugar crystals inside the cream, that Emily got two years ago. They wound up getting me a bavarian cream donut instead, the closest thing available, and Emily suggested when I brought it up that what I wanted might've been a seasonal item since cycled out.
Just before heading out was when I actually checked everything out, to pick up at the Route 112 location. Mom had half of her danish, and decided to let me have the other half.
And, I still didn't get the bonus play for ordering three handcrafted drinks, although I did get two regular plays. Whatever I did wrong, I'm going to write that off now.
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During the ride, with Brian and Emily driving separately in their own car, Marie asked me at several red lights to flip Brian off for putting that mechanical chair up online for sale at Mom's request without consulting her. I did so on the third light, but only through the rear window; she asked me to stick it through my door window at the next one.
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We arrived near the lighthouse (closed), and had a brief step onto the beach. Mom spotted what she'd learn online was a black gannet, and gave me her binoculars to see it as well. (She also managed to take a picture of it, and posted it to Uguu Crew instead of Uguu Blue, but I saw it on her phone later in the car.)
We didn't go on an actual hike like we used to. Mom offered to bring everyone to either the town library or a diner somewhere, the former which we agreed upon.
Sure enough, there was a selection of DVDs there, but no anime section or even individual anime mingled with everything else. The teen room did have a small selection of manga, but the closest that would have interested me were Fruits Basket and Sailor Moon, and only volume 1 of each.
Mom and I eventually left Marie to come home with Brian and Emily, and stopped at a nearby campground for another view of the ocean before heading home.
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After they arrived home, Brian decided to put on Howl's Moving Castle, another obvious non-option in our living room here until not too long ago.
Marie ordered some Turkish delivery, and we wound up pausing the movie to have dinner while still all eating individually instead of gathered at the table.
Come the credits, the show got shrunk into a corner, and the screen itself showed an illustration of Adventure Time, where the selection cursor had started. That being a cheaply-drawn non-anime series to clash too much with a beautiful Miyazaki anime movie, I shifted it to the next suggestion over and another Miyazaki film, Spirited Away.
Marie asked if Chihiro, the protagonist in the illustration, has the perfect shade of brown hair. I said that it's almost there, but somehow falls just short of Saga's. I tried to place a finger about a minute later, when Brian and Marie started seeing Emily off, specifying Saga's to be more vibrant, and Mom suggested that Saga's might be more textured.
(In general, along with the other original three and Kurumi, other favorites of mine include Rokuna's first pair of Starbound-based pics, Mana Tendou, Kokoro Awane, and Genopsyko Yumenoshima (again, my current phone image). That's mostly in their own right, as opposed to by way of baring flesh as well, which some of those overall usually don't; harder to tell if someone like Sticky Toffee Pudding would interest me as much if her cleavage wasn't exposed.)
And before we left, I finally got to sort things out regarding Starbucks. Brian defaulted to ask me for yet another peppermint mocha, but Emily selected a vanila sweet cream cold brew through the app, and I also threw in a second turkey sage danish (the first being one that I got her after clocking out on Tuesday, in case they'd be sold out later).
Mom and Marie also decided to grab a box of donuts before we'd head out. Mom asked each of us what we'd like, and I asked for one of those double-chocolate donuts with sugar crystals inside the cream, that Emily got two years ago. They wound up getting me a bavarian cream donut instead, the closest thing available, and Emily suggested when I brought it up that what I wanted might've been a seasonal item since cycled out.
Just before heading out was when I actually checked everything out, to pick up at the Route 112 location. Mom had half of her danish, and decided to let me have the other half.
And, I still didn't get the bonus play for ordering three handcrafted drinks, although I did get two regular plays. Whatever I did wrong, I'm going to write that off now.
-
During the ride, with Brian and Emily driving separately in their own car, Marie asked me at several red lights to flip Brian off for putting that mechanical chair up online for sale at Mom's request without consulting her. I did so on the third light, but only through the rear window; she asked me to stick it through my door window at the next one.
-
We arrived near the lighthouse (closed), and had a brief step onto the beach. Mom spotted what she'd learn online was a black gannet, and gave me her binoculars to see it as well. (She also managed to take a picture of it, and posted it to Uguu Crew instead of Uguu Blue, but I saw it on her phone later in the car.)
We didn't go on an actual hike like we used to. Mom offered to bring everyone to either the town library or a diner somewhere, the former which we agreed upon.
Sure enough, there was a selection of DVDs there, but no anime section or even individual anime mingled with everything else. The teen room did have a small selection of manga, but the closest that would have interested me were Fruits Basket and Sailor Moon, and only volume 1 of each.
Mom and I eventually left Marie to come home with Brian and Emily, and stopped at a nearby campground for another view of the ocean before heading home.
-----
After they arrived home, Brian decided to put on Howl's Moving Castle, another obvious non-option in our living room here until not too long ago.
Marie ordered some Turkish delivery, and we wound up pausing the movie to have dinner while still all eating individually instead of gathered at the table.
Come the credits, the show got shrunk into a corner, and the screen itself showed an illustration of Adventure Time, where the selection cursor had started. That being a cheaply-drawn non-anime series to clash too much with a beautiful Miyazaki anime movie, I shifted it to the next suggestion over and another Miyazaki film, Spirited Away.
Marie asked if Chihiro, the protagonist in the illustration, has the perfect shade of brown hair. I said that it's almost there, but somehow falls just short of Saga's. I tried to place a finger about a minute later, when Brian and Marie started seeing Emily off, specifying Saga's to be more vibrant, and Mom suggested that Saga's might be more textured.
(In general, along with the other original three and Kurumi, other favorites of mine include Rokuna's first pair of Starbound-based pics, Mana Tendou, Kokoro Awane, and Genopsyko Yumenoshima (again, my current phone image). That's mostly in their own right, as opposed to by way of baring flesh as well, which some of those overall usually don't; harder to tell if someone like Sticky Toffee Pudding would interest me as much if her cleavage wasn't exposed.)