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Dec. 26th, 2021 05:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedEmily and Drew were here yesterday to celebrate Christmas with the rest of us.
More than a week ago, Mom sent me down Long Island Avenue to see if there was an abandoned couch still just beyond Station Road, and I noticed these four silver tokens on the edge of the road, for something called Olympia Pachisro, which turned out not to have any locations anywhere on Long Island.
I gave those to Brian, Marie, Emily, and Drew for their scratchoff tickets, while I used a Singaporean coin worth 20 cents that I recently found in my change jar (Mom must've found it and put it in there with some regular coins).
Got a whole box of the following manga, which I requested mostly in relation to stuff I had picked up at Savers:
-Angelic Layer, volumes 3 and 4
-The Honor Student at Magic High School, v. 1-4
-Mink, v. 5+6
-Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Wraith Arc, v. 1
-To Heart, v. 3
-Tokyo Mew Mew, v. 3
-Zodiac P.I., v. 1+2
(Just one volume short of a complete set each of Angelic Layer and Zodiac P.I., and I might request those for my birthday, although I would also like some credit for Steam and/or the Nintendo eShop. But, especially seeing how this is already way too much manga to fit on my bookshelf, I can see an opportunity coming up for another round of eBay sales once I finish most of it, along with Unofficial Hatsune Mix, although I do plan on keeping To Heart.)
Drew also gave me a calendar that his cousin Will, an illustrator, drew up, of bunnies eating food. Each month depicts some kind of food business and one line describing what it's all about.
For my gifts to everyone, the first was a pair of work gloves Mom found at Cabela's last week and suggested I wrap up for Dad.
Next thing was a small packet of cribbage pegs, for everyone. (When Aunt Marie and Uncle Ray came last summer, we turned out to have lost all but four of our original pegs, and had to substitute them with matchsticks.)
And finally, a complete collection of The Adventures of Tintin, a staple of our childhood that we actually had less than half of all volumes of.
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Spent most of the day reading To Heart.
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We didn't have the big feast last night, because Marie and Drew weren't that hungry, and Brian and Emily were out somewhere. Mom told me later that we will be having that tomorrow when Aunt Marie joins us.
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Given "Merry Popotan" as one of my Christmas greetings, I agreed for in the evening to show Marie and Drew an episode of Popotan.
Suffice to say, Marie had some doubts about it upon seeing one of the first few things that happens in the first episode. But, despite more fanservice along the way, she and Drew both expressed interest in seeing how the story unfolds, and we will probably watch more of it next time they're here. For their last couple of days here, we've agreed upon tonight for Madoka, and I also offered to show them Lucky Star tomorrow night.
More than a week ago, Mom sent me down Long Island Avenue to see if there was an abandoned couch still just beyond Station Road, and I noticed these four silver tokens on the edge of the road, for something called Olympia Pachisro, which turned out not to have any locations anywhere on Long Island.
I gave those to Brian, Marie, Emily, and Drew for their scratchoff tickets, while I used a Singaporean coin worth 20 cents that I recently found in my change jar (Mom must've found it and put it in there with some regular coins).
Got a whole box of the following manga, which I requested mostly in relation to stuff I had picked up at Savers:
-Angelic Layer, volumes 3 and 4
-The Honor Student at Magic High School, v. 1-4
-Mink, v. 5+6
-Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Wraith Arc, v. 1
-To Heart, v. 3
-Tokyo Mew Mew, v. 3
-Zodiac P.I., v. 1+2
(Just one volume short of a complete set each of Angelic Layer and Zodiac P.I., and I might request those for my birthday, although I would also like some credit for Steam and/or the Nintendo eShop. But, especially seeing how this is already way too much manga to fit on my bookshelf, I can see an opportunity coming up for another round of eBay sales once I finish most of it, along with Unofficial Hatsune Mix, although I do plan on keeping To Heart.)
Drew also gave me a calendar that his cousin Will, an illustrator, drew up, of bunnies eating food. Each month depicts some kind of food business and one line describing what it's all about.
For my gifts to everyone, the first was a pair of work gloves Mom found at Cabela's last week and suggested I wrap up for Dad.
Next thing was a small packet of cribbage pegs, for everyone. (When Aunt Marie and Uncle Ray came last summer, we turned out to have lost all but four of our original pegs, and had to substitute them with matchsticks.)
And finally, a complete collection of The Adventures of Tintin, a staple of our childhood that we actually had less than half of all volumes of.
-----
Spent most of the day reading To Heart.
-----
We didn't have the big feast last night, because Marie and Drew weren't that hungry, and Brian and Emily were out somewhere. Mom told me later that we will be having that tomorrow when Aunt Marie joins us.
-----
Given "Merry Popotan" as one of my Christmas greetings, I agreed for in the evening to show Marie and Drew an episode of Popotan.
Suffice to say, Marie had some doubts about it upon seeing one of the first few things that happens in the first episode. But, despite more fanservice along the way, she and Drew both expressed interest in seeing how the story unfolds, and we will probably watch more of it next time they're here. For their last couple of days here, we've agreed upon tonight for Madoka, and I also offered to show them Lucky Star tomorrow night.