Tag Archives: Chinese life
Home Sweet Home
Modern Yarn, a shop in my lovely hometown, is hosting a knitters’ party this weekend. To make thongs. From licorice. Modern Yarn Project
Games and Relationships
Stick just sent me a link to this MSN dating article, in which a girlfriend writes for advice on dealing with her computer game-addicted boy. In the spirit of Dear Abby’s Wastebasket, I’ve written a different answer. Dear Tired, Did … Continue reading
Chinese New Year
Today is the first day of Chinese New Year. There is a tradition that whatever you do today, you will continue to do all year. So children aren’t scolded or spanked today, because if they cry, they will cry all … Continue reading
Missionary Work
This weekend Stick and I went to Steph and Jeff’s house for a boardgame sleepover. We played some party games like Taboo and led into more gamer-ish games like Betrayal At The House On The Hill. I usually think of … Continue reading
Lychee Lip Gloss
I got a call from my employment agency in China today. On the plus side, they’ve done this a million times before and are totally confident. Unfortunately, I haven’t and I’m not. So he’s saying things like “Z-visa” and I’m … Continue reading
Too Skeski For This Shard
Stick, Hugo, Diana and I spent today recoving for last night and watching The Dark Crystal, which prompted Stick to come up with one of his greatest songs ever: I’m too Skeski for this shard, too Skeski for this shard, … Continue reading
Getting Lucky
My parents just got a new dog from a sheltie rescue place. He’s a little bizarre, he only walks in clockwise circles and he’s scared of almost everything. He came to us named Lucky, which my parents say they would … Continue reading
Christmas Romance… with help from a GPS.
On Christmas Eve, I got up and showered and went to the jewelry store with my semi-brother Scep to pick up an engagement ring! No, not for me, it’s a gorgeous ring, but not nice enough to make me put … Continue reading
Gems and Grammar
I don’t just want to make a collection of weird things found on-line (go to www.Cynical-C.com for that) but I just have to share this, uh, gem. Whoever came up with Life Gems must have been playing a little too … Continue reading
Stercus Fit
Today we had a pop vocab and translation quiz in Latin and I was brilliant! Ok, maybe not quite brilliant, because my translation involved “herd of bulls” and I don’t really think bulls run in herds. But for almost two … Continue reading
