sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2022-01-18 01:36 pm

It seems years and years ago that people saw the sun

Happy birthday to my godchild, who is twelve! They are an extra extra clever little mongoose and I have a shirt for them that says so, as soon as I can figure out how to get it in the mail. I believe the festivities will involve a piñata, on the grounds that everyone this year should get to hit something until candy happens.

I had nightmares that my entire family had joined a pseudo-medical suicide cult and were calmly and reasonably arguing with me that it was fine even as the clock ticked down to an extremely unpleasant mass death. My mother sympathized; she had had nightmares of her own. We agreed it was a rather unsubtle expression of current anxieties, but still unpleasant to have to go through. I was more entertained by the part of the dream that featured a fleeting cameo from a character in The Mind Benders (1963).

It is brilliantly, bitterly cold outside. I wish there were more than scattered crusts of snow in the grass, but at least it does seem to think it's winter, as opposed to this weekend's sudden oscillation into spring, which I did not appreciate. January looking both ways isn't supposed to mean into different seasons.
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[personal profile] selkie 2022-01-20 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
There was a children’s crafting encyclopedia set — called Childcraft, I think! — that taught you how, with a shoebox first filled with the surprises and masking-taped, and various features done in cut-up paper towel roll. Square Donkey and Square Pig with Curling-Ribbon Tail are the variants I recall trying out. Child’s piñata for this weekend is VERY 1983 Square Donkey.
asakiyume: (good time)

Square Donkey

[personal profile] asakiyume 2022-01-20 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I can just imagine, and I love it. (... I can just imagine, and I might make one...)