Auntie Lowan's Christmas Recovery and Catharsis Thread!!!!!!

BlaiseDaley wrote:

Yikes, if I didn't know that was you postin, B'ang, I'd have thought someone raided the wee Blaise's toy chest. I take it that dinosaur is remote controlled and makes more noise than a 747.

Hell yeah it's a remote controlled robotic dinosaur!

It doesn't make a whole lot of noise though. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. I'm terrible with remote control stuff so it really just roars and walks in circles until it knocks something over.

My cat just blinks at it but the dogs are quite intriegued!

Blaise Jr. and Mo could create a robot dinosaur army and rule the world!

finally get an underwater camera

We are seriously into Thomas around this place. I have to make up extra details of Mo's favorite "Deisel demolishes Thomas and Lady" story every night. How many times can they jump that old viaduct anyway? Someday I should translate our horrid story and send it to the good Reverand's estate.

Don't even talk to me about Resuce Heros!!

Mo did get a super cool AstroBoy "action figure" from "Santa" this year though.

I have many cool big AstroBoy gift flolding paper congratulations cards that I like to mail by post.

Honestly, I am spending too much time at the Kinokuniya Bookstore inside my favorite grocery: Uwajimaya.

Sorry. Sorry. I need some more awamori. I might make sense then.

boomerang wrote:

We are seriously into Thomas around this place. I have to make up extra details of Mo's favorite "Deisel demolishes Thomas and Lady" story every night. How many times can they jump that old viaduct anyway? Someday I should translate our horrid story and send it to the good Reverand's estate.

Don't even talk to me about Resuce Heros!!

Mo did get a super cool AstroBoy "action figure" from "Santa" this year though.

I have many cool big AstroBoy gift flolding paper congratulations cards that I like to mail by post.

Honestly, I am spending too much time at the Kinokuniya Bookstore inside my favorite grocery: Uwajimaya.

Sorry. Sorry. I need some more awamori. I might make sense then.

The jr. Blaise is nine now has sorta kinda moved on a bit from Thomas and the Rescue heroes. I say sorta kinda because of all the genetic material his mother and I infused in the young man, the pack rat gene is probably the largest one of all. So, when suggestions are made that he give some of his old toys away, the resulting ruckus makes the Iraqi insurgency look like some low grade hissy fit. <siiiiiiiiigh> I will say jr. has some very nice Thomas books he's gotten from both sides of the Pacific and the transition from my reading them to him to his reading them to me is a source of constant joy.

Man, Astro Boy, I don't if jr. would like but I know his mother would... and any dvds as well.

..I came home one day, when I was twelve, to find my mother had given ALL my toys, every last one, to the charity shop.

WITHOUT ASKING ME< OR EVEN TELLING ME!


I was utterly devastated.....lost so much of what little (if any) security I had.


Like, I would have been happy to cull.....but everything was gone, stuff I would still treasure today (like my dead sister's special doll).

There are underwater housings, Reyn, but.......

My new camera is waterproof and dust proof so you can take it anywhere without worry. That is why I wanted it -- because of all the rain and grit and dust and crap that prevented me from taking my regular camera out.

Ha! Blaise! I get the feeling that I wouldn't have to explain to you what it feels like to stand in the Japanese grocery and say "Excuse me! Does this package contain squid teeth or am I mistaken?"