Tatiana's Wanderings

It's Mardi Gras today! Steph and Lisa offered to pay for my flights if I want to visit them in early April since she goes back to work on April 16. That sounds good to me! Also, I got an email from AWESOME Chinese Eric this morning, saying that he'd come home late last night, but could perhaps come over tomorrow at 4-ish after his shift with dinner so we can watch the Canucks-Panthers game (which starts at 7?) if I was free. He should know me by now; I'm almost always free for stuff like that! Gotta pre-emptively hide the water bottles, though... I can foresee his leaving early, too. I also saw MICE DROPPINGS on the DINING ROOM TABLE! They'd chewed through the bag of ginger snaps... EW!


The FINAL FANTASY V SPOOF party makes it to the anime / manga library in Surgate Ghetto. One of the scholars tells them, "If you want to hide something from black people, put it in a book!" SLIGHTLY RACIST!




The FINAL FANTASY V SPOOF party is exploring Surgate Ghetto. This soldier asks them, "Would you listen to a band called Dwarf Shit?"




From Julie: Ivey is a name?!

COFFEE TIME! I finally got a Christmas card from Kitty (bornwitch) in the mail today, so that was good! The Canucks played Columbus at 4 today, and finally won a game in 2018.... JAKE INTO THE EMPTY NET FOR A 5-2 WIN! I plan to shower later, too.


Julie wanted to share an 8Memes video with me in Facebook chat last night. (When you want to sleep, and your brain just goes SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS...) When I saw it, the same video was at the top of my Facebook feed! QUIRKY COINCIDENCE! :D




From Julie: Chewin' McGregor!




With Mr. Z's help, the FINAL FANTASY V SPOOF party finally makes it to the Barrier Tower and defeats Yog-Sothoth. In the aftermath, Mr. Z says, "Mr. Z can't die here! Fools will go unpitied and jibba-jabba will go unchallenged!" Definitely a Mr. T persona there!

The FINAL FANTASY V SPOOF party makes it to Surgate Ghetto. The soldiers ask them who they are. "Galuf Halm Baldesion. I believe you have six warrants for my arrest." Apparently, criminals are treated like royalty there, but they still hate Jews like Faris!




( Lots of weird library shelves in the Surgate Ghetto! )

Steph let me know that their Christmas card and stickers arrived in the mail today, so that's great! I left at 3:45 to make it to Jon's by 4:30. Knocking on the door since I heard noise from inside, I heard Hiero wonder if it was me. I said yes, Hiero laughed, and Ayler opened the door to me. Hiero said, "Goo-Mah! I KNOW YOU! HAHAHAHA!" Nice! Jon returned the Bible to me (and gave me a black Rampage wallet and some Doritos jalapeno and cheddar chips in a Safeway bag - which expire TOMORROW?! - from Mom), so I simply dropped it off at the Langara Canada Line station when I left their place after a dinner of leftover Chinese food from yesterday's dinner for baby Naomi (Myles' kid and their new cousin - born in early September), and leftover pie / cornbread from Saturday's dinner. Apparently, it was party central this past weekend! Ayler wanted to show me the proper way to draw a star because his teacher had taught him that one-line star, but I can never do those properly. He also wanted to take my Santa hat and wear it (and was successful), even though I said that baby Henry was the only one allowed to wear it, because I don't trust anyone else to just wear the hat without being impish! Ayler also wondered whether certain dates were valid in his perpetual calendar with a tree on it - some were, and some weren't. He knew his own birthday, too!

Hiero wanted me to stay longer, which involves sleeping in his crib. I don't think so! Ayler was also excited about being the special helper (which goes by alphabetical order) in kindergarten tomorrow, telling me that he has to be at school at 8:45 then, and the bell rings at 8:55 and at 12 and sometimes at 3. He also wondered when he'd graduate from his school - not for a while! He also recited the alphabet and said they were writing K tomorrow; when he said "KKK," I briefly wondered what they were teaching kids these days. Then there was a song called MITTENS AND GLOVES. The kids wanted to be very tall, as tall as the ceiling; of course I had to tell them that Robert Pershing Wadlow (the tallest man ever) was more than eight feet tall! Ayler said that he had a friend named Tess at kindergarten (who had a birthday party on Saturday), and someone named Livia, who was different than the Olivia from preschool. Hiero says he plays with garbage trucks at preschool - super!

When Hiero asked why I was cleaning up the puzzle pieces in the back room, I was honest and said that I wasn't in the mood to pick up 200 puzzle pieces again if they wanted to play with it once more. Apparently, Myles got them that solar system puzzle - good times. Ayler wanted to draw on his brother's crib - no, not a good idea! Then he wanted to draw on the floor, then said that it was Uncle Vincent's floor when I reminded him that he probably shouldn't do that. Ah yes, the landlord! At least I got them to draw on the one sheet of memo pad paper that I took into the room along with the toys. Lots of "barns" (I thought Hiero was saying "bombs") and other things were made with the scientific balls and rods! They kept asking why there were sometimes two to four chocolates in an Advent Calendar square, but received an explanation that sometimes it just slides around inside.

Jon's first student (before Randal) was that guy Jeff, whom I had met at least once. When Jon said that the kids might not remember him, I said that one of them had told me that the student was Jeff. Harmony came home after work and adjusted Hiero's buckles - yes, I know Jon technically can't do it since he's teaching, but I never could figure those things out in the first place. I got home at 7:35 on a 407 after having left the house at maybe 6:45 or so, using the open gate to get out and avoid that treacherous step. Woo! I also muted that Eastern Conference Facebook chat with Helen, Jimmy, Tommy, and a bunch of other people indefinitely yesterday, so that'll be good for my sanity as well.


Doritos jalapeno cheddar chips!




Fraser and his "sleeve tattoo" of the stickers I sent his way for Christmas:




After the FINAL FANTASY V SPOOF party defeats Doctor Hiryuu Plant and its Pansies in a boss battle at the top of Hiryuu Valley, Doctor Plant has joined your party!




The FINAL FANTASY V SPOOF party has to sneak into Bal Castle using the moat since the soldiers won't let them in. "Yoink! There was a sword built into the castle wall! Obtained Epee!"




The FINAL FANTASY V SPOOF party has to sneak into Bal Castle using the moat since the soldiers won't let them in. "The castle could collapse at any moment now, but at least you got a cool sword out of the deal!"

COFFEE TIME! The Canucks played the Islanders at 4 today, and lost 5-2.


In FINAL FANTASY V SPOOF, the party gets 666 gil for defeating three Water Buzz enemies near the Big Bridge and Tzepish's Castle.




Julie M. saw this commercial for Little Apple Market in Allentown, PA. COOMING SOON?!




In the same Little Apple Market commercial, Julie M. saw this: SENIORS CITIZENS?! Also, "we BAKED our bread daily"?! You mean they don't do it anymore? That's NOT a selling point, people!

COFFEE TIME! The Canucks played New Jersey at 4 today, but lost 3-2. Then I went out at 6:50 after the game ended. I got two 18-packs of assorted Christmas cards / 12 Vancouver postcards (Gastown, BC Place, and the RCMP!) / three assorted packs of Christmas stickers / a pack of 40 golden Christmas decorative stickers (Poinsettias! Holly! Wreaths! Snowmen! Santa! Winter! Bells!) / a pack of Mickey Mouse stickers / a pack of Emoji stickers from the dollar store (I'm going to make it worth my while if I have to go to a store tucked away in a corner at the other end of the mall...), and on-sale orange juice / Crème de Pirouline dark chocolate artisan rolled wafers for myself from London Drugs. Thank goodness that the 407 bus driver saw me running for the bus and waited a few extra seconds, and waited a bit for me to retrieve my bus pass from my pocket! I definitely thanked him for that, besides my customary "Thank you" when I get off the bus! I got home at 8:10, which is MUCH better than a while later!


In Quelb Village, the FINAL FANTASY V SPOOF village encounters this Cultist Wolf. "Yog-Sothoth knows the gate, Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate..."




In Quelb Village, the FINAL FANTASY V SPOOF village encounters this Cultist Wolf. "Past, present, future... All are one in Yog-Sothoth."




In Quelb Village, the FINAL FANTASY V SPOOF village encounters this Cultist Wolf. "In our studies of the occult, we are often visited by Things From Beyond." He eventually gives them the MAKE THINGS DEADER incantation, which only Bards can use!

I paid my Shaw bill online today. Then I called Chrystal at work at 1:10 to try arranging a time to get together during her time off. We finally decided on December 14 at 7 at the Broadway London Drugs. After that, I got Jimmy's address for Christmas card purposes, muhahaha! I think I'll repurpose Chrystal's Advent calendar for Jeremy instead, too. Not much point in giving her one midway through the month!


The FINAL FANTASY V SPOOF party finally makes it to an empty Quelb Village, where they need Ninja Wolf's permission to cross to the Hiryuu Valley beyond. The sheep here say, "You-Ram-Bah!" to them.




The FINAL FANTASY V SPOOF party enters Ninja Wolf's unlocked dojo in Quelb Village. Ninja Wolf says, "Have a taste of my Super Spinning Moon Dragon Strike of Teleporting Circles of Doom!!"




After Bartz has successfully cleaved him in half, Ninja Wolf tells the FINAL FANTASY V SPOOF party about Dorgann Klauser (Bartz's father) as well as Lonely Wolf's conception. "It was an eight-man, two-woman orgy on top of a grenade... a SEXPLOSION, if you will."