blah blah blah gabble gabble gabble rhubarb rhubarb

[xifeng]

If I may sum up my weekend in one disjointed, capslocked phrase, BOOKS AND PAYCHECKS LOL.

I seem to have decided, despite all evidence to the contrary, that it would be a good idea to suggest that she be my w0m4n. This plan is almost certainly doomed to failure thanks to a variety of factors, and then you can all mock my emo wangst when same appears subsequently. I've just not settled on a decent time to do it; either Valentine's Day (yes, let's all be cheesy and corny and horribly cliché) or over the summer, which will have the bonus of a.) giving me some time to grow a pair and b.) making me feel a little less creepy about the whole enterprise.

I just think that if I don't do something, I'm going to have to watch her go out with someone else (AGAIN) and kick myself for, like, ever. I mean, yes, any relationship is necessarily going to have a time limit because I don't believe in The One and I'm not someone she should be with for the rest of her life (we would only make each other unhappy), but I do love her and I wish she'd let me walk with her a little way, even if I'm not there at the end of the road.

Love, it is a crock.

Comments

[forgottensanity.livejournal.com]

If you're happy and you know it, take a chance?

If you don't do it you will never know, although I know that sometimes one feels that Not Knowing is better than Knowing the Answer Is No.

Technically we don't have Valentine's Day in Denmark. However, lately card companies and the like have realised that there is a market for it, and then some Young People have been infiltrated by the nasty American culture and go, "OMG leik w3 suhld s0 toatli haev væll3nteimsz Dya!" They've already stolen Halloween. It gives kids an excuse to go trick-or-treating twice a year, the other one being some time next month. Personally I can never really remember when it's Valentine's Day, but for some reason I want to say February 14 ... If it's true, then I must've been infiltrated for too long by American culture. I wonder whose fault that is. *looks around knowingly*

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'd rather know that the answer is no than not know; I can deal with rejection. It's uncertainty I don't like. This is why I hate the whole dating game and all the bullshit our culture (or my culture) attaches to romantic relationships and so on and so forth.

I notice you are working diacritical marks into your Netspeak. Go Cat! (Also, why are Danish children going trick-or-treating next month? What happens then?)

You are correct. V-Day (or VD, as I like to call it HAHAHAHA@LEE) is 14 February. Also, I am not responsible for your being attacked by American culture. It was TOTALLY that other guy.

[forgottensanity.livejournal.com]

Æ, Ø and Å are very special and should be treated with extraordinary care. Because I just finished my last oral exam today, I shall henceforth speak vit ze German accent.

"Fastelavn" is a zelebration muts like ze Halloween, vere ze kleinen children dress oop in ze costumes und hit a barrel vitch iz full of ze candy. Ze child oo hits ze barrel zo dass ze bottom falles out is crowned "Prins" or "Prinsesse" und ze child oo hits off ze letzte board of ze barrel is crowned "King" or "Queen". Ze children eat muts of ze candy und ze zpecial "Fastelavn" buns, vhich are bunz vit cream or jam in ze middle dat either look like zhiz</> or like zhiz (http://www.igos.dk/pic/Fastelavnsboller_300x400_80.jpg). Notitzen Sie bitte ze black cat in ze picture. In ze olden dayz - before ze Zivilasion - a live black katze vaz put in ze barrel und ze zweet children would den beat ze barrel und vhen ze bottom fell out dey vould chase ze katze out of town - at least if it vere ztill alive. Ze cat vould den take all ze bad luck vit it.

Ze children dress up as ze Superman und ze Prinsessen und on dee Sunday dat ist ze "Fastelavn" ze children go out und trick-or-treat. Traditionally ze "Fastelavn" vas ze zelebrasion bevor fast (zumding about "Lent"). Now ve don't do ze fast becauze ve sind a heathen people, but ze children ztill celebrate ze "Fastelavn". Ze children trick-or-treat during ze afternoon, not during ze night like you unzivilised American pig dogs do.

Zo you ze how ve do not need to have Halloveen zins ze "Fastelavn" is just like it.


Und I hate zat other guy. He is alvayz causing ze trouble! (http://www.odensemarcipan.dk/Files/Billeder/Opskrifter/fastelavn/forside_fastelavn.jpg)

[forgottensanity.livejournal.com]

Und ze linkz vere missing an A, so here zhey are again:

Zhiz (http://www.odensemarcipan.dk/Files/Billeder/Opskrifter/fastelavn/forside_fastelavn.jpg) und zhiz (http://www.igos.dk/pic/Fastelavnsboller_300x400_80.jpg)!

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

"Fastelavn" sounds vaguely like Mardi Gras (the same last-blast-before-Lent principle) at work here. However, I am delighted that they have replaced the black cat with candy. The poor kitty. ;_; Though Mal would certainly get a kick out of beating the crap out of a barrel, if she didn't decide to take a swing at one of the other children first.

("My buns," Mal said, hoarding them all as closely as she could and getting her princess costume sticky.)

Also, it seems quite unfair that adults do not get Fastelavn buns. Or do they?

Also also, you will be delighted to know that civilization has come to Vinland the New World; there is a trend in some places towards taking the kids to trick-or-treat during the daylight, because OMG WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN. (Needless to say, it never occurs to the entitlement-syndrome breeders that they should be, oh, I don't know, SUPERVISING their progeny.)

[forgottensanity.livejournal.com]

Anyone can have Fastelavn buns provided they want to pay. In schools, kids mostly just get the candy since buns are sticky and who wants sticky children? But bakeries start selling the buns like a month and/or a half before the actual holiday. They're traditional so I can't entirely imagine parents not getting their kids to eat at least one bun.

We also have something called "Fastelavnsris". These consist of some branches tied together and then decorated with candy, things cut out of cardboard (usually black cats) and serpentines, if you call them that. Those colourful strips of thin paper thingies.

And I can so totally see Mal chasing off all the other children once she gets her hands on the bat. MY BUNS! MY CANDY! MY CROWNS!!! MY BARREL!

One can always find something to use a barrel for.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine anyone not wanting to eat at least one bun. They looked delicious. But yes, children have an alarming tendency to become sticky.

Oh, those sound neat. We call them "streamers", usually, if it's the same colorful strip of thin paper thingy I'm thinking of, but that's kind of groovy. :D

Yes. For instance, one can fill it with water and dump it in the Iacchan Baynazier pirate's face to make him wake up and say some interesting words. ^_-