Empress : Kaiserin: Austin

Montag, Dezember 10, 2007

Austin

7.47 Uhr (Texas time)
Woke up freezing cold, and early. It just rained, as I can see. Me first to wake up, and it feels rather awkward. The pain is subsiding... but still lingering. Let's see how fast I can get over it. Dance the tune of escapism... is something I'm pretty good at... though it may seem like a negative aspect...

Hard to type with freezing fingers, but who's to blame when I'm still wearing a T-shirt? Ha. This post comes after a couple of One Piece episodes. It’s impossible to survive without anime :p

Oh yes... I remembered the scene when I woke up this morning. Let me do some explaining first - the youngest kid sleeps downstairs, and the two girls sleep in a room upstairs. Me and ST sleep with them while the parents in their own room. We do have a spare room with a mattress (also where our luggages are), but no one sleeps there.

I vaguely recalled some commotion in the middle of the night, in the middle of my sleep - the children screaming and the parents distressing... And the morning scene was remnants of last night's chaos - which I found pretty funny in a sense - I was the only one on the bed with the 2nd kid. I got down and the eldest sis was sleeping on the carpeted floor in front of the storeroom (or was she closer to the bathroom?), ST was sleeping in the spare room. Both parents on bed knocked out. It's funny in a sympathetic way.

Ice cream in the freezing morning. The feeling is totally addictive! I went over three rounds of it. Then since it was cold weather I finally decided to have my Hot Christmas Chocolate. Mmmm...! And with real candycane bits!

And other chocolates I bought... Hershey’s Kisses Hot Cocoa Flavour, and below, Hershey’s Sticks. This is a little too sweet to my liking though...

I put on my clothes meant for this winter for the first time; it was all short sleeves before. But it was hot in the house all dressed up so I went outside the yard and woooo!! It was all misty and foggy!!! Very winter-like, ne? But fog also means rain...

The square-ish texture is due to the privacy screens; pic taken from indoors...

And now from the yard - as you can see, it's all fog... and the cold :D

13 Uhr (Texas time)

All the fog while travelling on the road

KFC for lunch... again. We ordered the same thing... again. But the kids loved it, so whatever. At the end of dinner it got REALLY windy, so it's the cold PLUS wind. Very very cold so I finally wore my coat.

Went to HEB for groceries. Drinking chocolate again, coffee for Mum, snacks, something for my hair, and Bailey's ice cream (!!) from HD. Lalala~~~ The fifth pint in the fridge. Whahaha.

16.30 Uhr (Texas time)
After that Uncle dropped ST and I at a shopping mall chain, in front of the Barnes & Nobles store. Once shopping into the bookstore I subconsciously walked towards a display of literature classics. It was almost unreal to see Franz's face staring at me. I had to look twice... and then a weird feeling came over me - his famous portrait... on Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray?! How insulting, and yet, it was just plain weird. Okay, they meant to flatter his looks? But I can't help but relate that to the ending and I just don't like Franz's image being used as part of one's imagination for the horrible horrible ending.

Whoa. I picked up a manga I believe could not be found back home; the rest I read on the spot lol. Yes, I'm getting fond of Yoshinaga Fumi-sensei's works.

Blame! looks very interesting, but they didn't have the entire set to begin with. :(

An hour and a half spent at the bookstore, and another half hour at Hallmark, where I found fabulously noisy cards! You know those “talking cards”? They’re fascinatingly irritating! If not for the price, I would have bought back some and “noised up” the whole house haha (which I did by the way in the shop lol). Then it was time Uncle would come by and pick us up, who's also on his way to pick up some gardening tools.

When we were done... it had gotten even coooolder...

1.30 Uhr (Texas time)
Last one to sleep; everyone was knocked out, and I was close to it anyway. What I tried was very crazy? Switched off the lights on the ground floor and the home was in complete darkness. So I felt my way up the stairs to the spare room... put my glasses away, and then lastly feel the way to the bed. Took some kind of manoeuvring not to even generate any form of noise, and of course to trip over the two narrow safety gates at each end of the stairs.