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Highly Manga-fied Mothers Day
Mothers Day weekend started badly, with me glooming over my own mother, who died in 1995 and with whom I'd had a difficult relationship, and the fact that I hadn't been able to line up my sweet stepmother for anything either (she had things to do with her other family ... my late father was her 3rd husband). My mother-in-law, normally a delightfully dotty person, didn't help by attempting to monopolize the entire weekend. Thank God the Mr. came to the rescue with jewelry and a diplomatic chat with his mother last night and a manga shopping spree today ...
Chomiji's Mother's Day
Things had deteriorated badly by 9:00pm last night: the Mr. and I were both working late, the Young Lady was feeling neglected, and my mother-in-law, with whom we are spending most of Sunday, had left a message saying that she wanted to take her granddaughter out for the day on Saturday. At 15, the Young Lady has no interest in spending 2 days in a row with Grandma. I don't have a problem with that, but we were both irritated enough in general that we started fuming at each other anyway.
My best beloved appeared in the middle of this with a very attractive-looking jewelry store bag containing two boxes, and then called up his mother and squared everything away with her. The boxes contained a silver bracelet and matching earrings, with a dolphin theme. > happy sigh <
Then today we went first to the comic book store, where I got my SDK 22, Death Note 6, and Vagabond 7 and 8 (and new copies of 1-4 for my bro-in-law, whose birthday we just missed). Plus, in support of my Cho Shoujo Manga Education Project, I got Fruits Basket 1-3 and Fushigi Yugi Genbu Kaiden 1-4. Then we had lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant (one of my favorite cuisines) and went to Borders where I furthered the Project by scoring Ouran High School Host Club 1-3, xxxHolic, and Nana 1 (they didn't have vol. 2 for either of those, darnit!!) The pedestrian area in downtown Silver Spring (blocked off to motor traffic on weekends) is really looking good these days: the splash fountain was on, with little kids darting in and out of it, people were eating outside at a lot of the restaurants, and a Peruvian panpipes-and-guitar band was playing. And you can walk to all the places I just mentioned after parking in one of the municipal lots of garages.
So I am feeling much more fortified, mood-wise, at the prospect of having to make a big pile of pasta salad tomorrow and attend a Mothers Day BBQ with a whole bunch of people we don't know, for the most part (although various of my in-laws will be there, along with an old colleague of my husband's).
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Heh, there's a limit to how much manga I'm going to be able to purchase and consume at this time!
But yes, I had even heard of Ranma 1/2 before I knew the things were called "manga."
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(You don't have to read all of them, of course...there are 32 or something ridiculous like that.)
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>> you are in big trouble lady! <<
Semper et ubique!
(= "always and everywhere")