Mending Fences
Sep. 26th, 2014 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseIn a minute I'm going to change into my painting clothes and go paint our fence. It's already green, so I'm re-painting it green...which may seem like an odd choice. I can't quite remember why we thought this was a good idea in the first place. I do remember painting it the very first time many, many moons ago and our next door neighbor saying from her second story porch (just loud enough for me to hear), "Tsk, those Micks will paint anything green."
This is not as random as it may seem.
She apparently thought we were Irish due to the bumper sticker on my car at the time which read, "26 + 6 = 1" (which is a reference to the partition of Ireland and my personal politics.) And you know, we painted our porch green too... so she might have had cause to think we had some kind of weird love of the color green. And, god knows, I might have been blasting Irish music while painting, too, so... not as odd an assumption as you might think, given that I'm Czech and Polish and German.
When I was talking to Naomi about this last night at Wyrdsmiths, we stopped to wonder what a Czech or Polish or German person might paint a thing if they were feeling particularly patriotic. Turns out, red would work for all of them. But, I'm not painting everything red. I mean, it DOES still kind of suit my politics, but you know., then the neighbors would have to be all, "Tsk, those Commies will paint anything red!"
In un-related news, I was going to see if I could find a Japanese language 'tape' to listen to while outside painting. I may just have to listen to music (oh noz!) but it would be nice to reinforce my Japanese.... because, damn, I feel far too old to be starting a new language. Though, as a bonus, I've been listening to my "John Learner" tapes in the car again. What is funny is that, of course, what I remember best is the English and I find myself, not so much listening to learn the language, as making up crazy stories about the life and adventures of John Learner.
This is what I mean about too old. The Japanese just bounces off me and I'm off in my imaginary world with fictitious John Learner.
Sads.
Speaking of things Japanese, though, I signed Mason and I up for Anime Detour. We are now officially attending together! That should be great fun. I'm really looking forward to it.
Okay, I should stop stalling. There is a fence to paint!
This is not as random as it may seem.
She apparently thought we were Irish due to the bumper sticker on my car at the time which read, "26 + 6 = 1" (which is a reference to the partition of Ireland and my personal politics.) And you know, we painted our porch green too... so she might have had cause to think we had some kind of weird love of the color green. And, god knows, I might have been blasting Irish music while painting, too, so... not as odd an assumption as you might think, given that I'm Czech and Polish and German.
When I was talking to Naomi about this last night at Wyrdsmiths, we stopped to wonder what a Czech or Polish or German person might paint a thing if they were feeling particularly patriotic. Turns out, red would work for all of them. But, I'm not painting everything red. I mean, it DOES still kind of suit my politics, but you know., then the neighbors would have to be all, "Tsk, those Commies will paint anything red!"
In un-related news, I was going to see if I could find a Japanese language 'tape' to listen to while outside painting. I may just have to listen to music (oh noz!) but it would be nice to reinforce my Japanese.... because, damn, I feel far too old to be starting a new language. Though, as a bonus, I've been listening to my "John Learner" tapes in the car again. What is funny is that, of course, what I remember best is the English and I find myself, not so much listening to learn the language, as making up crazy stories about the life and adventures of John Learner.
This is what I mean about too old. The Japanese just bounces off me and I'm off in my imaginary world with fictitious John Learner.
Sads.
Speaking of things Japanese, though, I signed Mason and I up for Anime Detour. We are now officially attending together! That should be great fun. I'm really looking forward to it.
Okay, I should stop stalling. There is a fence to paint!