Oh, cute. The Japanese Kanji Kentei organisation decided that the kanji that most represents this year is "disaster". Go team them. [link]
Here's a monk drawing the kanji in question.
Illyria: We cling to what is gone. Is there anything in this life but grief? Wesley: There's love. There's hope...for some. There's hope that you'll find something worthy...that your life will lead you to some joy...that after everything...you can still be surprised. Illyria: Is that enough? Is that enough to live on?
'Shells'
Goodbye and Good Riddance 2004: Well, I Wasn't Expecting That.
Every year we watch the Charlie Brown special, do the Snoopy dance, wish everybody a Merry Christmukkah, and thank our Secret Santas in the good riddance thread. Which is this one, in case you were wondering. Oh, and 2004? Don't think we've forgotten about you.
Betsy HP - Dec 21, 2004 3:58:49 pm PST #410 of 962
If I only had a brain...
askye - Dec 21, 2004 4:05:13 pm PST #411 of 962
Thrive to spite them
I managed to get the ribbon off the chocolate box. And the box is hard to open. Pretty but I have to work to get it open. One of the chocolates was broken...part of the shell came off and the ganache was exposed.
So I had to try it....
omigod. It has to be the best chocolate I've ever tasted. It has black currant ganache inside that is so amazing. I don't think I've ever really had black currant anything. It's amazing. I ate part of it, fit the lid back on, and I'm set.
esse - Dec 21, 2004 4:06:36 pm PST #412 of 962
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Black currant is one of the things I love most about Britain. It's a terrifically addictive substance.
Katie M - Dec 21, 2004 4:09:46 pm PST #413 of 962
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Note to my Seekrit Santa: Got your message, it's all good, if it isn't here tomorrow I"ll pick it up at the post office on the 3rd when I get back into town.
Astarte - Dec 21, 2004 4:11:08 pm PST #414 of 962
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Askye, guh, that sounds scrumpdillyicious. And, go you with the mad breakfast and organizational skills.
Lilty Cash - Dec 21, 2004 4:14:35 pm PST #415 of 962
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
I have a very nice black currant candle, but I've never actually tasted it. Sounds nummy!!
ETA: Real black currant. Not the candle. Because obviously, I wouldn't have tasted that. Eew.
Betsy HP - Dec 21, 2004 4:21:33 pm PST #416 of 962
If I only had a brain...
Real blackcurrant has a funny musky aftertaste that takes some getting used to. Buy a bottle of Ribena.
P.M. Marc - Dec 21, 2004 4:27:35 pm PST #417 of 962
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Real black currant is very tasty. Especially when cooked with raspberries and port and drizzled over crepes.
I fail to have any in my yard, mind. Just two somewhat sickly currants in red and white (which will, when I'm able to do so, get moved to the sunnier backyard).
(I got a single Fool out of the things this year. They really need better light.)
SailAweigh - Dec 21, 2004 4:33:32 pm PST #418 of 962
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Black currant hard candies used to be my favorite as a child. I forget which department store carried some brand of British hard candies in tins. Every time we went there I'd beg my mother for some. I probably got them 3-4 times a year. Lovely dusky flavor.
erikaj - Dec 21, 2004 4:39:03 pm PST #419 of 962
Always Anti-fascist!
Glad you liked it, Meara! I took a chance that you didn't have one.