Hi! It’s me1 Lily!!!

It wasn’t a very exciting weekend.  We did a lot of practicing and exercising and stuffs.  Yuki is really working us out.  She says that if we screw up we’re giving idols a bad name – even if we aren’t one, and we’re not going to screw up.  So she’s working us hard.

It’s fine, though.  It’s actually a little fun.  It think Beth and Crystal are really taking their lessons to heart.  Diana just seems happy to go along with everyone, and, well…  it seems to be working out.  I showed Miki a video of all the girls rehearsing and she was almost giddy, she says it’ll be a lot of fun.

The Houston organizers want professional headshots of everyone.  And, well, none of us have them.  So I said you can’t have professional, but you can have pretty good, and I went around and got photos of everyone.  She said fine, whatever, and they’ll work with it.  I’m not a terrible photographer, and it all worked out.

So, yeah.   I guess this is happening.

Other than that, it wasn’t a busy weekend.  Dave grilled, but we got rained out a bit.  But it wasn’t a heavy rain, so we recovered well.  I brought Miki some of Dave’s grilling, and she was so thankful I thought she was going to kiss me.  But, none of that, she just grabbed a chicken wing, said a remarkably cheerful “ITADAKIMASU”,  and dug in.  And then was going “oishii!!!” with sauce all over her mouth.  It was strangely cute.  Idols sure do know how to do “cute”.

I wouldn’t say we’re best friends, but we’re pretty good friends.  I’m friends with several idols!  How did that happen???

I brought Ai some too.  She was a little more reserved but enjoyed it just as much.  I didn’t have enough for everyone but I’ll try to fix that when i go to Japan.

Miki will probably tell the rest of the idols, and then I’ll have to at some point.  Dave’s grilling is just that good.

Well, time to go now.  Liz is staying over tonight even though everyone else went home, and we’re going to make a mini-pile..

Love you all!!! ❤️