Series: 36 TOC June 2024

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

Today was a boring day.

“What, you mean you can’t just travel to London and make a day of it?”

Well, no.  First, Sabby would be ticked.  Second, time difference.  Third, I really don’t like doing it if I don’t have to.  Fourth, well, I just didn’t, so…

So I just kinda of sat around and watched anime.

Yes, Sabby likes it when I do stuff that’s useful, but sometimes I deserve a break too, right?

All the girls were off doing their own thing today.  They invited me to do something, but I really didn’t feel much like it, so I just lazed a bit.  Let Marie cuddle with me (she’s fine) and watched anime.  I caught up on “Sound! Euphonium”‘s third season, and, ummm.. wow.

Not telling you what happened, but, well, some stuff really happened.  I was crying by the end of episode 12.  Poor Reina!  And poor Kumiko!!!

And poor Kanade too!!!

Poor everyone except Mayu!!!

Anyway…  otherwise, I’m still lazing around tonight.  Just flopping around in my PJs until bedtime.  Maybe I’ll do something more interesting tomorrow.

Love you all!!!

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

I don’t really have much to say today.  It was another boring day.  It’s getting hot here in Central Texas.  Yeah, I guess I could go to Australia, but, what’s the point, really?  I can also stay here and have an ice pop.

Central Texas is a little boring in the summer, really.

There’s no beaches, there’s no amusement parks really except for the waterpark, there’s… really nothing.

Look at me, being all complainey.

Oh well, it’s fun complaining sometimes.  I’d just better not let Sabby catch me, um…  well, she’ll probably read this.

Oh well.

I studied Japanese some, and ran this morning, and, well…  what else.  Nothing, really.

Well, considering all the exciting stuff that happens to me, maybe I should be happy to have a day where I don’t have anything to say.

Love you all!!!

Hi! It’s me1 Lily!!!

Well, I didn’t expect that.  David wanted to spend some time with me today.

I guess I’m going off to college soon and he’s gonna miss me…. even though he couldn’t quite say it.

So, I told him about my little “skill”.

Dangit, now he thinks I’m a superhero.  He wants me to wear a costume and everything.  And he was zoning out when describing the heart-shaped hole in the chest.  Oh well, he’s a boy, that’ll happen.

He did tell me he’s glad I’m his sister though.  Awww.  I wonder what brought that on, but I’m not going to look that gift horse in the mouth.

I popped over to Tokyo and got him some kakigoori though.  He loves shaved ice.  I should buy some of the syrup so I can make my own and not have to transfer to yen.

That’s another inconvenient thing – I have to keep a little currency handy for any country I want to go to regularly.  I’ll need a bunch of little coinpurses in my bag, or something, with labels… and won’t that look weird if someone’s snooping around.  “Why does she have yen…  and yuan?”

Well, honestly, I really can’t go to China, it’s one of those countries that isn’t particularly safe, but still.

Anyway, other than that, it’s been hot and a bit boring.  Crystal came over to show me some more music she wrote.  Dang it she’s really good.  I want her to start taking music classes, I bet she’d do some really cool stuff.

Also…  I’m trying to coordinate with Miki for her to teach me the choreography for “don’t embarrass your big sister on the train”…  but I can’t tell you why, it’s part of the surprise for this August.  I’m no dancer, but I need to know all the different steps anyway  In fact, I might take some dance lessons over the next month.  I’m two left feet, but..  I need to.  I’m pretty fit and flexible, so I just need to learn how to do the steps and not trip over myself.

And I might drag the girls along with me.  Hahah!!  Or at least some of them.

Love you all!!!

Hi! It’s me1 Lily!!!

What a hot day!! Now we’re in summer in central Texas!!!

It’s not hot in Tokyo though, so when I popped over this morning to go take some lessons from Miki (and their choreographer), it was really pleasant there.  I actually went for my run there.  I guess there are some advantages.  They taught me a lot of the steps and now I need to teach the girls.  They dumbed it down for us newbies, so it’s not like we’re doing backflips or anything.

Of course they asked why I’m teaching them that…  well, I want to perform it with them at the shop.  And there’s no other reason.  Not at all, no sirree…  but I actually do want to perform it with them at the shop, so, well….  I’ll spend tomorrow teaching them some of the steps.

Going to have to figure out how to teach Rebecca and her friends in SoCal those steps too, but…  we’ll figure it out.  Yeah, I want them to perform it too.  They were on the train with me, after all!!!

Beth actually figured out the other reason I don’t have at all, but she has to keep it quiet, and now she actually has to help me.  Aww.  the others are a little suspicious but I told them if they trust me just go along with it because I’m not going to have them do anything bad.  I mean, who am I kidding, they for sure know something’s up but I want to keep at least SOME surprise…

Okay!  Girls are here and they’re full of chocolate, so there’s some wall-bouncing going on, so I may as well join in on the…  oh crap, is that a pillow fight I hear?  Sabby’s not gonna be… wait.  Is that her I hear throwing pillows too?

Dangit, I need to get in on that action.

Love you all OWWWWWWW

I’M GONNA GET YOU BETH.  Stop squealing and running!!! Okay gotta go!!!

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

Yeah, it was a pillow fight, and a rip-roaring one too.  And yes, Sabby was in on it.  Woman’s got an arm.  Sabby usually doesn’t do things like that.  I asked her afterwards when we were all plopped on the bed catching our breath and nursing sore noses why, and she just said “I haven’t felt young in a long while and you’re not going to be here that much longer.”

Awww.

Sabby has never treated me like a child, but lately she’s been treating me a lot more like an adult.  She’s told me more about herself, but as a friend rather than a mother.  She had it hard, she really did.  The stuff she did as a teenager just to survive…  I’m glad I was saved from that kind of life.  I mean, it made her who she is now, but sometimes I can still see the scars peeking out.

So, Yuki wants to room with me in Japan when I go to school.

I asked her why…  I mean, she has her parents to stay with, and she has a bit saved up too from her time as an idol.  I guess it didn’t pay great but she was pretty responsible.  She just said “I like you, you’re easy to get along with, and I don’t want to be alone when I go back there.”  I asked her about Suzuka and Haruka, and she just shrugged.  “They’re good people but I don’t think I want to live with them.”

“And you want to live with me?”

“Un”, she said, softly.

She’s going to get a job and start applying to college when she gets back there, she’ll also have entrance exams to take too.  But… I think it’s good for her.  I agreed.

It’ll be nice to have someone around.  I’ve had people around for as long as I can remember (well, you know exactly how long that is).  But Yuki will be a roommate… not like Beth or Dave or David or Sabby.

I’m starting to realize.  I’m going to be a grown up.

I am a grown up… but I’m going to be one too.

I have to tell Rebecca and her SoCal friends about my secret if I want to teach them the dance steps.  Aww.  And I have to arrange airfare for them too at some point.  Not sure how I’m going to work that out and have any hope at all of keeping even the smallest bit of the surprise, still a surprise.

Oh well.  Even if not, I’m sure they’ll have a blast.

Love you all!!!