Spring ahead = not so springy

Seriously, it isn't! It makes people tired and grumpy. Including myself.

So, if you haven't heard and if I didn't already post this (highly possible I did), this will be the first exciting time you get to hear about my chance to pick a tick off my fiance's neck. Totally exciting... not.

I thought it was a zit when my finger first brushed over it, so I looked. Nope. In all its eight-legged, blood-sucking glory was a small-headed tick firmly attached to my the back of Josh's neck, discreetly hiding in the hairline.

The solution? Kill it with fire. Okay, not kill, make it let go of Josh... Problem: we cannot put zippo lighter so near his neck (very sensitive in the back) and do not want to put it so near his very long, very pretty hair. So we steal a fork from the kitchen and heat that to pester the pest into letting go. Oh, with a borrowed lighter.

So the fucker dies without letting go, which is more annoying because we then get to pull it OFF him and pray that we get it all. Of COURSE, he won't go to the ER over what he thinks is silly. A tick. Apparently he has dealt with these annoyances before while trapeizing through the gorge.

Fun.

In other news, we went to Kyoto, the tasty restaurant, for the joint birthday party between Alexis and I. It was lots of fun and really tasty, despite the fact that our cook was firing the bad jokes off like crazy. We brought actual Japanese people to the fakey Japanese restaurant, so they were astonished at the bad jokes. I am hoping not too offended. Our waitress spoke Japanese, which was all good since one of our TIUA student friends was having trouble ordering in English. She was really sweet.

Alexis and I each got a chibi iced cream with a birthday candle. When the waitress brought it she asked if we wanted her to sing. Alexis and I gratefully told her she could skip the singing. She looked pretty glad, too! The boys got in a race to see who could eat the most food. Atsushi ate half of Josh's expensive sushi. We thought he wanted another piece, not the whole plate, so we said "sure". Oops. Poor Josh wanted to save some of that for breakfast. *Sadness* I will have to learn how to make good sushi for him. They were really tasty, too, with tempura filing in one, unagi (fresh water eel) in another, and smoked salmon in the third. Maybe I will buy him tasty sushi soon, if I cannot master making it.

Right now I am sitting at work(MMWR). The clock says it is 10:30, but my brain knows it is only 9:30 and the clock lies because of daylight savings time. It is silly we still have it since it was originally instituted so that the very agrarian society at the time could get more work out of the poor children. Now there are very few farming communities, so I, personally, wouldn't mind if it were abolished. Then there wouldn't be "daylight savings syndrome" every spring. The hour "extra" in the fall isn't worth the torment of spring's getting up too early.

Lies. The clock is usouing.

Oh! And I just remembered. I am no longer usouing to Alexis. The present is done and in her possession. However, I would like to recommend that they are not tried on till tonight at 10pm or later, and not danced in till Thursday just in case the uber strong glue is still setting.

Alright, catch you another day.
~N