Who's the Rat?

"Let's get soaked and shampoo"!

Make of it what you will. I just can't resist wanting to share something like this on a day like today, in a year like this one promises to be.

Ashita, genki ni naare - Miyavi:



Here's a putative translation I found floating around the ether:

Dreams are as dreams are. Therefore, they're dreams - but don't say such lonesome things!
Seeing a dream is free, and granting them is also free, right? Let's daydream in bed together.

"May tomorrow be a better day"

I wonder if there are people who have never gotten wet in the rain in their whole lives?
Someday somehow, if you get wet, let's get soaked and shampoo.

"May tomorrow be a better day"

If there are sad times, please give me half of the pain.
If you're happy, just that smile will do, so it's like let's be in love as if we are each other's aspirin.*

"May you be happy"

I, too, really wish I could be with you, sleeping like this
But there is a place I gotta go, so I will go a step ahead of you.

God speed.

May you not lose your way. May you not shrink in fear. May you not avert your eyes.
May there be no doubts. May there be no sadness. May you not stop and stand there.

(http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/m/miyavi/ashita_tenki_ni_naare_english.html)

currently crochet crazy

I made a hat for my mom. And it didn't fit her big head, so it was hurriedly donated to a cousin returning to the frontline - going back to work in delhi, which for us warm and toasty south of the tropic folks is unimaginable bravery, and i set to work making a larger one. Which when finished turned out to be too large to suit my mum's taste: 'too floppy', she said, with a dismissive shrug, and set me back to unravelling, and then crocheting it again. Too floppy, if you please! That's my mum, and nani, and brother, yeah it feels a bit like we're a flock of migratory birds, wintering. Don't be mistaken, though. My nani actually lives here, and my mum is accompanying her and being a dutiful (and extremely well-fed) daughter. The rest of us hangers-on just nose out the free food and gather like rodents, all quivering nostrils and bared teeth.
And here's the random tenant's kid that wanders in occasionally and demands to be fed. We used to joke that mum's training her like a pup with the 'no' and 'sit' and 'stay' stuff. Not to mention the 'no begging'. And then one day my mother picked her up by her ears to do the puppy pedigree test! I probably have a picture around here somewhere.