tyler | Nyotaimori

There is a new anime I just discovered titled “Nyan Koi!”. This is the description:

Kousaka Junpei is a second-year high school student who despises cats and has an allergy to them. It just so happens that his high school crush is Mizuno Kaede, a girl who adores cats. One day, while walking home from school, Junpei kicks an empty can and unfortunately beans the local neko-jizou-sama (guardian deity of cats). He finds he can now understand what cats are saying, including his family’s own ill-tempered cat, Nyamusasu. However, if he does not grant 100 wishes from cats, he will turn into a cat himself.

It’s like it was made for me! I will let you know my thoughts once I watch an episode.

p.s. The Max costume I made long ago has passed on to Lucas. Tyler is a Spy this year.

last week at rock city with excitable 5 and 2 year olds, i learned many things:

1. if you accidentally give a kid a boost causing him to ram face first into a rock, well, he’s probably OK. i mean. he’s not bleeding or anything. totally fine.

2. if you’re helping a kid get a pretzel and accidentally sweep him off the picnic table bench and face first onto the dirty ground, well, he picks himself back up again. kids! they’re resilient. bounce back like jiggly jell-o. no problem-o.

3. it is amazing the things kids can quote. tyler can do some excellent bolt impressions.

“are you hungry?!” he hollers at me.

and before i can answer he yells “starving!” in a psychotic serial killer hamster in a ball sort of way. then we eat lunch (see #4).

later on he sings ‘iron man’ by black sabbath. have you ever heard a child sing heavy metal? it’s kind of awesomely creepy.

“Nobody wants him

He just stares at the world

Planning his vengeance

That he will soon unfurl

Now the time is here

For Iron Man to spread fear

Vengeance from the grave

Kills the people he once saved”

4. before the trip to rock city i mentioned to ellie how great it was that she was always feeding me. it’s like a complete abdication of responsibility sometimes, being around her and the boys. i can be just the third kid. fed and reprimanded to behave appropriately. i’m pretty sure after the multiple accidents i was directly responsible for my appropriate behavior points had shot way down and yet she still gave me a ham and cheese sandwich. she also offered to burp me. i turned her down.

5. kids are gullible. you tell them the fire ants will eat them and they think every ant is a fire ant capable of devouring them in one bite. tyler was all, “ant! ant!” and i’m like, “dude, it’s black not red. calm down. it won’t eat you.” and then i accidentally tripped him and he fell into a mass of poison oak.

no, not really.