Now I know why I don't get sick often.  Being sick is dumb.  I have been playing an awful lot of Professor Layton, though.  Also:

Megan and I have been best friends since we were seven or so years old?  And let's be honest, she turned out pretty much better than me in every way.  Sorry, mom and dad.

I was probably the first person that Megan called to tell about Dane proposing, but I wound up being the last person to find out.  =_=  In any case, congratulations to the both of you!  You two are great, and great for each other.  I'm so happy for you guys!!

The actual story is that my dad is going to see one of his old middle school friends who now lives in Nara (which is famous for its deer shrine).  The fellow's nickname back-then (but really, who keeps in touch with their friends from middle school?) was 'Monkey' (or I suppose 'Saru').

My dad's been swearing otherwise, but I still think the bad monkey with the baseball bat is supposed to be him.

As you might have guessed from my name, I'm Japanese.  (well, half.)  My language skills are abysmal -- I was born and raised in the US -- but I managed to grow up with a decent amount of culture.  New Year is the only holiday we celebrate, but it's a big deal and my dad is an awesome cook.  Ananth had the pleasure of joining us this year! :D

This teaches me to use bottles of weird stuff at my folks' place without reading what it is first.

Ananth and I are actually at a New Year's get-together* right now.  Happy New Year's, everyone!  Hope you had a good one.  Ananth's busy giving well-wishes to friends, so I've been left to give the blog tonight.  Apologies, I'm no good at this.

Hawk's out of town for the rest of the month and it looks like I'm subbing for the big Monday comics over at Applegeeks.  The first one's up, I hope you guys like it. :D

To the people who know a thing or two about my menagerie of characters: I might've put a few in this one.

 Back in the mid-90's, Parker Brothers made a series of activity sets called Sleepover Club (which I think were a part of some larger, terrifyingly girly franchise).  I got the Fortune Telling box for one of my awkward tween-ish birthdays and the lot of us decided that it was a pretty mediocre activity set and it was sequestered down to the Board Game and Mice Closet in the basement.

I should mention, yes, this did happen over the summer.  And it was totally embarrassing and uncomfortable for a good solid week.  Only the warmth and comfort of IceBat could console me.

 This was technically the first Johnny Wander comic I ever drew.  There were several that came before, but they weren't in the correct dimensions.  This one was drawn some time in the early summer, and the conversation did happen in our last apartment, and we did hold those poses for a good 20 or so seconds.  It has been a long desire of John's and mine to have a coffee table.  Alas, the apartment we live in now is far too small and it is a big responsibility to have a coffee table.