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Something of a Follow-up

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Bluebiird
, 03-19-2013 at 12:47 AM (1678 Views)
So. There were some things I forgot.

Firstly I told you I found my pen but not how. As we were leaving I spied it on the table by the door (the one where shots were originally being handed out). The lid was off and I know those pens dry out quite quickly. Also I was concerned about the germs that may have been on it by that time.

When we first arrived I noticed something mum didn't. An ornamental wooden 50 and as we were leaving I noticed people had signed it so I stopped mum so we could do it too. There was already a pen there for the job and I guess whoever found my pen thought it belonged on that table too. There wasn't much room on it by this time but I noticed people had signed the top of it but not the other edges. Normally I would've put my name next to mum's but I thought there was so much wasted space around the edges I put my name there instead, to inspire others to do so. It would look better completely covered in writing, at least I thought so.

As we were saying goodbye I almost head butted my cousin's second son because he wasn't expecting me to hug him. Since I was little I'd probably hug the grownups but not the other children so much. A goodbye hug only really became tradition in my later years and as a teenager I wasn't really so keen on hugging other teenagers, it's difficult time, at what point do you treat your peers as adults? Maybe it wouldn't have been such a problem if I'd spent my teen years around other girls instead of boys. It's only in my 20's that I've started branching out into being girly and it's been a very slow process. But. I figure that now I'm very nearly 25 I should hug the others too, even if they don't expect or aren't used to it.

A few days later my cousin called to thank us for coming and for his gifts. It turns out that the guy who collapsed had had some heart problems and isn't supposed to drink but when he saw that shots were being offered at the entrance and that it was a free bar he got rather carried away. That explains why I noticed some people seemed visibly upset, I'm guessing they were close family or friends and were worried that his heart was acting up perhaps. We've been told he's okay at the moment.

Mother's day went well. I made some pastries for breakfast....I say made, the dough came readymade, I just had to roll it up and stick it in the oven. I also iced the cakes. Mum was quite surprised and ended up a little stuffed. The pastries were never originally for mother's day. I got them 2 weeks earlier for a change at breakfast and when I didn't use them I figured I'd save them for mother's day. And by the way, at the time I get up at the moment, breakfast for me is more tea time for other people.
So. That's about it really.

Bluebiird out.

Oh. Forgot to say. Yuki was so happy to see us when we got home. We gave her a cow hoof as a reward. A while after Christmas we found a bag of doggy Christmas treats reduced to clear and it contained a cow ear, 3 cow ribs and a filled cow hoof. Over time we'd given her the other treats and the hoof was last to go. She really seems to love it.

Updated 03-21-2013 at 10:58 PM by Bluebiird (Forgot to say)

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  1. Virgil's Avatar
    I didn't hug as a teenager either. When I do now I'm still sort of tentative and I only initiate it with older people of the opposite sex like aunts. My impulse is to shake hands with male family members but a number of them will grab me into one of those masculine bear hugs...lol. Not that I'm against it or find it rude, but it's not me.
    Updated 03-21-2013 at 11:28 PM by Virgil
  2. Bluebiird's Avatar
    This will probably sound strange considering I've already said that I hug my relatives but I don't actually like people touching me, especially since I've developed a slight concern regarding germs. The hands are one of the easiest places to collect germs and when you shake hands with people I'd say that doubles. You don't know where their hands have been and they don't know where yours have been and if you start wondering about that then you have to wonder how well they clean their hands.
    I noticed very early on that the palms of my hands were more sensitive than other parts of skin that are usually exposed and as I got older that sensitivity seems to have increased to some degree. When I was very little I could happily hold grasshoppers and it didn't bother me but one day it suddenly tickled more than usual and it so surprised me that I dropped the grasshopper. That hadn't happened before. It was the same with a butterfly some years later.
    Somehow for me shaking hands is more uncomfortable than hugging. But then again I don't just hug anyone. People have to have a considerable connection to me or have spent considerable time gaining my trust before I can hug them and even then my hugs only last a couple of seconds, except for mum and the dog.
    Although, now my germ issues have come up, if I do have to shake someone's hand the first thing I think is how quickly can I clean my hands? or would it seem rude if I cleaned my hands now? I usually carry hand wipes or gel with me just in case.
  3. Virgil's Avatar
    Lot of people carry the gel. I keep it on my desk at work. I don't mind shaking hands but I try not to put my hands in my mouth. As long as the germs stay on your hands they won't affect you. At least that's my perception. I also have gotten into the habit of washing my hands frequently. In the business world, it's hard not to shake hands.
  4. Bluebiird's Avatar
    I put my hands to my face or eyes quite a lot and I live under the assumption that germs transfer very quickly. At the party when I had an occasion to shake hands I worried about what I could transfer unknown germs to. Since I was using a pen and pad to write I felt it safe to assume that germs transferred from the handshake could easily transfer to the pen and pad.
    I also worried about what germs there could be after lending it to my cousin to write. In that situation I figured it was best not to fuss until it was time to eat, where any germs I might have caught could easily enter my body, I sanitised my hands before touching anything on the buffet table but no one else seemed concerned. That's why I refused to even think of it once a certain time had passed. The thought of all those unclean hands touching things and people breathing on things made me feel quite sick.
    Oddly enough my greatest concern about germs is catching things like the common cold, because they're so easy to pass on. Oddly enough I'm not actually germ phobic.
  5. Virgil's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Bluebiird
    Oddly enough I'm not actually germ phobic.
    You could have fooled me.