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Damn it! I grew up a Hazelnut tree (!!) from a Mystery Seedling in FV and all of a sudden the game is out of sync with the server! I couldn't share it! Not cool! :(

But it does make me glad I didn't use 7 FV$ to buy it...

...I did however buy the Chestnut tree for 3 FV$... How else am I going to get that tree??? And it was cheap... >_>

Anyway, I found out today I only have 78 neighbors... Somehow it shocked me because it seemed like so much more than that. And there are these people...whom I've friend for FV but never accepted my neighbor invitations... I think I'm going to delete them since it almost feels like they're mooching off of me? I don't know... I just don't like having too many strangers as friends on FB...

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Kimi ni Todoke, stop making me want to cry! It's so heartbreaking and sad yet so heartwarming and cute... I'm already immensely happy that there's a second season and I've only just finished watching the first episode! And I told myself I will refrain from hunting down the live action movie but I want to see it too! And it doesn't hurt that I really do adore Haruna Miura -- but I really liked him more from Samurai High School than the much more wildly popular Gokusen 3 even if I did watch both.

Okay, back to the anime! But first, I'm going to get myself a glass of sweet tea, one of the few good things I believed to have ever come out of the South. I made my first pitcher a few days ago and I'm slowly drinking it up... What did I discover? One, sweet cold tea is good, even if it's Lipton's and is from crappy Orange Pekoe leaves. Two, I like my sweet tea sweet -- the recipe said 1 and 1/3 cups of sugar for a gallon of tea. I thought it might have been too much so I cut it down to a little over a cup but it turned out to be only mildly sweet and not as sweet as I remember it from my trip down to Virginia, my one and only encounter with the South.

The things I discovered there were that Southerners in small textile towns love their fat, their butter and their biscuits (they have biscuit fast food restaurants, I was so shocked!). They actually do cow tipping as a past time and when even the movie theater is closed by 10 (WTF, right?), they like to skinny dip into rivers. And jump in them. Also, they tend to be a bit ignorant (at least about Chinese people judging by the questions I got) and big on the God thing. Churches come in all shapes and sizes and will be reachable just about every 100 ft just in case you are in need of Holy Land (good I guess if you're being hunted by an Immortal). Also, a textile town in the South pretty much means a poor town.

But despite all of my reservations, they're pretty nice, if you ignore some of the stuff they say and write it off as them being from a small town in the South. Hell, I came from a small town on the West Coast and I will tell you, some people will stare at a [new] black person oddly even here. They like feeding you and they're really hospitable. I just wish all their food didn't make me feel like I would gain five pounds eating it. And biscuit sandwiches for lunch aren't half bad even if they make me think of breakfast more than anything else. And sweet tea, though it took me a bit to get used to, is pretty awesome. I can't really take hot sweet tea still but when it's cold, yummy!

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So, my brother brought me a ton of Curly-Wurlys... I had asked for some British chocolate and that had been one of them but what I had in mind was like one or two, to satisfy my curiosity about this supposedly well-loved candy. Instead, he decides to bring back Curly-Wurlys in 5-packs. Like seven of them. Which means a lot of Curly-Wurlys!

I'm only working on the second batch, the first of which was helped by my brother and my sister's boyfriend but man, there are still a ton left! At first, I thought they were a bit of a hassle and a mess to eat seeing as you bit into them, they would shed their chocolate all over the floor (and when it's carpet, that's very very bad) but I've realized you should savor them slowly...Lick off the chocolate and then work at the caramel and it makes for a mess-free snack. And there's something nice about eating it slowly, tasting the chocolate before enjoying the caramel...

I'm not sure why people like these candies so much -- personally, the Picnic bars he brought back are yummier (and I wish I had 35 of them and not just the six he brought back) but they're not bad. And as a caramel lover, I can't complain about them, even if they're a really simple candy.