Meeting New Friends

[tygati]

Today I got to meet Flamebyrd. ^____^ Semi-last-minute, because although she told me she'd be in the state, I totally forgot until she emailed me last night. So this morning I hauled my butt out of bed at an ungodly hour and made the drive to Portland.

Flamebyrd is adorable. So is her hubby, he of the awesome camera bits. *__* Also got to meet another Aussie, Velithya. That was fun. I could pretty much understand Flamebyrd, and while her hubby's accent was thicker it was still decipherable, but Velithya... well, pretty much every conversation went something like this:

V: sadf;lhs wetousklhjdb slthk a beouraslb.

Me: @_@ Uh, huh?

V: slkj asd er lkas beousl bin?

Me: @_____@ Um.

V: *ponders for a minute, then adopts an exaggerated US accent*

Me: OOooooh! That! ^^;;;

It was grand fun, even if highly embarrassing on my part. I remain convinced that Australian accents are the ultimate sexy, even when I can't understand a single word. <3

Also present were two locals, whose apartment the Australian trio were crashing at. Twin redheads! ^___^ Hee. One of them is Lazulisong, but I never saw the other one's name written out, and we've already established that I'm lousy with audible information. ^^; Lazulisong attempted (and succeeded) in traumatizing me with a cliffnotes retelling of a WTF-inducing Star Trek AU. x_@

After Flamebyrd and hubby took off back north to Canada, I decided to hop the state border and visit Rishi. Dollie hijinks ensued, and I cleaned, and there was a My Little Pony involved, and then we all watched Pretear. It was... interesting. Jury's still out.

And then I drove home. In two hours. From Camas Washington. >.> I have a lead foot. ^^;

Comments

[zeffy-amethyst.livejournal.com]

Heh, I can't wait to go the states. XD Try out my accent.

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Some people are good with accents. ^^; I'm not one of them.

[theotherdibbler.livejournal.com]

You have trouble understanding Aussie accents? I hadn't thought we were that difficult to understand.

Sounds like a very enjoyable day. :D

[tygati.livejournal.com]

You're not, really. Especially compared to Brits, who just kinda break my brain, or middle-eastern, which I can't understand at all. ^^; But Vel speaks very fast, which didn't help matters any. ^^:;;

[theotherdibbler.livejournal.com]

Heh, you'd never understand me then, I talk quickly and have some sort of monstrous do-it-yourself accent - a lot of Aussies can't understand me on a far too frequent basis. :P

[nocturnesan.livejournal.com]

Pretear has bishies! Lots of 'em..and thus is good enough for me. -laughs- It gets better. ^^;

[velithya]

*giggles* ♥

I managed to get un-stuck again! I sound like an Aussie again now :3

[tygati.livejournal.com]

So, we give you, what, 48 hours or so to get stuck again? ^^

[velithya]

SHHHHH

[bloodied-eden.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a fun day~

Hee hee, I used to talk to this Aussie guy on voice chat in jr/sr high school. His voice was hella sexy, not enough to make me straight mind you, but sexy~ His wasn't exceptionally thick, though, so easy to understand :3

I have trouble with any sort of thick accent when it comes to anything remotely British [or Irish or Scottish for that matter], one of the reasons I couldn't get into Dr. Who when someone tried to show it to me once . . . . Actually I have trouble with accents in general, because I have attention span problems where I tend to space out in tiny little gaps, so if I have to listen to anything really closely to piece it together I'm screwed e_e;

[Semi randomly, If you're ever down in this neck of the woods, we should totally do dollie stuff. I bet it'd be lots of fun XD

(And this isn't entirely impossible, I figure, . . . since I'm not the only person you know in Southern Ohio.)]

[tygati.livejournal.com]

>.< British is awful. I tried to watch an awesome British show but I had to give up because I was missing 50% of the dialogue.

*laugh* Some day I'll tour the eastern states. Some day...

[kiyoshi-chan.livejournal.com]

I wonder how you'd handle my accent. XD

Also I think Lazulisong's twin is Vampireborg?

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Very badly? ^^;;

[kiyoshi-chan.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Well honestly it could go either way. I'm sure you wouldn't be able to pick out anything if/when I'm speaking to other Singaporeans (partially because there's a whole range of non-English words that have been integrated into Singlishg) but I think I could (and have) speak without the local twang.

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

It sounds like a lot of fun. I wish I could have been there. Darn entire US getting in the way...

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Some day I need to go tour the east and meet all of you.

[mechante-fille.livejournal.com]

Yay!!! Sound like fun was had! ^___^

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Very much so. ^_^

[flamebyrd]

\o/ I had a good time! And I'm glad you could understand me? I don't sound very Australian to Australians, though. Hah. I am so sorry about about Tian's ear, though!

It was lazulisong who narrated the epic Kirk/Bones mermaid A/U, because vampireborg doesn't read fanfic. XD

Pretear was... surprisingly angsty for being so shiny.

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Ahh, so that's it! An Australian who doesn't sound Australian is easy to understand! ^^;;

Pfft, I glued Tian's ear when I got to Rishi's place. It's good as new.

*headdesk* I thought I finally had them figured out. Arrgh. *fixes*

This is true, at least for the first three episodes where it's kinda of like "la la la ANGST OUTTA NOWHERE la la la..." >.>;

[micchi.livejournal.com]

...I came here to comment that the drive from Camas to Eugene takes me about an hour and a half, and then I got sidetracked because wtf kirk/bones mermaid au.

I have to go to work with this information floating in my brain. Damnit!

[tygati.livejournal.com]

.... man, you drive even faster than me! @__@

The AU was very brain-breaking, and I only got the cliffnotes version!

[http://users.livejournal.com/roulette_/]

Wow. It sounds like you had a busy day! O.o Glad you had fun.

[spurious-sanity.livejournal.com]

ah, Pretear...

it's oddly entertaining, in a sorta wtf kinda way. But I guess that can be said about all magical girl shows.

[theducks.livejournal.com]

I iz teh flamebyrd hubby. Hi :)

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Y hallow thar camera man. ^___^ Thanks for letting me play with your toys. <3 It was awesome.