i'm just easily amused ;)

LMBO. Me too.

heh, awesome :)

I had too much fun this week while I was getting my teeth cleaned, and wound up choking on the rinse water and nearly wetting myself.

o.O

that doesn't sound like much fun at all....

I was amused at my own derp. It wasn't a bad choke. lol

ah, well, okay then

One side effect of untreated childhood asthma was me developing the ability to NOT choke myself to death even after I've snorted water. ...Or rice. >.>

oh that's interesting.

Yeeeahhh. lol I'm just glad I rarely have to use it anymore.

well that's good then :)

Did you learn anything weird as a kid?

hmm.... probably. but danged if i remember what all it was.... ;)

Like, burping the alphabet, or making poot sounds with your hands, or...

bonjour fellow humans, it is i, a fellow human.

also humans aren't supposed to be able to breathe and swallow at the same time. trying to do that will make you choke on your own saliva.

nope, Tam, i didn't do any of those. i would have gotten a look from my mom. XD

hullo, void, fellow hooman

Dunno if I've ever tried to breath and swallow at the same time, but I seem to be good at inhaling water through the back of the pipe.

LOL! A look would have stopped you?

well, knowing my mom, she would have sent me to my room.

she was kinda ... proper

i mean, she still kinda is....

Ahhhh. Awesome you had a mom like that.

*pops in*
When I was a kid,
I learned how to make an origami snapper. <x] And it's the only origami I know how to do. <u<; I did not learn to fold anything else. Most kids learn a boat or a crane...me...it was this thing.
https://www.origami-fun.com/images/snapper11.gif

I don't think I've ever seen that critter before. I started with the hat/boat too, and then learnt the "fortune teller" but that doesn't look like a "fortune teller". That looks like my plastic canvas barf bird.

i can make a cup, boat, fortune teller thing, box, crane.... i had a book on origami when i was a kid

the critter looks familiar to me, but i don't know why

I can do hat, boat, cicada, samurai, ... without a pattern. I used to have a goldfish, but I've lost that and a turtle.

ah cool! the ones i posted i can do without a pattern. (although it's been a while since i made the cup and boat....

somewhere i have an origami pattern for the Millenium Falcon :)

Duuuuude!

I have a colouring book that you can make origami animals out of. The fox and the cat are really neat.

oh, that sounds pretty cool!

*nod nod!* Some of the patterns in it are pretty complex... at least compared to the kid designs that I know by heart. LOL

! Oops! I kinda lied! <x'D Forgot I knew how to make the fortuneteller thing too! :]

totally agree about some of the patterns being complex!

i also used to know how to fold a note so it had a tab to pull that would open the whole thing up.

I know how to fold a lotus...

well that's cool - i've never made a lotus before

Oh wow. Is that complex, Den?

LMBO I used to use them for puppets.

Oh that's cool. And I remember now, I used to know how to make a throwing star, too. And throw it.

Not as complex as a crane, tbph.

Neat. I don't think I've seen that one. Or if I did, menopause has lost the file.

This is a good tutorial for the lotus, and here is a tutorial for the leaves.

ETA: Here's a more complex Lotus: https://www.paperkawaii.com/modular-...ideo-tutorial/

this is super cool. i've never actually sit down and learned origami.

recently i saw an origami bird in Frozen 2. it looked very real even though it was animated.

*clicks links*

I feel like my period not only snuck up on me, but bashed me in the head with Reinhardt's hammer.

*offers some food, warm tea, and a blanket to Tam*

//gets hot water bags ready

Foooood, blankie! Um. I better not have the tea though. Thanks, guys. The worst of that mess is over for now, but now I'm facing a big hole in my memory of Saturday. I remember going to the fish shop at the farmers' market, and placing my order, then talking to the person behind the counter. Today, I have no fish, and no memory of anything at the fish shop after what I just mentioned.