irony of the situation

We were on the freeway the other day, Mummy, my aunt, and I, heading back from Milliani into town.

That was when my aunt noticed a small lizard on the winshield wiper.

It was a tiny thing, perhaps an inch, an inch and a half long, colored in a translucent green. We think that it might have been a gecko or a chameleon, and it was very, very cute.

The little lizard was holding on with all of it's might. It was partially shielded from the wind, but it looked like it was wavering. Although I did not look away, few seconds later, it was on another part of the windshield wiper. It kept trying to climb, and we kept hoping it wouldn't.

When it got swept up by the wind, I shrieked like a girl.

The lizard landed on the windshield itself- we couldn't tell whether it was a better or worse position, but we decided that we should take the next exit to let it off.

And, well, the breeze caused by changing lanes swept it away.

So I suppose that it's dead by now. I can't see any way that it would have survived. We were very sad.

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I've just happened to see an art project from when I was in kindergarten. It's a model of the emperor and emperess dolls from a Hinaningyo set made out of toilet paper rolls. (Mom made me a really cute set out of origami once, but it kind of got crushed, even if I kept them in a shoebox. I have some traditional dolls, ceramic ones, but they kind of live at Grandmas and I don't think anyone remembers that they're mine. :() It makes more sense if you see it, but they're toilet paper tubes covered in construction paper with heads cut out of manila folders. The faces (and the emperor's hat) are colored in with markers, and the obi are made out of black paper. Another strip of paper forms the kimono's "sleeves." The emporer has a little gold cord around his obi, with a toothpick "sword;" the emperess has a small fan made out of silver paper. Both "dolls" are then glued to a small block of wood that came off of a stick of kamaboko, painted red.

It just so happens that one of my kid brothers did the exact same project when he was in kindergarten, and Mom put the two projects on display, side by side.

It also happens that we somehow lost one of the emperor dolls. (The one from the set on the left.)

So it looks like the remaining "emperor" is big pimpin.

....right.