davidd's A Doll A Day Challenge 2020

[Loona]

Look at that cute fish! Squee! Another animal with which you can buy me anytime! I've always adored fish, but I also have a special fondness for them because I grew up with them - with my sister being allergic to most animals, fish were one of the few I could keep as pets without unintentionally hurting her. Some of them stayed with me for almost 20 years! I still miss keeping fish, but they wouldn't feel good living with me in the current circumstances - which is also the reason why I don't have any other pets either, even though I really waited to be able to have pets without hurting someone living in the same household.

I'm only partially surprised by International Sardine Da being a thing. Yes, it's weird, but there are weirder... back in the days when we worked in the office and paper-based free info magazines were distributed in clubs and restaurants (eww, this sounded awful), there used to be one flyer magazine that always contained a page listing such days for the actual month. With my colleague sitting next to me we have gotten into the habit of checking this each month, and we laughed until we cried over some of the weird days that were listed there. Sometimes it was the pure weirdness of the actual day, sometimes it was the morbid combination of more serious (like war memorial or awareness days) and more random (like... crush a can day? (I didn't just invent this, there's a day for that)) days following one another, or even falling on the same day.

You are either very good at taking pictures that make me think of something totally different until I see them in full - or I am tired This time, when I only scrolled halfway down, my first thought was "oh wow, she's sitting on a swing that has partially invisible chains" - and then I scrolled further down and realised what I believed to be a swing seat is actually a box top, and is in no connection with the chains whatsoever