paradisa | ─ one hundred & thirty

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I should have done this a while ago, huh... But New Year’s resolutions are important and I’ll stick to them this time!

URU’S NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS!

1. Gain a few pounds. I lost some weight while we were in Paris. Probably from all the work and running around I did. I don’t really like gaining weight either but I don’t want to be too skinny...
2. Exercise more, though!
4. Challenge myself with something new.
5. Expedition! Not missing this!
6. Most important: learn from my mistakes and the mistakes of my friends. [ A pause. ]

The past year was a bumpy ride, huh? A lot of things were said or done that nobody meant. Even I said a lot of – [ Another pause, then a deep sigh. ] I’m going to work even harder this year. I mean it this time. So the next time someone leaves, nobody will have to see them with a sad face before they go. We’ll all remember them smiling. I’m sure if I can do just that alone, it’ll be enough for me.

[ Laughing to herself. ]

I still have a long way to go before some of this! I should talk to him soon and... I’m not sure I can get his forgiveness but whatever his answer is going to be, I’ll feel better knowing. But I hope he won’t yell. Or pull my ears.

[ friends ]

I’m sorry this is so late! But thank you all for the gifts you sent during the holidays. I really liked them all! I hope my gifts were okay!

[ filtered away from jason todd... and damian wayne as a safety precaution ]

Can I ask you all something, though? [ sheepishly: ] If you wanted to get one of your guy friends a gift, what would you get them? I ran out of ideas already. I know it’s also really late to give him something, but I still want to! It wouldn’t be right if I didn’t.

[ zeke tyler & nancy downs ]

[ DON’T FEEL OBLIGATED TO REPLY TO THIS!! FOR REAL.

Anyway, she starts writing something then scratches it out and goes for dictating because well... it just feels right. ]

Hi! How -- I mean –

I better keep this short, hm? I don’t know if you both ended up in Paris like the rest of us or if you celebrated Christmas. Or maybe you have your own holidays? First Gen holidays...? But I hope that it was a good one! And that you’re both okay.

[ UH. What else should she say... no, she’s feeling awkward. ]

That’sallbye!

[ dick grayson ]

[ OH MY GOD HOW DOES SHE START THIS OFF. ]

Hello?!

[ Yes, perfect. ]

[ And in today’s news, with her chin in a hand and journal in her lap, one might find Uru in the laundry room of the castle. She’s sitting on top of one of the unused machines while the one beside it is running a cycle with her clothes inside. She’s also got goggles hanging around her neck, and for anyone who might see them and knew her, will recognize these as Serenity’s. The machinery’s soft whirring noises can be heard over the journals as she opens up her new one (it’s bizarre to have an almost totally blank one) to talk into it. ]

Friday was so creepy! Does anyone know why it happened? Geez, because the sun didn’t come up I nearly got late for opening. I thought that kind of stuff only happened in the Arctic. [ OH GOSH, SUDDEN REVELATION?! ] Does this mean Paradisa’s all the way north?

I heard people talking about other weird things happening but... did it happen to everyone? [ Suddenly she sound sheepish and kinda uncertain. ] Well, at work I fell off the ladder but someone caught me below! Lucky, huh? But my head’s hard so it wouldn’t have hurt too much. [ ... ] Is this going to happen again in April?

[ ooc: she wasn’t affected by bad luck shenanigans thanks to Nancy’s protection charm from last year. B) ♥ open in person or through the journal, obviously! ]

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[there's a long thoughtful pause..... maybe she's thinking of something very deep]

I don't think it could be bad to eat too many bananas!

I've never heard of bananas being too bad for you either...

[ Deeply considering this. ]

I guess that's okay.

Isn't most fruit like that? It's really healthy for you, and it's light enough that I don't think you could gain a lot of weight...

Ah, that's true. I need to gain some weight again, too.

Oh... have you not been feeling well?

I lost weight in Paris somehow. Maybe from all the running around? The city was huge and I kept getting lost...

But there was so much delicious food to eat, that's amazing!

I was working a lot there.

Ah, what did you do while we were in Paris, Colette-chan?

[ah... hehe she giggles again] You're always working so hard, Uru.

Oh... [hmmmm] I helped a little bit in a shop, but everyone seemed to think that I wouldn't want to work.

A shop? What kind?

A clothes shop! It was called Colette... [ahaha, awkward laugh]The clothes they sold was a little strange, but it was really nice.

[ It was named for Colette? ]

You had your own fashion line in Paris?!

I-I don't think it was mine! Everyone at the shop said that I had a mother and... um, that it was her shop.

Edited 2012-01-19 10:48 (UTC)

Mother? [ a beat. ] Was it...? [ WAS IT YOUR REAL MOM... ]

I'm not sure. Everyone said that she was away on business. [and then her loss and the strange way that she was raised on top of that... she really had no way to tell]

[ Aww, Colette. That gets a pause, because she thinks of her own family and how she hasn't seen them in so long. ]

I'm sorry you didn't get to see her.

It's okay, you don't have to be sorry...

Um, what kind of place did you live in?

[ Feels bad anyway. ]

An apartment near the bakery I was working at. It was so much fancier than the one I have here.

I wonder if everyone stayed in a fancier house.

Sounds like it... or a nice hotel.

Well, I'm glad that everyone was comfortable!

Me too! It was a really nice world change for once.

Actually... the castle has been doing a lot of nice things lately, hasn't it?

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