with a ribbon on it

"One day while Demeter and Persephone were walking, the fields opened up and Hades dragged Persephone down into the underworld."

"Why?"

"He was in love with her beauty; he wanted her to be his wife."

"He couldn't just ask?"

"The gods don't seem to do a lot of asking. He just sort of kidnapped her. Demeter was crushed. She walked all over the earth asking people if they'd seen her daughter. In the meantime, Persephone was sitting around in the underworld being really freaked out about it all."

"Why didn't she just leave?"

"She couldn't. Hades wouldn't let her. Besides, there are all these guardians to the underworld, and they wouldn't let her get past. So she had to sit there while Hades tried to convince her that things weren't so bad. Also, I think Hades must have been kind of cute, and Persephone sort of liked him in that weird 'I shouldn't like you but I do' way.

"I see"

... plants died ... pomegranate fruit was offered (because there was no chocolate back then) ... 6 months, 6 seeds ... seasons change ... THE END.

Heh. Never read an explanation quite like that before. Made me smile.

Funnily enough Hades was probably the best husband among all the other Greek Gods. He only attempted to bed two other women (one was a wood nymph - now forever made into mint by the wrath of Persephone). Persephone should count herself lucky. From what I've read, Hera didn't have it so easy with Zeus, who was like, the father of philanderers.

How sweet is this picture? He somehow manages to make the Rottweiler teeth and blue flames for hair look quite adorable.

your train of thought will be altered

Let's see. My eyelids are all droopy and I can't stop yawning thanks to dear Zhen and Mim, both of whom refused to let me sleep last night. Uh huh, sleep. Something I am particularly partial to. Alright, so I had loads of fun yesterday, lack of sleep notwithstanding. :)

So last night we:

1) screamed like crazy because Terence kept throwing pop pops (really loud futuristic canggih ones... very different from the usual white gentle-types) at us.

2) burnt lanterns. Literally burnt them. Like, poof! curlicues of flame and smoke engulfing paper. I know you're supposed to light them up and all for mooncake festival but the boys thought it would be more fun to burn them instead.

3) tattooed everyone with butterflies, including the boys :)

4) went for supper at 1 something in the morning.

5) returned to Mim's place and did everything BUT sleep, even though I was very insistent on doing just that.

Tonight though, I don't care if I fall asleep standing, I am going to go a-hunting. I need to find Vallée des fleurs. Or, Valley of Flowers but Vallée des fleurs sounds prettier.

you want never bitter and all delicious

Sometimes all it takes for you too become woefully romantic (even though you started the day happily enough) is a song and a beautiful picture. Alright, so in this case the song and picture are really sad. And it just makes your heart melt into a gooey mess of melancholy. And because it's a romantic sort of sadness it doesn't leave you completely depressed but more in a sort of sad-happy state, if that makes sense.

Because honestly, nothing can be more romantic than lovers locked in an eternal kiss, frozen with time.