2006-09-26 - 1:53 p.m.
Six Numasawas and a Lofting
Season One (Disk II)
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-Erin Makes Her Own Breakfast
Erin makes her own breakfast, a simple task normally not worthwhile to mention, but, because Erin makes this breakfast in the Numasawa kitchen, a very big deal indeed. Sonoko Numasawa has been the primary user of the Numasawa kitchen for nearly a decade. (Since her and Manzaburou's house in Gonohe accidently burned to the ground.) As such, Sonoko has developed (as most Grandmas would) very specific habits and tendancies in this kitchen, habits and tendancies that Erin does not wish to upset. As it turns out, Erin has been washing cups with the wrong scrubby-thing, and sometimes helps herself to rice from the wrong rice cooker (with six Numasawas and a Lofting around, there are usually two rice batches on the go at any given time... Erin thought she was doing a good thing by helping to finish off the older batches, but Sonoko wants her to eat the fresh stuff...) but, despite these minor infractions, breakfast is a success.
-Akira Goes to the Hospital
Shuhei's father, Akira, hasn't been feeling well. Shuhei has promised to go to the bookstore with his friend Jun. Erin wasn't planning to go with them, then, at the last second, decided that she would go along too and flip through the glossy pages of Men's Non-No while Shuhei and Jun looked for whatever-it-is they were looking for. Five minutes after arriving at the bookstore, Shuhei receives a phone call. Akira has taken a turn for the worse and the other Numasawas have called an ambulance, and are on their way to the hospital behind it. Shuhei and Erin take Jun home, then head to the hospital as well. Once it has been confirmed that Akira is fine, and won't need to stay in the hospital overnight, Erin admits to Shuhei what she has, very selfishly, been thinking since the other Numasawas called... Erin is very, very glad that she decided to go to the bookstore after all. If she had been sitting at home, without Shuhei, and an ambulance had suddenly arrived, Erin wouldn't have had the slightest idea of what to do.
-Take Me to a Love Hotel
Shuhei works nearly everyday, whereas Erin has no responsibilities whatsoever, rarely even cooks her own meals. Luckily for them both, Erin has cultivated the sort of hobbies (reading, writing, studying Japanese, frequent visits to the Community Centre with free Internet access, sewing, and so on...) that compliment this lifestyle well. Even so, Erin is getting bored, and has made of new hobby of trying to convince Shuhei to take her to a Love Hotel. Sexy results seem unlikely, but hilarity abounds...
