2008-12-30 - 8:30 p.m.
Did you eat all of the bananas today, Shuhei asks.
(This isn't an accusation. Actually, he seems kind of impressed.)
Maybe, I answer.
In reality, I only ate one banana. But I did use the entire bunch. At this point I decide to not tell Shuhei what I did with them. (This is one way in which I've become a little strange since getting married. That is, I now keep secrets from time to time for no good reason at all. It's become kind of like a hobby for me.)
But, the question remains, what did I do with all those bananas?
The idea started while I was mashing up bananas to bake with. My hands were a lot softer afterwards compared to when I'd started and, while my moon cake was in the oven, I discovered that I was just bored enough to investigate to cause for this change. And so it was that - informed by the internet that natural acids are very desirous things - I spread mashed up banana over my entire body while Shuhei was at work the day before we left for our honeymoon*.
The results of my experiment were quite pleasing. I became very soft and smooth and my circulation might have improved too, though that result is debatable and, in any case, didn't last long.
I will probably make myself into a moon cake before our next honeymoon too.**
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* Yes, I realize that honeymoons typically follow shortly after weddings and that some people might argue that this wasn't a honeymoon, but they would be wrong. It was a honeymoon. (There are two things that I regret about not having a wedding. One, weddings make grandmas happy and I like happy grandmas. And two, not having a wedding made Shuhei think that it was OK to make me wait for a honeymoon for two whole years, which it wasn't.)
** Honeymoons are great! I'm hoping to go on another honeymoon with Shuhei next year. Honeymoons are great because, one, usually travelling makes me feel pressured to do as much as possible every day, whereas on a honeymoon you can stay in bed passed noon completely guilt-free. And two, on a honeymoon you can rationalize staying in a hotel that you can barely afford, which turns out to be a lot of fun.
