@GinnyMcQueen Who needs kids if you have cats 😁

@eventi Above average- you mean age?

@Yukari yes, but probably in other ways too ;)

@CitySquirrel Hello! Didn't know about that instance. Interesting...

@Yukari @Motoma also owns ing.gop... I'll let you fill in the blank.

@Simon_Archipoff Hello :)

@Yukari
Hello :)
And I am French

@Simon_Archipoff Bonjour :) My son goes to French immersion school but my French is terrible

@Yukari
compared to my Japanese your French must be awesome ^^

@Simon_Archipoff :)

@Spike I have a 8 year old. Is your son into games?

@Yukari Indeed. He plays quite a bit of Minecraft and he also enjoys making his own Pokemon games. What is yours into?

@Spike Yup. Minecraft, Pokemon, Terraria, oh, and YouTube.

@Yukari Oh, absolutely YouTube. My son has his own channel called "Gaming With Calvin."

@dmoonfire Yay we're same age :) Kids are so fun although they are so exhausting hahaha

@Yukari @dmoonfire You young people. =P

@Yukari @dmoonfire Turns out that Moonfire and I are from the same city. A small city in Iowa. We met online. Both SF writers.

@DNA @Yukari

Well, not from. I live in his birth town.

I believe we were also in the same area during the high school years. (Or jr high school.)

And I go to a writing group with his in-law.

And we just met randomly online without knowing any of that.

@dmoonfire @Yukari Was that it? You lived in the Chicagoland area during high school too? My memory is going.

@DNA @Yukari Yeah, West Chicago for jr. high school and Mount Prospect for high school.

@dmoonfire @Yukari oh gods.

@Yukari I like to see children as a long-term investment for the good of society. :) But yeah, they are exhausting. My three year old is still "aggressively curious" which means every morning I come out to see what massive damage is done to my house or if knives have been placed like flowers on the floor.

@dmoonfire LOL! Adorable though! Kids are really awesome.

@DNA 初めまして!日本のどちらにお住まいですか？私は長崎県出身です。

@Yukari 初めまして。新潟県です。長崎ですか。まだ、行ったことないです。文化深さそうなところです。

@DNA 新潟行ったことないです。お酒が美味しいところですね！

@Yukari ごはんも美味しいとよく言われるんです。確かに美味しいですが、taste testで他には比べてないですから。=D

@DNA You're spoiled :)

@Yukari HAHAHA. Maybe. I mean, it's definitely better than restaurant or conbini bento.

@Yukari What do you do? I know you are freelance, but anything specific?

@DNA I have a small biz to help Japanese international students, but I do other stuff like translation, consulting etc

@biox Thank you for the intro :) What part of the world do you live in? I'm from Japan but I live in Canada.

@Yukari i'm from Minnesota in the united states! i have a friend in Japan right now, i'd love to visit sometime - i've always thought that the culture there is beautiful. same with Russia!

what brought you over to Canada, and do you ever miss Japan?

@biox I met my ex husband in Japan - he was Canadian, so we moved here to raise our kids. I got divorced but stayed here for the kids and I like it here a lot. I miss Japan all the time! But pretty sure I don't want to/can't live there

@Yukari especially with the kids! i live very close to Canada and have never been to it, is there a part of it you'd recommend visiting? i was thinking about going to toronto maybe or something?

@biox Come to BC - weather is much nicer than Toronto! I live in Victoria BC.

@Yukari thanks for the recommendation!

@AiluroFlame That's totally fine. :) I like your avatar!

@Yukari Thank you, I'm glad you like it :D

@hayabusa 若い！青春ですね〜w

@polymerwitch Hello :)

@y6nH Yay here's one mom! :) Cheers

@y6nH Oops you're dad. My bad. Are you a single dad???

@Yukari No problem! I'm not single, but not married either.