Sometimes you can know someone for years, and think you know pretty much everything there is to know about them... and then they surprise you, and you realise that there are still things about them you never even suspected.
I went to take a nap a bit ago, by which I mean, I sort of collapsed facefirst onto my mattress. Immediately a problem revealed itself: I was wearing an oversized T-shirt that I'd tied with a scrunchie, and if I insisted on sleeping in this fashion, the scrunchie was going to make it uncomfortable. So I sort of heaved myself up just long enough to pull the scrunchie off the shirt, and then I stuck the first place I could think of that it wouldn't get lost, which happened to be around Seal's neck.
This had a most unexpected consequence: observe.
Seal is an Elizabethan! Look at how naturally he wears the ruff and how well it suits him! I never guessed! Here we've been together twenty-seven years and counting, and I never realised that my sea lion companion is Elizabethan. I felt pretty embarrassed, let me tell you. How could I have failed to notice it before? But Seal was very nice about the whole thing. He said that it took him quite a long time to realise it himself, and in fact hadn't twigged to it until I put the scrunchie around his neck.
Sometimes we surprise ourselves. It's true.
Despite what you may think, Seal is not a stranger to cosplay. Nope. I'm a Jew-by-choice, not a born Jew, and I was raised Catholic. Every year at Christmas, I used to torture poor Seal by dressing him up in the little Santa Claus costume my mother made for him when I was three or four. I still have this costume, and Seal graciously agreed to be photographed wearing it (the things one does for love, right?).
See, he's a Christmas Seal.
Come to think of it, he was awfully delighted when I told him I was converting.
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