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Friends, & etc. [Sunday, Jun 21st, 2020 @ 9:25pm] [ mood | relax mode ] [ music | Sia - Girl You Lost to Cocaine ] My journal is 95% public, 5% friends only. Feel free to add me and I'll add back whether we share interests or not as long as... o1. you try to put large stuff behind a cut (just because you think that honker picture of legolas is special enough not to deserve a cut, probably it isn't.) o2. are fine with the fact that I may not comment much (most of the time I can't think of anything interesting to say, but I do read my FL posts!) o3. are OK with posts that aren't 100% happy all the time (I try to keep the drama llama out, but hey everyone has their bad days.) It would also be nice if you commented if you add me. If you don't it might take me awhile to figure out I've been added. 15 *comment * mem? * link

As things go. [Tuesday, Nov 17th, 2009 @ 10:42pm] [ mood | positive ] So after that crapfest of the last couple of posts, I thought I'd post some of the good stuff going down this month. I have money to put into savings! Probably around $1,000. I'm so used to living paycheck to paycheck or some huge wtf thing taking all of my cash when I do have some to spare, but it looks like I'll finally be able to have something to add. It's been a long time coming and it makes me realize that Nori and I have come a pretty long way from when we first moved out here with our savings to last two months until my first paycheck or until he got a job. It's my goal that I can start saving like a hundred dollars or so each month for the future. When I think about the possibility of getting married some day, buying a car, house, etc. it makes me really stressed because all I see are money signs when we don't have any. Having savings would really motivate me to start forming an idea or a rough timeline for when I'd like to try and plan major events in our life. Lots of downtime because of workshops/testing this week. I picked up a couple of books at the store; right now I'm reading The Time Traveler's Wife and it's really good so far. Much better than I anticipated. I ran out of powder and had some shipped to my mom who then shipped it to me. Man I've never been so happy to see make-up in my life...;A; Thanksgiving this weekend, yay! 7 *comment * mem? * link

What a shit day. [Wednesday, Nov 11th, 2009 @ 8:58pm] [ mood | sad ] Yesterday was so busy and stressed I carelessly passed out when I got home and today I screwed up for work forgetting some stuff. Kids were really awesome. I flew by the seat of my pants and things somehow went better than they probably should have. Tomorrow it's back to babysitting troublemakers at the junior high and absolutely no time to breathe since I have to go to my weekly lesson. I already cancelled last week due to not feeling well. It's like I absolutely have 0 time to myself, and there's no real way to fix that. I also don't have friends IRL that are in the same situation as me to talk to. Sometimes I miss when I had a real life. Sometimes I think about what my life would be like if there were no Nori and no Japan. But I can't say it'd be better what with the job market back home sucking and all. And maybe I would be lonely. But I'd be with my old crew. I don't regret my decision to come here at all, I just feel like I'm suffocating sometimes. 11 *comment * mem? * link

Ha ha, thisaway... ha ha, thataway... [Friday, Nov 6th, 2009 @ 5:25pm] [ mood | indescribable ] Work is driving me nuts. My class load has been pretty light, but just the epic proportions of BS is just... well, there are really no words. I just crack up laughing at work sometimes because it's either that or cry at the unfathomable lack of common sense/brain some of these people have. When I think about my feelings on work, I imagine this one time in high school where Karina and I had to go see Ms. Iafrait after school and I don't remember what happened but Karina stormed out of the class all, "Fuck this shit!" and it was pretty epic, except I don't have that kind of courage and I need my job so...;A; Japanese Paypal is also getting on my nerves because I need to verify my account to raise my withdrawal limit, but I can't verify it with my U.S.-issued debit card because it's not OMGz! Japanese. However, the chances of Japan giving me a credit card are slim to none. I tried explaining this to one of Paypal's staff, and her response was, I shit you not: "Have you tried getting a Japanese credit card?" Well, let's think about this. If I hadn't tried that already why would I write about how I can't get a card because the credit card companies here won't give me one because they consider foreigners to be "high credit risks"? Since I have a good chunk of change in there I need to get out I'll probably just end up making a new bank account, making another Paypal account to link it up to, and get around it that way. What a pain in the ass, but it'll take less time than waiting for 1 out of 239402342 credit card companies to not reject me. But just to humour her anyways I sent off an application to a Tsutaya one because I heard it's supposed to be easier to get. On the slim chance I get approved, there will be lots of epic win! dancing. On a lighter note, Nori and I watched a really good movie the other day called The Namesake. And we've started to work out some of the kinks in our relationship, so everything is good on that front. We've been in our new apartment for six months, and I have to say it really beats our old place. I feel so much more relaxed here and I sleep a lot better at night now. I made an appointment to get Daisy spayed next Tuesday. I just hope she doesn't go into heat before that. With that over, I won't be forking out huge amounts of moolah for the kitties for a long while. It'll be a nice relief not to have vet-related expenses eating out of my paycheck every month for a change. 3 *comment * mem? * link

My Sunday gone...;A; [Sunday, Nov 1st, 2009 @ 9:56am] [ mood | rushed ] So my mother-in-law Nori's mom is coming to visit us today, as she informed us by text suddenly. She's never been to our place (even our last apartment) before, so this was random and sudden. Que the cleaning patrol ASAP! 1 *comment * mem? * link

Trick or treat! [Saturday, Oct 31st, 2009 @ 3:56pm] [ mood | bored ] Dakota and Daisy have gotten big! Hope everyone has a fun and safe Halloween! 18 *comment * mem? * link

Turn, turn, turn. [Tuesday, Oct 20th, 2009 @ 10:53pm] [ mood | bedtime! ] Today I got let off work early and then went to buy a cheap bento and ran into who else but "local produce" (this hot teacher at my elementary school; him of all people!) at the store. I guess he was picking up some cheap eats as well before his seminar him and all the other teachers had today. I had one of my part-times tonight, but since I had a bunch of time on my hands (even enough to take a nap!) I got there a little earlier than usual. At the welfare center there's always a Japanese sign language class for deaf residents in the area going on at the same time as mine. As I was finishing up some preparations one of the ladies looked at a list I had written and showed me how to sign some of the words. It was random, but I felt kind of moved by it. I mean, she can't speak Japanese well due to being deaf and I'm have no clue about Japanese sign language, so we had to communicate just by watching each other's expressions and gestures. I wanna try to learn to sign some greetings so we can communicate more next week when I go back again. I've also had some far away weekend work, too. Next week is the last one and it's around town so that's nice for me. For the most part I've been pretty sick. The flu is going around like crazy, and although I didn't get the flu itself, I got a pretty bad cold that kept me in bed for a few days. I mean seriously, this month has mostly sucked balls dudes. It's only today that I felt my luck kinda turning around. Maybe the fates are done crapping on me for awhile and have moved on to the next person. I hope so! Law & Order has started up again, especially SVU OMGz. Fanservice from TVGuide: DO WANT. When are Elliot and Olivia finally gonna get it on on the show? It's only been like... what? 11 seasons now. I asked my family to send me a copy of the TVGuide this photoshoot came out in, and luckily a family friend has a subscription and was willing to part with this issue. Aaand last but not least, Thanksgiving is going down this year! We have the 23rd off, I can get a turkey, friend has access to the base for the other stuff, and our other friends have an oven it can be cooked in. So I have to make a list and tweak recipes so they'll come out OK since Japanese ovens are much smaller than conventional ones. This better rock! =O 8 *comment * mem? * link

Get your groove on, shake shake shake! [Thursday, Oct 8th, 2009 @ 7:37am] [ mood | enthralled ] DAY OFF FROM WORK BECAUSE OF THE TYPHOON. YESSSSS. So I only have to go to work tomorrow, but there's no classes due to midterm testing so it'll be a piece of cake, and then after that I get a three day weekend! More YESSSSS. Also, I'm VERY RELIEVED that Tokyo did not win the Olympics. Taxes here are already exhorbant enough, and the government just wastes that money left and right instead of giving it to schools, much needed policy reform projects, etc. Personally I don't want any of my tax money going to more useless construction of an Olympic dome and all that. Besides, most Japanese living in Tokyo are pretty unwilling to help foreigners as it is (nor do they have the English or insert other language ability to do so), and I doubt prevailing sentiments would change much even if a bajillion foreigners flowed in for the Olympics. And on top of that, the Olympics have never been held in Brazil, nor anywhere in South America before. Tokyo has already hosted the Olympics once. So congrats Rio de Janero! I'm sorry Ishihara is being such a sore loser about it and talking smack about y'all, though. 7 *comment * mem? * link

Like stuff happened and... stuff. [Monday, Sep 28th, 2009 @ 10:41pm] [ mood | drained ] I've been really busy since school started. Staying late a lot. I'm still busy and stressed. You know you're too stressed when you're too lazy to even go out for shopping therapy. Not that I really have the dough for that anyways LOL low summer paycheck. But then I was like "Oh yay, I get some holidays to myself!" and... nope. Things came up and it didn't happen. Disappointed about that and disappointed in myself for not making more of what little time to myself I did get instead of being so dang tired. Nori got himself the Saturday following our four year anniversary off for us to celebrate and then my company messed up my schedule and it had to be switched over so I ended up having to go to a Sports Day. Then my friends were really egging me on to come to this BBQ/onsen during Silver Week so I went... Random nakedness and I'm the only one that remembers all the weird shit that went down because I wasn't drunk off my ass. It was fun, but I just feel like I have no real time to myself. It's like the concept of personal space is so foreign to Japanese I have to lie and make up some excuse why I can't do whatever instead of being able to tell the truth. And then I hate lying so I usually go unless I really can't stand going out that day and feel caged into making some lame reason up. Been doing a lot of sudoku to cancel out some of the stress. Going to join the gym FINALLY next month. Need to get myself back in shape! Will probably help with the stress, too. Cats are getting so big! Dakota has his appointment to get neutered this weekend. I feel sorry for the little guy, but the last thing we need is more kittens. =S Today was my holiday off from working sports day, but Nori was sick and had to come home early from work so I spent most of the day taking care of him instead of doing the stuff I needed to do and then my scooter got a flat tire so I had to wait for 3 hours for that to get fixed and pay 16,000 yen. Just fffff sometimes, you know? One of my weekly part-time things starts up next week so it doesn't look like I'll be un-busy anytime soon. But I need this money to pay off my annoying resident taxes boohoo. And then I signed up for a few extra shifts because I'm a masochist. Nadia! I got my cute b-day present from you forever ago and I thought maybe I told you thanks, but my memory is so shot now I'm worried I only imagined that and anyways I'm saying thanks now pukuu nukuu! <3 All in all, I haven't been a good LJ follower or friend lately. Sorry. =( 15 *comment * mem? * link

Too bad it can't last forever. [Wednesday, Aug 26th, 2009 @ 4:23am] [ mood | accomplished ] [ music | Lady GaGa - LoveGame ] Enjoying my last week off just being a lazy bum. Today is my last day and I see I'm off to a great start going to bed at 4:30 a.m. Part of the reason I stayed up is because my renewed U.S. drivers license never turned up in the mail so I had to give them a call and see what happened. But calling the DMV always takes forever and I had to hold for 40 minutes before someone could help. Today I bought some stuff to bling out my phone (my previous bling fell off and thus my cellphone was all sad and stuff) so while I was holding I finished decorating it. This is how it turned out: Other than that I've been trying out new cooking recipes, watching lots of movies with Noributt, and been busy doing shopping service/selling stuff. I'm totally bummed summer vacation is almost over! 3 *comment * mem? * link

For daily picspamming... [Monday, Aug 17th, 2009 @ 1:01pm] [ mood | blah ] I made a DailyBooth to post random photos daily because it's so easy to use. If you also use it and want to add me: http://dailybooth.com/strawberrytalk I'll still post photos here every now and then, too. =) Going to see Nori's mom was weird as usual, but turned out OK. Just flushing out the carbeurator on my scooter didn't work and it's going to require some new parts. But almost every business was closed for Obon all last week so they couldn't be ordered and it won't be ready until Wednesday or Thursday. Fixing it went up to 20,000 yen. Crapola. I hate how whenever I have a good financial plan going and a little extra cash tucked away to the side, life seems to take that as an excuse to make something requires more than just a bit of spare change magically happen. =/ The bright side is that at least I'm on break and can live without the scooter. At the same time it's annoying having to walk 1-2 km everywhere in this super hot/humid weather or take the bus (more money gone). My friend keeps suddenly cancelling our plans and then calling to reschedule them later in the day when she's free again from whatever came up. It's happened 3 times in the past week and a half. I'm annoyed and am thus not returning her calls. 3 *comment * mem? * link

Something goes here. [Saturday, Aug 15th, 2009 @ 1:00am] I was right about the scooter. It seems like the carbeurator's clogged so the gas can't get to the engine. Said he'd clean it out and have it ready for me by today, but I didn't get a call to come in and pick it up. Tomorrow I'll walk back over and see what the status is. So far it's going to cost 10,000 yen... I hope that's all it ends up being. =( I was supposed to hang out with a friend, but she wasn't feeling well, and that kind of worked out OK because I ended up not getting my scooter back to drive over there anyways. I dunno I was feeling blah all day, but Nori was extra nice (probaby because he asked me to take a taxi at the buttcrack of dawn to go bring him something he forgot for work) so he offered to buy a pizza for dinner and we ate it while watching a movie. Except... I didn't really understand the movie. =/ After that Grave of the Fireflies came on because it's just after the anniversary of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings. Every year the Japanese do a good job of pulling out the "woe is Japan b/c we got bombed 60 years ago". I disagree with a-bombing and what the U.S. did, but I think Japan did their share of horrible things which they seem to conveniently forget because they got a-bombed. My city has this whole campaign about completely erradicating nuclear weapons, which is a great thing and I wish the whole world would get on board. But sometimes it's painful to read the essays my students put out in support of it because they always talk about the war and it's always so one-sided like Japan was completely minding its own business when big ol' meanie U.S.A. came along and bombed it. It's like... If you hadn't provoked big meanie U.S.A. by attacking first you probably wouldn't have gotten bombed. But you can't say this, especially if you're American, or you're a horrible person. IDK I wish people would just logically think and take responsibility when they're partially at fault as well. This also includes the U.S. concerning things we've done to other countries. Anyways... TL;DR none of this takes away from Grave of the Fireflies being a good movie. Tomorrow evening Nori and I are heading to Kanagawa to visit his mom for Obon. It's like one of our two yearly pillages over there, lol. I always get really nervous when we go because his mom is quite a bit stranger than most older women I meet her age. Last time we stayed over his mom woke me up at 5:45 a.m. to drink coffee and listen to oldies records before going to walk the dog. I snuck back into bed afterwards and then she came right back and got me up again. It was a pretty D= but at the same time I guess it's good she's taken to me more over the years and wants to bond. I just wish bonding could come after sleep. I just saw Ayu perform on T.V. a few minutes ago. For the past year or so I've really been wanting to see her live with Nori before she starts sounding anymore worse live. The problem is that she usually only tours her new songs and I just want to hear her do the songs that got her where she is now. That and the days always conflict with my work, or are mega expensive for nosebleed seats. Someday, someday... 3 *comment * mem? * link

This isn't really going anywhere. [Thursday, Aug 13th, 2009 @ 9:50am] [ mood | wha..? ] My scooter is loopy. It's been acting up since the night of my b-day, where it'll go about 1 km/h when I hit the gas and then slowly work its way up to normal speed, but not before pissing off everyone behind me when the light turns green. =X I thought it might need an oil change, so Nori did it for me, but it was only a temporary fix and it started acting up again yesterday. The bike shop was closed then, so I'm gonna pop in today and see if the grandpa there can tell me what's up. *crosses fingers it doesn't require a lot of money to fix* It's like the gas can't get to the engine quick enough, or maybe there's a leak somewhere? Ever since we set up the new desk the cats have suddenly become interested in computing in addition to destroying our house. Unfortunately they are still kittens so they haven't mastered the art of LOLspeak yet. Today Daisy writes: wwwwwwwwwwwwqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqcq2222222222222222222222dddddddp@いお Maybe it's catspeak for "Today mommy ate a peppermint and it smelled funny. So I stuck my nose up her nose and sniffed. I DO NOT APPROVE!" For some reason I can't sleep in. Nori almost always wakes me up in the morning with his fiddling around and getting ready for work, and then I figure I should do laundry and hang it out early or feed the cats or something else inane like that and never actually get back to sleeping. >.>;; So I've just been piddling around online. Sometimes when I check on egl there's some flail post about a convention/tea party/trip to Japan where the OP got to meet some famous brand designer/model. I think that's great they had an awesome time and got to meet someone they admire. The annoying part is when the OP or the commenters start in on "Liek OMGz the way they eat/sit/drink/fart is so adorable!" C'mon! I doubt the way they eat is really all that different unless they're slurping spaghetti or twisting natto with their chopsticks, both of which aren't cute at all. You can stop flailing over every insignificant thing they do because they're not really all that much different from anyone else save for the fact they're Asian and come from Japanland. I have 100% confidence you could find a cuter person from every country in the world. EDIT: Wallet came in the mail! <3 4 *comment * mem? * link

Today the earth trembled. [Tuesday, Aug 11th, 2009 @ 11:51pm] [ mood | it's been a long day ] There was a pretty huge earthquake in Shizuoka this morning. I think it registered as a 6.6. Took out a few lanes on the Tomei Expressway (they just crumbled and left a huge gaping hole in the highway) and completely cracked another bridge. Luckily it was around 5 a.m. so people weren't really on the roads yet. This BMW dealership near our place is totally jacked up. There were some people above our suite running for the door and stuff. I'm pretty used to earthquakes here so I listened for awhile, rolled over, and went back to sleep. That combined with a typhoon left us stranded at Atami for most of the day and ruint the fishing plans. I still had a good time getting away, though! The place was more decked out than the Hilton and I think I ate the most expensive meal I've ever had in my life. (But was free for me!)　So props to friends with connections getting our lil' group hooked up. =D About 2:30 they finally got the ferries running again so I could make it back to the main island, and then the Tokaido line took forever getting the Atami - Hamamatsu section up. It was like YESSSS when I finally walked through the front door. Initially I had planned on being back this morning in time to help Nori with a desk we were having taken away to make room for a new one and just hang out, but that didn't work out. I wish we had had more time together today, since his days off are so rare. =/ Lately it seems like everytime I think we get some time alone, there's something we have to do/something crashes it. Looking forward to taking it easy tomorrow and maybe getting some organizing done. I have a stack of books that I bought, but haven't really had a chance to get into yet. The cat babies are having fun poking around the new desk. Their cat tower should come in the mail sometime this week. I'm kinda excited for them. I know this kinda stuff makes me no better than your average oya-baka. 2 *comment * mem? * link

A happy birfday and then some. [Monday, Aug 10th, 2009 @ 1:58am] [ mood | accomplished ] [ music | Hamasaki Ayumi - Far Away (Live) ] My birthday went down pretty awesomely! It seriously beat the last couple of birthdays I've had! Last year I spent the whole thing on an airplane flying home. The time before that I remember having good times with friends and a whale cake, but not before my family guilt tripped me into crying over something lame. At first I thought the day was gonna go down in huge flames because due to some mess-up at the immigration office I ended up having to re-pay the visa application fee. But then I guess they realized what d-bags they were being, because when I got my visa back it listed THREE YEARS instead of the usual one year. Woot! That actually got my fee back and then some, saving me many trips to the immigration bureau over the next two years. After that was all settled (it took most of the morning/afternoon...;A;) I went to get my hair cut at a salon nearby because it was too late to make a trip to my favourite salon. The guy did a good job on my bangs last time and it turns out they remembered me and brought him out to cut my hair again. I like that he focuses on his job and doesn't try to chat me up too much. I never know what to say to a complete stranger to keep the convo going. My hair came out cute and it felt really refreshing getting a little bit cut off. Soon after I got some happy birthday wishes by e-mail/facebook (thanks <3) and my ex-coworker friend called to invite me for boat fishing in Atami tomorrow. Can't wait! Then Marui was having a huge sale so I wandered in and scored an awesome skirt for 80% off. Nori came back from work soon after I got back home and he took me to a nice Italian place and then we went for a drive on our scooters (dorky, whut?!) to the sea and walked around. It was really simple, but just right. Saturday I sat on my big booty all day and did squat. =D Today I did a lot of cleaning and reluctantly got Nori to help out. I feel better now that that's all done. And on top of that I won a super cute, used Vivienne wallet off of Mbok for a few thousand yen...<3 I'm glad Japan has caught up with Netflicks technology and started Tsutaya Discas. It makes me much more in the mood to watch movies now that I don't have to drive all the way down there and worry about getting it back in by the due date. Well, I need to go back to making up packages of sold stuff to mail out tomorrow...@.@ 4 *comment * mem? * link

Birfday day stuff. [Friday, Aug 7th, 2009 @ 12:15am] [ mood | productive ] [ music | Beyoncé - Sweet Dreams ] Still no concrete plans. I had a group dinner and wherever the night took us plan in mind, but everyone called and flaked out yesterday save for Noributt. It looks like it'll be a romantic evening between the two of us, which works for me as well! I bought a new dress in Tokyo for the occasion. =D Tokyo was good! My host family is all moved temporarily for their house remodeling. I'll go check out how the new place looks sometime in October. My mom sent me this huge carepackage of love filled with wonderful-yet-horrible processed foods and some undies and sleepwear. Alright, undies! I was just thinking about buying some but cringing at even the cheap ones being 800 yen a pair so it was quite the nice surprise! The crapper is that I have to go back to the immigration bureau to hopefully pick up my new visa. Such is life, eh? Today when Nori came home we watched a movie called Juno, which was pretty good. <3 I started selling a few things on ssales again to help make some extra money for upcoming loan payments since my next salary is going to get reduced due to summer vacation blah. Dakota and Daisy are getting to be little fatty-chans. They don't look heavy but boy do they sure weigh a ton more when I pick them up. Since I've been home and Dakota's been meowing for more attention; he demands I spend half of the day just petting or playing with him. I'm happy he likes luvins and all, but sometimes it's hard to get anything done, lol. And well, that's that. I'm going doze off soon so I can be up bright and early for immigration. 3 *comment * mem? * link

Spiffing things up. [Friday, Jul 31st, 2009 @ 12:28pm] [ mood | busy ] They got chocolate milk mix in at the import store so I was on it faster than you know. GLORIOUS! I kept trying to look for it at Don Quixote but only the one in Fuji stocks it and it's too far to drive just for that...;A; Dakota and Daisy got their first collars and baths the other day. The bath they did not like. I came out with battle wounds. Am looking forward to them getting their nails clipped at their next vet appointment. But they smell oh-so-clean and their fur is so soft! I really like the shampoo the vet gave us. As for the collars, they treat them as toys that hang around their necks and try to catch the little bells. I also bought them a cat house bed to sleep in. They still prefer sleeping on/inside the microwave...>.>;; Leaving for Tokyo tonite. Looking forward to it! Still no birfday plans. I think Minae is trying to plot something with Nori. I told Nori I wanted a cat tower/gym for Dakota and Daisy as a present. I don't think he'll actually make a move to buy anything until after my birthday has already passed, at least I hope. If he does he'll pick the one that matches our house the least with the worst quality because it "was the cheapest" and make me facepalm because he has no common sense on stuff like that. I'm gonna miss our babies while I'm gone, although I know they'll have fun playing with Nori. I should get ready soon so I can go pay rent and it still transfer by today...TAT I still have to vaccuum and finish packing. At least the other stuff is already done! I wish I could leave without having to do a full clean of the house all the time, but I know Nori is too lazy to really do much besides the dishes and some laundry. =/ 3 *comment * mem? * link

Separate post, as mentioned before. [Tuesday, Jul 28th, 2009 @ 2:47pm] [ mood | apathetic ] So about last weekend. My friend and her b/f stayed for two days, which was good but at the same time maybe a little much. But because her b/f could drive we got to go to Shizuoka for basically free and catch some of the last sales. I ended up buying a lolita dress (!!) to wear to the fireworks festival. So I finally got to see the fireworks, but that's ALL I basically got to do. ._. Since my friend and her b/f had already gone yesterday they weren't much interested in eating all the festival food out and wanted to take a bajillion purikura and pics. Not that I didn't want to take pics, but after we finished doing what they wanted to do all the food vendors had packed up and there was nothing to see or do left at the festival. I was shocked and bummed at the same time.　　Especially since the reason I didn't go on Saturday is that I didn't want to be the third wheel to my friend and her b/f because Nori ended up not being able to go. I don't mean to put down my friend, because I know she didn't do it on purpose, but I was pretty disappointed about it. I guess I'm also bad because I don't know how to say "no" to people, but I really, really wish more people could take others into consideration on their own without having to be directly told. But yesterday I did at least get to cook some and Nori helped! 　banana walnut pancakes (recipe here)　 　beef curry with pumpkin　 Pictures from the fireworks festival. It needs a petti, I know, but it was HOT. I've been doing housechores; mainly loads and loads of laundry since it's the first time it's been sunny in awhile. I want to hang out our futons but I'm afraid it'll start raining like the weather forcast says... I need to go get my scooter from the station, but I don't want to get dressed and go out... 10 *comment * mem? * link

School's out now, yay! [Monday, Jul 27th, 2009 @ 8:44pm] [ mood | restless ] [ music | Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch ] Last week was insane, I was so tired I spent a few days in the nurse's room at school lying down from exhaustion. =/ And unexpectedly until this afternoon my friend and her boyfriend crashed at our place for most of the weekend. It was cool, but at the same time Nori had a rare two days off and I really wanted some alone time because our schedules haven't meshed for the past few weeks. But we're getting to spend a little time together tonight, so I'll make a separate post about this weekend later. ^_^v Last week I went to Tokyo and had a pretty eventful time! I bought a cute outfit for under 5,000 yen thanks to the summer sales and basically just hung out with as many people as possible. Also picked up a summer cooking recipe magazine that I'm looking forward to trying out. <3 Seeing Közi was good as usual, but sitting through Mana's band was very blah indeed. At least they did a cute session thing at the end. I'll write up a review and post later maybe. =X I'll go back again next weekend to help my host family gear up for moving their stuff in order to remodel their house and to go see The ROMEO with Shara. They have a new flavor of Kit Kats out! Ramune flavor. At first I thought it said ramen flavor, lol. I was suspicious, but gave it a try. Hmm, debating debating debating... Aaand taste test approved! 9 *comment * mem? * link

Ugh, what a day. [Tuesday, Jul 21st, 2009 @ 11:24pm] [ mood | worried ] Yesterday I got home late from work and got into a fight with Nori so that sucked big time. We stayed up late talking it out and resolving it, because I can't sleep when I'm angry and it's not good to go to sleep mad at someone because you wake up still mad at them. So it's good we got things worked out, but the consequence was being super tired all day at work. But I got through it and managed to actually get a lot of stuff done considering. Then I had to get ready for my part-time, but I didn't have a lot of time since I went to Tokyo over the weekend and had to work yesterday regardless of it being a public holiday. It felt really rushed and I was a little more than upset that I might not finish in time. In the end it all turned out nice, which was a big relief after everything was said and done! But up to that point I was majorly stressed out. Then when I got home around 9:45, Nori was folding laundry in the bedroom and I went to help and talk to him while Daisy and Dakota were playing when all of a sudden Dakota started foaming at the mouth and wouldn't stop. He was mewing and I was really scared, but had just changed into my PJs so Nori rushed him to the vet while I threw on something quick and followed and we rang the vet's doorbell (they live above their clinic) and thankfully they answered and admitted us in. They gave him some medicine to cancel out whatever he ate and let us go, and fortunately it didn't cost an arm and a leg. But I had to use my U.S. debit card to pay the bill since I didn't have enough cash on me so now my U.S. account doesn't have enough money in it to pay for other bills by the end of this week which is frustrating to say the least. However I am really thankful Dakota is OK now. On further inspection it looks like he might have toppled over a moisture absorbing bin and then licked a little of what came out. So no more Japanese room for awhile for them until we can make sure the mess is gone and he (or Daisy) won't give us another heart attack. I feel like I could just collapse I'm so worn out. Please Friday come faster. 13 *comment * mem? * link

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