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This weekend was busy busy. I haven't put up all the pictures, but so far I have:
AL's birthday party:
and Yakiniku Tabehoudai (all-you-can-eat-and-imbibe grilled meat) party afterwards.
Posted by Emarrific at 08:05 AM | Comments (2)
I know everyone and their mother has done it already, but here it is... what I might look like if I were born into a cartoon reality. You can make your own at South Park Studios Ver. 2 I got the link via Cement Brunette.
Posted by Emarrific at 12:19 AM | Comments (1)
...when you're already five minutes late to work and you're stopping at McDonald's to get a filet-o-fish, hash browns and orange juice breakfast and are stuffing it into your face as you stomp to work, now extra late, the artificial grease seeping its way into your winter-beseiged body like a leaking septic tank into the earth. Yes folks, it's that grey time of year when I (and many others, I'm sure) start to shove anything greasy and unhealthy to fill the ache in their souls, the perceived meaningless of their jobs, that b*tch Winter.
If only the hot sun would come out and sear my soul away. You can't have a hole if there's nothing for it to be a hole in. Then I could be vacuous and happy, frolicking in the sun, not caring about anything. Ah, I can't wait.
Posted by Emarrific at 11:12 AM | Comments (2)
Yesterday, I decided I just needed to walk and walk until all my cares melted away. I walked about two stations' worth down the beach... about four hours. I brought my camera of course and took pictures of whatever struck my fancy: graffiti, stray cats, dumpy looking things, clouds, shadows, snow... even pink hearted underwear! Afterwards, we warmed up with Ramen Bu Bu and an hour and a half in a bath house. The bath house was really something. There was a silk bath, a cold bath, an electric current bath (didn't go in that), salt steam room, mist steam room, dry sauna, outdoor waterfall (it felt like I was being beat up), lay down sauna rooms... etc. etc. I can't even list it all. Then I went home and slept for 11 hours. It was great.
Winter had beguiled me into forgetting how good these walks are for the soul. I need to do this every weekend to beat the winter, last-six-months-of-work blues.
冬の為、気がちょっと落ちてたので、浜辺で長い散歩をしました。心にいいですね。勿論わたしのカメラを一緒に持ってきました。
Posted by Emarrific at 12:38 AM | Comments (2)
I saw this apple yesterday and I just had to buy it! It was 250 yen (about 2.50 US dollars), but it was just so perfect and beautiful. It's huge though. It took me 45 minutes to eat this sucker!
I am really going to miss the fruit when I leave.
Posted by Emarrific at 07:50 AM | Comments (3)