Hot day Mitsuwa Trip.

Yesterday was a nice hot day, and I was home, sitting in my room, wanting to do something to get outside. After crossing off choices from my long list of ideas I ended up heading to Mitsuwa with my friend Jennie. I love going there to spend the day. It is my go to place to liven up any boring day. My favorite meal to have is salt ramen. However, yesterday was definitely not a ramen day. Way too hot! So, I chose to get pork cutlets with cabbage salad and rice from Katsuhana. A finer choice indeed. It was delicious! ^ _ ^

Then we went to the stores where I purchased another Rilakumma letter set, because I just couldn't help myself. Jennie will be going to Korea to teach English, so I will definitely be putting them to good use.

To end the day we bought things from the supermarket and sat at the cafe to eat some dessert. Mitsumame is one of my favorite new desserts. I love mixing flavors and textures with food, and mitsumame does exactly that. It has green tea ice cream, anko (sweet azuki bean paste), mochi (chewy rice cake), strawberries, bananas, and oranges, agar-agar jelly, and a brown syrup drizzled over everything. So, so, sooo good on a hot day. I would like to try and make my own homemade version.

 

Tonight we are going to watch the first Devils game of the Stanley Cup finals. Pretty exciting!

Trip to Mitsuwa!

I took a trip to Mitsuwa with the my friends from college before it were to possibly be swept away. (Hope not!) We're expecting hurricane Irene, and there are a lot of precautions being taken which is getting me worried. Since I live on a peninsula a lot of downtown is being evacuated. So my aunt will have to move to my house while the hurricane makes it's way through the east coast. Fingers tightly crossed.

I had a wonderful time at Mitsuwa though, it's hard not to. I haven't been there in a while, and I think I hadn't gone all summer. It was nice to have some delicious ramen again after so long. Unbelievably delicious! Then we had some dessert, walked around, lounged around, it was wonderful. I also bought this adorable sticker keyboard set. I just put them on so I keep looking down at my keyboard to find my place to start typing, and then get surprised every time, like, what the hell is this? Oh duh, the stickers.

Lastly, again about the hurricane, I'm going to try my best to squeeze in dolls before the hurricane comes. I hope, I hope!

Post-Christmas Depression.

Haha, well I suppose I shall make an entry about Christmas because I cling onto that memory as much as I can. It comes and goes way too fast. Apart from feeling like it wasn't more than a daydream, it was pretty awesome.

I got a lot of awesome, useful, and surprising gifts. One of those gifts being a pair of shoes I didn't even think my Mom knew about. I love them. I also received a very sturdy, very awesome portfolio for school, an adorable outfit, year of Xbox Live, Undead Nightmare (awesome game), Iron & Wine, Spirited Away, The Best of Big Bands CD collection, a Richard Feynman book, and strangely Avatar on Blu Ray. I don't have a Blu Ray player. Lol. Looks like I need to get one now! Everyone I bought/made gift for genuinely liked them, and I'm happy about that.

I'm also happy about the fact that I finally finished my phone case. Gah that took FOREVER! I can definitely add more, but for now it's safe to say that I can put the case back on my phone and flash it around. My favorite part is the Hello Kitty. It didn't have that look initially. I added pearls and rhinestones to it! I was afraid it wouldn't work out, but said heck with it. I'm glad I did, it's perfect!

I don't think it would surprise anyone if I said I'm waiting for Nery to get ready and then we're heading to Mitsuwa. Lol. What is this like the 1,000,000,000 time? Well I hope we can get out there. The snow is still 3 feet high everywhere! 

slime Slime SLIME!

Waiting to be picked up to head to Mitsuwa. I got Bikou's eyes in the mail today and THEY ARE PERFECT! Exactly what I wanted. This is one of those rare times where I take the plunge and it is a positive outcome. A wonderful outcome! Yeah, they're just eyes, but I'm happy about simple things these days.

Like the simple face of A SLIME. I have decided I need to start collecting slime paraphernalia from Dragon Quest. I've never played any of the games, but I'm in absolute love with the slime. It's all my friend Nery's fault! When 8 came out he would play it all the time. We always talk about the games we like to each other, so he spoke of things from it that I might have an interested in. Well! I did! OH SLIME! Ever since, because he knows I love them so, he shows me any slime related thing he finds. I just wanna squeeze it all!

On Kotaku too~

Summer Matsuri feels like Fall Matsuri.

I was lucky enough to get to go to Mitsuwa's Summer Matsuri for a little bit today. Holy moly was it crowded! There wasn't any place to sit down and eat for a good 10 minutes. We kept getting tables taken out from under our noses. Luckily we found some and ate our ramen. It was really nice, and made me feel like I was in Japan, almost. Hopefully I will be able to go next year. *Crosses fingers*

Another thing I am lucky with is.. I'm getting an El! Very happy about that! I still haven't ordered the Crobidoll Jerome because I'm waiting to either get more funds or have people join my GO. Looks like no one wants in with me :(. I think part of me is stalling because it's such a big purchase. Hmm.

The Luts Wintery head that was Amalgam is BLANK! Getting him ready for his new face up so I can ship soon.  Lots of work to doooo!

Library's a buildin'.

Yesterday, big surprise, I went to Mitsuwa. I always manage to embarrass myself in the book store, and this time was no different. I wanted to get an easy Japanese manga so that I could practice. However, I get frightened to the verge of overwhelming proportion when I need to speak to the employees (I thought she said "ballroom" instead of "volume"; I tried to say "arigatou gozaimashita", but was unheard because she told me to come around the desk to correct something on my receipt.)
My embarrassing efforts were all in vain! The manga I wanted to ask about (because I couldn't find it) was Gakkou Kaidan. Long story short, I thought it was Gakkou no Kaidan instead of the correct Gakkou Kaidan. Based on the picture I asked my friend to pull up on his phone using the wrong title, we showed it to her and ordered. I thought it was the right one, but turns out "School Ghost Stories" is a very popular manga title!
(0 //- //o// -//). So I ordered this instead of this (or this). Yeah! Even the one I want has two different types!! So confused, but you can never be disappointed in Japanese ghost stories. I also bought this book, which I am joyous about.

School starts soon (Sept. 1st), which mean Japanese II starts soon, and I am very, very excited! Let see how I manage a 7 and a half hour gap in between classes. I hope my dad won't mind picking me up at 10pm. 

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Going to hang out with Mick tonight, as he doesn't have work tomorrow. Today is humid and gross so I cannot work on commissions. I hate it. I also forgot to mention that on Monday I went karaoke'ing for my friend Jennie's birthday. I ate kimchi at a Korean restaurant, and takoyaki (yes takoyaki!) at the karaoke place! Both we not bad but I definitely liked the kimchi more and would not hesitate to eat it again. Delicious!

My Azumanga Daioh dvds need to be broken out and watched again. It's been a while!

Hot hot, lovely, but hot.

Got back from doing a drop off at Mitsuwa a little while ago. They had Japanese kid programming on the terebis. I was very happy. Haha. ピタゴラスイッチ came on and I exclaimed with surprise, "Oh! I love this! Look!" aloud to my friend. Then I wondered if I said that slightly too ..aloud.

Anway where was I? Ah yes, I went to go drop off these handsome devils.

SOOM Chalcos

It's the first time I have done extensive scarring and gore work. I LOVED IT! I hope to see many pictures of them their complete selves soon.