Karaoke practice with Yuko and Sawako was fun, but ended up spending half the day with them, which killed my plans for Nagoya (I'm usually coming back around 3-4). Also am being forced to wear PINK, though I gave in because they are stone cold set in their ways of pink = MEGA KAWAII MOE MOE YOU ARE NOT FEMALE ENOUGH IF YOU DISLIKE THIS COLOR DESU. Blargh, whatever, it got us out of the store faster.

Next on the list was getting together my XBOX HUGE stack of doujinshi and hauling them down to Lashinbang to sell them off. I was told it'd be around 40 minutes for them to estimate the value--no prob, I went off to the station bldg. and did some browsing. Upon returning, I was offered 350 for one book (which I'm sure they'll sell for 1000), and then the rest.

A MEASLY ONE HUNDRED YEN FOR A STACK OF ABOUT FIFTY.

WHAT. THE. FUCKING. FUCK.

I understand prices are predetermined by some mystical, impossible to figure out system, but CHRIST WHAT A SLAP IN THE FACE. Think I'll try my luck at Mandarake when I go back to Osaka in August.

Oh well. Off to Nagoya tomorrow! Now back to working on circle cut and organizing things for lolita sales.

EQUILIBRIUM.

IT IS THE BEST MOVIE EVAR.

NEVER THOUGHT GUN KATAS COULD BE SO... MOTHERFUCKING BADASS.

THANK YOU, ARI-CHAN. THANK YOU. :D

Government has decided to rape me with with taxes.

Selling off precious doujinshi collection here. bawwwwwwwwww MY PRETTIES

Mnemosyne is a flash card program we're using to study for JLPT 1-kyuu. (thank you graymm for posting about it :D)

TASTY UMEBOSHI IS TASTY. 攻めalso showed up in the kanji list, and we broke out into a fit of giggles like the retarded fangirls we are. XD

Last weekend was C's wedding in Kobe. I came in on the tail end of the swine flu panic, so nobody gave me dirty looks because I coughed/didn't wear a mask.

Was originally going to put the photos under an lj-cut, but there are 38 of them! Way too many, so take a gander here: http://s355.photobucket.com/albums/r472/okumoto2/kobe%20wedding/

sankakukoen also posted photos of our Intl Lolita Day meetup here: http://community.livejournal.com/egl/13538987.html#cutid1 beware of drunken shennanigans

One of my Friday classes is full of rather... genki students, one of them being a bratty boy who cannot sit still for more than 30 seconds. I taught them when I first started, and now my endless good fortune has put them back on my schedule after 1.5 years. LUCKY ME.

Anyway, I was explaining a phonics game, said boy M and his friend H are horseplaying--H kicks M in the chest, knocks him backwards. I warn H to knock it off, which he does. M starts flipping out and smacking H repeatedly in the head; I tell him to stop, and then he smacks ME in the face.

THIS I ABSOLUTELY DO NOT TOLERATE IN MY CLASSES.

I yank him by the arm, telling him in jgo that if he can't stop hitting everyone, then he can wait with his mother until he calms down. By then, he's visibly resisting, telling me that he'll stop, wait in the classroom, etc, but I'll have none of it. I open the door to the waiting room, and after briefly explaining the situation, pass him off to his mother.

Long and short of it, mom talked to both M and H, made them apologize to each other, and laid the verbal smackdown on M. HARD. This am I very thankful for, as I've witnessed too often undisciplined children walking all over their weak-willed parents. After class finished and I went to lock the waiting room, I saw M sitting on the floor sulking/crying, after he'd apparently smacked his little sister (who is also my student, and thankfully nothing like her brother)?! Even though he was a little monster and totally didn't deserve it, I still gave him candy.

Hopefully having his mother discipline him in public will him adjust his attitude in the right direction.

In Osaka, chillin' at sankakukoen's place. Came in on Friday, then headed to Holiday Osaka to see HEAR perform. To my horror, they were slated to perform dead last, so I was stuck there for about NINE HOURS. D: On the plus side, I now have another band that I like--SWEET MADONNA; they're not very known yet, but their music was pretty nice and of course the band full of dericious eye candy, HEEE. :D

HEAR finally came out, played 3 songs, and then did an encore of Barcode. I had wanted to stay and talk to them after the show, but I was already dead tired, so I walked back to Osaka station to get my luggage, then made the trek to sankakukoen's apt. She was already in bed when I got there, but we chatted briefly then I passed out.

Saturday was slow--we headed out to Denden Town to do some light shopping/lunch. We ate at Meibutsu Curry, an apparently "famous" curry joint with rather mediocre food, but it was cheap! We had a good laugh afterwards at the guy sitting across from us, eating 551 Horai meat buns in front of the server and being told "dame!".


This is their signature dish--curry rice with raw egg in the middle, and you add Worcestershire sauce to your liking.


Lots of other tourons customers were taking photos, so we figured why not!

After that, we stopped at Mickey D's for ice cream, then spilt as she went off to work, and I returned to spend the majority of the day inking pages. WHICH I AM FINALLY DONE WITH HALLELUJAH.

We'll soon be off to Shinsaibashi, for some epic shopping--today is an event day at H, so I get to surreptitiously gawk at see Tastyfine again! :D

1pm class got canceled, so I am home wasting time on the internets until my next string of classes at 4:55. :D

( random photo and meme tiems )

Went to Nagoya today to meet my friend A, whom I haven't seen since I first came back in 2007. Found out why she's been so busy--she got herself a man! Dating her work senpai, they've been together for about six months. :D She showed me a picture and he's quite handsome KINDA JEALOUS AM I GOING TO BE SINGLE FOREVER

Our plans for the day were to have lunch, visit Atsuta Shrine, then perhaps troll about various shopping malls til late afternoon...( but everything wasn't according to plan )

Had a great time visiting one of my old students (not the old ladies LOL), but I started feeling really bad on the train ride home. Got home, changed, took some aspirin and immediately went to bed.

Also, Tara sorry for not cmailing you back--I tried but then cmail decided to be retarded and randomly bounced back my messages. D:

Last night I set my alarm for 7:30, as I planned to get up and do laundry and clean and be VERY PRODUCTIVE. Alarm goes off, and I CANT MOVE. D:

I just lie in bed til about 9:30. Still feeling like crap, so I'm like "fuck it" and call my boss to let him know I'm sick and taking off work tomorrow. Taking a sick day at a small company like mine tends to cause mass panic, as the bosses have to scramble to get the part-timers to cover lessons (or that failing, themselves). Also doesn't help that I teach five classes tomorrow, but I feel terrible. Plus, I have taken a sick day since November 2007!

Going to spend the day huddled in bed. Might at least do laundry. Too weak for anything else.

Hanami plans for Yoshino got canned due to rain, so met up with Kate, Allison and Dee for lunch, cake and shopping.

OMG DID WE EVER SHOP. I bought a jsk and some socks from Bodyline, socks from IW, and a gorgeous skirt and pillbox aristo hat from Atelier Pierrot. Kate and Tara will be twins as they bought the same dress, too! Brigid and Ping also came along, and they both made some nice purchases from H--LOL BRIGID AND I UNINTENTIONALLY HAVE THE SAME WHITE CARDIGAN.

Rest of details are on Tara's lj here. YES I AM LAZY WHAT OF IT

( The Holy Trinity of Things to do in the Mother Country )

Back from Okayama. shigeruhiko did not suffer from dental trauma, and we went to see Watchmen yesterday.

OMG IT IS SUCH A GOOD MOVIE. There are a few changes I didn't like, but my love for Rorschach and Adrian outweigh them. <3

Ppls on the flist demaning lolita photos: ENJOY.

( photos here )

All for now. Off to the Shiz tomorrow, lest my Seishun ticket expire with unused stamps.

Went shopping in Nagoya today. Inordinate spending times a GO-GO! :D

( NEEDS MOAR FRILLZ )

Saw this on another cooking program, and they thankfully had a website for reference this time!



Points to remember for next time: MUCH LESS Worcestershire sauce, more curry. I didn't make it spicy, but perhaps I will add a small amount of red pepper next time I make this.

My spin on some deep-fried chicken marinade I saw on TV today. Only things I changed were using plum paste instead of lemon as a garnish, because plums + chicken = EPIC WIN.

Not bad for a first try, but I will remember to get essentials for my kitchen in the future, like paper towels and a deep-fry rack.

Had a day out with my homegirls N and C today. ( Sunday is for love! )

Haven't drawn much of anything since coming back from Americaland, but tonight, shigeruhiko and I were Narutarding and this came to be:

( THEIR LOVE IS SO ACCORDING TO PLAN )

That's how long it's been since I came back to my apt., and things have been crazy as usual. Sorry that I didn't get to see everyone I had wanted to in America. One week is definitely too short to run all over the country visiting folks; I was one place for 36-48 hours max.

Worst part of the trip was the flight from Japan; the plane hit some really awful turbulence. Right after they served dinner. And lasted for FOUR HOURS. D: People were audibly getting ill, and I had myself a delightful panic attack where I put my head on the serving tray and tried not to think of the plane nosediving into the Bering Sea.

Highlights:

SHOES. OMG NINE PAIRS OF THEM. I had Gwen take me shopping on Christmas Eve, and we hit up 4-5 different shoe stores, LOL.

I have a new cousin! Joy Smith, born last May. IT WOULD'VE BEEN NICE TO KNOW BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

Haircut at the salon that squyrel and I used to frequent in college. Sam complemented that I was taking good care of my hair (it used to be super fried when I first went to her), and even gave me a free jar of hair conditioner, claiming that none of her other customers' hair was as thick as mine and that it'd just go to waste otherwise. FREE GOODS SCORE. :D

Mailed the majority of my winter clothes, business suits and shoes back to myself. WE SHALL NOT DISCUSS HOW MUCH THAT COST. Sadly, wasn't able to find old comic manuscripts I wanted. Gwen's garage is the abyss.

MOAR SHOPPING in Lexington with Livy and Gina!

36 hours later, off to Sunny California to hang with cyrulean and EVEN MOAR SHOPPING! Also got my right ear re-pierced.

All for now. Still organizing boxes and such. Everyone, have a great New Year!

back safely in the mohter country.

WISH I COULD SAY THE SAME FOR MY LAPTOP.

SCREEN IS BUSTED, I CAN BARELY SEE ANYTHING D:

UPDATES.... EVENTUALLY?

Greetings from cyrulean's lovely apt! The airline thankfully did not lose my luggage this time, and I have presents to boot! She crocheted me a scarf (awwwwwww) and gifted me an awesome pair of Christmas socks with green candy cane grips on them! :D

cyrulean IS ALSO A TOTAL SKANK, LOL.

Now in Dallas, chillin til my flight to sunny California and then hookin' up with cyrulean and her crew of awesome. :D

This airport has free internet terminals, but the metal keyboard sucks big monkey balls.

I mailed nine boxes back to j-land total, for the whopping amount of $523-ish. D:

OH GAWD I AM NEVER RETURNING TO THIS COUNTRY TO LIVE NEVER EVER EVER.

ALSO, STILL EDITING ARGH.

HI I'M IN AMERICA! AHAHAHAHA IT IS LATE AND I'M TIRED.

BEEN UP SINCE 3AM THE PREVIOUS MORNING.

SLEEP. NAU.

$300 IN POSTAGE TOMORROW WEEP

I leave for Americaland next Tuesday. The original plan was to ship my luggage to Central Japan Airport tomorrow morning, as I'll be cavorting about Okayama Wed-Fri with shigeruhiko.

I still have yet to start packing.

AHAHAHA SELF WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU. D:

cyrulean and skuldchan, thank you for the Christmas cards! OMG I AM LOVE-ED. :D

at least I have moar frills LOL

Spent a lovely XXXXXth birthday shopping with Yuko in the morning/early afternoon, then a quick trip home to change/do some laundry. After that, I spent the evening at Sawako's, where she treated me to another AWESOMETASTIC nabe dinner. :D

( photo-heavy post: birthday of epic win )

Tomorrow is another birthday lunch with my friend Aya, so more photos then!

Recap of last weekend's trip to Tokyo and Kakasick 4. First off, ( Tokyo, land of EPIC FAIL )

( Event day, thankfully chock full of win and glory )