household items

I was suddenly hit with a desire to buy household furnings. It came out of the blue Sunday night.

I've wanted to buy a clock/radio/cd player for a while. However, I haven't actually gone and looked for one. Part of the reason is that I'll get my cd player when I visit SF, and I already have an alarm clock. So, I guess I just need a radio. Radios ought to be cheap. An MD/radio player/recorder would be cool though, so that I can tape music and such. Hrm... digital recordings. Where are digital recordings?

I also discovered that a little rolling cabinet/trash receptacle (11000 yen) would be perfect for my little kitchen, to give me some more counter space. One with a little slide out table would be great. There are also these vertical trashcans (4000 yen?) that would fit between my fridge and my sink, but it's not as much of a priority as the rolling table.

I'd like a rack to go above my washer. I can store my laundry basket and supplies there. A rack appears to be about 8000 yen.

I'd also like a drying rack strong enough to hold a rug. About 7000 yen for that. Then I can dry towels inside my apt. when it's raining outside. At the moment, I don't have anywhere to hang more than one towel.

I need a good household furnishings site.

Should I bring my tennis racquet from CA? Hrm.

Droolworthy bag

Saw a guy wearing a very cool bag; leather belt like strap that goes down both the sides. nice rectangular shape; interesting concave zip top - folds over as a shallow flap so the overall shape is still rectangular.
I stared hard at the bag but couldn't read the brand. probably looked a bit odd staring at this guy's bag. (-.-;)

Shirt of the day

Work 8 hours
Surf 8 hours
Sleep 8 hours

nice eh?
too bad it doesn't leave time for eating or showering.

Sumida River Hanabi

I wore a yukata for the first time. It's quite complicated to put on. It was very fun though. Tsuneko arranged it all, borrowing it from a friend. She did a lovely job helping me put it on. she took pictures too.

The sumida river fireworks were lovely. they had very pretty twirly glittery ones that end up in little fan shapes.

Long Vacation

This famous Japanese drama is probably 10 years old by now. At least 8 years old.

I watched the first episode. It was really good! Higher quality than a lot of the stuff on TV right now. The main actress Yamaguchi is really cute, I like her character a lot. She's quite a good actress. The episode seemed an hour and a half long though.

I watched it all in Japanese, as it was faster than reading the Chinese subtitles.

Anyone ever slam into train doors trying to catch one?

Random tidbits: my kenneth cole wallet was fashionable but didn't last that long.

There was a McDonalds deal: chicken mcnuggets 5 for 100 yen, yum!

On July 23, it smelled like scallion pancakes. Scallion pancakes are good.

sunkus drinks

Sunkus (convenience store), has a really boring selection of drinks. The one at 中野坂上 near work doesn't even have the lemon tea flavor of "Afternoon Tea". They only have the darker, more bitter version, and probably the milk tea flavor.

They have a nice selection of おにぎり (rice balls) though. I tried the anago one today. The unagi (freshwater grilled eel) one is also pretty good.

I am banned from buying any new non-necessities for myself. I lose stuff too easily. I stopped carrying around my dictionary as I am afraid that I will lose it. I'll just bring it when I study Japanese. Maybe it would be good to put everything on long chains attached to my purse or whatever. Then it would be much harder to lose. I think I'll do that. Laf.