The Pinkies are taking over the house!
I don't exactly remember the why, but last week, I went a little overboard with my JList ordering. I think I remember something at work decided me to order the stuff, I just can't remember what it was.
Anyways, I got the first package yesterday, and the second this morning.
I bought a total of 4 Pinky:Street dolls (they're so kawaii, looking like super deformed chibi manga characters) and a Natto-chan metal pencase. I also ordered a monthly Fruits magazine, and got an email yesterday that I'd get the September number first.
I'm still waiting for my kotatsu table. But it's been only a little over 2 weeks, so I've still got a lot of waitng to do. I'm still happy about it though. The same seller put another (smaller) one for sale on eBay this week, and the price is already 2 times higher than what I paid.
I slept about 4 hours last night (or is that morning when you go to sleep at 4:30am?) before being woken up. I couldn't get back to sleep, and anyway I have to get to the bank before it closes at 2pm, but I'm acking all over, and I'll probably be tired all day long.
Gotta get ready now. Stupid bank's opening hours. I should just keep all my money in a sock under my mattress.
But then the dust bunnies colony would use it all to take over the world... (o_o;)
♪♪Coffee in the morning, coffee in the evening...♪♪
Wait, those are the same thing now.
I'm now working a full 40 hours week at the store, for which I can't complain. I asked for as many hours as I could get, and that's pretty much it, without being paid for overtime. And it pays for all the spending I keep doing...
I bought a kotatsu from eBay. I've been wanting of of these for over two years now, but I always look for one in the winter, when they're way more expensive because more people want them. In the summer, with everyone complaining about the heat, I got one for a third of the price they usually sell for. It looks pretty nice too. All wood, unlike the plastic versions sold on most websites.
A kotatsu, for those who have retained their sanity and not learned useless trivia of Japan Cultural World thingie, is a low table, just the right height to be able to sit on the ground and work on the table. It's usually a good size, about a meter scare. What makes it special, is that there's a heating unit bolted underneat the table. You then put a futon, or some king of heavy conforter, on the table to trap the heat under it, and put a table top on top of the futon to get a straight surface. So when you have to get up at 5am to get ready for class, and it's freaging cold, you just sit with your legs underneat the conforter, all warm and comfy, without running yourself or your loved ones broke because you turned up the heat too high.
All in all, it's a neat little thing that'll work better than the old electric heater I used to sit in front of every morning during winter.
It's just that it takes 5 weeks to get here though...
On another note, yes, having people making christmas jokes at the register is getting old. But this week, I got one I appreciated. This couple from NewYork ask how we say merry christmas here, in french : Joyeux Noel. Then the guy answers that in NewYork, they say happy frigging christmas.
It beats being asked if it's not too early for christmas, or if the christmas songs are getting on our nerves, or what happens when it's really christmas, or why there isn't any snow...
But hey! Pretty soon I'll be coming home to my kotatsu, so it's all good. (That actully sonds really sad, doesn't it?)
Today, for the first time ever, I walked in the bookstore near work, and picked up some random manga.
It turned out to be actually good. I've been buying josei manga lately, and this is apparently one. Ai Suru Hito. Although, it's for mature audiences (^_^;)
Work is going nicely, I'm officially signed up at university in translation, and I've decided to get my hair cut for the first time in about 7 years.
Life seems almost too normal.
I've also started again on my Japanese CD classes. I'm signed up for an actual Japanese class in september in university, but I wanted to get a head start (and understand all those movies I have without needing the subs)
The iPod is working great. I think it was worth the price, since I use it several hours everyday.
Which reminds me : I really need to stop spending on electronics, japanese imports and manga, and start putting away some of my paycheck to pay for school... (;_;)
But spending is so easy and fun...
