I stole this from a friend. Seemed like a good way to waste some time ( Read more... )

So, a few weeks ago (right after Halloween) three of my friends and I went to Nikko, a little town north of here. It's pretty famous for things like temples and scenery and fall foliage, so we decided to head on up there and check it out and have a nice girl's weekend. Unfortunately, my camera was effing broken, so I had to steal all my pictures ( Read more... )

I left Texas on Monday morning. Monday, October 12th, to be exact. My father drove me to the airport. All I could think about on the drive there was the last time we'd gone in that exact same car, except my whole family was with me. My mother forced my brother up and harassed everyone into the car at like 4:30 in the morning, last time. She'd ( Read more... )

Today, after spending a week getting progressively sicker and then two days sleeping all the time to recover from an upper respiratory infection, I got up early, then went to get lunch with a friend. We talked for a while and she gave me some stuff, then brought me home. After I got home, my dad got in touch with the funeral home and they said that ( Read more... )

My mother died on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009. It was the day after my birthday, which is the weirdest thing. I keep fixating on that, and also what to wear to the funeral which we haven't planned, and whether or not I want to see her. I do want to see her, I just want to see her walking, talking, and breathing. Complaining at me, gossiping ( Read more... )

On Sunday, Chelsey and I went to see the ruins of Hachioji Castle, which is supposed to be haunted. We met around four (figuring going close to dusk would up the creepiness factor) and got on a bus (we got the right one on the first try! Go us!) and walked for about fifteen minutes to get to the castle. We were moving slow because I was crabby and ( Read more... )

So, this weekend I went to Shirahama Beach in Shimoda. It's about three hours from Tokyo by train, down on the Izu peninsula. It's this gorgeous white sand beach with pretty clear water. Here is a picture:


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So, I'm very slowly uploading all of my photos onto Flickr and putting them into sets. There's not a lot there right now as I have a limit on how much I can upload in a month, unless I upgrade and pay or something. Since I am cheap, y'all get what you get. Here is the link, if you want to peruse my photos ( Read more... )

So, on Monday I went to a cat cafe. It is literally a place where you pay an hourly fee to play with cats and they serve drinks. It was pretty fun, if a little surreal. Honestly, it was a little like being out at a bar - the ones you wanted to play with ignored you while the cats you didn't really care about were all up in your grill. Quite the ( Read more... )

So, I went to a party on a boat. It was a birthday event for some people I know, and it was super fun. It was my first big social thing since I broke my foot, and I was SO HAPPY to be out of the house. So happy, in fact, that my foot hurting today is not a price I mind paying. We cruised around Yokohama Bay for three hours on a boat called the " ( Read more... )