Made a picture post on EGL here for those of you who do not check it. Ahhh the weekend~~

So busy lately! I haven't been keeping up with LJ very well this week. Here's what I did--

I hope everyone had a good Halloween!! Mine was not-so-interesting but pretty ok. It's always sad for me to spend Halloween away from home because it's my favorite holiday and I love scaring the neighborhood children and dressing up. I live in Wakayama City (the biggest city in Wakayama Prefecture) so all of the JETs from around Wakayama came to hang out and eat dinner and go clubbing. We attracted a lot of attention from gals and other yanki-type characters and some shy school-age kids too. Everyone wanted pictures of course. I ended up wearing 2 costumes-- first I was Hermione/Ginny/female Harry Potter student but it was really way too hot for all those layers (I was wearing an undershirt, white shirt with a tie and cape on top) so in the middle I went home and changed into a China dress I had bought at Bodyline which worked out much better. Some people stayed there all night but about 12 we had enough of lame Halloween and foreigners so it was time to go.

Izzy was a host for Halloween!! It was so hilarious to me but I don't think anyone really got it =P Pics will come later...

Oh also earlier on Halloween night, Izzy's boss was supposed to come over with his kids and do trick or treating so we bought candy and everything but HE CANCELED. bitch. I got all into it for nothing.

I've enjoyed lurking around this post because I made all of those Halloween sets! I'm so bad at making nice bows but I've skilled up a little bit from that XD I was so happy to finish them all! I liked nearly everything that came in them but wanted to resist buying one because I don't have my discount yet. Any day now... but I really shouldn't... I need to sell some stuff actually-- I have a bunch of BABY stuff that I never wear that I'd rather sell. I have a really hard time with getting rid of stuff-- up to now I've never sold any of my lolita stuff (except my fail Meta LP contents).

Word.

Remember how I was going to go to this nearby supermarket today to beg them to sell me a pumpkin? Check this-- while we were in the store, a little Japanese kid came up to Izzy all happy and stuff and said "izzy-sensei"? He was one of the kids that Izzy saw when he visited a bunch of elementary schools to teach them about Halloween in America. So the kid brings his mom over to say hi-- and she's all happy and starts speaking in English. We explained that we were there to get a pumpkin-- so she goes to some clerks in the store and starts chatting with them-- assumably to ask them if we can buy a pumpkin BUT NO her mother is the OWNER of the supermarket and says we can HAVE WHICHEVER ONE WE WANT AS A PRESENT!!! BONUSSSSS I've never really cashed in my foreigner celebrity card yet so I'm glad to have flexed it today lol

So there was much bowing and thanking and we took it home in my bike basket. Aw yeah. I want to carve it on Wednesday cause that's my day off and that way we can put it out for a few nights ahead of halloween-- now what design should I do??? We found pumpkin carving tools here in the house from the other ppl who lived here woot! Gotta get tealights now~

Hi to everyone who friended me after my egl post-- I have a policy of only friending people I meet in real life-- please don't take it personally! I'm just a little paranoid... Most of my journal entries aren't friendlocked so feel free to keep me on your f-list =)

( I can talk a lot )

I'm trying to order something from Yahoo Japan Auctions and it's been the hugest pain in the ass of life. Even though I live in the frickin country, I'm not able to bid on items over 5000 yen because I don't have a Japanese credit card URG so annoying. So after trying different ways of getting around it, emailing private shopping services and getting no responses, I sucked it up and made a Crescent Shop account. But now every time I try to enter a bid I get a fucking error message telling me to re-enter the amount RAGGGEEE

The auction is over in 2 hours. Hopefully I will get a response to the mail I sent to them about it. Anyone else have this problem? I think I'm about ready to give up. I've probably done something really stupid and obvious that I will only notice after the auction is over =P

EDIT: I finally did figure out what I was doing wrong in the end, but the price of the dress has gone up too high so I gave up. It was this if you're curious: http://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/127672001  So pretty <3

AND.... getting a new couch tomorrow! I'm soo happy!!! I never thought a couch could bring me so much happiness lol

I'm trying to work on this blog but I'm sooo not a blogging-type person. I never kept a journal or diary before because I just lose interest and never write in it. I've only posted to egl a handful of times because I'm just too lazy to edit pics and format posts XD I always think of posts I'd like to make and then never actually do it =P

So anyway, here's the link: http://drobot.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/isidros-job/

It's a bit long so grab a cup o' tea/coffee/whatevs!

On the job front, I finished my Japanese resume finally so Izzy's co-workers at the city hall passed it along to some people they know in the board of education. It looks as though there might be a ALT (English teaching) job for me. I have a 面会 on Monday-- it's something a little less formal than an interview, but I'm still not sure exactly what that means... like do I wear a suit? =/ And I just hope I don't offend everyone there by saying something dumb urggghhh Sometimes with Japanese I'm like watching myself make mistakes outside of my own body, and noticing them makes me stumble over the thing I'm trying to say at the time because I'm running a tape of what I just said in my mind next to a tape of what I'm saying right now at the same time... does that make any sense at all? lol

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week are all public holidays here so we've had a fun 5 day weekend! We went to Osaka today to fart around and shop and tomorrow we're finally going to Wakayama castle for the first time-- which is only 10 minutes from our house *FAIL*

NOTE: Yucky descriptions of dead fish to follow!

That didn't last very long =( I feel a little guilty though because it was the fish we inherited from the guy who lived here before... we took good care of it and fed it and cleaned its tank and changed its water (which was a pain in the ass) so I guess I can't feel too bad.

The day before I noticed it wasn't eating much and looked like it was having buoyancy issues... I guess I could've called a vet or something but that's stupid... then the next day it died T_T fish are really fragile.

So then we had to get rid of the fish and all its fishy gross plantage and water-- that was nightmarish D: Remind me to never get another fish =P While we were cleaning, we noticed that the snail that had been cleaning the tank had also died and looked a bit dead-er (like the shell was decayed) and was stuck in the filter area so we got all Matlock style and deduced that the decaying weird snail juices probably contributed to the death of the goldfish.

So... now I have an empty fishtank... and no pets. I don't think I'm going to get any for a while but I do kind of want a hamster-- any ideas? I really want a kitten but that's a little too much responsibility for us right now. But... kitten~~ =3

Finally I made some entries on Izzy's and my combined Wakayama blog. I don't really like the format with all the small pics but whatevs. 

Here's the link to it: http://drobot.wordpress.com/

Here is the first entry about Tokyo Orientation: http://drobot.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/tokyo-orientation/

Second is a house tour: http://drobot.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/numata-mansion/

Since this blog is "public" and my parents and other muggles will be reading it please don't bring up lolita or any other sketchy stuff if you comment XD

I have so much more to say/report/talk about... later though!

I'm getting a vampire skirt O_O


yay

http://www.babyssb.co.jp/info/yoyaku105P520.html


the cream one

whewwww that was nerve wracking

Well I got internet a few days ago... I'm so lazy~~~~

Things are good here-- I'm pretty pleased with our apartment-- it's spacious (for Japan) and in a good location. Except that it was dirty as balls and I've been trying to keep up with all the cleaning while Izzy's at work. I fail at being a good waifu lol

So he works at the city hall here in Wakayama which is about 10 minutes away by bike. He works from 8:30-5:15 M-Th (but has to get to work 10 mins early) and has a half day (8:30-12) on Fridays. He gets an hour for lunch too. It's a pretty good deal. Right now he's not doing all that much work because it's kind of slow here in the summer. The people he works with are all pretty nice people so that's cool.

Here's the kinds of activities he does-- English lunch once a week (local people come to the city hall to chat in English over lunch), Elementary school visits in fall, English official classes will begin in fall, occasional translating, visiting other offices around the city + a lot of joking around and internet browsing. Except his computer at work is a 10 year old laptop and the government servers block almost everything.

I've been keeping busy by buying groceries and other junk for the house from the 100yen store. There's a lot to explore here because Wakayama is a pretty big city. The city used to have a flourishing shopping street in the center called Burakuricho-- it's been here since the Edo period, but recently a lot the shops there have gone out of business. Which sucks because it's really close by. All of the new business like malls and huge stores have moved to the north of here, across the Kinokawa River where they have lots of room to build. So the older areas of Wakayama are all abandoned and shitty looking. Also there isn't any Aeon/Jusco supermall anchoring the city so there are several different small malls/grocery stores/department stores competing for business. And there is a distinct lack of gyuudon (beef bowl) restaurants like yoshinoya and an awful lack of cheap karaoke in this city T_T

Wakayama has many famous things-- the biggest tourist attraction in the city is Wakayama Castle. I still haven't been. About 2 hours east of here is Mount Koya, a temple complex that is the base of Shingon Buddhism. And there's lots of nature and shit. Foodwise, Wakayama has famous pickled plums (umeboshi), fresh fish, awesome fruits like peaches, mikan, grapes and plums (among others). Wakayama has it's own brand of ramen (called chuka soba here) made with a mix of soy and pork broth. And this funky pickled mackerel sushi called hayanare sushi.

zomg ok that's enough for now =P peace~

This was just too hilarious! British weeabooos XD

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/video_and_audio/8132815.stm

Somebody reassure me that lolita doesn't look as ridiculous as this... or does it? lol

I'm having a last lolita meetup and party on Friday, July 24! I leave for Japan on August 1st for an undetermined amount of time (at least a year) so if you don't catch me this time, you'll just have to visit me in Japan! ;)

I'm splitting the day into 2 events: lolita meetup in the AM-noon and non-lolita karaoke party in the evening.

Part 1 - Lolita meetup at The Pub restaurant in Pembroke Pines.

Time: 11AM
Theme: none/British?
Address: 237 SW 145th Terrace Pembroke Pines, FL 33027
http://www.luvthepub.com/pub_pemb_gi.html

So this restaurant is not like a real pub-- it's more like a Disney-fied British-themed restaurant. I thought it would be a fun place to go because they have a big Alice-in-Wonderland type table in the middle and lots of cute decorations. I also thought it would be good to give the tea and cake a break and have some beer and fish and chips XD You can find their menu if you look at the link I posted above. I'm having the meetup on Friday and at 11AM because that's when they open and we are most likely to have the restaurant to ourselves.

Invite anyone you want-- unlike my house, this restaurant can hold as many people as we want! That's another reason why I'm having it there-- also so I don't have to make food at my house and clean it all up because I'm going to be really busy while I prepare to leave. And it's got powerful air conditioning-- my house fails at cooling 10 lolis in massive layers XD


Part 2 - Karaoke at Muse Cafe

Time: 9PM
Address: 7786 NW 44th ST Lauderhill, FL 33351
http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=muse+cafe&near=Pembroke+Pines,+FL&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&view=text&latlng=6706412819089884707

I'm assuming you are all familiar with this place-- let me know if you want more details. I'm having a get-together here for all my non-lolita friends as well so you're welcome to come (in normal clothes XD). I've made an event thingy on facebook for this part.


If there is free time in between the lolita meet at the Pub and the karaoke in the evening, we can hang out at my house and chillax, or you can go home if you live nearby (or do whatever else).

Hope you can come! =D

Hi guys-- I posted a photoshoot that I'm pretty happy with to egl - I know some of you don't watch that so I'll just link you ~~~>

http://community.livejournal.com/egl/13593710.html

I feel like such an attention whore. Please forgive me ORZ  And thank you to everyone who's already commented-- posting to egl gets me all nervous sometimes.

Too much stuff to even explain.

I'm going to an anime convention this weekend and I'm cosplaying. But it's an anti-cosplay. I'm going to be Olivia Newton John in "Let's Get Physical". It's going to be awesome. Pics will follow XD

You can check it out here if you forgot what she wears... or are too young to know =x Sorry no embedding =P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQXECBdPgEA

And... I just blew a ton of money shopping at Forever21 D: I could not resist the pretty floral dresses! T_T At least buying a lot of shit there is still less than one lolita dress lol

I'm giving a presentation tomorrow called Kooky Japan for some ghetto kids that don't know English in downtown Miami area LOL how do I get myself in these situations? XD

So backing up a few days... Here's a recap of my short (4 days) North Carolina trip~

( over here with pics )

So what am I doing now with my time? Waiting... and waiting... to recap-- Izzy got the translating/international relations job in Japan (CIR) and I'm on a waiting list for the same position if enough people drop out. When you apply for this job, you don't get to pick where you will work at in Japan, so now we're waiting to see where Izzy gets placed. And I'm waiting to see if I get upgraded... waiting =3

And a bunch of other stuff's been going on but whatevs XD

Hey LJ buddies! I'm leaving for a short vacation to North Carolina so I'll catch up with you later ^^ Be back Saturday!

Seeing that summer is coming and I'm feeling like having some ice cream, here's a commercial from Estonia for... ice cream. If you want to see more retro Estonian commercials look on youtube for Harry Egipt.



And here is it on youtube if you have trouble viewing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkdCPvLbI8Y

I don't know about you guys, but I think I just got an urge for ice cream =D lololol That girl looks deep into my soul and compels me to have some XD She looks like she has a lot of experience with, um... ice cream.

want
http://www.babyssb.co.jp/info/yoyaku133247.html

want
http://www.babyssb.co.jp/info/yoyaku133248.html

want
http://www.babyssb.co.jp/shopping/pirates/105P511.html

want a job at BABY (the last one on the page is an online shopping staff member-- I would totally do that)
http://www.babyssb.co.jp/company/index.html#haisou

want
http://www.innocent-w.jp/shopping/jumper/091709/091709.htm

want
http://www.innocent-w.jp/shopping/drees/092602/092602.htm

want
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klFyrnrUSck

But I won't be getting any of these things (well maybe the last one)... need to buy a suit and loads of other stuff for Japan =P More than anything I want to be upgraded from an alternate to a full CIR XP poopoopoo

I'm going to Japan!!! Well it's a little more complicated than that. I am (apparently) first on the list of CIR alternates but Izzy got fully accepted as a CIR already, so regardless if I get placed or not, we will be going together!

English translation of pic:

We did it, didn't we! It's spring (yay)!
Soft (serve Ice) Cream

Note: DOONG is the sound in my mind for something heavy falling... sort of XD does anyone think of that or have I invented it?