- I bought a new camera yesterday. As part of my grand plan not to “bust a nut” (as D’Brother often eloquently explains) with all the cool stuff to buy in Tokyo, I am going to take lots of photos. Because there is every chance I will be moving back there in the near future, I just don’t need to be buying cute stuffed toys or sweet drinking glasses and stuff like that so I figure if I can take a picture then I can still gush over the cuteness but without having to find room for it in my suitcase. That or I will have a flashy new camera to trade with the check in person to cover the charge for my ten tonnes of excess baggage. Either way, I’m sorted.
- I was chatting with Best about wedding stuff today. It’s not far from crunch time and Best is quickly being a giant, stressful, weeping pile of bridal goo. She admitted to crying watching a QANTAS ad because it was so cute and wanting to go and glass The Ex and some fo his friends who have no RSVP’d to the wedding. Sorry, be lazy and useless all you like, but RSVP for the fucking wedding. It’s a non-negotiable RSVP, like with a birthday party and stuff it’s nice to let them know if you are going or not, but for a wedding you definitely let someone know. Best even included a wee card so all you had to do was write your name and partner’s name, tick the “I’ll be there, bros!*” box and put it in the pre addressed envelope, chuck on a stamp and stick it in a post box. I realize there are quite a few steps which may confuse the tiny minds of certain people but it’s not a difficult thing to do. It makes me very angry, on Best’s behalf. *May not be the exact wording of the invitations.
- Speaking of the wedding, I was telling Best that everyone thinks it sounds like the best wedding ever and that so many people want to come with me. Best told me I could bring someone which I hadn’t really considered until this point. I’d like to bring someone, it would be fun to have a “date”. It will be such an awesome night with excellent food and cocktails and getting to stay at a swishy resort and also getting to dress up and be fancy. It would be even more awesome to have someone I could dance with and steal a few sneaky kisses from, as well as spooning in a hotel bed. The bonus part is that me taking a girl to the wedding would be an enormous scandal and would blow the tiny, narrow minds of some guests. Win, win, as far as I can see
I’m currently accepting applications for a wedding date, you need to be into the ladies (bonus points if you are into me) and willing to spoon.
- I have a killer headache, it feels like my brain is trying to thump out the back of my skull. Jac and I hit up the candy store at Southbank this afternoon, I got lots of old school lollies like Ka-Blueys and those long straws filled with flavoured sugar so I’m pretty sure my headache is just a symptom of my comedown off all the sugar. Even as a grown up I still can’t help but getting all the end gunked up with spitty sugar bits thus trapping half the remaining sugar in the straw, it’s annoying. I also shredded my tongue on the Ka-Bluey, I could taste something metallic and thought it might just be some crazy after taste I didn’t remember from when I last had one as a kid, but no, I’d just cut my tongue on the sharp bits of the lollipop sorta shell. It stings, beware of Ka-Blueys.
- This week marks the start of the sharp decent into J-Town. This week neatly contains Best’s birthday, a public holiday, my graduation and, with any luck, drinking at the uni bar on Thursday night. The following week I’ve got a couple of days of work but will spend most of my time packing and otherwise madly preparing to go overseas before my going away party on the Saturday night (BE THERE). It’s so exciting I can barely stand it.
Google Reader recommended your blog to me (perhaps because of your mentioning work in Japan) and I’ve been reading with interest. Though I haven’t read enough yet to know if you’ve been to Japan before, I will offer a link to my (old and no longer updated) blog where I gave some pretty well-received advice for newcomers.
http://myso-calledjapaneselife.blogspot.com/2007/09/advice-for-newcomers-to-tokyo.html
Comment by Orchid64 — August 10, 2008 @ 6:02 pm |
Wow your life so busy at the moment!!
I hope you get a lovely lady date for the wedding – fingers crossed for you.
And finally – it will be great to see you at the going away part (Owen and I will set out on a journey from ‘the switch’ as the locals like to call it hehe).
Comment by Kate — August 10, 2008 @ 8:11 pm |
ka-bluey were awesome! i remember peddling all the way up to the corner shop on my bike and getting one for 20c when I was 8…
bugger about it hurting you though… evil ka-bluey!
Comment by ali — August 10, 2008 @ 8:16 pm |
I was goign to write an entirepost about RSVP’ing recently. It pisses me off! Even in this day and age it’s so hard for people to bang out a quick SMS to say “Sorry, I’m waiting for something more exciting to come along before I give you an answer to your invitation.”
Boo.
Good luck finding a lady date for Besties wedding.
Do you know Im coming to Brisbane in a few weeks and I think I’m going to just miss you.
Comment by Beckie — August 11, 2008 @ 10:38 am |
Orchid64, thanks so much for the link. That is all really useful advice and I’ve been reading your archives as well, very helpful!!
Kate, yah it’s a little bit insane at the moment, but hopefully after September it should be alright. I am so looking forward to seeing you, it’s been FOREVER!!
Ali, LOL, they are fun and it’s still exciting to have a blue mouth…unless you are a sensible adult then it’s probably annoying, but I thought it was cool.
Beckie, I totally agree about the RSVPs. I thinking thinking the lady date is a no go, but that’s ok. Let me know your Bris dates, I’m not going to be gone for too long??
Comment by D'Jen — August 11, 2008 @ 8:22 pm |