Japanese Dramas

So I was talking to Abbey the other day and she mentioned a show she's watching on TV over there in Japan called "Mei-chan no Shitsuji." With my mad internet skills, in case anyone wants to watch it... Here it is. Subbed in English with direct download and torrent links. The HD version is a .mp4 file that my computer can't handle. Not enough ram or something XD but the SD version is a .avi that plays just fine. It's the sort of show that's so cheesy and absurd that it's amusing. Don't worry Abbey, I'm sure with a bit more poking around I could manage to find the raw files for you without the subtitles.

It's snowing up!

Heheh, ok, not really. But it looks like it. The air drafts next to our new apartment are such that when we get the wind blowing it comes right down the hill next to our building and then gets blown straight up the side of it. So when it's snowing like it is today the flakes go up instead of down. Now if only they'd just stay up. The weather is actually pretty nasty today. OPM declared a two hour delay for Seth at work today, though we found out about that after he'd already gone to the metro and the trains were running late. Ah well. Just means he'll get to leave two hours early. Yay. I'm going to attempt something very scary tonight so it'll be good that he's home at a decent hour.

I'm going to be... cooking. Yes, that's right. Me in the kitchen with ingredients and trying to make something edible. We'll see. That's one of my goals for the new apartment. Our kitchen is a lot bigger and I want to try using it more. We have cupboards and counter space! It's a real kitchen instead of a kitchenette! Also to make such an endeavor possible, the grocery store next to our new place is sheer awesome. They do online orders and deliver right to your door! Deliver fee is $6-9 depending on how much you order (cheaper for a more expensive order, oddly enough). Considering grocery shopping and then hauling them in the building and up the elevator is among my least favorite chores, it's a real blessing. Not to mention this way I can actually buy everything I need instead of having to buy by what I can carry. And by ordering it all online it makes it a lot easier to plan meals and get all the ingredients at the best prices rather than searching the shelves for the one weird ingredient. So that arrived this morning. My only complaint? How on earth were they out of stock on corn starch? Ah well, spaghetti and meatballs it is tonight then instead of sweet and sour chicken.

Kat is such a weird snake. Or maybe he's normal and I just didn't realize how weird snakes really are. He loves to try to crawl up the side of his terrarium and get get right up to where he's pushing against the top before he starts to lose his balance and twists around to try to maintain it. Which just makes him lose it in a different direction and fall over. He'll also curl up around the thermometer/humidity gauge and then get distracted by something else and fall off. It's rather amusing though I do worry he's going to hurt himself one of these days.

Kat likes his driftwood chunk :)

Snake Bracelet!

Katamari!

Well we picked the little guy up today! :D And he's absolutely adorable. Friendly and curious too. He spent a good hour climbing all over his terrarium before settling down in his little rock house for a nap. Isn't he cuuuuuute? ^^

Home Sweet Home

Well we're in the new apartment! Yay. Nice and big place. It took us a good 14 hours and three trips in the moving truck and loading up the car to move all the big stuff over. Loooong day. How did we ever move cross country with all we owned in a pickup truck? Admittedly, the majority of our possessions seem to be books. 14 or so boxes of them. And not small boxes either. The big 20 gallon Tupperware tub type. Sorting through them is my job for tomorrow. We definitely need more bookshelves. Anywho. I got a new desk while we had the truck to move and got it all put together. Very spiffy. Much better than having it set up on a folding table. Along with my flat screen monitor Seth bought me last month to replace the ginormous honking CRT screen that weighted more than I do, I feel positively modern. ;) Love you guys! More and pictures once it's put to rights later.

Train

Here's a pic of the train I'm using the pattern for. Fabric choices for it are either going to a copper/brassy brown silk dupioni I've got a lovely swatch of or a nice chocolaty velvet lined in the previously mentioned dupioni. If I can get my hands on it. I'd really love to use the velvet since I think it would really look beautiful and I'd make the bodice of the velvet as well. But we'll see. It's not going to happen at $30/yard.