So Trannytastic

Do you know I have had three, count 'em three tranny sightings in less than a month's time?? FULL ON trannies! I just had to make that point. I still haven't gotten sufficient pictures of any of them though. The pics are always from behind.

So my friend was visiting from California this past weekend. She left yesterday. It was SO nice having her here! If you join FACEBOOK then you'll get to see all of the pictures... sheesh. :) Anyway, it was hilarious because she ended up getting kinda lovey dovey with my other friend that I used to work with. It was HILARIOUS because if you were to just look at them, you would NOT think they'd be into one another. It was fun to watch though...

Hmm, what else. I had my happy hour at work on Friday. Again, pictures are on Facebook. Join it. Live it. Love it. That was fun too. I babysat a pina colada the entire time. It was good though! Well.... it wasn't so great after two hours of sitting, but you know what I mean.

Did I tell you I ordered The Curious Case of Benjamin Button via Netflix? I've had it for two weeks or so now. I can't make myself sit down and watch it! That movie is long as hell! Like two and a half hours!?

So I decided a week or so ago that I was going to try to swap my lease on my car to get out of making the payments all the way from Japan.... But the more I analyzed the situation, the more I realized that my car is essentially a piece of garbage that I would not want to shove onto anyone. The car is just poorly built. It's only two years old, yet I have had so many issues with it it's ridiculous. Plus, I have a year left on the car and I am ALREADY over my miles! Whoever took the car over would have hell to pay when it came time to turn it in. I did have one girl who was super interested in swapping the lease with me, and I even spoke to her on the phone a few times. We decided on a meeting day/time so she could see the car, and the whore never showed up. *shrugs* Whatever. I'll just be paying from Japan. It's not a big deal.

I FINALLY found a laptop! WOOO! I bought it today. I went with an Asus, which, I'll admit, I was feeling iffy about. I had honestly never even heard of the brand, but apparently it's a pretty solid choice. I ordered a red one. I'm excited! It should be at my house by next week!

So I have two more days of work, then I'm off to Arizona right after work on Friday... Man... Craziness. CRAZINESS! It's going to be hot as hell there! I'm soooo going to melt. I'm hoping my laptop won't come while I'm there, but it's scheduled to show up sometime between the 18th and the 23rd I think. I'm sure they'd make me sign for it. They won't leave it on the doorstep, right? That'd be dumb.

I bought a backpack the other day... Why am I so excited about the backpack?? I'm REALLY excited about it. It's nothing special (it's the pink and white one on the bottom right), but I just see myself carrying that thing with me on my little weekend excursions in Japan. I look at it and think, "yep, you and me are gonna have some fun and interesting times." It's like a new friend that I am excited to spend time with. Ha!

By Board of Education in Japan still has NOT contacted me. I'm really annoyed. I need to start shipping stuff this week and I dtill don't have an address, contract or anything. It's so unprofessional. Then I call my advisor and he tells me that my situation is unique because my small town is merging with the nearest larger city, so my contract is going to be new compared with past teachers in my town. I have mixed feelings about this. It would be nice to see the effing contract so I can see what it what....... Whatever, I just have to roll with it... *sigh*....

SO EFFING BEAUTIFUL!

OH MY GAWD. It's SO GORGEOUS outside today! It's a perfect, perfect summer day. It's 77 degrees, the sky is this brilliant blue and the clouds are all fluffy and white, slowly drifting by like sailboats in the ocean. And there's a very slight, warm wind blowing so the trees rustle and dance. Ahhhh. It's got me feeling all poetic and sh*t.

I took a two-hour lunch break because of this. My boss isn't here today.... Even if he was here I probably would still have taken it. I was driving down all the winding, suburban tree-covered roads with my windows down and Suga Shikao playing. It was wonderful. I love that little Japanese man's voice.

So as I was driving around, I was thinking about Japan and how I'm feeling now that the move is 26 days away. It's strange... I KNOW I am supposed to be excited, and I have moments where I am. But mostly, lately I'm feeling uncertain. Not in a bad or scared way.... I thought to myself, "I live in a very nice, mukade-free house with a comfy bed, my own room, none of which I pay legitimate rent for, my own car... the weather is so gorgeous today and everything looks brilliant.... what am I trading this all in for? I know what I am giving up, but what am I getting in return?"

I think this hovers over me a bit and makes my vision a little cloudy. I do not feel regret or anything dramatic like that for signing up for this. I just feel... uncertain! I think I need to be reminded of how awesome Japan is. I think I need to remember why I fell in love with it in the first place, and that I want to become fluent in the language and be a lonesome traveller across the country and see the amazing things. Maybe my thoughts are legitimate though? It would be foolish to go into this all happy-go-effing lucky without considering the potential set-backs.

I'm OK though. If anything, this is probably good. I don't want to be OVER excited and happy, because then as soon as something I don't like or weird happens, I'll be crushed. But at the same time, I don't want to be all negative and pessimistic either (because that's just not me anyway)! It's good to be middle ground with this, I think.

Meanwile, at the Tranny Bar... Sasuke and his band of merry (and by "merry" I mean gay) men went to the "cat ninja" to get matching outfits. Even before that, he called them his "dream team" and I almost hurled. Sasuke is lame. I'm losing respect for him with the turn of every page....Not that I ever respected him anyway... But he's lame with his team of missfits, complete with the trampy fangirl, snarky wingman and misunderstood giant (PS, the guy Sasuke was sitting on in that one picture must have been his brother). OK, well, actually, I don't mind the snarky wingman or the not-so-gentle giant, but the tramp is lame. Sasuke is like 17 and she HAS to be pushing 30. GROSS.*

So all of a sudden, Sasuke needs a whole TEAM to take down his brother??? WTF!? Itatchi kicked his ass all by himself! Now Sasuke comes back with two of "his boys" and one tramp? LAME. And I bet Itatchi will kick all of their asses. Then Sasuke will go and train with some other pedo creep ninja, get a team of TEN lamoids and guess what <.<.... >.>....<.<...... Itatchi will STILL kick their asses!

I don't see how you read all of these volumes in one sitting. I'm already starting to get tired of the repition: fight. conslusion of the fight. new problem. strategize. search for target. fight. conclusion of fight. new problem. strategize. search for target. fight. And when they dramtically introduce the new cell team.... It's ALWAYS A CONBINATION OF THE SAME PEOPLE. lol! There's no need for the dramatics.

*NOTE: Yes, I realize my saying this is hypocritical considering my past obsessions with very teenaged characters like Kyo, Ichigo and many others that I cannot even recal off the top of my head at this moment.

Ode to Drowning in a Sea of Teen Angst...

Check out the new Harry Potter movie posters!!!

I'm so stoked!!!! My inner 16-year-old girl is in complete hysterics!!!!

You can see all of the posters and some commentary on ew.com.