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.
I tried to embed "Aozora" by Suga Shikao to play with this blog post, but imeem is being so ridiculously WHACK that it's not working properly. Oh well. Go here to listen!
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Ahhh, I love days like that! When you can't help but just look around and be so amazed the beauty and perfection of everything.
ReplyDeleteI can see why you'd be a little iffy about the big move. Everything is so comfortable where you are. You're making a HUGE change, and change is always a little scary. But you've been looking for a change for almost the whole time I've known you, and it's about to happen in a big way! I think this will be really good for you. After the initial adjustment period and homesickness, I have no doubt you'll thrive there.
Dude. You do not want to get me started on the lameness of Sasuke and the BAness of Itachi. Remember how we were talking about how Naruto looks so weak and unsmooth next to Sasuke? That's how Sasuke looks next to Itachi. It's just like you said, he has to get all this lame backup, plus Orochimaru's power *gags*, all to try and beat Itachi, who uses nothing but his own power and skill. Weak.
ReplyDelete*mind drifts on Itachi's hotness....dreamy smile*
I think I was OK reading them all at once because I read them when I was in a "Naruto Mood". If I hadn't just sat and read them all when I was really into it, then it would have taken me forever. And I'm too anal to look at that pile of manga day after day knowing I could knock them out in a couple hours. lol!
It seriously is the same combination of characters over and over! And the same situations! But I think that goes for all shonen. Bleach follows the same annoying pattern. Honestly, it's the characters that keep me reading. Kakashi, Itachi, Shikamaru and some others. If it were just Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura, I would never have kept reading/watching it.
Love the song btw! Great choice for a relaxing drive on a beautiful day. I saw a blogspot blog the other day that had music! And it had a link to the "blog template" they'd used. But both were in Spanish, so it wasn't really helpful. Just frustrating.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the vote of confidence! You know what's hilarious about you? You're always on some old, "don't come to me for advice or encouragement because I am no good at that stuff," and yet, this is so not the case. :-)
ReplyDeleteI checked Borders.com and Kimi ni Todoke doesn't come out until August 4th. :-( I may send you some money so you can ship that and that smutty Black Angel or whatever it's called manga to me while I'm in Japan. INTERNATIONALLY SHIPPED SMUT! YESSS!
OK, quick, gross story. Last night, there's this HUGE spider in the garage. The thing is seriously the size of the palm of my hand. No joke. And you know how I am about things being near the f*cking door, right? If an insect is in the house, or near a doorway where it can eventually get INTO the house, I figure its fair game for me to eradicate it. Stay out of the house. Stay the f*ck away from the door. That's all I ask of bugs. So even though this monster is in the garage, it's still pretty close to the door, and I feel threatened! So I get the can of Raid and go to town...
I spray it once, the thing twitches a bit, starts to run, stops, gives birth to like 1,000 tiny baby spiders, then keeps running.....
It.... It was probably the most disturbing thing I've ever seen. And part of me feels bad because then I just panicked and went nuclear holocaust on the thing AND its babies and sprayed Raid until the can was almost empty! lol!! Honestly, if I'd known it was pregnant, I might not have killed it. But at the same time, all those effing baby spiders would have gotten into the house at some point, so I would have eventually killed them anyway!? lol! I'm not even one of those people who hates spiders. I think they are useful to the environment.... But I feel like I have to prepare myself to be tough on bugs, seeing as how I may have death matches with GIANT JAPANESE MUKADE in a few weeks... I must show no mercy. This is like training for me.
Dude, I never kill gigantic spiders for that EXACT reason. That happened to me when we were living in Florida (and you KNOW what those Florida spiders are like), I was probably around 12. I smacked that thing with my shoe and it literally exploded babies. I was paralyzed. I so completely horrified that I could not even move. By the time I regained enough sense to move, most of them had gotten away, making me horribly paranoid for about a week.
ReplyDeleteI have been going pretty strong with the "Ra-Ra you can do it!" lately haven't I?! lol! I think it's just on the subject of your move to Japan though. Don't expect this all the time.
ReplyDeleteI have no problems with providing your smut! It's a necessity too. I'll make it my duty to find you the best smut there is for each care package! Naughty Cha!
ReplyDeletelol! Naughty Cha! And eeeww! You said it "exploded babies"!! GROSS! Ugh, I dunno what's worse!? That's a nice lesson for me though as far as not killing huge pregnant spiders. Blegh.
ReplyDeleteI started reading Nana the other day, and i am just kind of slowly reading through it. I read a chapter or two and then put it down and go do other things... It's getting kind of... I dunno... Uneventful. I won't say "boring" because I still LOVE all the characters and the general story and situations, but I'm just not particularly excited about any of the current storylines. The whole "ZOMG Nana's mom is ALIVE" arc is like, meh. And I love Nobu and Shin, but Nobu isn't doing anything really and Shin is all heartbroken and depressed. It's just not super interesting right now. It'll probably pick up though.