Oh man, today. It was a good day, but it was unusual, which takes energy, and what takes even more energy, whether we focus on it or not, is the fact that we'll be babysitting again tomorrow. Last time, the children arrived half an hour earlier than we expected them, so this time we asked the mother what time they would be showing up, and she ( Read more... )

I started writing this thing about why society is easier for extroverts, but I'm multitasking, so I'm having a difficult time putting my thoughts together. The bottom line is yeah, extroverts have an easier time networking, making friends, blah, blah, blah, but that doesn't make them better than everyone else, and (more importantly) it doesn't ( Read more... )

The baby shower was pretty much what we expected it to be--long stints of boredom interrupted by the occasional conversation. But since we expected it, we were able to maintain a decent attitude about it, and after it ended, our friend discovered we needed to go grocery shopping and somehow invisibly insisted on taking us. So we got to spend some ( Read more... )

We have come to a snag in our Kinokuniya special ordering process. Actually, we got the email on Saturday, but we had other things to talk about on Sunday, so we didn't. And I think we got the email before our phoned-in post on Saturday, so I guess at the time I just didn't want to think of it, to the point where I blocked it out of my mind. But ( Read more... )

Today has not been the best of days. On the bright side, it has also been far from the worst of days. Mostly, it started out with an email from CD Japan, telling us that two CDs were canceled from our order. That was a bummer, because we were really looking forward to having all the Labyrinth of Grimm character songs. Siiiiigh ( Read more... )

Man, I keep remembering things we need to take care of and haven't yet because there's sooooooo much going on right now. We're gradually getting it all taken care of ( Read more... )

The Costa Mesa Kinokuniya is officially my favorite. Our new manga came yesterday, and the package was wrapped in adorable Kinokuniya bear wrapping paper. Of course, it was probably wrapped like that because the box was recycled, but recycling is awesome, too. Actually, we always get recycled boxes from Kinokuniya. One time we got one that used ( Read more... )

I wasn't sure what I was going to talk about today, but about ten minutes ago we got a phone call. It was the Costa Mesa Kinokuniya. The lady calling said that the copy they had of one of the books we ordered had a bent cover, so would we be willing to wait while the Los Angeles store shipped them a copy without a bent cover. Wow! What amazing ( Read more... )

I was all ready to post about how it's just mildly annoying that the UPS guy comes so late, because it'll be forever before we know if Kinokuniya sent our package two days ago and they didn't send us shipping confirmation, but the guy came about ten minutes ago! Whee! Or maybe it's actually more like fifteen or twenty minutes now, but that doesn' ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a looooong day. Remember how I was like, "Oh well, it's better than waking up at four"? You guessed it! Mom called after that and said we'd have to get up at four. Oy.

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