Wow, it's bad today
I'm having one of those days where I really, really, really miss Japan. All of it; the country itself, my friends, things I used to do and eat and places I'd go. Just all of it.
CAN'T WAIT TO GO BACK.
In other news, the House of Pain will most likely be launching this summer (provided I'm not laid off from work) since I'm finally getting off my ass and getting content done like never before! Except for the Digimon Season 1 Nitpicker's Guide, which I sort of sat down and completed 90% of in the span of a few months. Once I start Season 2 I know I'll be off on a roll, so I that's why I'm trying to get other stuff done first before I attempt that.
As anxious as I am about going to work tomorrow, it's a 3 day week and I turn 25 on Thursday. Today I had an epiphany about what to ask my parents for: http://www.brilliantstore.com/kitchen_appliances_tiger_jagb10u.html. (The one my mom and I found earlier online was on sale for $100, which is even better).
Oh my God I am so pumped. It's been so long since I've had a real rice cooker and this is one that I can use to steam vegetables, make kayu (ala Serrene), and--I've been wanting to do this since I got back from Japan--bake a cake. I trust Tiger as a brand since that's what I had when I lived at Sunflower, and as sad as I am that I didn't get the 5000 yen one Soyeong and I found at Bic Camera in January, this one's actually a nicer model. Plus it has a warmer that will keep rice good (according to several customer reviews) up to 36 hours, which means I can do my strategy of making five cups and eating it over the course of the next day and a half.
SO. PUMPED.
Edit: I'm glad that A Knight's Tale got a glowing review over at 10 Year Old Movies, because it's the film that made me like Heath Ledger before it was cool to (you know, circa 2008). While Ten Things I Hate About You has always been a guilty pleasure, right alongside things like Get Over It (I apparently have some sort of hipster gene that kicks in whenever Shakespeare is involved), A Knight's Tale is a movie I can actually be vocal about liking un-ironically. First of all, the cast is fantastic. Second, the script is hilarious, with clever literary allusions (Chaucer is a character...in fact this was my introduction to Paul Bettany) and the anachronistic elements are used perfectly. Third, thanks to said anachronisms, the soundtrack is pretty good (David Bowie and Queen? Yes, please! Even the Third Eye Blind song on there is catchy). Finally, it seems to be a movie starring real people, directed and acted by real people. There's no stupid pretension tacked on because it takes place in a past setting.
Also, this movie will always have a dear spot in my heart because it's the very first DVD I ever owned (in fact, the first DVD my family ever owned) because I got it one birthday in high school when all I wanted was a DVD player for my room. Man, I should've checked to see if that was at my parents' house today and brought it home with me.
CAN'T WAIT TO GO BACK.
In other news, the House of Pain will most likely be launching this summer (provided I'm not laid off from work) since I'm finally getting off my ass and getting content done like never before! Except for the Digimon Season 1 Nitpicker's Guide, which I sort of sat down and completed 90% of in the span of a few months. Once I start Season 2 I know I'll be off on a roll, so I that's why I'm trying to get other stuff done first before I attempt that.
As anxious as I am about going to work tomorrow, it's a 3 day week and I turn 25 on Thursday. Today I had an epiphany about what to ask my parents for: http://www.brilliantstore.com/kitchen_appliances_tiger_jagb10u.html. (The one my mom and I found earlier online was on sale for $100, which is even better).
Oh my God I am so pumped. It's been so long since I've had a real rice cooker and this is one that I can use to steam vegetables, make kayu (ala Serrene), and--I've been wanting to do this since I got back from Japan--bake a cake. I trust Tiger as a brand since that's what I had when I lived at Sunflower, and as sad as I am that I didn't get the 5000 yen one Soyeong and I found at Bic Camera in January, this one's actually a nicer model. Plus it has a warmer that will keep rice good (according to several customer reviews) up to 36 hours, which means I can do my strategy of making five cups and eating it over the course of the next day and a half.
SO. PUMPED.
Edit: I'm glad that A Knight's Tale got a glowing review over at 10 Year Old Movies, because it's the film that made me like Heath Ledger before it was cool to (you know, circa 2008). While Ten Things I Hate About You has always been a guilty pleasure, right alongside things like Get Over It (I apparently have some sort of hipster gene that kicks in whenever Shakespeare is involved), A Knight's Tale is a movie I can actually be vocal about liking un-ironically. First of all, the cast is fantastic. Second, the script is hilarious, with clever literary allusions (Chaucer is a character...in fact this was my introduction to Paul Bettany) and the anachronistic elements are used perfectly. Third, thanks to said anachronisms, the soundtrack is pretty good (David Bowie and Queen? Yes, please! Even the Third Eye Blind song on there is catchy). Finally, it seems to be a movie starring real people, directed and acted by real people. There's no stupid pretension tacked on because it takes place in a past setting.
Also, this movie will always have a dear spot in my heart because it's the very first DVD I ever owned (in fact, the first DVD my family ever owned) because I got it one birthday in high school when all I wanted was a DVD player for my room. Man, I should've checked to see if that was at my parents' house today and brought it home with me.