Today I finally got the rice cooker of my dreams. It's a 10 cup Zojirushi Neuro Fuzzy rice cooker, and yes, I love the name :) It has settings for different types of rice and different styles of cooking, plays "twinkle, twinkle little star" when you push the "cook" button, and has both a "keep warm" and an "extended keep warm" function. But the ( Read more... )

Back from yoga class, and saw jkyllo off in the Shuttle Express for his latest business trip. It's going to be a packed few weeks now! We have two appointments this week (wedding related, of course), and countless decisions to make, but jkyllo won't be home until about 1 AM on Thursday, so I have to do most of the groundwork myself. But I guess that _is_ my ( Read more... )

We had such a fabulous weekend! On Saturday, we took a great day trip to Bainbridge Island- we bused downtown to have brunch at the Crumpet Shop and then decided on a whim to walk on the Bainbridge ferry, since it was so lovely and sunny. We walked from the terminal on Bainbridge into town and had dinner at my favorite sushi place :) Yum, it was ( Read more... )

It has come to my attention that I may not have officially announced our wedding date. I have mentioned it to people, but I want to note it here so that everyone knows for sure :) It is:

July 29, 2006, a Saturday. So now you know!

Just thought I would fill everyone in on a fairly busy weekend :)

On Saturday, jkyllo and I went shopping at PaperZone with Dave and Suzanne (his cousin and his cousin's wife), and bought pretty much all of our invitation-making supplies. Suzanne came up with the design for the invitations, and I think they are going to be very cool :) We may get ( Read more... )

The user pic for this entry is a chibi Princess Serenity figure I got a long time ago. I am looking either for a Tuxedo Mask to match it, or a blond male anime character of the same style. I would love to borrow/buy it from you for the wedding (can you guess what for? tee hee). I haven't had any luck so far on ebay, but I welcome advice on ( Read more... )

I've finally got a program that makes it easier to resize photos (iPhoto and I DO NOT get along), so I'm adding user pics to match tags and just for fun. The one I'm using for this post is what I will try to use for all my wedding posts, so you can ignore those if you want to. It's a picture of an antique Japanese doll "cake topper" that my mom ( Read more... )

I BOUGHT A WEDDING DRESS!! I'm not sure right now if I'm excited or scared. It's really pretty and was WAY more than I would have paid. My mom bought it for me, which surprised the heck out of me. Since I right now have no money, let alone the price of a wedding dress, I would have left it behind if I had been on my own. We were at a bridal ( Read more... )

I'm feeling victorious for once. I actually have an appointment with a wedding photographer!! We have a friend who is a photographer, and when we asked for recommendations, he gave us _one_ name. I have a feeling we won't be able to afford her, but I at least want to try. After our meeting, I will look at other people if necessary. Most of you ( Read more... )

I'm updating!! It's been a crazy time recently, so I just wanted to prove that I'm alive. I have a gross but not too severe cold, so I'm fuzzy headed. I'm also exhausted due to not sleeping while J. was in Japan, plus the cold, plus the 51 hours I worked last week (a big deal, seeing as how I usually work 32). _That_ was a fun paycheck to cash ( Read more... )