Kaiten Sushi
Hello! So last night was much tamer than the previous two. No Year End parties to attend (which was kind of a relief). As you can imagine, Casey and I slept in yesterday and were slow to get around. He called me shortly after he had gotten to work and asked if I could get ready and meet him at the train station so we could go to the immigration office to take care of a few things. We met up only to find out that they would be closed until January 3rd. So, Casey and I decided to go and get conveyor belt sushi at the place we have been to a few times. It is really good food (although a tad expensive) but it is also awkward sometimes because the chefs know us now, and they always watch us eat and wait for our reaction. (I have had to put my game face on a few times when they made me sushi that I was afraid to eat, and yesterday was no exception.) Luckily, the sushi they made for us was really good... but one of them looked and smelled like cat food so I just plastered a smile on my face and took one for the team. It was really good tuna, just in a different form than I had eaten it before. I was happy that I was able to eat it without any problems and it was nice to honestly tell the chef that it tasted good.
Yesterday I did what seemed to be endless loads of laundry, and I ended up running out of fabric softener. This is a no-no here, because if you don't use that, your clothes are basically like sandpaper. Sometimes my jeans are so stiff that I can walk out of them and they don't move very much, which is kind of frightening. Anyhow, I ran down the street to Konan (sort of like a Japanese-style K-Mart with a little more class) and realized that they were having a bunch of Year End sales. I had to weave my way through the crowds and grab a few things I needed, but then I saw a few things I didn't really need and got tempted to spend more money. For once, though, I was good and left the place without extra stuff. (We went back later that night and bought a ceramic cooking dish for making stews and other meals, and got it for ~$12! They usually run around $50 so it was quite a good deal!). Case and I were pretty excited about that.
Then last night we went to dinner with Hara-san to another conveyor belt sushi place (he didn't know we went to a similar place for lunch, and we didn't have the heart to tell him...) but this place was ~$1/plate (where the cheapest plate at the other place is around $1.30) so we stuffed ourselves on even more sushi. The place was really fun- it had 2 conveyor belts running at the same time, with two different sides, and the food was continuously coming around and you had to grab it pretty quick before it would go flying by. The picture only really shows half of one of the belts, but the menu on the upper right should give you a pretty good idea of what all was there.
After dinner, Casey and I came home and watched Dead Poets Society. I like that movie more every time I watch it. It is definitely in my top 5. I love that Robin Williams is able to play so many different roles and do them so well... he may be a little nutty at times, but I swear he's a genius on so many levels, and it really comes out in the characters he plays. Okay, so One Hour Photo was a little on the psycho side, but if you think about it, he did a really good job playing a psycho guy, too... so the man has talent. Anyway, if you have never seen DPS, I highly recommend it!!
Finally, in my normal 'random picture' moment of the blog, I wanted to share this photo of one of the dogs at the pet store down the street- who definitely has some kind of issue with its tongue. I started laughing really hard when I saw this and had to stop on my way to Konan to get a picture. It was funny enough that another lady that was looking at the puppies in the window came over and started laughing at it, too. It really just looks like it's saying, "Duh, what are you looking at, George?" And the little companion dog was busy chewing on the window pane, which I got a funny picture of as well (but I will spare you the multiple pictures this time). :)
-Ashley
Yesterday I did what seemed to be endless loads of laundry, and I ended up running out of fabric softener. This is a no-no here, because if you don't use that, your clothes are basically like sandpaper. Sometimes my jeans are so stiff that I can walk out of them and they don't move very much, which is kind of frightening. Anyhow, I ran down the street to Konan (sort of like a Japanese-style K-Mart with a little more class) and realized that they were having a bunch of Year End sales. I had to weave my way through the crowds and grab a few things I needed, but then I saw a few things I didn't really need and got tempted to spend more money. For once, though, I was good and left the place without extra stuff. (We went back later that night and bought a ceramic cooking dish for making stews and other meals, and got it for ~$12! They usually run around $50 so it was quite a good deal!). Case and I were pretty excited about that.
Then last night we went to dinner with Hara-san to another conveyor belt sushi place (he didn't know we went to a similar place for lunch, and we didn't have the heart to tell him...) but this place was ~$1/plate (where the cheapest plate at the other place is around $1.30) so we stuffed ourselves on even more sushi. The place was really fun- it had 2 conveyor belts running at the same time, with two different sides, and the food was continuously coming around and you had to grab it pretty quick before it would go flying by. The picture only really shows half of one of the belts, but the menu on the upper right should give you a pretty good idea of what all was there.After dinner, Casey and I came home and watched Dead Poets Society. I like that movie more every time I watch it. It is definitely in my top 5. I love that Robin Williams is able to play so many different roles and do them so well... he may be a little nutty at times, but I swear he's a genius on so many levels, and it really comes out in the characters he plays. Okay, so One Hour Photo was a little on the psycho side, but if you think about it, he did a really good job playing a psycho guy, too... so the man has talent. Anyway, if you have never seen DPS, I highly recommend it!!
Finally, in my normal 'random picture' moment of the blog, I wanted to share this photo of one of the dogs at the pet store down the street- who definitely has some kind of issue with its tongue. I started laughing really hard when I saw this and had to stop on my way to Konan to get a picture. It was funny enough that another lady that was looking at the puppies in the window came over and started laughing at it, too. It really just looks like it's saying, "Duh, what are you looking at, George?" And the little companion dog was busy chewing on the window pane, which I got a funny picture of as well (but I will spare you the multiple pictures this time). :)
-Ashley
posted by Ashley at 12/30/2005
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