Just A Shimokita Old Lady Day

So lately I've been on a long journey of sick, it seems. I caught a really bad cold and lost my voice for a while, it lasted ages, and finally I was back to normal and the vertigo hit me. Hard, too, I was barely able to work half this week. Then right at the end of the week, when it seems I'm getting better, here comes another cold. もういいわ!! D:

Needless to say, I've been doing nothing but laying as still as possible and pretending I'm an old person recently.

I did however, stumble out into the world today in search of a shower curtain and in light of my joy at spending money, I drew a postcard about it... Dun dun duuuuun!

Shimokita Baachan Day 6/7

I got the idea from a book I stumbled upon in the ladies magazines.

Cherry Coke bottle 2 by Outa Uni

It's the second half of a collection of columns drawn for Zipper magazine (bottle 1 wasn't in the store). It's super cute, though, and as the band says, a Shopping Diary, where she drew items, outfits, and coordinates etc related to fashion and her shopping adventures. There are lots of notes and cute little sidebars about failing the diet, etc. It's really adorable and super entertaining.

Random page

I love stuff like this, where I can just stare at it for hours and soak in every little detail. Anyway, I recommend it to anyone who likes things like that. Also, not so expensive, only about ￥1300. :)

Anyway, as the postcard drawing says, I couldn't find a shower curtain I liked, but I finally got a bath mat!

Cuuuuute.

The plan is to have flowers on everything in the bathroom including some fake flowers. I want it to be like a tiny garden with a cat in the middle when you open the door. Because I'm ridiculous and this is where lying as still as possible in one position all week has put my priorities.

Anyway, that's all from me. Happy June!

A Sense of Beauty

It's getting so hot in Osaka these days! 

Today I went to do filming for some lesson videos for my company. I really enjoy being over-dramatic about things (something I'm sure probably annoys people around me), and I have a pretty good short-term memory for memorizings such short scripts, so it's kind of fun, but at the same time super tiring. 

And I wore heels all day, which I haven't done in forever, because I think my Primark flats have seen their final days. After that rainy walk home the other day, I feel like to wear them anymore would be ダサい.

Needless to say, I'm enjoying a quiet evening at home now.

From the 8月号 SHOXX I picked up yesterday. I essentially bought it for these few pages and the An Cafe ridiculosity that follows a few pages after. Sometimes I positively want to pet Miku like a cat BUT ANYWAY.

He looks super weird in these photos. Very good of course, but these is indeed a weirdness to it. Probably something to do with the fish-eye lense or photoshop or whatnot. They're glamorous for sure though. That guy is so glamorous.

Just read a small portion so far, but I am so far relieved to see the reasoning for releasing a new album soon isn't for some scary suspension in activities or something. I mean, I didn't think so realistically what with HETERODOXY, and then GROAN OF DIPLOSOMIA I and II coming up immediately after the release, but I feel like there was some dark shadow in my mind there wondering about it, what with the trend of other bands lately. AHEM. And then of course, you had to wonder what in Jiminy Cricket's name that title was about on top of that.

In the end, I am relieved to hear you are all a bunch of ridiculous busy bodies, even if that's probably not good for you at all. It's good for me, and I need more of you. <3

Please don't judge me. I know I'm like fourteen and I don't fuckin' care, kay? :D

Just some things I picked up in Shinsaibashi on my way back from work today. I had to disembark in Namba anyway, and my journey for shoes lead me where all of my non-Umeda journies lead me.

1. Phantasmagoria 「CRYSTAL FINALE」2007.8.27 @ SHIBUYA-AX
2. LUNA SEA 「STYLE」 (Listening to this right now, haha)

The fact that I only paid 1270￥ all together made me very happy. I almost picked up the long promotion clip compilation DVD, too, but resisted. I'm not supposed to be spending money at all, esp. with going to Tokyo in two weeks and HETERODOXY this month and 2NE1 tickets and insurance back pay. I've told myself I'm not going to buy out all the goods this time, but I don't think I'm fooling anyone. Why the fuck did I buy this Be@r Brick?


But the real win here was my shoe find!

WIN. I WIN THE SHOE GAME. They're tall, but not too tall, and wedges, which means I can actually walk in them without health insurance, which I need to get anyway, and were super freaking discounted and the last pair. And not in the way that they tell you they're the last pair to make you buy them, but in the way the shop girl apologized like four times for having to give them to me off the floor. wtf do I care?

Anyway, that's all for now, I'm back to my magazine and catching up on the most recent episode of TRUE BLOOD. And I think it's too late to eat dinner now, isn't it? 

That's money, honey

Good evening! ミ☆  It's been such a long time since my last update I feel super ashamed-- especially since it seems like I died at a GazettE concert, haha. But anyways, I have actually been deliberating on how to start updating for a while now. It's not that I don't have anything to update about, but rather that I have too much and I don't know where or how to begin.

So I decided that maybe the best way would just be to start from the most current and fill in the gaps! So that's my plan! Hopefully that means lots of updates here in the future. ♥

So yesterday I had a lovely date with my dear Jiroko in Shinsaibashi! We don't get to hang out just the two of us very often, so we kind of jumped on the chance to have a rare day together for donuts and shoes.

My code!

A little hard to see because my mirror's a bit dusty... eheheh! The weather's been super nice and springy recently, though, so I went in some tights, denim shorts (that you cannot see, lol), a loose, thin H&M shirt, and my netted grey Forever21 cardigan. And it's finally flats weather, so of course I broke those out quick. ♥

We met in the afternoon and went to have lunch at a Korean restaraunt in the OPA where we had some  delicious bibimbap!

It was great and I ate every single bit, despite the diet, so ha!

After that we moved on to the main shopping street in Shinsaibashi, where we wandered through shoes stores only to find failure. There were lots of lovely discounted underwear, but alas, having already bought two sets since I was last paid, I turned down a pair of sexy pink and black striped aimer feel lingerie. I mean, you can only wear so much underwear at once, right? I may go back for them after the next pay check, though, tbh. D:

Purikura with my lovely! I cannot have enough!! ♥

Shopping was not completely lacking for me, of course. It rarely is, since I have a sort of out-of-control impulse buying problem (no really, I'm terrified of myself some times). We wandered into Cecil McBee eventually, and I can never escape that store without buying something. This time I just picked up two goodies I had been eyeing over a month ago and was shocked to see they still had.

This hat I loved the last time I was in there, and it really was too cheap to pass up, since they still had it (only ￥1,260!) And especially since I never got my cancan hat last year. :/

These rings were a set for 30% off, which wasn't a bad deal. The gold is kind of a pink gold, too, and a little feminine without being delicate. Delicate jewelry isn't really to my taste. I wanted a gold ring, though, since I have accumulated a few other gold accessories since last fall and still only have silver rings.

Anyway, after that we drifted through Franc Franc and sniffed all the smelly things and settled into the Krispy Kreme for caffeine and donuts. Because apparently all we really do is eat. :D

There was one last big purchase of the day, of course, and of course it had to be...

...Tada! 

We had a feeling it would be out the day before release, so we popped into Zeal Link where Jiroko very agilely snatched it from between two middle schoolers.

It made the day a little more ridiculous, you could say.

Ok, so I think Uruha may be the worst candidate for joining the mafia ever, but I significantly enjoy these pictures. This one in particular. Maybe it's the cane? The stole? The crazy quirk of those boots?

I feel like I'm in a Tarantino movie. 

And that was just a completely unexpected explosion of accessories. :/

Cutie Tohya from vistlip made it in this issue, too, I was surprised to see! After that incredibly disillusioning meet and greet in Shinjuku in 2009, vistlip lost a lot of it's lustre for me, but I will always remember Tohya as being a completely overwhelming ball of cute who tried to speak Swedish to me.

He double-hand waved at me until I had completely left the room, that doll. 

After all that, of course we had wine and pizza. Because all we do is eat. :D

It was surprisingly relaxing, despite our constant wanderings. A much needed Shinsaibashi date! ☆

And lately I have spent far too much money, mainly on GazettE tickets for the upcoming tour (I'm going to four shows) and it's worrying me. I need not to worry. Things will work out, right? They usually do.

Time for more Friends and then bed.

Good night!♥

Cut & Paste!

Today my mum was enforcing me to clean the computer room by coming up and pulling everything out in the floor and asking me what it was, so I've been sneezing up dust all day trying to get rid of stuff. I guess it was a good thing to do, though, since I found some old letters and stuff from Jiroko and Yen that I need to put somewhere special. <3

I preserve everything, jaja.

Among the stuff I found, were these old agendas from freshman and sophomore years of college, where I decorated the front with cut-paste collage art. Since it's one of my favorite things to do, I wanted to post them.

L: freshman year / R: sophomore year

At Waseda University for my junior year, I just used a Japanese planner from Loft, and this past year I just didn't plan anything, ja. XD

Girl was definitely a KERA cut out and the Japanese lady is probably from a Smithsonian brochure. And that was back where Shou (alice nine.) was still pretty, so NO REGRETS.

Another KERA cutout, definitely, but this from the Street Snaps I think. I lol to think some part-time karaoke uketsuke/biology student living in Nagoya was on the front of my planner for a year, but whatev. The little box photos are from an ad for a design college.


In addition to these, before them, when I lived in Japan in 2006-2007, I decorate this box from the Daiso to store my purikura in:

Some customary Ruki (the GazettE), An Cafe (Bou era), and pretty Shou, and another random street snap girl from KERA, though I'm pretty sure at least she's a shop staff.

I like the checkered sides. <3

It's now a collective memorandum of polaroids, Korean dvds, Gazette pass cases and...

An epic amount of unused Kitty-chan phone straps.

blogger award what

Rules: 

1) Say something about the person who gives you the award.

2) Write something about yourself and your aim with your blog.

3) Give the award to 9 bloggers you like! (don't forget to tell them!)

Got this from the wonderful miss wave! Thank you for being so sweet and reading my lulzy ramblings, though they stray into goofydom more often than naught. miss wave has been my friend since I somehow got my lulzy, gothy self stuck in university 4 years ago. When I saw her in my Japanese class, I never thought she'd be become one of my best friends. But we've had so many good times, I'm so glad she did! She's stylish, ambitious and bubbling with personality, and I only hope one day I can catch up with her blazing trail of awesome.

My aim with this blog was like a lot of the gal-bloggers on blogspot right now, I think. I started following gyaru fashion blogs during my study abroad and thought I'd give it a shot myself. Only, unlike the people I follow, I can't teach anything about gyaru fashion or trends, as I don't know enough, myself, spending all my money on lives and band goods, while wearing holes in my shoes and stockings. And there are so many styles I like, I'm not sure which one is for me. So the idea here was that I would develop a style for myself, using this blog, but I've never been good with staying on topic... /tldr

Nine bloggers I like! This is hard, because I never talk to most people I follow, haha (I'M FUCKING SHY OKAY... and a li'l drunk). Also, it seems most people I follow have already got this. But I'm gonna' list 'em anyway.

1) EЯI ♡ of ダイヤモンド★DЯEAM
Because her blog is glamorous and bright and full of cute things (from cats in the laundry to pretty nails)!

2) Jiroko of Going One's Own Sweet Way
Because she's funny and her life is awesome--or as her blog says, "at least I like to pretend it is". And hopefully she'll get a hint here and update more often.

3) Miss Caro-chan of F Yeah Lolita
Because she has a very witty, intelligent style of writing. Lots of humor, too. I'm not Lolita (with a dignified, capital L), of course, but I'm a fan of all kinds of styles, and if I were Lolita, she'd be my guru.

4) Natsu of ☆Egoist Life☆
Because she dresses cool like a rockstar, with great style, and she makes the most delicate, adorable cakes you've ever seen.

5) Jenny of sushi-cat.net
Because her blog is colorful, fun to read and updates frequently with cute photos and links to sites I get lost on for hours.

6) Rii of Utsukushii Gal
Because she always dresses cute and kind of rock, and posts lots of great photos.

7) Sara Mari of Moments Like Diamonds
Because of her gorgeous hair. And because she always dresses to the nines, writes interesting, picture-filled posts that keep me reading. And her One7Ways column, which is always so nice and well done.

8) Tori of Cherri Story
Because her pictures are great and she's a frequent updater, too. Lots of great posts here.

9) miss wave of hey there, dream chaser
I know you gave me this, but I don't care. YOU GET IT AGAIN. Hahaha

I will probably not tell most of those people ^ that I'm giving them this, because they already have it, but just for the sake of archiving... :D


And now back to our regularly scheduled programming.

I was gonna' post about Paris today, but I'll do it next time, for real.

I don't really have much to say now, but I do have some photos.

I got the July issue of Ray. Not a magazine I typically look at, but for some reason (maybe its the hot, Georgia summer) a lot of the outfits and clothes I'm seeing featured in it are really appealing to me.

Came with a cute fan by Apuweiser-riche.

Like this completely poupee girl set up? lol

So many cute clothes perfect for this ridiculous weather. 

I usually feel so out-of-place in color, though, haha.

Love. This. Hair.

And I generally am accepting of all kinds of styles. But something about men in these awkwardly-rolled pants... :/

But of course, anything is cute on Yusuke.

And what is the purpose of white-soled shoes?

I guess I'm just not this mature yet.