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This is what it looks like.

I'm heading out for my birthday dinner with Shojiro and forcing him to take my picture on the train. He hates doing that. I love it!

THE refrigerator!!

Ta daaa...... Here it is!!! My new super-duper fancy fridge!! It makes me so happy. Now that I own such a large, shiny, family-size home appliance, I finally feel grown-up. Well, just a little. I still like jumping and that doesn't seem very grown-up like, now does it? Yay!!

And just because Carolyn Algie asked what it looked like inside and what all those drawers were for, you get to take a little peek inside. This is for YOU Carolyn.



The top is the regular fridge part. There are big
shelves in the door so it really holds a lot.









The two drawers under that are the ice drawer on the left (there's an automatic ice maker!!) and the deeeeeep freeze on the right. Apparently I can put hot stuff in there and freeze it really fast. Haven't tried it yet.





Next comes the vegetable drawer. It's deeeeeep!











The freezer is on the bottom. Can you see my ice trays that are shaped like fish? I also have stars. Cute, huh? Frozen fish ice cubes anyone?

Cool Cruiser in Koenji

This is the kind of bikes people ride in MY neighborhood. Whatcha think? I'm dying to see the owner ride it.

Argh.....

I ran into a pirate at the Koenji Awa Odori.

Of course, I got my pic with him.

Cat Cafe

You can pay by the hour to play with a bunch of cats, and I did!!! I paid 1000 yen (roughly $10) to hang out in a room full of cats for an hour. Along with buddying up with fluffy felines and taking their pictures, I also got one "free" drink.





Here's a "Neko Nabe." I guess it English it would be called a "Cat Pot" or maybe a "Pot of Cat".

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How do you like my new glasses?

Summer Vacation Lunch

I am officially on summer vacation now so I finally have time to cook and clean. Here's the lunch I whipped up today. I made up a chicken recipe that turned out pretty well. It was very garlicy, gingery, and cuminy with a some of Jay's homegrown carrots thrown in for color. I had tofu on the side, as you can see. But the best part of the whole meal was that I ate it on my NEW kitchen table!! Yay! Doesn't it look gorgeous?