It's gonna snow!
Wish I had a good way to evaluate my ankle. Monday I could barely put weight on it; today I was able to run across the street to catch a bus without any pain, and it doesn't hurt at all now. Whee.
Last night I was going to go lift weights after work, but when I realized I couldn't really stand on my left leg at all -- after stopping at Best Buy, which is near the gym -- I came home and called Carl and made him come over so we could finish watching Lunch Queen. It had both a great and disappointing ending all at once. Something weird is that I've now watched six full doramas with Misaki Ito in them... and only in ONE does she actually end up paired with a guy who's actually her age or older (You're Under Arrest, where she gets paired with an older cop). It's probably because she's exactly the same age as me -- she's 19 days younger -- that I actually notice the age differences. Anyway, this is my way of skirting around actually saying anything about the plot since commenting on the episode at all would invoke spoilers. Also, Tsurumai station is in Nagoya... I wonder if they were supposed to actually show a station name in the background in that one scene.
Tonight I went to dinner with Zach at Chinook's to chat about house stuff. Now that he's back from India, the dogs are back too. And they smell good! And they're wearing bandanas! It's pretty amazing how nice the dogs smell and how soft their fur feels after they've been properly bathed and groomed. I mean, I actually let Watson get near me, and usually I kick him away like "Eww, smelly dumbbutt puppy, go away!"
It's really cold out -- and supposed to snow tonight. Wowie. I went to the supermarket around 11pm, and my car was iced over and I had to wait for it to heat up to get the ice off the windows. Well, I brought my work laptop home with me, so if Seattle freezes over tomorrow, as long as we have power and internet here, I should be fine. Though I was looking forward to dragging Chris and George with me to volleyball, and the gym tends to close early if the weather really sucks. Oh well, we'll see.
At Safeway while I was looking for stuff, and heading towards the register, I heard over the loudspeaker, where you'd usually hear things like "inventory needed on Aisle 6" or "price check at register 2" or whatever -- "Angie, can I go home now?" echoing through the store. Which seemed funny, until I got up to the register -- the only open register -- and the guy's like "hi, how are you doing?" or whatever and I realized he was the "Can I go home now?" voice, so I said "better than you, it sounds like," and he was saying how he'd been there for like 8 hours with no lunch break AND there was no other cashier scheduled to take over for him for another hour -- and this is the 24-hour Safeway in Ballard. I felt kind of bad. He said, "If it starts snowing, I'm just going to quit my job and go home." I wonder if he was kidding.
I'm watching/listening to the 57th Kouhaku (the 2007 New Year's Eve live music festival) in the background while doing other stuff. I blame![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kawaru. It's pretty good, nobody had told me it was hosted by Nakama Yukie and Nakai Masahiro, they're awesome. It's a nice mix of music, honestly, lots of great stuff, anything from pop to rap to rock to oldies to enka. If I ever buy an enka album I'll have to kill myself, but over the last few years I've had to admit I don't hate it all. (I almost like Hikawa Kiyoshi.) Also, it should probably scare me how many of the people I'm familiar with in the program, considering how few current American TV people I recognize these days. Then again, I don't have to study English, goddamnit.
Last night I was going to go lift weights after work, but when I realized I couldn't really stand on my left leg at all -- after stopping at Best Buy, which is near the gym -- I came home and called Carl and made him come over so we could finish watching Lunch Queen. It had both a great and disappointing ending all at once. Something weird is that I've now watched six full doramas with Misaki Ito in them... and only in ONE does she actually end up paired with a guy who's actually her age or older (You're Under Arrest, where she gets paired with an older cop). It's probably because she's exactly the same age as me -- she's 19 days younger -- that I actually notice the age differences. Anyway, this is my way of skirting around actually saying anything about the plot since commenting on the episode at all would invoke spoilers. Also, Tsurumai station is in Nagoya... I wonder if they were supposed to actually show a station name in the background in that one scene.
Tonight I went to dinner with Zach at Chinook's to chat about house stuff. Now that he's back from India, the dogs are back too. And they smell good! And they're wearing bandanas! It's pretty amazing how nice the dogs smell and how soft their fur feels after they've been properly bathed and groomed. I mean, I actually let Watson get near me, and usually I kick him away like "Eww, smelly dumbbutt puppy, go away!"
It's really cold out -- and supposed to snow tonight. Wowie. I went to the supermarket around 11pm, and my car was iced over and I had to wait for it to heat up to get the ice off the windows. Well, I brought my work laptop home with me, so if Seattle freezes over tomorrow, as long as we have power and internet here, I should be fine. Though I was looking forward to dragging Chris and George with me to volleyball, and the gym tends to close early if the weather really sucks. Oh well, we'll see.
At Safeway while I was looking for stuff, and heading towards the register, I heard over the loudspeaker, where you'd usually hear things like "inventory needed on Aisle 6" or "price check at register 2" or whatever -- "Angie, can I go home now?" echoing through the store. Which seemed funny, until I got up to the register -- the only open register -- and the guy's like "hi, how are you doing?" or whatever and I realized he was the "Can I go home now?" voice, so I said "better than you, it sounds like," and he was saying how he'd been there for like 8 hours with no lunch break AND there was no other cashier scheduled to take over for him for another hour -- and this is the 24-hour Safeway in Ballard. I felt kind of bad. He said, "If it starts snowing, I'm just going to quit my job and go home." I wonder if he was kidding.
I'm watching/listening to the 57th Kouhaku (the 2007 New Year's Eve live music festival) in the background while doing other stuff. I blame
kawaru. It's pretty good, nobody had told me it was hosted by Nakama Yukie and Nakai Masahiro, they're awesome. It's a nice mix of music, honestly, lots of great stuff, anything from pop to rap to rock to oldies to enka. If I ever buy an enka album I'll have to kill myself, but over the last few years I've had to admit I don't hate it all. (I almost like Hikawa Kiyoshi.) Also, it should probably scare me how many of the people I'm familiar with in the program, considering how few current American TV people I recognize these days. Then again, I don't have to study English, goddamnit.
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