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Twas the Day Before Christmas
...and Deanna wandered into the middle of fucking nowhere to track down the Fighters' minor-league stadium. Photopost on Marinerds. No, really, Kamagaya is full of trees and fields and such. Sadly I couldn't actually sneak onto the field AND my little Canon powershoot camera was giving me weird "E18" errors and not focusing half the time, but whatever, I guess you could call today a hiking expedition since I did pretty much walk several miles through tree fields and up and down hills into the middle of rural nowhere in Chiba Prefecture. Whee.
Afterwards I stopped in Ikebukuro for a bit to get dinner and to try to get West Side Story tickets. I succeeded at the former and failed at the latter. Whoops.
Came home, went to the laundromat, did some serious laundry, including all of my blankets and sheets too. OH! And on the way home I stopped in Ito Yokado and bought a chair. It's just a 1400-yen folding chair but it's better than sitting on the floor and I hope it'll help my back. I saw a desk I was considering getting for like 4000 yen, too, but there was no way I could carry it back on my bicycle, unlike the chair, so I held off for now.
SMAPxSMAP featured Sennichi Hoshino as a guest. That fucking ruled. The best part was that the members of SMAP actually seemed to be really giddy about HIM rather than the other way around (usually people are kinda like "holy crap! I'm on the SMAP show!" but instead they were all like "oh my GOD we're talking to Hoshino!!!") and were asking him things like "why didn't you put in Fujikawa instead of Iwase?" and "Why did you do the squeeze play with the bases loaded and no outs?" and such. Also the food on Bistro SMAP was supposed to be "Christmas Pasta and dessert" -- and Kimutaku and Shingo made this awesome dessert with a tree of baseball cakes and a ringed pastry, all in the Team Japan logo. Really cool. Oh yeah, and Will Smith was also on the show for a bit at the beginning masquerading as Nakai, and was even speaking Japanese! (Though in an outtake later he was like "OH MY GOD I WAS TERRIFIED I WAS GOING TO SCREW UP THE LINES".) Then at the end the group sang a Christmas medley and had opera singer Akikawa Masafumi as a guest singer, which was great, he made even the best SMAP singers sound like crap.
Oh, yeah, so in Funabashi they had this ongoing Christmas Live concert going on outside the station. When I was on my way to Kamagaya, the singers were these two guys, one dressed as Rudolph and one as Santa, and they were singing Christmas songs in Japanese. After their set, the Santa guy got out a sack -- and I figured he was going to ask the crowd for money -- but NO, it was full of little presents and he gave them to all the kids there. So cute. On the way back the music act was a lady singing Christmas songs in English. She had a beautiful voice but LOUSY English, which was sort of weird.
So, it's Christmas and I have to go to a full days' work. Yeehaw.
Afterwards I stopped in Ikebukuro for a bit to get dinner and to try to get West Side Story tickets. I succeeded at the former and failed at the latter. Whoops.
Came home, went to the laundromat, did some serious laundry, including all of my blankets and sheets too. OH! And on the way home I stopped in Ito Yokado and bought a chair. It's just a 1400-yen folding chair but it's better than sitting on the floor and I hope it'll help my back. I saw a desk I was considering getting for like 4000 yen, too, but there was no way I could carry it back on my bicycle, unlike the chair, so I held off for now.
SMAPxSMAP featured Sennichi Hoshino as a guest. That fucking ruled. The best part was that the members of SMAP actually seemed to be really giddy about HIM rather than the other way around (usually people are kinda like "holy crap! I'm on the SMAP show!" but instead they were all like "oh my GOD we're talking to Hoshino!!!") and were asking him things like "why didn't you put in Fujikawa instead of Iwase?" and "Why did you do the squeeze play with the bases loaded and no outs?" and such. Also the food on Bistro SMAP was supposed to be "Christmas Pasta and dessert" -- and Kimutaku and Shingo made this awesome dessert with a tree of baseball cakes and a ringed pastry, all in the Team Japan logo. Really cool. Oh yeah, and Will Smith was also on the show for a bit at the beginning masquerading as Nakai, and was even speaking Japanese! (Though in an outtake later he was like "OH MY GOD I WAS TERRIFIED I WAS GOING TO SCREW UP THE LINES".) Then at the end the group sang a Christmas medley and had opera singer Akikawa Masafumi as a guest singer, which was great, he made even the best SMAP singers sound like crap.
Oh, yeah, so in Funabashi they had this ongoing Christmas Live concert going on outside the station. When I was on my way to Kamagaya, the singers were these two guys, one dressed as Rudolph and one as Santa, and they were singing Christmas songs in Japanese. After their set, the Santa guy got out a sack -- and I figured he was going to ask the crowd for money -- but NO, it was full of little presents and he gave them to all the kids there. So cute. On the way back the music act was a lady singing Christmas songs in English. She had a beautiful voice but LOUSY English, which was sort of weird.
So, it's Christmas and I have to go to a full days' work. Yeehaw.
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Not sure if you remember me though ;-; its been a few years since you last saw me in seattle.
Its Josh :)
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