Mood:
happyNow Playing: "Ai Yori Aoshi" - anime rental from the shop downtown
(happy sigh) My Beloved Hubby is the greatest ! We visited the local comics shop this morning, and bought two new manga (Japanese comics) volumes, and rented three anime (Japanese animation) DVDs. I also found the adorable 'Goth' Hello Kitty keychain that Elphie's shown holding at the top of the main site's home page. It's so cute ! Normally, I don't like Hello Kitty much - the 'no mouth' thing kinda freaks me out, and she's so darn pink ! But this bad girl has a glittery black tutu, with gloves and lace-tie shoes to match, with an attitude-laden saucy bow. But what sold me were the tiny felt wings ! You can barely see them in the photo, but they're so cute !
From there, we travelled to a Japanese steak house he wanted to try, and we had the most delicious lunch ! We had sushi for the first time - and it's OK, but I preferred my beef teriyaki bento box. I just had a California roll, something most gaijin like, but Hubby had a cucumber roll as well. The presentation was beautiful. Almost hated to eat it, but it smelled wonderful. We also had miso soup, with tofu, onions, and seaweed, something else new. It tasted a lot like chicken soup to me, but not quite. Very tasty.
It was amazing how full you got from eating so little. I don't normally like seaweed or cucumbers, but happily found myself eating both, especially with a little ginger. Wow, is ginger spicy ! My previous experience with it was ginger snap cookies ! I didn't go near the wasabi, as I hate things like horseradish. But sushi isn't bad at all...still, I enjoyed my teriyaki more. Found another sushi place, so we may be going there soon.
Came home and watched our anime DVDs. We'd been reading Ai Yori Aoshi - translated, of course - but I saw a clip of it on YouTube.com yesterday. Had no idea it'd been animated. It really is beautiful. With so much focus on 'battling trading card' kid shows, I'd about forgotten that there is more adult-themed animation out there. AYA is far from x-rated (it's not even R, save for some airbrushed nudity, much like a nude Barbie in appearance), but it's not a kids' show. It's more of a relationship series. And it's very sweet.
Found two pair of old doll shoes in a yard sale this morning. Took a chance - hey, for 50c, why not ? - and they fit the Disney Princess dolls perfectly. I think they were made for porcelain dolls, but it's not like that matters now ! The comic shop also had some Hello Kitty sneaker keychains that would probably fit Crissy - high-tops with cool patterns - but it'd be $14. for a pair of 'em. Kinda expensive...maybe later.
I've about cleaned out our local Dollar Tree's supply of those tiny brads - you can see 'em in use in Leia's latest outfit, on the Barbie page - so I hit the one in the next town. Theirs hadn't sold at all, so I bought out all the black ones they had, scored two more packages of white and one silver. That should do me for quite some time ! Beloved Hubby told me what I'd need to do to custom-paint 'em for special outfits, so I think I'm all set !
Right now, we're in the middle of a rainstorm. And it's nearly Dearest Son's bedtime, he had such a great day with Granny and Grand-dad. I'm pretty tired m'self, and I didn't do much. Hope your day was fun, too !
