Yay!
I've been wished a happy birthday by many, and my grandma did not forget it this year (she has the last two years, I'm not sure why, haha)! She
almost did though, because she thought today was the 23rd.
I haven't done anything exciting yet, and...I'm actually....at work right now, till 930PM. *insert sad face here*
But, Bryan and I are going to a bar later (that seems so weird to say!). So that should be nice.
Well, since the 21st birthday is the day most people celebrate that they have reached legal drinking age, here is a story involving me, alcohol, and a pretty funny joke made by my お母さん, or my host mother in Japan:
At some point during the first day or two at my host families house, Okaa-san asked me if I drank. Since I wasn't of the US legal age and hadn't really drunk much alcohol at all before coming to Japan, I said "no."
The day before my group left to go back to the US, there was a going away party for us, with all of our host families and some students and a few other people from Utsunomiya. It was a lot of fun.
Anyway, they had some beer there, and a friend had some Jack Daniels, so I drank a bit of both. I think she (Okaa-san) said something about it, and I said something like, "Well, I only drink a little."
Later, back at the family house, one of her friends came over and brought this bag of nuts+spicy-ish cracker types things that I don't know the name of but I remember seeing them at a grocery store here in the US. Her friend mentioned that they were good with beer. Okaasan then says that I don't really drink, well, except for a little. Then she said,
"A little?" Her forefinger and thumb are held about an inch or so from each other.
"A little?" She uses her hands now to indicate "a little," which has now become 5 or so inches.
"A little?" Now her hands are about a foot apart.
That's probably one of those "you had to be there" or you have actually be speaking to me stories for it to be really funny, but I still think it's a good story to tell.
If I could have any drink right now, it would be this lovely thing:
(photo credits CNNGO)
It is a drink described as chocolate covered strawberries doused in alcohol. I don't know if you've noticed, but I like strawberries, and I like chocolate. The two of them together is wonderful. So this drink sounds pretty amazing! You can
read more about it on CNNGO here.
I'm not really a purse fiend, much less a
designer purse fiend (I'm not much one for owning a trillion shoes either; you can fit all the shoes I wear into a milk crate), but I like this Coach purse I saw through
this Fifi Lapin blog post:
I like this particular one because the leather looks like
chocolate mousse. Mmm, I could go for some chocolate mousse right now. Doesn't it look delicious!? Other than liking the outside of the bag, the inside is pretty nice too--the lining is a really pretty, soft, purple color. The only thing I don't really like about it is the huge brass details, but over all those still aren't that bad. You can check out the purse on
Coach's website here. I think the mahogany color is nice as well.
Oh, I have a new cellphone. It's just a Blackberry, so it's nothing super-special, but it's kind of cute now that I've been able to "accessorize" it. I even made my own little theme!
Let's see, coming up in future posts will be two book reviews, and this little one on songs that sounds ok at first but are actually a bit awkward once you register what the lyrics are.
So, thanks for bearing with me on my birthday! I think Bryan may have a small surprise for me planned, he said something about "getting to work" on something he didn't tell me about. Maybe I'll make a post birthday post as well!
<3