Excitement & Anxiousness

Only a couple more days till vacation! I'm really excited since we'll be going to Kyuushu for the first time. I'll finally get to see Fukuoka! We'll also be going to Nagasaki & Hiroshima, so I'll get to visit the Peace Park & the Museum for the first time. I'm really looking forward to it! Also kind of looking forward to wandering around & getting lost in a whole new place again! At the same time I'm a little anxious BECAUSE we'll be getting lost in a whole new place! Actually, the thing that I'm worried about is making sure that we find our way to the hotels. The hotels in Fukuoka & Hiroshima shouldn't be a problem since they are right near the train stations, but from what I've seen from the research I've done, the hotel in Nagasaki is a little far from the train station so I'm going to have to figure out if we'll be able to ride the street car with our luggage, or if it might be better to splurge a little and ride the taxi instead. I hate having to figure all this stuff out, but my sister has absolutely no desire to figure the little details out and leaves that up to me, which is only fair since I make her figure out how to get to everywhere else while we're in Japan (I have absolutely NO sense of direction)! :P

I know I always tell people that they can come on the trips with us, but seriously though, I don't think most people would have fun traveling with me & my sister. We have absolutely no schedule of any kind. We decide the night before what tourist attraction we should see and figure out how to get there. However, we don't always get to where we're going since we end up making all kinds of detours and stops on the way! Sometimes we end up only staying at the place we were planning on going to for only a little while since we used up the rest of time going to other places! I think our main weakness is comic book stores and CD stores. Whenever we see one of these we always end up going inside. One of our goals is to visit as many Animate comic book stores in Japan. It may seem kind of silly to a lot of people, but it's our main reason for getting lost & finding a lot of other interesting things to look at. I wonder if Liss & Bmw still wanna go with me after reading how unorganized my sister & I are? ^^;

I still have some last minute shopping to do so I'll probably do it tomorrow when I do the grocery shopping and hopefully I won't forget anything this time. I always forget SOMETHING whenever I go traveling. I think last year I forgot to pack toothpaste. I remembered my toothbrush but forgot the toothpaste. I had to stop at the convenience store to pick some up. Otoshiyori da ne? ^^;

Well, hopefully I'll be able to make one last post before I go off on vacation. Until then ja ne! ^_^

Random Thoughts

I was watching "Yoshitsune" with my mom the other night, and I was trying to explain to her who all the different actors were. Kobayashi Nenji is in the drama & my mother always insists on calling him "Inspector Koba" in reference to his character from "Kasouken No Onna". I keep trying to teach her his real name, but she insists he's "Inspector Koba"!! I was thinking to myself that my mom is a total nutcase, but then as I thought a little more I realized I'm sort of like my mom! X0 I tend to recognize certain actors or actresses by the characters that they played that have impressed me the most. For example, everytime I see Okada Yoshinori I think of him as "Ucchi" from Kizarazu Cat's Eye. I'm not as bad as mom in that I DO know his real name, but I can't help but think of him as "Ucchi"! This is a bad habit that I need to break which means...I should watch more dramas and movies!!! *rofl* Seriously though, sometimes it's a bad thing to type cast the poor actors and actresses. The first time I saw Okada Yoshinori after seeing KCE was in "Double Score". The first thing I thought was "Ucchi is in this drama!", and I ended up being a little disappointed because his charcter was so "normal"!*hehe* Now it's not so bad since I've seen him in other things since then, but...it's a VERY BAD HABIT!!>.<

I finished watching tape 3 of Kamen Rider Hibiki over the weekend. I finally figured out why I'm not enjoying it quite as much as I should. Kamen Rider Blade has totally spoiled me! I think that so far KR Blade has been the best series. The storyline was interesting, all of the characters were interesting (including the bad guys!), the costumes were really cool, and there was lots of good looking guys in it. Hibiki's storyline is not quite as interesting (at least not at the moment) and it's a little draggy at times. The costumes are ugly! I know that they're supposed to represent oni, but I guess I'm so used to the bug look that these costumes just turn me off. I think the best costume I've seen so far is Chalice from KR Blade. That one was pretty neat looking. Also, the characters in Hibiki are kind of....mmmm....tsumannai. I guess it'll get better as the show progresses, but it's just that Blade had me right from the beginning while Hibiki is taking me awhile to get used to. The one thing about Hibiki that I do like is it's connection with music so in that sense, I'm enjoying the show!

It's getting closer to VACATION time! This week Saturday I have to go to the bank to take out money to pay for my trip and then next week I need to stop at the bank to get some yen. The exchange rate is really bad right now only 105 yen to the dollar *bleah*! It's gonna be a very expensive vacation, but it'll be worth it! Just looking forward to getting away from getting up early every morning, and especially away from the TELEPHONE! Because my vacation is getting closer my boss is starting to pile stuff up on my desk. He's soooooo last minute! X( Hope I don't end up working until 9:00 at night the day before I leave like I had to do the last time! Man, that was awful, I didn't get home til almost 10:00 and I still had to pack my suitcase *sweat*!

Anyways, better get back to work now since lunch break is over! Ja ne! ^_^

Can't Wait...

Only about three more weeks until I go on VACATION!!!!!!! We've pretty much figured out where we're going now. We'll be spending a three nights in Fukuoka, one night in Nagasaki, then two nights in Hiroshima then we go to Tokyo for one week and go on a spending spree!!! XD I'm looking forward to getting away from the office and all my chores at home, and also buying all my manga! I'll actually be able to sleep in past 5:00 am!!! 0_0

Work is still hectic! The past few days I've been busy with payrolls. Not only closing up the payrolls for the month, but also actually doing payrolls. My two biggest payrolls are this week and one of them just came in yesterday. That means the other one should be coming in some time today, and I'm still waiting for a couple more payrolls to come in. Monday was the worst since it was the day right after the 15th. Usually most of my payrolls come in on the day after the 15th and the last day of the month. Man, I really wish my boss could afford to hire at least a part-timer. I could use the help doing some of the payrolls and answering the telephones at least. I get so frustrated because I keep getting interrupted whenever I'm in the middle of something. If it's not the telephone ringing it's a client coming in the office to drop of papers or to pick up their returns. Or else it's my boss making me run an errand for him. Hontouni kuyashii!

Because I was so busy on Monday I missed another drama at the V6 thread at JDorama. I just don't understand why that thread gets so much drama! The other threads that I post at don't have any drama like that at all. I just don't get it. Weird! :P Bonita also showed us a Kat-Tun DVD that she got. Looks good, and she mentioned that Junno tap dances and juggles at the same time in the DVD so I'm giving some serious thought to buying it!XD If I find it while I'm in Japan I think I'll get it!

Finally finished watching Kyoto Jiken No Onna & Tokumei Kakarichou Todano Hitoshi. Both were really good! I still have to finish watching Fukigenna Jiin ^^;. I started on Tiger & Dragon. They only brought in the first ep since it was about 5 min longer then normal (cheapy video store!), but it was a very good ep! I think I'm gonna enjoy this series. It's been really funny so far! Also finished watching Sportsman No. 1. Shirakawa Yujiro came in tied for 4th with Iketani Naoki (?). It was a little disappointing because I think he could've placed higher if he hadn't made a mistake in the Shot-Gun Touch, but overall he did really well and looked kakkoii! Yoshida Tomokazu who appeared in Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger also participated, but he ended up being one of the first participants to get dropped. :(

Just received my order from Amazon.co.jp over the weekend. I bought a copy of Morimoto Ryoji's shashinshuu and WOW! I have to admit, the guy is really photogenic! His cute pics are cute (and the dog is cute too!) and his sexy pics are hot! The book also comes with a DVD which I enjoyed. He's a really funny guy! I'm really glad I got the photo book. It was definitely worth it! I also got my Kamen Rider Blade Vol. 9 DVD (yay!) and picked up this web movie DVD called Shibuya Kaidan. It's not so much scary as it's weird, but I enjoyed it!

Still loading songs into my iPod! I'm now up to 1,500 songs (is that all?!) and I have to wait until the middle of this month before I can buy more CD's. Mou maji de taihen da yo kore! Okane ga nai!! XP

Well, time to get to work so...MATA OAISHIMASHOU!!!!!!^_^