Juliann

This is not a drill. My local Hmart has real Japanese gachapon! Not just the US branded toys. Woo hoo!!!

Oh no. I seem to have picked up the wrong zodiac animal for this year.

Catching up on gacha pix. I’d have to look up my totals so maybe next time but these were from Thursday. Do you like the stand? Trip day 34/52: 14

@hizaga I was obsessed with bologna sandwiches in kindergarten (I think I had it every single day) but I hated condiments. So just Oscar Meyer and bread. After kindergarten I think I never had one again until high school or college! My family was sick of it 🤣 (tbf we ate mortadella)

This was a super common sandwich in my lunch box growing up, especially in the 1970s elementary school. One day I told my mother I was tired of bologna sandwiches and she switched them up with other kinds of more or less the same type of thing😂

@NomadDragon7 Only hugs! Happy birthday!

Do we no longer get balloons on our birthday? 🎈

@JasnTru But everyday is Halloween 👻

@KintsugiStyle I only just convinced myself to start playing halloween music in the shop a few days ago

Really decohome, Christmas jazz? Already???

@Peckitt Best wishes for a timely diagnosis

Sorry peeps. Bit of a health-related rant. I have had MRIs, X Rays and an EEG & yes, I have cerebral palsy affecting my left side; but as soon as I lie down I am in agony and my left side spasms. I don’t know what further there is to do: this is new.

@hizaga Yummmm

Local shop master makes this pasta salad that is outta sight. Not mayo based (although I LOVE mayo!), but he reconstitutes dried shimeji mushrooms in olive oil and mixes the al dente fusilli in it👍 It's superb!

@Gaijinotousan @dadsweb67 Just statistically speaking, most thieves in Japan either have four legs or wings.

@dadsweb67 Yeah man. Nobody’s stealing anything 🤣

Bought a little motion detector burglar alarm during the Amazon sale and my wife asked me “Why do you need it? This is Japan!”. Completely slipped my mind that I live in a crimeless country…

@dadsweb67 You need the kind with video, otherwise who knows what is stealing the veggies from the garden?

@hizaga I’m very sorry for your loss.

My teacher is dead.

Dropped by the Kenelestands in Ueno station last night — there are two now! One at the Ginza line and one at the JR station! Also got 1 at the Nihombashi information center. I now have 3 that record voice memos! Trip day 26/52 (halfway!): 11 Trip opened total: 71 Unopened: 66

Ah it was 76F/24C today so of course I saw people outside in a park in sweaters and hoodies. Guess it’s officially fall, y’all 😜 I don’t get Tokyoites.

Backlog: Takadanobaba station/Gashacoco near Ikebukuro Station The train station (upper right) is by first one that requires batteries (not provided) but apparently it powers a whole set if I collect them? 🧐 Trip day 9: 9 Opened total: 60 Unopened (yesterday): 66

The capsule thing kinda looks like a Ferris wheel car and we went on a Ferris wheel right after that.

Backlog Gach-ing! On my birthday I caught a few passing Tennoji station in Osaka. The left is a capsule meant for displaying your prized gachapon (they can stack), on the right the record player can record two messages! Trip day 7 (9/19): 3 Opened total: 51

@hizaga We could have toured the factories but they’re massive and my legs couldn’t handle that. Instead in touring Kikkoman next week 😍

@KintsugiStyle Sounds more magnifiscent, the Toto Capitol!

My bum just had a reunion party with the washlet and it's happy! 🎯💦

@hizaga This was the big museum in Kitakyushu. We went there just for that museum. 😅

@KintsugiStyle Aha, I think ours is Panasonic. Now I remember I’ve been to that museum, in Shinjuku! After visiting my cousin bought some Toto stock😅

Rainy weekday afternoon for the win, took just over 2 hours for 3 gacha centers in Sunshine city plus a new one I found at the Ikebukuro Seiyu line station. Normally that’s over 4 hrs. Still got 66 (although some are duplicates). When will you see them? Hahaha. I have no energy.