August 26, 2003 - 12:07 a.m.

Tired.
Mood:

This laptop is so kool. I went down to watch Gangs of New York with my parents and I brought it with me to check an e-mail (it's a long movie) and then I forgot about it. Meanwhile it went into hybernate but I thought the batteries had died because I left the wireless connection turned on (it drains the batteries). Anyway, it has a kick ass battery life to begin with, something I didn't think I'd care about, but when you're as lazy as I am it becomes evident that you'll need it.

I feel weird. Unsettled. Stressed out a little bit. In retrospect I haven't much to be stressed out about but there's still a fury of thoughts running in the back of my mind. Tomorrow my mom and I are going to Lazyboy to order the couches. She was already nice enough to pop by United on Sunday to order the bar stools, and my very first furisode is on it's way all the way from Osaka in Japan. I'm so curious to see what it looks like in person. Granted it's not silk, but there's still a lot of work that seemed to have gone into putting it together... which makes me wonder why they used rayon instead of silk, however it's a vintage kimono made (by my "design" calculations) AFTER WWII and I'm sure carting bales of silk over crumbling streets would have been a problem. I'm also sure very few people would care over the rumbling in their stomachs.

It's still a wonderful kimono. A lot less elaborate than its pre-war predecessors but I like simple. I also won it for a good price, 60 US.

Gd Red's bugging me about work... I'm so tired, maybe I should go to bed. Granted I didn't really do THAT much today but lately the days have been wearing me down to the bone *sigh*. I think with that I shall part. Maybe one day I'll be able to TRULY say what's on my mind, until then, the ball of confusion remains my own.

10:37 a.m. - More Kimono...

Wow, Japanese people are so polite! I feel so sorry for them when they come visit US, they must think we're incredibly rude, or at least, very very badly mannered, lol. But that's the thing, no matter where you go there are different customs. I noticed that a widespread custom of Vancouver is to basically avoid eye contact with everyone and god forbid you smile at someone or say hi.

I have to ask Patsy about that.

I wish I could go for a visit, but meanwhile, I'll just try to bring a bit of Japan here instead.

4:51 p.m.

Well wow, the couches and bar stools have been all ordered and now there's a 6 week wait, damn. Everything is so nice and comfy though, and I still loved the couch my mom and I picked out, and the chaise is very lovely, I'm sure it'll look perfect in the nice tan suede we picked out. It's nice to listen to people though, you will see how many wonderful things they can come up with, so many ideas.

My mom suggested I buy a trunk to have a place to put pillows and a comforter or blanket into. A brilliant idea. I need more storage down in that place anyway, and a trunk could serve as both a coffee table and storage. Plus I love the non-steamer truck trunks (ie. the stylized kind, like Japanese or Chinese) so we went online and found 2 VERY VERY beautiful ones. One is wood and bamboo and the other a very traditional Japanese trunk with mother of pearl inlays. The second one I would have to work insanely hard to afford, but maybe one day who knows. It's 599 US, but it IS the one I sort of fell in love with, so unless I find something around here... who knows. Hehehe. But basically if I get the trunk then I'm only getting one end table. This way the room is also less boring.

10:32 p.m. - Japanese Quince.

Chaenomeles - Japanese Quince

Google has become SUCH a powerful engine over the past few years. It was a great search engine but now it's INSANE, and only because of the way it is TODAY was I able to find the name of this bush. Damn. So now the next mission is to find one here in Canada. This is the bush of my childhood, you could say. My grandmother had one planted near a fence. It has the most WONDERFUL smelling little "apples" (that actually look like little lemons!). I remember I used to steal them and run around sniffing them and she'd tell me to leave them alone. For some reason I considered that little bush to be very sacret, maybe it was basically the hordes of people telling me to leave it alone. It's small and it doesn't have that many little apples to begin with, although other than smelling good I couldn't fanthom what anyone would want it for (yup, I tried eating one, BIG mistake).

The good news is that it turned out to be "Japanese" because Japan has a very similar climate to BC so it would definately grow in the garden... the difficult task is finding it. Although I never actually LOOKED for it before (I can't believe I'm turning into a green thumb, lol).

Gd I spent the entire day picking screens! I actually took a pic of my room and put the couches and everything else I planned to have in the room, in the room, and then added the screen to see which one played well with the rest of the decour. I think everyone settled on the "geisha" screen. Now I need 1,000, cripes *shakes head*.

Damn I need to do abs. I know I'm all over the place right now. For one I have a headache, and I'm not only a bit excited (about the furniture and decorating and junk) but also a whole bit stressed (about school and school related things). Right about now, I just want the first week of school to be OVER. So I could get my books, fix my course and then relax on the weekend and start week 2 as if this is my 4th year.

I just need to relax. Maybe abs will help. Maybe nothing will. I feel like running away into a little shell... oh shoot! I forgot to change my MSN crap... great, lol.