they were having a valentine's* special on tv** about chocolate.
boutiques are overpriced and crazy here, but this show was displaying random chocolate only shops for valentines.... a $110 for THREE small heart shaped truffles. small, I mean... like.. normal godiva sized bite-size chocolates. THREE. I like gifts, I like chocolate, but if my boyfriend got me chocolate that cost $110, my sensible Korean self would probably hit him over the head.
This will never be an issue, Eric says he hates consumer-based holidays, which he says encompasses ALL holidays, and he gave me the shittiest birthday I have had since I my 16th where my parents and I had fight and I was subsequently "exorcised" by my grandmother who was convinced I was possessed by the devil. Exorcise = suffocate.
THAT was my worst, but year 23 was not fun either. Ok, so it wasn't nearly that bad, and I do think the grandma-suffocate story is mildly amusing now because... I can just imagine what that looked like.
Anyway, I keep buying chocolate, and Eric said I will be allowed to go and get some tomorrow... allowed to... with my money... but he says he's going to ration it so I don't eat too much. thanks, babe. HE should eat it, he's getting a waist smaller than mine, and it's starting to make me feel less feminine.
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Japan Notes:
* Valentine's seems to be a huuuuuuuge affair here, but it's entirely about the guy getting homemade chocolates/cookies from girls. All department stores have huge displays with chocolate and cookie-brownie-truffle mixes and all the ingredients and alcohols or whatever other utensils wold be necessary to make something for your man. Ikebukuro Station was V-day-ed this week, huge chocolate stands, the normal "Apple City" discount clothing store is taken over by glass counters full of Godiva and other random chocolate companies... it's always full of women. Girls are all walking around getting baking supplies, chocolates and... boys are buying jewelry for "white day"
* White day is a very interesting Japan-only holiday that is exactly like Valentines, except... it's the day men buy things for women. And it tends to be FAR more expensive. Basically, you do wsomething nice on V-day so that when W-day comes, he has to outdo you by 10 times.
* 50% of tv in Japan is people eating random things and going "YUMMMMMM" "AWESOME!!!" "SO TASTY!!!" although randomly they do have shows that make fun of people who can't cook at all. Yea, bizarre.
boutiques are overpriced and crazy here, but this show was displaying random chocolate only shops for valentines.... a $110 for THREE small heart shaped truffles. small, I mean... like.. normal godiva sized bite-size chocolates. THREE. I like gifts, I like chocolate, but if my boyfriend got me chocolate that cost $110, my sensible Korean self would probably hit him over the head.
This will never be an issue, Eric says he hates consumer-based holidays, which he says encompasses ALL holidays, and he gave me the shittiest birthday I have had since I my 16th where my parents and I had fight and I was subsequently "exorcised" by my grandmother who was convinced I was possessed by the devil. Exorcise = suffocate.
THAT was my worst, but year 23 was not fun either. Ok, so it wasn't nearly that bad, and I do think the grandma-suffocate story is mildly amusing now because... I can just imagine what that looked like.
Anyway, I keep buying chocolate, and Eric said I will be allowed to go and get some tomorrow... allowed to... with my money... but he says he's going to ration it so I don't eat too much. thanks, babe. HE should eat it, he's getting a waist smaller than mine, and it's starting to make me feel less feminine.
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Japan Notes:
* Valentine's seems to be a huuuuuuuge affair here, but it's entirely about the guy getting homemade chocolates/cookies from girls. All department stores have huge displays with chocolate and cookie-brownie-truffle mixes and all the ingredients and alcohols or whatever other utensils wold be necessary to make something for your man. Ikebukuro Station was V-day-ed this week, huge chocolate stands, the normal "Apple City" discount clothing store is taken over by glass counters full of Godiva and other random chocolate companies... it's always full of women. Girls are all walking around getting baking supplies, chocolates and... boys are buying jewelry for "white day"
* White day is a very interesting Japan-only holiday that is exactly like Valentines, except... it's the day men buy things for women. And it tends to be FAR more expensive. Basically, you do wsomething nice on V-day so that when W-day comes, he has to outdo you by 10 times.
* 50% of tv in Japan is people eating random things and going "YUMMMMMM" "AWESOME!!!" "SO TASTY!!!" although randomly they do have shows that make fun of people who can't cook at all. Yea, bizarre.
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i do alot of squirrel artwork actually i find them endearing... and scary!