Bunny’s Evening Out
A breath of fresh air will do me some good. I went out for some groceries at Jusco this evening after spending the whole day indoors working on emails and applications online. Yup, I sure needed the fresh air!
After preparing myself, I put on my contact lenses and cycled to the station area of Chiba New Town. There was a slight but dense drizzle of rain brought by Typhoon #10 but I arrived safely though a little damp. I my plans to have a productive day, I went over to the book store at the mall and read a book that I mentioned I would to Okasan a week ago. "Kira-Kira" was the title of the book and it was a good read. The story about sisterhood from the standpoint of the middle child brought tears to my eyes and I was even weeping at certain pages. I hope I didn’t cause a scene.(These days movies and books have been drawing tears out of my emotional well which is "de-stressing!") I enjoyed the whole book in my close to two-and-a half hours, in addition to reading another book about Japanese baths, screened through all the books in the English section and even browsed through a GRE prep book!
After my time of soul nourishing, time to shop for my physical nutrition. I hate to worry those who care for me with my lack of sense in taking care of myself. I marched to Jusco’s supermarket and got myself a good buy. I made and enjoyed dinner for myself listening to my Edith Piaf CD. It was SO relaxing! Just wished that I could have shared the dinner experience with someone or two. Rice was on the menu, with boiled "Mizuna" seasoned with oyster sauce, stir fried mushrooms with egg Asian style, and "Kaki-fry" (breaded oysters… ok, these were on a 20% sale and I was dying to have my share of kaki-fry for the year). It was washed down with plum juice (yup, I am capable of relaxing myself apart from the company of alchohol) and I had a pot of nice steaming hot tea with leftover black-sesame scones from this morning that Masako made. They were simply delicious! Good food, good ambiance with the lighting and music… being alone relaxing was good, but to be able to share it with someone, even better!
However, I think I am still a baby at this contact lenses business. Seriously I need optical care attention. I guess it is a bad idea wearing expired lenses. Better go dig up my new pairs in the storage or really figure out how to keep my hands clean when I put the lenses on. Yup, I do look bunny-ish with the red eyes I have right now. It will take a few days for it to go away. Sigh!
Apart from that, President Koizumi visits Yasukuni-Shrine again. Oh, what a follow up that would be.
