Jem is Outrageous

About a week ago I decided (While super bored) to recreate some looks from the 80's classic Jem and the Holograms.  I ended up just doing my favorites...the Misfits!

These looks were done using Sugarpill and Lime Crime products.

♥Myshappy

This blog is against me I swear it.

So just when I was in my gung-ho lets do this attitude everything turned against me.  No computer, no money, no nothing. And super busy.

But! I just moved into a new apartment directly in the heart of Seattle and hopefully I'll be on the update.

Job hunting and figuring out ways to monetize the fact that I'm online all the time anyhow.

Myself up to date.

The two most recent pictures of myself, as taken with my Droid X.

♥Myshappy

Photo dump! (Heavy)

Instead of writing something mind blowing (or numbing) you get a photo dump from the last...however long!

My 23rd Birthday.  Hide got me a surprise birthday cake, and dropped it off at the restaurant we were at!

At the fountain near the Space Needle.  Memorial day weekend, for Folk Life <3

At Sakura Con.  Where we meet HANGRY&ANGRY designer Gashicon!!!

Calah and I being H&A.

I just liked the pockets...

Hamming it up with some makeup and a wig.

Alyssa's Birthday!

Savanna's birthday!  Then more Sakura Con. -->

Gashicon and I matched as Hangry and Angry.

At the beach with Emily and Manda.

More make up ham!

Super fun last day with Hannah before she went to Japan.  <3  Yuki and Manda too!

♥Myshappy

Technology hates me.

So as of late the two most important pieces of technology I own decided to give me the big "fuck you!"

First, my phone decided that it didn't want to have a screen anymore.  Instead I needed to blindly fumble around to try and do things on it.  AKA USELESS.  I think that started up about a month ago.  So basically I didn't have a phone for a month.

Second, I woke up one morning to a fantastic sight.  You see, recently my cat has been having flea problems.  She's normally a neurotic little thing, and the fleas have been causing her to rip out her fur.  And apparently eat it, according to the hairballs.  So one day about two or three weeks ago I got up and went to the couch to do some internetting and watch some tele.  Well.  Try to turn the computer on and can't properly move the cursor....So I turn it off.  And notice something dripping out of it.  Pull out the SD card I had in, and sure enough, it drips more.   Look around and notice, "Oh, hey.  Cat threw up on my laptop."  FUCK.

Manda's dad came by last week to try and clean it out (After the people at Best Buy were USELESS to help us find electronic cleaner.  Kept trying to sell us compressed air...)  He ended up having to take it home with him to work on.  A couple days went by and he said it was looking good.  Then the other day he called back and said the good new was he could probably save all my files.  Bad news was he probably can't save my laptop.

So now I'm pretty much in a fork out hundreds of dollars for a new laptop out of no where situation.  Haven't cried about it yet though.

The good news though is that Manda's dad also got me a temporary/possibly permanent phone.  It's an old one they used to use, a Droid X.  Still it great order, so I'm pretty happy about that.

All my files being away, though, kind of puts a damper on my using my sudden energy to post.

Oh well!  Next post is going to be a random photo dump!

♥ Myshappy

Renovations coming...!

I've decided, as much as I love my layout, it's time for some change.  Not sure quite what yet, but expect something fancy!

And much news to come!

Future plans, friends moving, friends here, and other fancy bits of detail!

♥ Myshappy

What Dir en grey means to me.

I literally just wrote about how I'd make posts about recent events.  But instead I'd like to start with something very near and dear to my heart that just came up.  Do you have something in your life that should be trivial but brings out more emotions than anything else?  So important that it's like your best friend, your lover, even your family?

That's what Dir en grey is to me.  

I know it sounds stupid.  But hear me out.  

I first learned about Dir en grey when I was living in Arizona, during the beginning of eighth grade.  I'd moved  to Arizona a few months earlier because my parents were getting a divorce.  It was a really horrible experience.  My brothers and I went down to stay with my dad's parents for the summer to help out, and we were supposed to go back to Washington for the school year.  My mom called one day in August to tell us we weren't going home, we were staying there permanently.  So basically we didn't get to say goodbye to our friends or anything.  To make matters worse my grandparents were less than desirable.  Don't get me wrong, I love them.  But they are very set in their ways.  And my grandma just doesn't like anything I like, or want me to look the way I want to.  They grew up in hard times in England, and it showed.  My grandma has a history that makes her the way it does.  I just don't know it.  And I was young, trying to become my own person, and angry.  A lot of little things happened down there.  To name a few:  I had no friends outside of school,  my dad called my grandma drunk and yelled at her til we found her on the floor crying in her house, and I found out my dad put our 20 year old cat to sleep because he wasn't willing to put the effort into caring for her anymore.  All in all it was a bad time.  But I had good friends who I talked to online and they helped a little.  But it made me really homesick.

I learned about Dir en grey from my friend Jeanette-Lynn around the same time we found out my grandma on my moms side had cancer.  A few months into the school year we moved back to Washington.  I basically had two days notice to grab my things, then we were driving home.  We moved back into my grandma's house and stayed with her and her new husband.  To help take care of her, and until we found somewhere.  A few months into knowing she had cancer my grandma had to have her leg amputated, because it was becoming gangrenous.  To make a very long painful story short, because that's definitely for another day, my grandma didn't survive cancer.  Before her passing we moved out, and into the town I live in now.  I was starting high school, and that has it's ups and downs.  

High school has a lot of pain for pretty much everyone.  I'm no exception.  It leaves you with abandonment, discouragement, basically every negative feeling you can think of.  Of course, there are ups and definitely wonderful times.  But not always. 

After High school my life hasn't changed much.  There's a lot of downs to go with it.  Those never go away.

But through all of this and more Dir en grey has always been there for me.  The first song I heard by them was Garden.  I was hooked.  Their visuals were beautiful.  Are beautiful.  

And of course, being a pre-teen/teen I was definitely in love with their physical beauty.  To this very day no matter what Toshiya does I can't help but love him.  He's my perfect man, through all the bad hair ideas and weird outfits.  There is not a member of that band that I do not find attractive.  But that's not what I love about them.  They're so much more than that.

When I was hurting they gave me something to be obsessed with.  I spent so many nights trying to find music and videos and new pictures.  I know it wasn't long ago, but it was back in the day when these things weren't easy to find.  Japanese music was still underground to America.  I could find a few things on limewire (back in it's height) and a few specialty sites here and there.  It was like some epic quest to find the music I wanted to hear and I loved it.  It took my mind off of things.  When I was sad I'd put my headphones in and listen to the new song I found.  Old song, really.  Nothing too current when it started.  But eventually I got better at finding things. I found people who liked the same music.  Shortly after finding them I introduced Syl to them and we were both in love.

Beyond the chase that excited me there was the sheer beauty of the music.  It touched my heart.  It made me smile.  It could drive me to tears.  Eventually it became the CD I listened to to fall asleep at night.  

Japanese music lead me to take Japanese in high school, which was one the best decisions I've ever made in my life.  If it weren't for that I would have never met Amanda Leigh.  I would never have made so many relationships with exchange students.  I would have never gone to Japan.  Twice.  

Through learning Japanese I began to understand the lyrics better.  I began to understand why, without knowing the language, the songs connected to me so much.  All the lyrics mirrored my own pain.  Kyo was singing about the same things I was feeling.  He felt it too.  As corny as it sounds, it was reassuring.  Knowing someone felt the same hurt.

As I grew, so did Dir en grey.  They went out of fashion, as it were.  The new little bands were getting bigger and they were being pushed to the side.  They stopped being so visual.  The genre they helped create hardly considered them part of it anymore.  Fans came and went because of their progressive style.  No CD ever came out the same.  Dir en grey evolves as it goes.  It's own entity that can't be kept down.  I can't count the amount of people who tell me they hate the style of such and such CD.  I don't care.  I love all of it.  Not all of it is my favorite, of course.  But how can you hate it?

I'm going all over the place.  But it's hard to talk about because I don't think people will ever truly understand it.

When I was eighteen I finally got to see them in concert.  I almost got to see them in the Family Values tour, but missed the opportunity. (I heard they walked off stage or something, so I'm glad now)  They were headlining and had the Human Abstract with them.  Amanda and I got in line around nine in the morning to wait.  By eleven they told us we were blocking the street, so the venue (Showbox at the Market) gave us all place holder tickets and told us to come back later.  We went to the Asian market with some of the girls in line and had a great time.  Some of them I still talk to.  Some of them are still great close friends of mine.  Others were passing.  We went back at night and got into the show.  I was in the second row behind amanda, holding behind her so she wouldn't be crushed.  We suffered through the openers (They were great really, but it was anticipation killing us).  At one point I looked towards the green room and caught my first real life glimpse of Die.  He was watching the band play, looking so happy.  I made the mistake of telling someone and a whole group of girls looked and started screaming.  Eventually Dir en grey got on stage.

If I could bottle the feeling of seeing them for the first time...It was the first feeling of religion.  I have never been a very religious person, but I finally understood the feeling that people get when they kneel down, close their eyes, and give God all their emotion.   No, they aren't gods to me.  They're normal people, who let their feelings out through music.  But standing there is the closest I've ever gotten to Nirvana.  And those shows are church to me.  The feeling I get standing in a mosh pit with my closest friends and complete strangers is incomparable.  So many people with one emotion.  Honestly indescribable.    

Kyo stood, at one point, without music playing.  He screamed.  He made awful terrible sounds, like those from a horror story.  No one spoke.  No one made a single sound.  Kyo just let out energy and emotion into the air and left it there.  It was chilling.  It somehow turned you on, scared you, and left you speechless all at the same time.

I've seen them twice since.  At the second two shows there was nothing exactly like that scene.  Both shows were different and amazing.  But that will always be burned into my memory.  

At the second show I met Calah and Savanna.  At the first I met Rose and Shelby.  Some of the closest and sweetest people I have in my life.  And at the third, we traveled all the way down to Texas to see them, and I got to spend the time with two of my best friends and see a friend I never get to see at all.

Dir en grey has given me friends I never would have met.  Whom I hold more dearly than practically anyone else.  I've had hard times they helped me through.  I can honestly say they've saved my life more than once.  Their dedication for their country and the truth they need is inspiring in ways that are impossible to understand.  Dir en grey give me inspiration to be truer to myself.  

I know not all my friends like them.  Some hate them.  And that's fine.  We don't have to agree.  You don't even need to respect any of this.  But it's how I feel.

If I ever meet them, and have a chance to speak with them, I would like to let them know how much they've made my life something worth living.  I will thank them some day.

♥ Myshappy




The final was the first song played on American television my Dir en grey.  When you're at an American show the air shifts when this song starts.  The whole crowd sings and dances. It might not be this way for the rest of the world.  But every show I've heard this at was the highlight.  Not your favorite song, but a significant memory burned into their history.

New job~

Firstly, I don't apologize for my lack of posts.  I have a life, respect it or don't.  And I really haven't been online as much as I used to, even when I'm not at work.  Now that's not saying I've been super busy.  It's just saying I've been busy, and when I'm not I tend to lounge and not type.

That being said it's been forever!  A lot of things have happened, I'm sure, but I won't be able to remember them all.  In fact, I'll be posting separate entries for each topic so that I don't have one mega-text entry.They might all happen today, maybe in a few days, or maybe a few months.  Who knows!  It's a surprise!


So this one is a little update to let you all know I got a second job~  Which makes me even more busy.

But my wonderful friend Calah got me a job with her at BCBG Max Azria <3

I'm working the evenings so I can do both jobs, and am Stock Support.  I...haven't done any stock yet.  Just been on the floor.  But that's fine too.

And the reason I can do this is because I am now the opening manager at my other job!  Yay!  Except working at 4am then working again until 8pm or so.  But it's whatever.

Point is!  Busy! Calah is love!  Yeah.


♥ Myshappy

My Texas Birthday 2011 - Photodump

It's been a very long time coming for these photos.  And I'm not sorry.  Life just gets in the way sometimes. 

But last December, Amanda Leigh and I went down to Texas to visit Syl for the week, and to spend my birthday down there.  Not to mention the Dir en Grey show we were going to....You know, when Seattle wasn't on their tour list.  Ahem.  Anyways.  It was a good time.  The show was AMAZING.  And their opening act was the Birthday Massacre, which I've seen before and really enjoy.  

So the basic story is, we got to Austen...slept.  Then went to Dallas the next day, saw DeG.  Went back to Austen.  Spent my birthday bar hopping on Sixth Street.  Then headed home.

It was great!

We stopped at Cracker Barrel on the way...Do I like the apples?  You can only guess...

We're Hams, me and Syl.

Amanda Leigh being surprisingly cold in Dallas.

 The only group shot of us from the concert day, I think.

Kyo being a sexy.

Toshiya being the man of my dreams.

Afterwards we spoke to the members of the Birthday Massacre for a little.  Such sweet people.  Unfortunately we had to cut it short since our ride had to work the next morning.

We found a dog!  We named him Hatter.  He wished Jenziih from Seremedy a happy Birthday.

Hatter was such an adorable puppy.  So loving.  He just wanted to sit on your lap and cuddle.  We ended up talking to animal control and having them find his owners, since we found him on the street.  He looked like he didn't eat a lot, and his leash was broken.  But she said he wasn't neglected so she couldn't just take him.  But she'd be watching them.

Look! Amanda Leigh is cold!

We went to Freebirds!  I love Freebirds.

All ready to go out for dinner on my birthday~

We found a nice Sushi Restaurant called Piranha Killer Sushi.  I highly recommend it.  It was DELICIOUS.

This was the "Sexy Roll".  Don't remember everything.  But it had cilantro and mango in it.  It was awesome.

For my birthday I got a free dessert~  So I chose the tempura fried ice cream.  Get it.  Just do it.  You'll thank me.

Onto the bars~  I wanted to go to the Bat Bar, since I'm the bat...But we didn't end up going there.

It was freezing outside, but we were picky!  Only the most demanding of bars!  We walked down the street and went into the bars where the bouncer made the best offer "First drink on us!"  to "Come on Ladies.  You know you want to?  How can you resist this face?"  As long as they got our attention.  I think we spent $20 the whole night for the three of us.  Only in tips, too!

The point of the night were my stomach was angry at me.  That's what it was doing.

Drunken bathroom photo.  Syl told me to take a photo of the bathroom!  So I did.

The last place we went was this cool little club like place.  All completely blue lights, and white decor.  Each table was a little room.  Sort of futuristic and cool.  Cute bartender too.

Well!  Hope you enjoyed the photo spam!

♥ Myshappy

A few Style Icons

My style changes a lot.  But usually centers around a punk/rock sort of theme.  I've had a lot of different influences and recently I realized a few of them sort of stuck out in my head.  At least for who I look at recently and sit around staring at going "Ugh I wish I had her hair!  I wish I had her clothes!  Why am I not her??"

So here's me sharing a few:

For the longest time in High School I was in love with practically everything done by the Kera model G.

She was like perfection.  Especially the hair.  When she changed her hair to red I could have died.

Unfortunately it's crazy hard to find ANYTHING by her these days, since she stopped at Kera.  So here were a few of the good photos I found on google and stuff. : (  I miss her.  She was absolutely wonderful.  Put some of the new models to shame!

Another recent inspiration is Hyuna of Korean girl unit 4minute.

Quite honestly...I can see how men drool over her all the time.  She has a weird way of being super sexy and adorably cute all at the same time.

It's incredible.

Her usual style is pretty cute, but her video style really gets to me.  Especially in her solo stuff recently.  Even more so when she was in the troublemaker unit.  Unf.

That and she's adorable as fuck, and shakes her butt everywhere.  I like.

Lastly for now is Kera model Re:NO~

I will admit....

I really hated her when I first saw her.  I would just shake Kera in anger and yell "WHY DO YOU MAKE YOUR EYES LOOK DROOPY?!"  for hours.  

Well, not really.  But you get the picture.

But over time, like all people I love, my hate turned into undeniable love.  When I pick up Kera now I look for her make up and for her current style.  I can't help it.  It's my newest obsession.

And I like bleach blondes.  But who doesn't.

I didn't know, however, that Re:NO recently took up vocals in Aldious.  Which is a band I have listened to for about a year now....To be fair she did it in August, and I haven't been paying attention for a few months!

But she's actually pretty damn good.  I was surprised.   Now I get to have my little Re:NO fix more often.

So that's it for now.

There are plenty more.  But these were some of the current people who inspire me.

♥ Myshappy

Re:no look attempt.

I got bored a few weeks back and decided to try and look like Re:no.  She's one of the current Kera models, and becoming one of my favorite.  I began by hating her and her make up style.  But now I actually really like it.  And became a fast favorite.

Not the greatest recreation.  But on a whim, I think it's not half bad.  Considering my lack of proper lashes.

♥ Myshappy

Goings on.

So many things going on, I swear.  All at once.  Though some of them have been going on for a while.  A quick update is in order I suppose.

The current happy times is that my friend is currently on her cross-country drive back home~!  I couldn't be happier about it, honestly

My best friend since the age of ten or so is engaged and pregnant.  And they just found out the baby will be a little boy. ♥ Which they're going to name Khaleb.  <3  Such a good name.

I'm one step closer to my management courses.  Despite a little setbacks in communication. I should be going to class in October.  Fingers crossed.

Amanda Leigh will be going to Massage Therapy school starting on the fifth, I believe.

On the downside I was going to go to Kumori Con this weekend, but due to complete lack of money, couldn't afford it at all.  So I hope Miss Yuki is having a great time without me~

Quick update over.

♥ Myshappy

Tagged.

In place of an actual entry, because I am too tired and lazy to go through and narrow down which pictures out of 7 billion I want to put up, I'm responding to Hannah's tag!

The Rules:

1. Each person must post eleven things about themselves on their blog.
2. Answer the questions the tagger has set for you plus, create eleven
questions for the people you tag to answer.
3. Choose eleven people and link them in your post.
4. Go to their page and tell them.
5. NO TAG BACKS
6. You legitimately have to tag

Eleven Things About Me

11.  I really want to learn parapara and the dances to Jpop songs.  But I'm usually too lazy when it comes down to it.

10.  In High School, Japanese was my best class.  I always had perfect grades, and was one of the top in the class.  I think I studied maybe twice in the entire four years I took it.

9.  I really like things with the folllowing items on them: card suits, butterflies, skulls, spiders, Alice in Wonderland stuff....there's more but those are main points.

8.  At one time I tried to study Swedish.  I think I got....a mini course in before I didn't have time for it anymore.  I have time now, but no motivation.  I still remember a few "I am/You are" and "I am not/You are not" sentences.  But those are basic.  Also "I am not fat.  I'm chubby."

7.  Seven is my favorite number.  End all.

6.  My moms mom came from the Netherlands.  And her dad's parents came from Lithuania.  My dad moved to America when he was 3 or something, from England.  So the only family I have in America is: My immediate family, my moms sisters family (cousins), my dads brother and sisters families (Same), and my grandparents.  And all but my grandparents live in Washington or Idaho.

5. I really enjoy drawing.  But I got months between drawing pictures.  For lack or motivation, or time.  

4. I want to own a Savannah Cat.

3.  I have two older brothers, and my parents are divorced.  I lived with my mom through High School.

2.  I have three tattoos.  My grandmothers initials on my left ankle, from when I turned 18.  A red Dahlia on my right shoulder/neck, I believe from when I was 20.  And 1-12 in roman numerals around my left arm, from when I was...21?  I want more.  But need money.

1.  My real surname is Carcas.  Like the dead thing.  And all through school and even in traffic court, no one has wanted to say it for fear of offending me.  It's more offensive if you don't try to say it or say "Car...sass?"

Amy's questions:

1. What is something you want to do before you die?  I want to travel more.  I want to visit Europe and see where my family came from.

2. What things inspire you?  Music inspires me in too many ways to count.  And honestly, random things on people or personality quirks.  I really enjoy creating characters from something random that sparked the idea.  

3. How would you describe yourself in three words? Neurotic.  Neutral. & Genetic.

4. If you have a free day, you are most likely to.... ?  Sleep.  Or go to Seattle.

5. Five things you always keep on your person? A rosary, my cell phone, ID, whatever charm I have at the moment, and necklace.  

6. Who is your celebrity crush? Just one?  Oh no.  More than one.  Cillian Murphy.  Jamie Campbell-Bower.  Tom Hiddleston.  Matsujun.  Oguri Shun.  Toshiya. Oh, and Kyle Gallner.  Plus thirty thousand more.

7. If you could go anywhere in the world right now, where would you go?  Shibuya.

8. Your favorite song at the moment? Dawn of Dreams by Yohio.

9. How do you describe your style?  Really lazy punk/rock gyaru.

10. The thing that makes you the happiest?  Really super cutesy fluffy romance things make me smile and giggle like a child.

(No question 11!)

My Questions

1. Where would you live permanently.  And where would your summer home be?

2. What type of food are you best at cooking?

3. Would you rather be deaf of blind?

4. If you had to lose your right or left hand, which would it be?

5. If you were in SAW what would your game be?

6. Favorite pop band?

7. What position would you be in a band?

8. Who is your favorite member of Arashi? (if you don't have one, just pick a member.)

9. How has your clothing style changed from when you began high school, to when you ended high school, to now?

10. Do you like cheese?

11. Do you think...you could eat...all of the ketchup...one, right after the other...?

And I tag......Well, I don't have many people to tag.  And Hannah tagged most of them already!

So....Miss Amanda Leigh.  Miss Yuki.  And...Miss Chelsie!

And oh that Blowfish blow.

Taken at Tokyo Disney Sea.

♥ Myshappy

Scariest truck ever.

More than once when I was trekking around Shibuya I ran across the scariest truck in existence.  The first time I saw it, I tried to get a photo but things kept getting in the way.

Lucky me, I saw it again.  I say lucky lightly.

Truck of nightmares.

The disturbing Sadako coming out of a Television truck is to promote the new Sadako 3D movie.  Which I didn't get to see.

It was a sight though.  Tons of people would see it and flip out their cell phones to get a picture.  Made me feel less touristy.

♥ Myshappy

Japan Photos are coming!

Never fear!  The first step of uploading them all has been almost fully accomplished.

It's just that I have about a thousand images to weed through, and organize before I can upload them.

Post won't be about days.  They'll probably be about topics.  Or an image itself.  Who knows!  Point is with some subtle (or being told...) pushing, I'm back to working on it.  And some art too!  (Oh my god, no way!) Uploading old stuff, anyhow.  Got to catch up.  I'm also going to be posting all my new art on a blog I decided would be my temporary art blog.

I'll give you the link when I have it ready.

But get excited.  Mediocre pictures are coming.

♥ Myshappy

Back to normal life.

I sort of fell way behind in the Japan updates.  But that's okay.  The point is I still have the memories, and will upload photos soon!

Part of the reason is I've been sucked back into normal life.  Lots of working, and other busy things.  So I haven't had much time to put into my internet life~ Well, not time to focus on it.

Work has been busy busy. I'm becoming a Manager (yay!) so I've got some extra work to do there.  And I've trained new employees three days a week for the last two weeks.  Very time consuming and a little stressful.

I promise I will remedy this!

On another note~  It's father's day.  Last year I did a little post about Miyavi.  My father situation is less than lovely, so to talk about it would be a downer~  I forgot it was fathers' day until I was already at work.  So I didn't get to call my dad, or my mom's boyfriend.  I feel a little bad about the second one, I may call in the morning.

But this brings up another topic!  If I made a post last year...that means this blog is a year old!

I would like to do a special series of posts, or just one straight up special post to commemorate it.....but what?

If you have any ideas please let me know!

I need help!

♥ Myshappy

Going about this wrong.

Again, I'm sorry about the lack of actual updates recently!

But I realize I've been going about this all wrong.

The reason there have been no updates is because it's actually become something I dread doing.  I hate the idea of having to sit down and write every day out.  And feeling like I have to make something for every day I didn't do anything exciting.

So I'm not going to be doing it day by day anymore.

I'll be lumping days together, writing about interesting things or places on their own, and in general enjoying telling my stories.

This should be a chore.  It's supposed to be fun.

So I'm going to be changing my set up!

I hope you like it more.

♥ Myshappy

Blog goals for the rest of the month!

My blog goals for the rest of the month are:

• Get up to date with my Japan trip.
• Reach 5k pageviews! Only 400 to go.
• Obtain 20 followers! Only need 6!

These aren't hard goals, but I need your help with two of them!  If you read this blog regularly, why not make a google plus account and be updated with a new post is up?

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I'd really love to reach my humble goals~

♥ Myshappy

Day 12 - Sightseeing with the family

 On day 12 I started off by trying to make something new to eat.  A microwave "omelette" (A.k.a omelette style scramble).  It went pretty well.  With cheese and tomato in it.  Aya said we should meet later in the day, though she didn't give any details,  so I e-mailed her.

After a bit she told me I should take the train to Kajigaya station to be there around 6, and she would get off around 6:30.  She didn't tell me, but I figured her mom was going to pick me up.

So I got on the train at the right time, and went to Kajigaya.

Aya's mom and sister were about 5 minutes late to pick me up, but that was okay.  When they arrived, they apologized profusely, and her mom told me it was Saki's fault that they were late.  So we headed out.

We drove around for a little bit, before they decided to stop at a shopping center while we waited for Aya.  We went up to the top floor which was a 100en shop, and we shopped there for a bit.  I found a few things to bring home, so it wasn't a bust.

Then we headed downstairs, and out to go to the Don Quixote. Or Donki, as everyone calls it.  It's a discount store where you can find anything from food to clothes to make up goods.  Even electronics too.

I ended up finding the perfect present for Syl.  She's going to love it.  

Aya's mom and sister couldn't stop themselves from buying me cup noodles and some other random food items, so I didn't starve at home.  I don't need them to~  But it was very sweet, so I couldn't say no.

On the way out Aya's mom saw this cute little Yakiniku stand and had to get us all a snack.  It was delicious.  The guy before us got at least 20.  I was surprised.

Then we headed out to meet Aya.  Well, sort of.  We went to the store where Saki works, and has worked for 2 or so years, which I guess is right next to Aya's house!  Who knew.  So they told me to look around while they did stuff outside.  Lol, ok.

Eventually Aya showed up to we headed out.  Over to Aya's dad's friends car (Which is bigger than theirs so more people could fit.)  In all it was Me, Aya, Saki, Aya's Mom, Aya's Dad, and his childhood friend.  Cozy!

We first went to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building (A mouthful, I know.)  Which has the creepy weirdest parking lot, let me tell you.  It's just a bunch of narrow roadway, with a spot every so often.  With a bunch of "closed off" spots too....It's creepy.

But we made it alive up to the observation deck!  

On the observation deck there are a few giftshops, and a rather expensive cafe.  And a bunch of windows!  Through which you can look and see everything.

AYA IS TRYING TO EAT ME!!!

I took so many photos!  But there are way too many to put here, so when I have time I will upload them to my Myshappy days like page on Facebook (Why do I have a like page, you ask?  So I have somewhere to upload all of my excess photos with the related story attached, so I don't have to keep re-explaining myself, that's why!)  It may take a few days, so patience please!!

After looking out the windows for a while  (And Aya trying to scare me by pushing me towards the window when I was looking out....)  we looked around the giftshop.  And fooled around a bit.

There were cute and silly iphone cases.  Bacon and egg, yakisoba, and more.

Saki in a tiger hat.

We left, and decided to go to Odaiba and see the Gundam!

I WAS SO FREAKING EXCITED YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW.

It took a little, but we found it!  Outside a new shopping center too.

So cool.

HE'S FREAKING HUGE!!!! DSDNAKSDNKASJDSOCOOL!!

Then we found a spot to take photos of the Rainbow Bridge.

Unfortunately my camera isn't the best, so it's not the greatest photo.  But still!

Then on to the next spot!  Aya's dad said he knew of a good spot to take photos, and he was right.  So we stopped there (And Aya who was starving, ran to the convenience store).

It was difficult to take photos, as it was too late and the dock entrance to the area was closed.  So we had to stand and look over a cement wall.  Easy for me, not so easy for people shorter than me in heels.

Me and Saki!

On to the next one!  I tried to take a picture of Tokyo Tower from far away, but Aya told me not to because we were headed there. 

Cool.

This looks fake, right?

It was pretty cool.  Though I always thought it would be a little taller...Still tall and cool though.  And very pretty up close.  Though it's hard to take different style photos with it at night.  And ones with it.  The ones we got look weird, cause of the lighting.  Like a bad photoshop!

Finally we were about done, so we headed to find food.  Which took a while.  Til we found a little noodle and chinese shop.

I got the most basic fried chicken type meal.  Which was too much food!

I ended up trying to pawn off some on Aya, but she was too full too.  And tired.

By that point it was already 1am, so they had to drive me home.  Which proved a little difficult in that...I don't know what roads are 1 way streets, and which way they go.

But I got us there!!!  Without death!

It was really a good time.  And I really appreciate how much Aya and her family have done for me.  They're really great.

♥ Myshappy