I ♥ Burritos

So we go to Frijoles almost every week (Mexican Monday!). Today was a bit special though as they were opening a new location in Roppongi and we were the first customers. Enjoy! Burritolicious happy times were lovely in the midst of a freezing, rainy day.

Afterwards, karaoke. Also nice to keep one out of the cold.

This weekend has gone too quickly! Had a gay old time in Ni-chome on Saturday night with friends old and new (drinks at Advocates and Rehab, then dancing at Arty Farty before retiring to an izakaya to wait for first train), then ended up napping a lot yesterday to recover from the lack of sleep. Have also spent a lot of time this weekend and last catching up on Doctor Who. Super enjoyable, but whenever I spend a lot of time at home on the weekend, it always goes by super fast. Do not enjoy!

Can't believe it's March tomorrow. One month to find a new job and place to live if I don't want to be jobless and homeless in April! Exciting times.

♥

Enjoy the Valentine's chocolate one of my students gave me! ♥ It was so cute I almost didn't want to eat it. I mean, I totally did, but I felt a little bad.

Speaking of Valentine's Day, it ended in SNOWY ADVENTURE. Met Andrew in the evening for a cake + bitterness Valentine's hatefest at Starbucks, but an unexpected snowstorm meant that I ended up not getting home that night. Slippery sidewalks! Inappropriate shoes! Danger! At least I had a Resort and Porridge Kitchen to crash at though. The adventure of it kind of redeemed the day (low point of Valentine's Day: when I was sitting in another Starbucks earlier in the day and a woman came in and sat next to me and just cried for half an hour; after a while, I wanted to cry too). Super sleepy times at work the next day though.

Didn't have any plans this weekend, but things worked out as they usually do. Last night I was ready to settle in for the night with Doctor Who and wine, but we ended up going to What the Dickens! for music and cider and ridiculously bad dancing on my part (I'm fine in a club but, like, proper dancing is beyond me).

Today I think I'll just take it easy. A little Doctor Who, a little Starbucks, a burrito later.

Oedo Adventure (to be continued...someday...)

Friday was a day off, which was lovely. Not so lovely was the weather, which was cold and snowy. Since the weather was bad, we decided to have an indoor adventure and collect stamps from the Oedo subway line. We started in Hikarigaoka, and left the subway in Yoyogi for lunch (Shakey's, which was a location debut for me as we went to Harajuku). It was so busy! There was a line that extended outside, which was miserable to wait in with the weather how it was, but when we finally got inside to warmth and pizza, it all seemed worthwhile. Especially when I snagged a bunch of double cheese pizza and amaaaazing brownie dessert pizza. Healthy! Then a bit of shopping before setting out to get back to an Oedo station. Got a bit distracted along the way and ended up getting some coffee, but we made it back eventually. Made it as far as Kachidoki before we stopped, as it was getting a little late and we still had quite a few stations to go. But! We got more than halfway! It was much more time consuming than we expected. We failed to really think about how much time it took to get from the platform up to the gate (where the stamps were). And then there had to be a photoshoot at every station to commemorate our stop and, yeah, it took much longer than I foresaw. I think we got more efficient as time went on (especially once we started using elevators instead of the sometimes endless escalators), but the first few stations were slow going. Anyway, I spent my day off visiting subway stations, and it was amazingly good fun.

Glad I had such a nice day before Saturday, which ended up being one of the busiest and most stressful days at work ever. Do. Not. Enjoy.

Sunday was lovely though! Went for Hawaiian pancakes (we talked about making Surf's Up Sunday a tradition way back in October, but this was the first time we actually managed it), then to my friend's band's gig, then to karaoke, then to an izakaya, then home for a relaxing night.

Enjoy a few pics of our epic Oedo journey, including me sitting on some random station art, the actual act of stamping, our coffee cups, and one of many reflection pictures.