it's gonna be may

 

Or well, it is. And it's Monday which means means a new episode of Game of Thrones. But for right now it means writing a blog--about two and half months late--until Jess and I head off to see Captain America. #'murica

What have I been up to in my 2-month period of truancy? Everything. Started a new job, been to lots of shows, edited lots of videos, eaten lots of food, and tried repeatedly to take up clean eating with only moderate and sporadic success.

I'll try to catch up on everything eventually, but for now that Justin Timberlake meme floating got me thinking maybe I should just start with Golden Week.

April 30th was such a beautiful day! The weather's gotten so nice and I haven't been running in forever so I decided to re-visit an old route of mine.

Ended up running past Chinzanso Hotel and all the way to Edogawa park! It was only about 70°F, but felt much hotter by the time I got there. Shame I don't have the balls to run at night anymore. :(

May 2nd, I ended up working all day. And by that I mean 12 hours. Technically I'm only part time, but I really wanted the extra money. Just look at that rigorous and disciplined clean eating.

Since I've been feeling stressed about all the things I need to get done lately, I decided to take Saturday to run some outside errands. I wrote about getting two pairs of Vans for Christmas and I'm not lying when I say I wear them almost everywhere. It was love at first sight for the teal ones up there and on my way to the register I tried on the peach-pink slip-ons. They were too comfy to pass up! Stopped at American Eagle as well and found not only the perfect high-waisted light-wash denim shorts but also those tops up there.

Yesterday I went to meet a friend for lunch who I haven't seen in forever and then met up with friends for Mexican and coffee later that night. My new work schedule is super flexible so even though I technically missed out on the traditional golden week schedule, it was still a pretty nice weekend.

Also completely random, but I've been super into Spotify! #latetotheparty I know! I never really thought I needed a "radio station" type thing because I liked my own music so much, but lately I feel like I've overplayed almost everything.

I'm not too keen on the current season of Supernatural (that writing I mean, honestly) but ironically I've been super into Supernatural playlists on Spotify. See what I did thurr.

Vans, American Eagle, and Dean Winchester-approved classic rock. If I didn't know any better, I'd say I'm starting to sound like a proper American.

I'll see if I can catch up! I always say this with somewhat groundless optimism, but I realllly want to make some show posts! I've been to a lot and I have a lot of music I want to throw at you guys as well as some recent trips.

Until next time!
♡ miss wave

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damselfish

Yet another belated entry! Usually my life is so busy during the week, when I get home from work I'm so tired I usually just end up watching Criminal Minds and pining endlessly over Dr. Spencer Reid. Then by the time my weekend rolls around I get really busy again and end up running out of time to blog. It's a vicious cycle.

Anyway, went to HOOTERS by Akasaka-Mitsuke the other weekend with my roommate(s). It was one of those days where I could find absolutely nothing to wear in my closet. Plus it made me wish I'd bought this SLY sweater back in March in black instead of grey.

SLY X EGOIST

Mine and my roommate's dear friend from Australia is staying with us right now so please ignore the futon behind me.

Around this time I also went to a few shows with Ri and my other friend including one at Marble in Shinjuku. This was such a good show and had a lot of really great bands performing in it.

The same week we also went to another show at ANTIKNOCK and felt it necessary to commemorate with purikura.

If you're wondering, DAMSELFISH is my session band. Or well, what I hope I can make into a session band. Anyone in the Tokyo area who can play drums or bass, please let me know, haha.

Also speaking of bands, today Izzie and I interviewed FEAR FROM THE HATE for their first interview geared towards overseas readers. We had a hard time finding a spot but ended up settling on a nice outdoor cafe. Thanks for a great interview guys!

While Izzie and I were waiting, we stopped into Tower Records and I picked up this.

Along with a flyer for 激ロック！

I saw Ashley Scared the Sky for the first time recently at a show at Black Hole in Ikebukuro. I had gone to see another band that I'm hoping to cover an event for and, though I had never heard of the above band, I was so impressed with their set I bought their EP today.

Tonight I also went out to eat with Caroline and her K-Man at T.G.I.Friday's. We even dragged the poor man to purikura. Sorry Kenjer!

I have so many blogs I want to catch up on so hopefully I will do that tomorrow instead of TV...

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extension rhythm @ takadanobaba

Finally finished editing the pictures from my new extensions! I wanted to dye my hair a light strawberry blond a-la my new idol, Ide Reiko but unfortunately my work told me extensions + blonde hair all at once was a little much.

However, I still really wanted to get extensions again as, contrary to what you may think, or well at least for me personally they're much easier to handle in the summer than my own hair because messy braids etc almost always look cute.

A messy outgrown bob? Not so much.

This time I went to Extension Rhythm in Takadanobaba. They were having a spring campaign that gets you 50 pieces just below your bust for only 8800 yen! I had her curl them day of for an extra 500 yen.

Hell yes I am abusing the hell out of retro PS tutorials. Please excuse the fact that I'm holding a sandwich in the first shot. There's a Starbucks between the station and my house and I was starving.

The next day I tried straightening them again and...I almost think straight is more flattering on me?

What do you guys think? Straight or curly? 

I'm also super torn on what to do with my bangs. I like this side-swept look but I don't know if I should get them cleaned up or keep letting them grow out a bit. I tossed around the idea of blunt bangs but I don't know if I can pull them off with my face shape.

Opinions?

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tiny cakes & a coordinate

Hello, hello!

I had a lot of fun this week but I'm so glad it's finally over. I've been working my butt off at work all week and I'm glad for once I had nothing to do this weekend. However! I did have a fun week.

On Monday night a good friend of mine came up from Nagoya for work and she stayed at my house for a few days. She's hilarious, gorgeous and inspirational and I totally wish we got to see each other more often.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 I turned 24 years old. I'm not happy about it to be honest. I'm not sure if the boy I used to like gave me this complex or if I developed it on my own, but...I feel like once you get into your 20's you just start aging in the blink of an eye.

But apparently I like boys both a few years older than me or one year younger so, you now.

I was too tired to go out for my birthday but my friend Niki got me a gorgeous and tiny cake as a surprise.

Two of my coworkers also gave me chocolates and another gave me a tiny Duffy Bear! He's on my purse.

Wednesday night my friend Ebony and I went out to a live, got back late and spent a few hours at our favorite Saizeriya before coming back and crashing. Thursday and Friday were not easy but I'm always happy to spend time with my friends who I don't get to see often.

I was so tired though that I slept for 11 hours last night.（

Woke up and worked on a layout for the better part of the day. Getting the stories together, organizing images, fixing errors. All that's left is placing but it's still going to take me a little while longer. But!

To take a little break today, I met my roommate out in Sunshine City so we could hit Burger King.

I know. I live in Tokyo and I want to go to Burger King? Well stfu. Sometimes you just need a Whopper Jr. okay?

Despite that, somehow I ended up with a cute coordinate and we ended up with some super cute purikura.

I lost one of my fake Vivienne Westwood earrings! So sad. To be honest, I'm really really shy about showing my face on the internet because I honestly can find almost a million things wrong with it in a day but I'm trying to get over that.

This is hands done one of the best purikura machines I have ever used! The rest of them are really cute two but these two are my favorite.

That's it for now! Still in the works is my Kyushuu report and the live report but they may be very late as I need to finish this layout first.

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