Hiromi Usagi!

I had great days off this week.  Yesterday, I hang out with John in Akasakamitsuke and Ebisu Garden place.  We just talked and caught up with our latest.  He has been doing well and happy where he is.  good!!  I took him to this wonderful tempura place where Kaori also liked it.  I took people who are into more non-vegan food there.  It was a little bit heavy on my stomach and I guess my gallbladder cannot digest fat quickly enough, but I was ok and the food tasted great.  It was nice to see him.  All I talked about was how excited I was to visit Harper.  I hope I wasn’t annoying..

Today, I was productive in the morning doing laundry and cooking since my organic food delivery comes every Friday.  I quicky preped lunch boxes for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and I realize that I will be in Chicago so soon!  I cannot believe it!

I went to Mizonoguchi which is about 20 min west of Shibuya to get face wash and other facial products and how-to-use them lecture.  They don’t let you buy it unless you learn how to use it (it’s free, by the way).  It sounded easy, but it was pretty informative and I was surprised to see these people who are much much older (sorry) had great skin!  Kayo, my hairstylist whom I met through Kumi, my friend from highschool, introduced me to this product.  I usually don’t believe those types of deals, you know, it could be sketchy (sorry again!), but looking at her skin and how I felt after using them and they don’t push for sales at all (in fact, I couldn’t buy it for a few weeks because I couldn’t take the study thing..sad)  There was a nail artist joined the study, and she took care of my finger nails.  I like keep them simple, and she just basically took care of dead skin and smooth them out.  I felt pretty good today, being a pretty? woman surrounded by great women in various ages (22 to 70s!!)

After my natural beauty make over (hahaha), we had some dinner/ drink by the station, and Miki joined us.  Kayo, the hairstylist, Hana, her daughter (super cute!), Shiho, the nail artist, and Miki, the translator and I went to this beer place.  I had a few glasses of white wine since a character in the Murakami book I was reading in a train was drinking a glass of chilled white wine and made me want one.

It was super fun to hang out with these ladies because they all are independent and have good tastes and tough yet sweet.  ohhhh..I love them.

Last week, Yurie came and we had a great time as well.  Lately, I have been surrounded by great women.  Yurie and I just chilled and cooked one dish and ate it and cooked another and kept doing this at my place.  She got us a half bottle of champagne!  Thanks!  I took her to all-you-can-eat macrobiotic lunch and we took a long time and fully enjoyed our meals there.

Next week, I will be in Chicago and I am sure it will be super fun too!!  I don’t have any specific plans, but I don’t need any.

oh well, I have two more days of work before my vacation.  yea, I can do it! so excited, can’t you tell?