that said, please deposit said takoyaki directly into my mouth please

we're at the under-40-days mark for our trip and I'm losing my fcking mind

I have everything I need, I just want to make some new/fresh clothing and a couple travel bags that fit our shit

and a sweatshirt-jacket for Rose

but mostly I just want to go and eat my way through several prefectures

and find something ridiculous to do that tops my rich sister climbing the tower of Pisa and seeing Michelangelo's David in person

taoyakiiiiiiii

*takoyaki

TAKO

i have decided that if I see cute octopus mascots anywhere I'm getting one

btw I Rickrolled Rose today, it was amazing she was so mad

Yesss

I wanna cute tako T_T

omg did you? she didn't tell me!

in text XD

I'm going to ask after she's done with DnD

I can't remember what brought it about but yes

u did this 2 her

in a roundabout way

it e

me, even

OH YEAH she was talking about Hadestown

and how Orpheus didn't want to give up Eurydices

(Nor let her down nor run around and etc)

..........LMFAO

anyway Nippon

ah I am so envious

right

I know a lot of people collect goshuin stamps from temples but

I think I want to collect mascots

like I will legit get a Kumo-mon trinket from Kumamoto

ohh

and turn into a prune from Bathland no doubt

or Bath World...

or w/e

nah I don't think we're going to make it to Spa World

I thought that was by your hotel

or something

it is, but we've gone through our itinerary and it's sort of on the lowest level of "if we have time"

ohh

Osaka castle and not being dead from jet lag = priorities

true

might just have to have bath room

or see if Kalifa does room service

hurr

but no really we've got a ryokan with bath on Miyajima plus with an extra day I booked a day at Bessho Onsen outside Ueda so we'e gonna bath our brains out

get the full experience

wet'n'wild

oh she said you were going to an island with a temple... I wonder if that's where the deer are

Miyajima, yes

Ah ha

I've been there!

home of Itsukushima shrine

ah nostalgia

sort of

HAVE YOU?!

Yes XD

I want to go there because it was literally built in 1100 CE or so

in college in the early aught teens

the oldes thing I will ever see

I studied abroad for three months

lived in Osaka, went to school in Kyoto

we visited Hiroshima and Miyajima

I knew you did, I just never knew exactly where you were

oh I see

omg you lived in Osaka what

it would have been better if i wasn't self-conscious and anxiety ridden 95% of the time but

yeah :3

I love everything I see of Osaka, it looks so casual and fun

oh there's also a sort of

hm how to describe it

Movie...set... village...thing

where they filmed a bunch of movies ... but like Samurai type (not all Samurai but historical of that vein)

and there are people in...not costume per se but

ohhhhhhhh the uh. what was it. Toei village?

I don't think so.... I don't remember ah... it was so long ago

but it was cool

lmao

there are a couple of places like that I think. I wasn't planning to see them but it's like, cool that it's there

Oh and we saw the Shinsengumi house back when I could still like Kenshin

oh yeah weren't a bunch of them from Shikoku and near Osaka?

well yes but this was in Kyoto

where their HQ was

I actually have a video of it somewhere

XD no videos were allowed but I didn't realize that until after it had videod

and I doubt your travels will take you near but if you hear of a college called Doshisha Jidai that's where I was

....it has a wiki omg

whooaaa right on the north edge of the imperial palace? noice

we're staying in Higashiyama near Chion-in but the palace isn't off my maybe-list yet

noice

God I am so envious XD of how you're going to consume your way through

Completely unrelated to any fucking thing but, I saw this and thought it might amuse you

afkjhadkajshd I wasn't there until "it smells like the interstate" and then "there are two kinds of people" and Y E A H

as a genxer I live in a constant state of "there are two kinds of people"

XD That made me laugh too

also it's February 8D

oh god

no I still have half an hour you shush

34 days oh shit will I ever finish all my to-dos

I believe in you

I have two orders to finish but also some shirts, a jacket, and travel pouches for us

ohh travel pouch

if we don't have TEN FUCKING INCHES OF SNOW every week from now till March

oh wow it's a whole 4 degrees now

nah only 9 1/2

pff yeah only

it's cold down here, I think I'll go upstairs and read stupid shit until I fall asleep

y good

this is a good plurk

I live to entertain