Sunday Dec 19 '10

Weekend Chatter (70)

Oiy~ I hadn’t been feeling like myself this past week/end. With mom’s upcoming surgery & other pressures I just sorta buckled under these past few days. But I’m starting to feel like my old self again already. I feel like such a jackass even being the tiniest sad around Christmas. I have plenty to be happy about but sometimes it’s hard to see the forest through the trees.

I spent much of yesterday helping Mike get through lvl 8 of Super Mario Bros. Lost Levels (aka the REAL Mario Bros 2!) We bought the 25 year anniversary edition of Super Mario All Stars. I had this on my SNES and played through them all over & over EXCEPT the lost levels. Fuck that game it’s hard! Mario Bros 2 is my all time favorite even though it’s not the real Mario 2 (siiigh Japan & US, Y U Nintendo Relationship So Complicated?) XP

“Due to the game’s high difficulty and similarity to its predecessor, Nintendo of America chose not to release it in the United States”

Anyway, so I’ve put Donkey Kong Country Returns on the back-burner for now. Been playing 25th Anniversary Mario instead all week~

Then we went out and did some shopping, got some BBQ for lunch and made a run to the Japanese Market which was fairly busy with New Year’s shoppers! So much osechi in stock dear lord. And they had the larger, plastic kagami mochi which I kinda always wanted (*insert iconic Japanese culture want*) so I got it~ It’ll be a thrill to phone my friend a pic of me with it hahahaha~~!

Also got some hojicha tea bags. Ito En is the only bagged tea brand I like for green tea. Though it doesn’t taste exact to loose leaf it has it’s own flavor and isn’t weak dust tea! It costs a little more than cheaper brands but it’s extremely worth it.

Then I bought some more zero calorie jelly drinks. *sigh* sigh sigh~~ I sigh because I also bought the insanely best-tasting-thing-ever Ginza steam cakes too, haahaa! They’re so high in calories but taste delicious and make me nostalgic since I ate a ton of these while on my trip this summer~