today

Sometimes you just have a good day.

Today, MM got a new job. This is especially exciting because it means we get to move--we get to move into a HOUSE! The downside, you ask? Well, the house will most likely be in Fremont, San Leandro or Hayward. Which sucks. I'm willing to overlook such setbacks in the face of pulling in mucho dinero and having a house. Also, we will most likely get another car. This is good and bad, if you ask me.

Today I finished my evening gown. This embroidered silk monstrosity is way couture. I had to handsew a bunch of it. That's sew and stitch with a needle and thread and my own two hands. No machine for a lot of it. No wonder it took me more than a month to finish. You can see it in person if you come to my fashion show in may.

Today we went to Mijori to celebrate mm's new job. We had the bay scallop roll which is baked and delicious. We also had hirame and sake nigiri, sake to drink, a shitake roll and a spider roll. Tasty.

Today I told a friend about how someone sent mm and me an issue of Modern Drunkard magazine which we received via post yesterday. Very funny--I think it was Y-M and A.

Today marks the beginning of the rest of my life.

I shopped, then I dropped.

and a happy new year to you, devoted reader and friend.

Yesterday was an important day for me, it was the ever elusive most-of-the-day-off for me and, since my birthday is this month and i love to celebrate my own birthday and take every birthdayial opportunity to buy myself pretty things, I went shopping. I went to work for a couple hours in the late morning, but come mid-noon I was on BART bound for the city. I finally made it to the ferry building where i ate lunch at the Slanted Door's take-out counterpart, Out the Door. Quite a good, if overpriced, bahn mi. I don't usually get pork so it's actually kind of tough to truly compare it to the normal two dollar ones I eat but I will say that the bread was quite extraordinary. Crisp crust that didn't cut up the inside of my mouth and a substantive body evocative of many a fine parisian baguette. Anyhow, I wandered around but didn't buy too much except for four delicious chocolates from recchiuti. Jasmine tea, burnt caramel, sesame nougat and fleur de sel. Damn tasty. I could be a fat happy person--rather, a happy fat person--if i could just eat these chocolates every day. Then I shopped. Bought new sunglasses at Loehman's, used up a store credit and $15 off birthday coupon at Banana Republic, visited a friend at Nordstrom's and bought some socks, finally went to H&M and I have to say I was a bit underwhelmed. Or maybe I was overwhelmed but underimpressed. At any rate, I did not appreciate standing in the long ass line with the overzealous foreigners behind me breathing down my neck. I'm American, don't invade my personal space, damnit! I did buy some tights and a shirt for mm but I don't think I'll be doing any of my personal shopping there for much the same reasons I refuse to furnish my home with goods from Ikea. Last, but certainly not least, I must mention my great buy of the day came at a Miner Miracle where I found myself two pairs of Anne Klein sample shoes for only ten bucks each, my favorite being the teal and cream t-straps that made my day. Retail therapy indeed!