Shopping

Since yesterday it snowed and it was too cold to go out, I decided I would prepare myself for the winter. I went shopping for some new threads. First I went to get some cash from the bank. The lines were long, and I really didn't know why. But I did learn how to use the ATM right now. I didn't know that I could get a print out in my account book, and all I had to do was stick it in. That's really cool to think about it.

Then I was off to Ishikawa-cho station and Motomachi street. I grabbed some real food too. I grabbed some quick junk food at Yoshinoya, I really love that place as you could probably already tell. Now I really can tell why YYmoto really loved that place. Then I was walking down the street a little to the GAP. I really like it there. Not because I'm being totally American and only buying U.S. products. But I'm buying it because it fits and it was on sale. I mean things were priced way below what I would find at Fashion Valley. Thanks President Bush for making the U.S. Dollar close to worthless. I mean the Yen is on a 5 - year high against the dollar so moving to Japan this year was a good thing for me. All the money that I'm making really is worth a lot when I translate it to U.S. Dollars. Of course it comes at the cost of many human lives fighting in Iraq, and conflicts without resolutions. So anyways, I stayed there for about an hour because there were so many good things to buy, but I didn't want to go crazy buying everything. So I was pretty careful with what I purchased. I set a budget of under $100 or about 10,000 Yen.

When I left the store, I walked out with a sweater, a beanie, and a jacket for only $60. I think it was quite a steal, since it was good quality and I liked it, another rare thing. But I had $40 left to spend so I went and assembled my emergency kit. I bought a new backpack and loaded it with stuff. I need to get some canned food inside, but I pretty much have other things covered. I also need to print out my insurance stuff and a list of hospitals that speak English. It would be terrible to have an emergency and then realize, "oh crap, they don't speak English!" That would be a pretty defining moment in my life, to say the least. It was pretty good since the day was nice and sunny. Of course the temperature was still hovering around 3 degrees celcius, but sunny. So it wasn't that bad. It would have been worse with rain. So I'm glad I assembled my kit. Well at least started it. I feel about 10 percent safer. What would you include in an emergency kit?

Song of the Moment - Kiroro - Nagai Aida