Cooking Day + Love Actually

I had wanted to go to the immigration office today to pick up my multiple reentry permit, but I wanted to do some research online for the packages that were offered by the travel agencies, just to see if I was going to go on a trip or not. I think it’s pretty feasible to go on a trip to anywhere in Asia, at least for a couple of days. I’ve gotten a pretty good response from my friends to which places would be good to go to. I think that I haven’t really decided yet and looking at the visa situation. I should at the very least inform people at my work that I will be going that way if there is a huge disaster that they know where I’m at. I mean it’s a long hard process just to go traveling. I mean I want to know what kinds of things I need before I leave the country. If I make a mistake, I’d have to start the whole visa process over again and I think I could lose my status if I make a mistake. I’d like not to have that happen so I’m going to take as many precautions as possible to prevent that from happening.

The research took much longer than I would have hoped and since my sister started talking to me I knew that I wouldn’t be able to go to immigration at all, which means that I could have missed my opportunity to go on a trip at all. I mean next week is Chinese New Year and there are holidays here in Japan too. I doubt that I would be able to figure out how to get to a travel agency and to be able to communicate with them to see if I could get the airline ticket to my destination. But I feel it would be a waste not to go anywhere. I mean I should at least do something with all this time off. It’s a rare thing to have in Japan, days off. I think I’ve spent enough of it doing nothing, so I should get out there and do something that I haven’t done before. But then again, I need to make sure that everyone is squared away too.

Today, instead of going out to eat, I cooked for myself. I’m quite proud of that. It was actually pretty good too, and I guess all the practice has actually paid off. My spaghetti actually tastes like spaghetti now. I made the perfect amount too just to have for dinner. But clean up was a pain, since my sink only has freezing cold water washing the dishes was a bit challenging. I mean I was washing my pan that had some oil in it and it froze the oil in the pan… I then had to reheat the pan and scrap it off. Not that fun and left an oily residue everywhere. So, I think I’ll just wait for the spring to cook again. I think at least by then, the freezing water won’t be so bad.

After dinner, I decided to watch a movie. The movie I chose to watch tonight was Love Actually. I’ve seen it before with my girlfriend at the time, and didn’t remember much about the movie. Everyone I talk to about it loved it. My sister loved it so much that she bought it. And even seeing it again today, I still don’t understand. What is it about that movie that makes it great? Am I just not paying attention? Do I not have a heart or something? I just don’t get it. I think it’s nice at some parts but the whole movie didn’t move me like it did with others. I thought it was a bit corny to be honest with you. I don’t know, I guess I need someone to explain it to me, since I’m just not getting it. Yeah, so someone please fill me in on what I’m missing about this movie. There were a lot of famous Celebrities in this movie, I mean a lot, which was a bit surprising for me, but cool.