My first birthday party
Today, I managed to get up early. The weather has been nice recently. It was still cold this morning, but the sun was out and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. It's very odd that Tokyo has been spared with the winter blizzard that seems to be EVERYWHERE else in Japan. I was awakened by one of Mtki's friends that was allowing my family to borrow some of the extra blankets and futons so they could sleep on while they are here. There was a lot and I think that now I have plenty of blankets and sheets and pillows and stuff. If anyone wants to come, I have plenty of space and gear for you. Since my mother also just sent two big blankets in the mail too. I was talking with family for a little bit in the morning, but it wasn't much since we were all getting ready to go out.
I went to a new place near Kounandai that has sushi that goes on the conveyor belt with a sushi chef right in front of us. The sushi was pretty good and I ate a lot. Mtki's mother kept on pushing me to eat more and more since she would be paying for it and it was my birthday party. She thought that last year's place wasn't a very good place to go, so she wanted to make it up this year because she's nice like that. I enjoyed it, but got a little too full because of it. I ate about 11 dishes and ate more than my fair share of sushi. I also got cake and tiramisu in the fridge too at a dessert for later. I think that I'll probably eat the apple pie that I got tonight, since I forgot to eat dinner.
When I got home, we were all watching soccer on the TV at Ttki's house. It was the Kashima Antlers and Omiya... something. When I left Omiya was winning 1-0. I decided to leave because I had some more work to finish. I wanted to go to Yamada Denki and buy some ink cartridges for my printer because I need to print out the New Year Cards that I just bought a ton of from 7-11. The postcards cost a lot of money, about $35 and then the ink at Yamada Denki was another $70. So in total, just for New Year Cards, I have spent over $100. That's a bit ridiculous to me. I haven't even bought Christmas gifts for other people too, which is a bad thing. It's a very very bad thing and I will probably do it tomorrow... on Christmas when I have some time. But I have to clean up my place too. That's also a very high priority right now, since my family will becoming the day after tomorrow. I seem to be back loaded with work recently.
The problem that I'm having right now, after I had just finished with all of the 60 some cards that I made from scratch, my printer wasn't installed into my new laptop and there is a problem installing it. If need be, I'll just switch it over to my old laptop to do the cards, but then I have to figure out a way to get it to work on my new laptop, otherwise I'd have a useless printer and I just got new ink for it too. I didn't do too much other than that. One of my co-workers called me today to let me know about the birthday party that I will have tomorrow with her. I think that it will be good, and it's a bit early I think. But I think that it will be fun since I enjoy their company and we always have great conversations. I'll probably spend a few more hours working on the printer to get it fixed. I'm downloading the software for the printer now through the HP website, and I hope I'm downloading the right one since it's all in Japanese and I'm not sure which is which.
