Past weekend and thoughts on S3 Dexter

[beck]

I guess I should work on updating here more than once a week. Feels weird not posting as much as I use to.

Last weekend was pretty busy. Sat night spent the night @ toriru4ever's and got the chance to finally play Wii. Feels kinda weird till you get a hang of the controller and talk about ADDICTING!!! At least in the sports sections. I haven't tried golf yet but the boxing is dumb as hell. Tennis, baseball, and bowling is neat. We did the fitness tests and my age group was 44. The thing that fucked me over on that during the tests was the tennis for some reason. Yet when I play the reg. game, I have no problem at all. Now I want to play tennis for real. *lol* The only thing that sucked was having a sore arm and shoulder the next day for doing all those movements. Thankfully the pain is finally going away.

Sunday, we went to the Japanese Fall Festival in Richardson. First time for the majority of us except for originalkitsune. Not a bad little event, had alot of food vendors thats for sure. It was so funny, my nephew's gf who went with us, tried a piece of takoyaki and once she found out what was in it, she freaked. *lol* Later in the evening, she still couldn't believe what she ate, especially what the inside looked like when a piece of squid came out of one of the balls that was in my container. Yeah, I wasn't fond of them either so no squid for me. Probably would've tasted better with different seafood in it. Tried an eel bowl later and that was pretty good! Much better tasting than the eel that Tokyo One uses. The eel bowls were made by Tei Tei, the Japanese place we tried out after Afest.

After we left the festival, we headed to an Asian grocery store that Mona goes to. "Shop Smart, Shop S mart!" Oh sorry, wrong mart. "Shop Smart, Shop Itchy mart!" *lol* Checked it out and then walked down to one of the cafes for desert and coffee.

Once we got back to Mona's, man, talk about a looooooooong day! Where in the hell did the weekend go!!!??

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Had the chance to watch the season premiere of S3 of Dexter. Feels kinda weird to start off on a whole new page. I'm still so used to what the book was about that I can't shake that off. Deb looks good with short hair but the series still feels out of place w/out Doakes. I guess for now, Jimmy Smits character is taking his place but I have a feeling he's gonna end up on Dexter's list. The new guy (played by Desmond Harrington) who seems to be kinda hitting on Deb is pretty cute though looking at other pics of him, he looks better with hair. I'm just curious as to what is going to go on with the DA following Deb around. Also seems kinda weird to see Dexter and Rita have more "family" time aka having sex all the time when they show him over at her place. After seeing the upcoming preview, I'm not too happy with what they are already throwing into the mix in Dexter's life. I'll post it under a cut SO BE WARNED THIS IS A SPOILER!!!!



Rita is pregnant!!! >____< SO NOT COOL!!! Why the fuck now??!! Can they not wait, in fact, why even have her preggie at all? Are the writers going to think that Dexter is going to try and calm his killing urges if there is a baby in the pic? Or that with a baby coming into his life, that he has to be honest with Rita about what kind of person he really is? Maybe if he did tell her that, they'd probably have it to where she loses the baby.

Who knows, all I know is that I'm not cool with this.

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Last but not least....17 more days till vacation!! OMGAH!! *faints*

Comments

[baikautsugi.livejournal.com]

The one my sister took me to is the Recofan in Shibuya, Tokyo. They're a franchise, so it's a good name to remember:
http://www.recofan.co.jp/map/map_eng.html

There's also a Mandarake in Shibuya. They deal with used anime/manga merchandise, including CDs:
http://www.mandarake.co.jp/en/shop/

Another good franchise to remember is Book-Off. They deal mostly in used books, but have a fairly good selection of CDs and DVDs as well depending the location. Their website is only in Japanese so just try to remember their logo:
http://www.bookoff.co.jp/

My sister also recommends the Ikebukuro area in Tokyo for used CDs, as well as Osaka in general. She doesn't remember any store names though because they were mostly individually owned.

Hope that helps.

Bon Voyage!!!

[yankeerose69.livejournal.com]

Yup, I got this just in time.

Do you know roughly what floor in Ikebukuro that the music stuff was in unless it was scattered around in the building? I still plan on checking email when I can while in Japan so if you find out, I'll be able to check it out when you respond.

Thanx for the info!!

[baikautsugi.livejournal.com]

Any time :)

I've unfortunately never been to Ikebukuro, but I think what my sister meant was the station Ikebukuro and it's environs, so the stores could be anywhere. (I know, that doesn't help much...) If I remember correctly, the area has always been well known for it's used record (i.e., vinyl) shops though.

Feel free to fire more questions at me as they come up. Can't promise anything, but I'll try my best to get you some answers.

Speaking of stores, if you are interested in trying Japanese-style ice-cream parfaits, remember the following names: Senbikiya, Takano Fruit, and Parlour Nishimura. The end :)

[yankeerose69.livejournal.com]

Recofan is DA BOMB!!!!! It's like music fangirl HEAVEN!!!! Same goes with that Mandarake.