This made me laugh. Also, while you're visiting my brother's blog, may I suggest you check out pictures of my nephew and niece? I think they are fantastic little beings and are the cutest! My grandmother is totally cool too.
What is not pretty funny is that my phone died. Maybe dropping on the sidewalk was more than a simple protest against my infatuation with Tokyo phones.
So bear with me while I figure out what to do.
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Dav surprised me with a wonderfully relaxing afternoon at a spa near Bodega Bay. It was kind of for my birthday, but we've decided not to focus on particular birth dates, and instead surprise each other with gifts whenever we want to, and this was one of them. It was an Enzyme Bath and massage at Osmosis.
My mom introduced me to a similar rice bath in Tokyo. It was amazing and I blogged about it. BoingBoing picked it up and someone left a comment over there about this Osmosis spa, and Dav noted it thinking we'd go one day. Ah, the power of blogging; little did I know that posting back then would lead to a nice day at a spa!
After walking around their beautiful meditation garden, we drank tea in a private room overlooking a Japanese garden, then made our way to a huge wooden box filled with fermenting cedar and rice bran. It was similar to the one I tried in Japan, but here, we got to be in one box together. I liked being able to wiggle my fingers over to Dav's as we gently baked in the fermenting mixture. Over the 20 minutes in that box, there were times I felt like erupting with heat and kicking my legs free for air. But just at the right time, the spa person came by with iced water or a cool towel for our feverish heads.
We finally slowly got up and laughed at each other since we looked like, um, I don't how else to describe being entirely covered in dust, head to toe, every nook and cranny. Almost looked like we were covered in freckles. After dusting ourselves off in the garden, we showered, then were led to our massages. I'd been wanting a massage for a long time and with the enzyme bath, my muscles were already jelly and just waiting to become complete mush. The best part was that we got our massages in the same room. I really liked the whole couple thing; even though we didn't talk, it was nice to be close and know he was feeling just what I was feeling.
Anyway, sorry if I made you jealous. This doesn't happen every day to a girl. I'm super lucky and can't wait to think up my gift to Dav! :)
On the way home, we kept passing beautiful rolling hills full of cows. I don't see cows frequently and really wanted to pet one. So Dav parked on the side of the road where several cows were hanging out near the fence. I was so excited to touch a cow...but as I approached - and I crouched down not to scare them - they started moving away. Then I noticed the whole entire heard ALL looking at me as if I was a big elephant. I haven't felt so self-conscious since junior high! Sadly, it was quickly evident that they had no interest in letting me pet them. Ah well, at least I got to try.
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Transcription by tfc in mtn view:
Dav and I went out to dinner in the Castro and walked by a furniture shop showcasing a bed and on the bed was a fat furry cat. Sure caught our attention; Dav first thought he was dead until he stretched. Cat at work selling beds at night. They're good at sleeping, so why not?
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The cat sock was found inside the bedroom! So this may be a trend...
Anyway, both cats are napping now in the closet with their paws sticking out. Have to save up energy for their nightly prowl.
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For the past several months, Dav and I have noticed that Wakame, the girl cat of our furry family, brings a toy sock to our bedroom door during the night. Every morning, we wake up to find this sock, with its tiny golden bell attached, placed right in the middle in front of the door . And every morning, I pick it up and place it back in the cat toy pile that is in the living room. I began feeling that I 'had' to put the sock back so Wakame would be able to carry out her nightly ritual.
Well, this morning there was a change. Wakame brought the sock toy into our room. When I first moved in, Dav kindly changed the whole bedroom door so he could cut a cat door into it. This way, we could actually close our bedroom door and the cats could still go in and out freely.
This first picture shows where the sock usually is: just outside the door in the long hallway to the living room. The second picture is the new sock drop-off point: just inside the room by the cat door.
Yes, I picked the sock up again and put it back in the toy pile. Let's see where it'll be placed tomorrow morning...
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Transcription by Dav:
Jo: [Cheeky Red Robot drawing] we just got married. i am flabbergasted by that.
Thank you for witnessing our ceremony!
Schuyler: something as true as this is [psychedelic happy face] oh lover I'll cover you
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At a meeting and we're sitting around a beautiful high tech table with our laptops plugged in. But here's a design flaw - we're usign a tissue box to prop open the hide-away cover that holds the plug sockets. Kinda funny, no?
Ah, I feel so ancient; I took the top 2 pictures with a film camera that I dusted off for my Tokyo trip knowing my phone wouldn't be working there. Finally developed the film, had Dav scan them for me and now here they are...days later from the actual event.
As much as I appreciate my loyal Nokia phone, while in Tokyo, I was in love with the current Japanese phones. As if in a symbolic expression of protest, my phone escaped from my bag one night and dramatically splattered against the sidewalk. Gen and Paul took a sympathetic interest in my phone.
Later that evening, Paul showed off the Mogi game he's playing. As we walked in Naka-meguro towards a yummy dessert place, he searched for virtual treasures in the vicinity that he could "pick up" with his phone. He kindly sent me a screen shot that I begged for.
If I were living in Tokyo, I'd be working my butt off to be the Mogi queen! What a fantastic way to get people to explore the city. I can imagine that I'd spend a whole Sunday afternoon strolling new neighborhoods, looking for virtual items, snapping and marking places that catch my eye. Anything that gets you out of a regular pattern is good in my book :)
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I took these pics with my Nokia phone while in Japan. The phone doesn't work over there, but I carried it around and turned it on every once in a while to take these.
Here, you see
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