Drunken Owls and Other Delights

And as I hoped, it started with us sleeping in until the cats woke us up at 7am demanding to be fed. That's the one thing I actually wanted to do this week: sleep in take my time deciding what I wanted to do that day (if we didn't already have plans). So far so good!

Today was a somewhat late run to Costco, but we are now well stocked in needed things and we managed to survive the chaos that is the parking lot. The one we go to in Colma is right next door to a Trader Joe's so while A started the shopping, I popped in to TJ's for a few other needed things. The traffic today was weirdly busy so it took us a lot longer to get home, so lunch was late and dinner ended up being crackers and cheese.

We spent the rest of the afternoon watching the last three episodes of The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity, an anime on Netflix and a manga I am extremely obsessed with at the moment. On the surface the story does give the sense of "why do these teens have ALL THE FEELS" but let's be honest, we were all like that when we were 15-16. The manga is up to about 170-plus chapters right now, and the new anime series only covered maybe the first forty in this particular 13 episode season. I'm definitely hoping it gets renewed, because it's extremely well done and very faithful to the source material.

And speaking of anime obsession, I hear that Your Name will be playing in Japantown in February and I am extremely tempted to go see it. Another personal favorite that I highly recommend.

SO! Any other plans this week? Aside from more sleeping in, we'll be visiting the in-laws for lunch and maybe heading elsewhere in the North Bay afterwards, going to the Haight tomorrow, and going for lunch and high tea on Thursday (which also happens to be my birthday). Not too much planned, just a vague idea of going outside and enjoying the day. And that's just fine with me.

Hope everyone has a good week!

Woke up from an odd dream this morning with my first thought being "this should TOTALLY be a manga."

It involved a girls' dormitory at a Christian college, centering around one girl who's like a mentor for younger girls at the dorm. She lives in a dorm that's seven stories high, and each floor somehow represents (in theory and in real life, as most silly mangas do) a level of hell and/or heaven. The lead lives on floor 7, Heaven, which is cool except that inexplicably there's a mom & pop store (in New England-speak, this store would be a 'packie', as yes, it did have beer and other liquor) at the end of one of the hallways. The packie being there through the maxim "Heaven is what you make it" (the overall theme of the story), and apparently having a packie close at hand was some student's idea of ideal heaven. :p

I can only wonder what kind of shojo manga silliness would unfold in this setting...

[Note to self: this could easily play out as a YA novel and/or series...still, I totally see it as a manga...]