Bonne Chance
Today is the luckiest day of the Japanese calendar. Why, I don't know. My host brother and his fiancee, although she is Christian and although the "Wedding Season" is over, having chosen this day to be married.

The ceremony is from 2:30 at the Grand Hyatt Tokyo in Roppongi Hills. I'm heading off there myself after I do a bit of studying and a bigger bit of primping. I ate a big bowl of American oatmeal this morning to keep me until the after-party where I'll get to meet allllllll the family (except my host dad's ex-pat brother who lives in Sweden with a Swedish wife.. hee hee). I'm going to spend the whole day trying to make good impressions on people and not feel like an idiot in my Japanese. The merry eating and drinking will help a bit, I'm sure.

I know I'm not supposed to go shopping since I'm on a budget but I picked up a few things to replace old and stained dress clothes. [$13 and $15 respectively for a cream colored ribbed merino turtleneck and while cardigan] But yeah, I think I did pretty well for myself. I have to budget for small Christmas gifts for the host family and start deciding what kind of Winter coat I want to buy. UNIQLO has fluffy coats for fiddy bucks... and I bet they'd be sufficient except that I worry about their warmth and quality for "only" $50. Does this mean I'm a yuppie for real now?

I've seen other, nicer coats at the other, nicer department stores that of course my brain prefers even though they cost like three times as much. Eghk, me and my "in excess" tastes. I just don't want to freeze my ass off when I go to Hokkaido with Justin. There's probably no helping that though... it is Hokkaido after all.

Yay!