Doing new things?! What’s that?

I had a VERY enjoyable weekend, although it went far too fast. I love that weeks go by really quickly, but I don’t enjoy the fact that weekends go by equally as fast. Hrm.

Anyway, Friday night there was a Country Ma’am (me, Jenny and Cindy) gathering at Cindy’s place to watch the Golden Globes and other assorted American entertainment. It served as an excuse for us to eat far too much food and talk shit about celebrities for four hours. We thought more people were coming, so we had enough food for like six people or more, but of course the three of us ate almost all of it. Jesus, we have problems. It was fun to watch the Golden Globes, tho, and the good thing about watching it a month and a half after it airs is that we all forgot who won, so it was surprising!

We also watched a few interviews with Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger (yes, I realize I have mentioned Brokeback like 300 times in the last two weeks, but whatever!) and I got really annoyed with the STUPID questions they ask them. First of all, every interview is the same, and every interview is homophobic. It’s really annoying! I am half irritated at the interviewer and half irritated with our society for those questions needing to be asked. Like, every interview pretty much consisted of them asking about the “risks” involved with playing a gay character and how nervous they were doing the kissing scenes and stupid shit like that. Like, it is obvious that they will ask those questions, but it is also so fucking stupid, in my opinion. Hello, they’re fucking actors, their job is to pretend to be someone else, it shouldn’t be a “risk” to pretend they’re gay. Also, I got especially irritated when Oprah was asking these questions because I would have expected better than her. To me it’s not different than asking if an actor was nervous about kissing a black person on screen or anything like that. It’s fucking ridiculous. *breathes*

Um, where was I? Anyway, that was Friday and it was fun! Hehe. On Saturday I met up with Cindy and Ann and went to Korona no yu, which is the onsen and sauna at Korona. I had heard great things about it, but I didn’t realize that it was the GREATEST PLACE ON THE PLANET, holy shit! It’s really new-looking and nice, and was SO relaxing. The onsen was great, but I fucking loved the sauna. You get to wear these comfy-ass pajama-like things made out of towel material, and since you’re not naked, it’s co-ed (not that naked things aren’t co-ed in Japan). There was this great hot rock room and all kinds of stuff. I was the lonely sweaty-ass Whitey McWhiterson, but I still enjoyed it. There is also a theater room where you can lay down and watch movies, a relaxation room with magazines and TV to watch, and all kinds of shit. It was sooooooooooo good, I am SO bringing any visitors there.

After that we met up with Emily and had Thai food in Ashikaga to celebrate Ann’s birthday (happy birthday, Ann!). It was sooooo good. They also gave us the “VIP room,” which was like our own private dining room, which was cool. And we deserved it since we ordered about 300 different dishes.

After that we headed back to Korona and wasted time while waiting for a pool table. While we never ended up playing pool, we did some crappy purikura, I rocked ass on taiko (and got my own little fan club of kids who practiced their English on me, awwww! And I got fucking blisters from the drum sticks, bastards!), and played darts (don’t ever play with Cindy; I think she is secretly British!). It was a really fun day because all of the activities were something we hadn’t done before. It was soooo nice to discover there is more stuff to do in Ota! Very very fun day.

On Sunday I talked to my sister for over an hour about her visit…I can’t believe she’s here in less than three weeks! We have some fun stuff planned, I can’t wait. I also talked to my family, watched Love Actually (fuck, Rodrigo Santoro is fucking hot), and wasted time doing god knows what. I love me some Sundays.