Well, it's cool when you're not riding your bike into the wind that's full of little snow bits....er...snowflakes. They turn into little daggers that make your face all red and raw.
How do I know this, you ask?
Well, I just spent an hour and half this morning looking for my lost key. Sometime last night it slipped off my keychain. I could conjecture, but based on where I found it I have NO clue how I lost it.
Let me walk you through my day and we'll see what you can come up with.
So I woke up a bit melancholy. Don't know why, just was. Spending the day alone didn't do much to fix that, either. I pulled through till 6:30 though. That's when Jen, Lily, and Sam planned to come over for some Vampire Diaries goodness.
After cleaning my room spick and span, they knocked... well actually they didn't knock. Haha! They just kind of wandered into my room. At any rate, the party commenced. We goofed around for a bit, downloaded the episode and started the game.
By the end of it we were a little sad. The episode was a bit disappointing, so to cheer ourselves up, we watched some Sabrina the Teenage Witch. That's right. Blast from the 90's past! I never realized just how hokey that show was.
So we killed time with that till karaoke. We'd made the plan on the last day of school to go to this Karaoke place called Cybac for a 6 hour karaoke/ping pong/darts/billiards/soft drink 飲み放題 marathon. They have this fantastic deal after 10pm-- all-inclusive 6 hours for ¥1230. It ended up being Kevin, Henry, and us. It was FANTASTIC. I sang my heart out. My voice is super scratchy right now. I've got some hot tea working on that.
So we were there till about 6am. Surprisingly I was wide awake and very hungry after all that. We cruised over to the nearest McDonalds to see if we could get one of the new New York Burgers. Turns out it was so popular they ran out of them that day, so we settled for Big Macs. It's the second Big Mac I've had in my life and it was perfect. It really hit the spot.
After that bite we figured we should head home for some shut eye. I think we decided on that mostly because we couldn't think of anything else to do. Sam and Lily followed Jen and I home to crash for the evening.
Sam and I went back at super speed. We beat Jen and Lily back by a good 10 minutes; just long enough for me to figure out I was, once again, locked out of my room. The last time that happened Nicole and I were in soaking wet clubbing clothes in the dead of winter. This time around it was Sam and I, but at least we were dry.
Earlier that evening, as we were heading out the door, Sam said that Lily had forgotten something in my room. I passed my keys back, Lily said never mind, and I promptly got them returned. I figured maybe Lily had taken the key off then and she had it. Unfortunately she didn't.
We scoured the halls, out front Maison, and all of our bags and pockets. It was nowhere. When we got in the room, Lily kindly called the karaoke place to inquire if it was found in the room. They searched, but it wasn't there. I started to get a little worried, but there was nothing we could do about it at 7am, so we crashed.
As per usual I woke up before everyone else. I faffed about for a bit then decided to go searching for it. I retraced my foot steps exactly.
I asked at the 7/11.
Wasn't there.
I looked up and down Karasuma as I biked in the falling snow.
Nowhere in sight.
Looked where I parked my bike last night.
No such luck.
Headed down the back road from my bike to the karaoke place.
And then!
There it was.
It was wedged between two buildings, really far back, about 100 meters from where my bike was last night.
I don't know. I really don't know, but at least I found it.
As I ecstatically biked back home, the snow began to fall harder. I must have looked like a loon. One of the bigger bits flew into my eye, so I was winking spastically, singing "雪雪雪が降っている／雪雪雪が大好き" and peddling as fast as my legs could go.
Crazy 外人 girl.
In the end all is well. I have my key and I had a lot of fun last night.
Also, it's criminal that taking pictures of falling snow is so hard.
Anyway, Love until later!
Caitlin D.
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