Weekly Weekend Thread – 31 July 2023

It’s Monday! Did you do anything over the weekend? Go somewhere? Meet someone? Try something new?

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Post about your activities from the weekend here! Pictures are also welcome.

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  1. Upgraded our Oled 55 C9 to an 83 C1! Man I hate moving these Oleds around. But our home just got more fun for movie nights!

  2. – Saturday: stayed home during the day to stay out of the heat, went to a festival near our house to see 盆踊り in the evening
    – Sunday: cleaned the house in the morning, then later we went to the huge Aeon Mall in Chiba (幕張新都心) for the first time. It was fun, but I ended up getting very sick from dehydration whoops. I thought I drank enough. I guess I sweat too much??

  3. A few months ago the leader of the local English club (a lovely retired PE teacher in her 80’s) said that nobody had ever celebrated her birthday. Her birthday is today, so yesterday I invited her over for dinner. I made mini hamburgers, cucumber salad (which has “vinegar taste” as she calls it), and small cakes. The cakes weren’t great but shockingly okay for how few ingredients there were. Managed to write “HBD (name)” on the cakes and she took home half of hers to put on the Buddhist altar in her home. Probably not the best birthday celebration ever, but I tried.

  4. Neighbouthood festival for the first time in four years, and being block captain’s means we work. Wife helped sell juice, and I help take down the tents. One of us got the better job!

    But it was a lot fun, minus how many elementary Grade 4-6 year kids there probably don’t remember the last time it was held (and running around outside in the heat with masks on as well.)

  5. Saturday I prepared for a run/hike through the mountains. I went out and bought a suitable bag, map, etc. and was proper excited. Then on Saturday night it was so hot I did not sleep a single hour. Gave up on the hike idea due to the heat (If I can’t sleep there’s no way I can handle the heat being active.) and spent the day in air-con land.

    AC doesn’t reach my bedroom.

  6. I spent the weekend recovering from almost getting heat exhaustion last week. Thankfully, I have learned my lesson from almost getting heat stroke two to three weeks ago.

    I subscribed to Hulu Japan this weekend to supposedly immerse myself in Japanese while resting but the service doesn’t have many Japanese closed captions available. I wonder if Netflix is the best for language learning afterall.

  7. I watched last night Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix, episode 4 of season 2, ‘Tsunami ghosts’. It nearly had me in tears at moments, it was heart wrenching and very beautiful at the same time. A Buddhist priest from a temple in a community heavily hit by the tsunami shares his vision about the spiritual traumas that the disaster left on the living and the death victims of the tsunami among others. Very highly recommended to watch.

  8. Accepted an invitation to go to the Showa kinen koen fireworks fromd friends.

    Made preparation to bring little boy with me, would be his first fireworks ever so I was worried he would be afraid and would cry.

    He LOVED it. The sound, the light, the shapes of fireworks, along with having everyone handing him the Edamame made the time very much enjoyable.

    Less enjoyable was the time it took to go from the park to the station. I didn’t do my research and holy molly it was PACKED. Took 90min to reach the station when I expected 15ish minutes… Because of this little dude slept quite late but also woke up sunday at 9am instead of 7am so I take it as a full win.

    Managed to move forward with most of the preparation for 2nd baby coming home next week, house is cleaned, laundry done, just needs to tidy a little bit and we’ll be good.

  9. Went and got tacos at a tacos 3 hermanos pop up that was in a convenient spot for my errands. Also had nice craft beer on tap, which made for a nice lunch.

    Sunday I went to Nitori to get some stuff for the new house and then did some grocery shopping, but mostly it was too hot to want to venture out too far so I alternated between my back porch (in shade in the PM) and the AC for a relaxing afternoon.

  10. Saturday: first hanabi experience! Love how the fireworks went on for 90 minutes (?!?!) but I’m not the biggest fan of the crowds.

    Sunday: saw the new Ghibli movie! It was…. huh. Honestly I was kinda bored by the middle of the movie, but I’m happy that I get to experience it in the original theater run. Also ate yakiniku and apple pie so I’m really happy.

  11. Two Mexican tourists on the Shinkansen platform were excitedly taking pictures with the sign showing the next arrivals. Since one of them was Kodama, I thought maybe they were looking for the Hello Kitty Shinkansen. But they got on the Sakura with me, and exclaimed that this was the one. I see them walk by my car with their cell phone beeping, and one of them is like “hurry up and find it before we reach the next station”, and I’m like ohhh cool they must be playing some kind of Pokemon Go game but on Shinkansen, and they are hovering over some empty seats with the rest of the passengers staring at them when they start celebrating and high fiving each other. So I am really curious what game they are playing cause I want to play too, and I ask them, and they reply “it’s not a game we lost our airpods two days ago and we’ve been all over Japan (looking for them?)”. 🤣🤣🤣

  12. Could barely see the Sumida fireworks form our balcony so watched what we could. Discovered my partner has never seen Futurama so we started binging it and I’m feeling super nostalgic.

    Back in university (fuck has it already been more than 10 years?!) I would occasionally wear j-fashion to concerts etc. Got around to selling some of it and found it’s worth ¥¥¥ and most of it sold within an hour of listing it. Having some plastic surgery in a few weeks so it completely covered the bill for that. Pretty chuffed. Good weekend all in all.

  13. Took a drive to Lake Tazawa in Akita, and was absolutely blown away by how nice it is.

    Beautiful clear water, tons of places to rent boats and stuff, and really nice for swimming. I had no idea there was a lake swimming spot this nice, just an hour from my house in Morioka.

    No all I have to do is find a place on the lake that will let me barbeque, and it’s the perfect summer spot!!

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