Sabrina the shopaholic

Hung out with my Russian friend Sabrina yesterday, spent the night at her house. She lives in Manhattan with her Japanese pimping boyfriend. He's a Kyoto guy with a tattoo (I saw it this morning when he was half awake, ha!). He hates Tokyo. I called him on it and he didn't deny it. Kansai people always hate Tokyo.

Their apartment is really cool. You can see the water and Ellis Island and if you could see through the big building in the way, you'd be able to see the Statue of Liberty. Anyway it's very cool. And ridiculously expensive. She pays one third of the rent. He pays the rest, but it's unfortunately half his salary, so now he's living like a poor boy. Sabrina didn't find out until after they moved in that 2/3 of the rent = half his paycheck. She was like "he could say no, why he did not tell me?" I think he was scared to say no.

So I had to keep my mouth shut about the fact that I watched Sabrina spend almost the equivalent of her share of rent on clothes that very evening.

Sabrina brings new meaning to the term shopaholic. She's chronically under-paid, yet goes on shopping sprees buying dresses for hundreds and thousands of dollars. Yesterday I had to do my best to convince her NOT to buy a green, 400dollar dress that made her look like a big giant balloon. She bought it. She also bought 160dollar green shoes. She immediately returned them though. Then I went back to her place and she fed me chicken liver (ewwwwww) and cabbage, and showed me pictures from her Birthday, from New Years, etc. "That dress was 2,000dollars, and that dress was 500dollars" etc., it was insane. She's some kind of financial planning genius, because she always manages to survive. She always looks amazing though.

Her boyfriend said that when he takes her out and she's looking all sexy in heels, she's taller than him, and he feels like everyone's staring at them like "what's that little Asian guy doing with HER?!" I think he's cute, and he's fine. Who cares if other American guys are big and tall. Big and tall's not necessarily a good thing. Anyway, her boyfriend's bigger than mini Boxer.