12 posts tagged “seiji”

bad boy

Sep 12, 2008
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I've got a man in my life.

He's really cute and lots of fun. He's always there for me and listens to whatever I have to say, and really supports me when I work or study.

He has trouble controlling his temper though, and I've always got scratches and bruises from him. I said I'd never put up with this again, and I promised myself I'd call the police on the next man who hurt me physically.

But I just can't bring myself to. Because he's just so cute. See?

Lick

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I'm joking. I'm talking about Seiji, the cat. He's on medication but even so, he sometimes can't control himself and pounces on me, teeth and claws and all. He leaves some nice little bruises too.

He's a good boy really.

And...I am now officially a weird (almost) 30-year old single girl. Because I made a joke about my cat being my boyfriend.

sister moved out, dad getting older

Aug 29, 2008
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Baby Sister has moved into a nice apartment in kind of a crappy neighborhood in Korea Town. I gave her a big lecture on being safe, not that she needs it from me. She can take care of herself, but it made me feel better.

Here she is moving her stuff out of her former room (which is my room right now). Seiji's helping out.

Moving out

And here she is moving into her nice new apartment. I love the cement floors and the windows are great. I'd die of happiness if I had an apartment like this in Tokyo. The elevator to this new apartment building was the same size as my old place in Roppongi!

Moving in

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We're celebrating my dad's birthday tomorrow! Me and my sisters bought him some books, Baby Sister's buying him a cake tomorrow and we're getting him dinner. It should be a good day.

And we managed to keep it all a secret. I bet he thinks we forgot. Hahahaha.

roof

Aug 20, 2008
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There's a roof type thing just outside my window. Seijikat hasn't been allowed outside since he came home really sick from playing outdoors. It cost my sister 3,000dollars and a lot of heartache, so he's an inside cat now.

roof

But I can let him out to this roof place. That is if I take apart the contraption that keeps people from breaking in through the window. He seems happy though. Maybe I should start sitting out there. Tan my legs and read or something.

little sister in a suit!

Aug 12, 2008
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I can't believe she's my little sister.

Leaving the apartment

She went off to her law firm interviews this morning. The first of four days. I tried to give some advise on her interview questions and techniques, but to be honest, this is totally outside my field of expertise.

So I helped her choose which suit to wear with what shirt, lent her some beige stockings, and did her hair and makeup. Stick to what you know. Actually the makeup was a little difficult because I had to keep it really understated.

See what I did with her hair? I was quite proud of myself. I did it with only two bent hairpins because we couldn't find anymore in the house.

Cool-hair

And this is her without the jacket. We decided the black suit skirt was the most law firm interview-like. Notice the old antique briefcase. It's some famous brand name which I've now forgotten, from back in the day when brand name bags had their names understatedly inside and not stamped all over the outside. It was my grandpa's, the Eastern European hard working jew.

in shirt and briefcase

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Seiji decided to watch over the briefcase. Moments after this picture was taken he knocked it over, scaring himself and me.

Seiji with briefcase

And there she goes, proclaiming "I'm the only suit in the family!" as she walked purposefully out of the door.

out the door

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Seiji and my dad said goodbye from their bed. My dad's sleeping in the living room because we're all taking up the bedrooms.

Bed

Good luck!

seiji's fat

Aug 9, 2008
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Took seijikat to the vet's, and found out that he's officially FAT!

So we have to put him on a diet...

This sucks.

do i look fat to you?

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Yawning

Aug 2, 2008
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My favorite daddy figure Brian Williams was on the daily show last night. Yes!

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Seiji kat yawning. Notice the teddy bear in the background. He's such a man's man.

Yawning

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the felines

Jul 20, 2008
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This is Osamu. He's only 12 years old, but I think he's dying. He's lost a lot of weight, his fur has lost its glossiness, and he throws up almost every day. When I pick him up he feels like paper. But he's still got the handsomest little face, and he's as friendly as he's always been. He's colored like baked bread and his little head always smells like sunshine. He lives at my mother's house, and I miss him.

Samkins

This is Nori. She lives with Sam at my mother's house. She's chubby and stubby and even though she's only two years younger than samsonite, she still acts like a little baby.

Norinori

This one is Seiji. He belongs to my little sister and he lives in my dad's house right now. He's a young man, he's rough and tough and loves to attack things.

Seijikat

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lemons, seafood, dark hair

Jun 30, 2008
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Here's the lemon tree.

Lemontree

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Hung out with our good friend Kosuke, his sister Yuka and their dad last night.

I'm not lying, Kosuke has a brother named Keisuke, and they even had a dog named Mosuke. Enough with the -suke already!

Kosuke and my twin sister went to college together and they're weird best friends. Since Kosuke was the youngest when his family moved to America from Japan (he was six or seven), he's the most American. The oldest brother Keisuke moved back to Japan right after graduating university (just like me!), and is still there. Yuka is in the middle, and being a woman, I guess she finds America more comfortable.

Their dad now works in Ohio, and he was in town visiting Kosuke and Yuka-chan. He offered to take me and my twin sister out for dinner in Monterey Park, which is the Chinese part of town. It also happens to be where we went to high school, strangely enough. There were like five Japanese people, a few mixed race peeps, and the rest were Taiwanese. My best friend was from Hong Kong and we bonded over our inability to speak Mandarin.

Anyway look at all this food! It was really good. Their dad said that because he lives in Ohio, he really misses good sea food. He went crazy over the clams. I drank too much shokoshu and couldn't sleep very well. I used to love that stuff! I guess I still do.

Seafood

Plus I had a tea leaf standing up, which is good luck.

Goodluck

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Had my hair fixed by my dad's friend Leila too. She dyed it dark again and then put red streaks in it. She said the color will fade and get bright red later. I feel more like myself with dark hair again.

Darkcat

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Leila was a pretty blond woman with a British accent. She was thin with sad eyes. She really reminded me of my step-grandmother (who is also a blonde british woman who married my Eastern European immigrant grandpa when he moved to London from his native New York). When my dad came to pick me up, Leila had an intense discussion with him. She was telling him all her problems and he was listening again. Everyone just loves to talk to my dad about their problems, and he always listens.

I couldn't tell, but Leila was a quarter Chinese, and she grewup in a Chinese takeaway in Brighton. Who would have thought?

awake with seiji

Jun 27, 2008
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So right now I'm wide awake. I'm as wide awake as Seiji (the cat).

Seiji was a wild thing when my little sister adopted him a year or two ago. I think she adopted him because she didn't want to live with my dad anymore, but she didn't want my dad to be all alone.

Anyway, Seiji turned out to be wild. He couldn't hold himself back from attacking everyone, and my sister and dad had to constantly discipline him. I swear my little sister would sometimes sit on him. He was really attached to his little babies though, and he'd chew on his little Turtley's head all the time. The bath tub was his comfort area, and he used to pick up Turtley and keep him in the bath tub. They eventually started giving Seiji medication to keep him from going out of his mind.

Now Seiji is a house kitty. I'm shocked at how calm he is. He'll just sleep all day. At night he seems a little restless and his pupils are huge and he twitches at every little sound. But he won't move from his favorite night time spot. I swear if I go out to check right now he'll still be sitting there. He fits into our little household much more nicely now, and he does seem to enjoy NOT pissing everyone off. But I feel a little sad because we took his wildness away.

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I promise that tomorrow, I will start getting on with the rest of my life. I have some very very very clear dreams and goals. Working as a hostess in Roppongi was NOT getting me any closer to those dreams and goals.

Sometimes I feel kind of ashamed because I let my life get to be such a mess. Coming back to America is like coming back to a big pile of dirty dishes. I just want to close the kitchen door and never cook again. My US taxes are such a mess, I'm scared that once I try to sort it all out I'll get audited or something. But without proper tax returns, I'll never get any financial aid for university. Without financial aid, I won't ever be able to pay for grad school. Which won't happen anyway if I don't actually get the applications done. And if I hadn't let my driver's license expire, I wouldn't be in the mess I am right now. If I was on top of my credit card payments, my credit wouldn't have gone to crap and my credit cards wouldn't have gotten cancelled. If I hadn't had my wallet stolen I might still remember where I had a US bank account. God knows what money I have in there anyway, if any.

And yes, I am this much of a mess.

No wonder I just want to sit in a corner with Seiji.

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America is so big. Los Angeles is so big. the sky is endless. The streets go on forever. There's so much space here, nobody even cares. The gutters are so huge, a person could fall in if they tried. People shout and scream and laugh out loud and their voices just get lost. Maybe that's why Americans are so big, because they want to fill in the empty space around them.

Maybe that's why Chinese people are big too. Things get tall on vast continents. When you're on a cramped island, your whole world is limited, including your growth.

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Jun 27, 2008
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Dancer Girl sent me a quick update. Things haven't really changed much back in Roppongi. It's like a timeless vortex.

My dad went through a hair-dresser phase (where he dated/was interested in dating hair-dressers), so he asked me if I wanted one of his friends to fix my hair color. I said yeah, so I'm going to see his friend Leila on Sunday. I asked my dad if she's aware that my hair is actually a disaster. He said she'll be fine.

I need to stop lazing around all day. All I do is avoid my big fat list of shit I have to do (open a bank account, get my driver's license or at least a California ID, sort out my taxes, see if I can get a credit card, basically immigrate back into America). Instead I take pictures of the cat and sleep next to him. My sister wants me to transcribe some interviews for her because she's busy/lazy, and my dad wants me to go down to Tijuana to get my teeth fixed. And I should go visit my mother (she lives up north).

Lots of things to do, but I just want to sleep with the kitty...