This is a momentous night for me. Which is nice, because there's plenty of noise outside, most of it from motorbikes or the kind of modded cars that one imagines from "The Fast and The Furious 3: Tokyo Drift" ;oD
Anyway, enough of that. It's amazing to finally, after 12 years of being an official adult, have my own place. Where I don't have to worry about what someone else does with their stuff. Where they keep it. What hours they keep.
Where the kitched stuff is new. I know this, because I laid out a lot of money to get it.
But the kitchen is huge and clean. And the fridge, gas hob and washing machine are all very new and shiny. So much so, that I've only used the fridge so far. The cat and I called in on Saturday to clean and install stuff, then again yesterday after the Ikea trip that nearly broke him. Then again today when I finally FINALLY had a bed. From which I am now typing. It is a futon. I am in Japan. This is going to be an interesting exercise. The cat, slyly, bought cockroach-killing devices. Unlike in Britain, where cockroaches are practically unheard of, in Japan they are all over the place in the summer. I am trying to reconcile myself to this. But the fact of the matter is that my fear of claustrophobia paled in comparison to my fear of reaching out and encountering a cockroach. So I closed all the doors (apart from the wardrobe). And I'm now sitting here in the dull light. My first act of independence was watching a movie uninterrupted (Green Street, which is really good once you get past Charlie Hunnam doing another dodgy accent), after the absolutely religiously compulsory moving-in cup of tea. For which I had no milk. So I went to check out the nearest "Kombini" (Engrish for "convenience store"). Not bad, although mysteriously the kid on duty was making "oden", which I thought were winter food. Muh...
Anyway, there's no interweb connection here, but I thought I'd at least type up something to commemorate being a thirty-year-old man who finally has his own place. Not that I'll be getting up to some of the hijinks that I suspected when I got here, as I'm now rather happily settled with the Cat. Even if I do consider drowning him in a river every couple of days, he still makes me smile. Aw....
Right, time for bed.
When I want ;oD
Oyasumi!
