Spicy Wolf

The challenge to write something every day quickly failed… Only lasted what, for six days? Ah at least it’s better than “mikka bouzu” (Japanese saying, literally “three day monk,” even if people who want to become a monk shave their head bald, most of them can’t stick with the hard ascetic training and will stop it after three days. == someone who gives up too easily).

Anyway, for the past week or two, I’ve been fascinated with this novel called “Spicy Wolf.” My friend recommended me to read it long time ago, but didn’t get around to it until now, probably because I was busy and I thought it was more of anime/game, something I am not so good at it.

Despite it being categorized as “light novel,” it talks a heck a lot of economics, trades, whatever the fields I was never interested in. I couldn’t even understand some of the method they were using in the novel (orz) but it still made me want to read a volume after another, and before I knew it, I finished all 17 volumes v__v;

In the beginning, I felt like there was more “lovey-dovey” elements in it. At least I felt it had it. Lawrence and Horo’s conversations etc were oh so cute ♥ Horo is mine ♥ ♥ *ahem* I think that lasted for about until v5 or so, and after that I was reading for the heck of it so that I know the ending, and also so that I could know how Lawrence and Horo would deal with the problems. I could’ve skipped to the last volume (and I tend to do that), but I didn’t want to ruin the story by doing so. Very much recommending everyone to read this :) Its manga adaptation is licensed and translated by Yen Press.

One thing I didn’t like about this, is the art… I don’t know, it looks too cutesy-cutesy. It’s a light novel so of course the art should be (?) cute, but probably because I didn’t look at the cover art while reading the novel, when I went back and look at all the arts, I felt something’s different. Don’t know what kind of art would fit better though…

While reading Spicy Wolf, I only did minimum on house chore that I had to do. I did cook almost every day since hubby was super busy… That was good, but other stuff like laundry, clean up the house, etc; I didn’t do any of them x_x Now that my addiction is satisfied, I need to go back and do all the stuff and live like a regular person once again.

Oh and, I want to name my next dog “Horo.” Hiro & Horo, works well, right?

San Jose 近郊にお住まいの皆様、

紀伊国屋書店が 10% OFF セールやってますよ。明日までです。
 
 
 
私が紀伊国屋行かない限りバイクを買わない、なんて約束してたのに、根負けしたのか、 ダンナ君は 黄色いバイク をお買いになりました。なので私は早速紀伊国屋書店へ。バイク雑誌を読んでいる読めないので眺めているダンナ君を尻目にかご片手に店内を回る私。本屋さんでかごいっぱいに本を買うなんてタダモノではないな、と思われた方、正解です。そのうちオ○ク宣言でもしようかと。ってかオ○クと思われてるだろうな、同僚とかから・・・。小説もありますよ~、なんて言ったらびっくりされたし。読むの好きなだけなんだけど・・・。・・・多分。

まぁひとまず。先週は 50% OFF の在庫処分漫画がたくさんあったのでめぼしそうなものを買い占めてきました。合計 31 冊。漫画いっぱい入ったかごをドン!とダンナ君の足元に置いたら、 O___O;;; なんてびっくりしてました。いやだって、今年入ってぜんぜん買ってなかったもんね。支払いもやってもらえばよかった。

でもまとめ買い、ブックオフでやるのはそんなに抵抗ないんだけど、紀伊国屋さんだとなんだか・・・恥ずかしい・・・。買うときも、中身知らないで面白そう、と思うのを買ってしまうので当たり外れ多いです。一応よく聞くタイトルとか狙って買うけど。
 
 
ということで (どういうことで?) 今日もまた紀伊国屋さん行ってきました。そういえば San Diego に新しくブックオフができたそうで、サンディエゴって留学生ぐらいしか日本人いなさそうなのに何で?サンノゼに作ってよ!って思ってます。んで。今日は四ヶ月分買ってなかった新刊を買ってきました。数えなかったけど、 15 冊ぐらい?片手で持てなかったので、またかごに入れてお買い物です。

読むの楽しみだ :D

Manga Cafe / 漫画カフェ

http://www.japanator.com/elephant/post.phtml?pk=7780

Does anyone want to go with me? :D
誰か一緒に行かないかな?

I’ll definitely pay a visit after the wedding :F

このところカリフォルニアでは日本のものが結構進出してきてるらしくって、いや、前からもあったんだけど、さらに。
ロサンゼルスあたりに メイドカフェ とか (冷やかしに行った友人は予約制だったとかで見事入れなかったそうだ)
あらたにサンディエゴに ブックオフ とか
クパチノに ハウス食品のカレーハウスとか

ベイエリアにブックオフできないかな~。

I Just Realized…

Since JPY is much stronger than USD, does that mean manga price will go down a little? For a long time now manga is 390 yen -> $5.50… I really hope it’ll go down…

Speaking of which, I finally went to Kino yesterday as a first time this year. I was supposed to meet hubby at Kahoo there, but he wasn’t there. Since my cell was out of battery, I went to look for hubby, and that’s where he was. I had some kind of deal (which I forgot what it was about) with hubby, and he said I lost it… :S

Kahoo ramen was okay. A bit more on pricy side compare to what we usually eat. Though, I guess the volume was pretty big since hubby couldn’t finish eating his bowl.

Oh yeah, hubby finally bought me a memory for my laptop! I only had 256mb, but when I get that memory, it’ll jump to 2gb, I think. Yay!

I’m not sure any more what to use in category and what in tags… :S Gotta organize them one of these days.

March 20, 2008

I was overwhelmed by printers today. I was testing out how the color will turn out on the invitation, but since the invitation paper is really thick and some printers didn’t handle them good. That, and most of the time, those printers were old and/or out of ink .__. I think I spent good one hour or so just to print like three pages.

After that, I went to my old coworker’s house. She was giving me like 3 year worth of manga magazines. There were probably more than 50 volumes… I don’t have any place to fit them in the house, so now they are in the garage. It’ll take me a while to read, I guess. I’m hoping to finish it before my parents come over though. ^^;