Where /did/ my weekend go?
Mar. 15th, 2004 12:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
setraYep, so, happies. Expensive happies, but happies none the less.
Yesterday we spontaneously wandered off to Kyoto after several hours of CCS, and I aquired volumes 1-11 of Yami no Matsuei at just over 50 yen apiece. Also got the Angelique Tarot Cards... will be looking up useful things to do with them. We also sat in an All-You-Can-Eat Pizza Parlor for over an hour, and they played Beatles music the entire time. (I think that's the theme of my weekend, more later)
This morning was very early. But Kat and I were travelling all by ourselves for basically the first time, so it was very... doki-doki/uki-uki.
After lots of fun trains, we arrived in Kobe and discovered the Yamaha store.
Kat: *pondering map* And it should be right up here... on the left...
Maya: Hello small mob of fangirls outside a closed piano store.
Kat: Looks up. *grin* Yep, right there.
Maya: Ooh, look, they're tuning that piano in the window.
We ran to get food before the store opened and then settled in to wait for an hour or so (until 11). Once the store opened, we bought the neccesarry items (So~ Cool! I wish I was keeping more of it, but I don't know that I can afford to...), and aquired our sign-tickets.
We then decided to wander down to the Animate in the two hours remaining before the mini-concert. After a lot of searching and doubling back, we did find it (and spotted a Gamers too), but just checked what they had and headed back. All through this Kat was all giddy... I swear, in full fangirl mode, she is about the next cutest thing to Minamoto Shunichi. I was rather... dazed. It was all cool of course, but I had no particular attachment to the boy.
So we waited about in front of the Yamaha for... a while. A long while. And then there was a mini-concert. He warmed up with "In My Life" (I think that's the title... Beatles song). I was so happy. He sang "Byakuya~True Light~" also, and I /love/ the live version, so much.
Mostly I don't remember much after the concert started. It was all niko-niko and kira-kira. Until we got into the line for autographs... at which point I started getting nervous. I think the girl behind me said it best, after the second time we stepped forward (rough translation):
Girl: Wah! It's too close. I'm so nervous...
Friend: Don't look at him, don't look.
Girl: *hides face in hands/CD*
It all went ok though. And he shook my hand! That means he's at one degree of seperation from me now! And he was a voice actor in Gundam SEED... so I'm only two degrees away from... well, almost everyone. Except Miki Shin-ichirou... who's still three degrees(through Koyasu Takehito, Yuuki Hiro, or Seki Tomokazu). But that's ok, because when we go clubbing in Tokyo on Miki's birthday, we'll run into him and Koyasu out drinking, and then degrees of separation will be not. ^_^
So... um... yeah, after the signing there was a lot of fluff. I was so fura-fura that I kept saying Miki Shin-ichirou instead of Miyamoto Shunichi... and we wandered around the same block one and a half times looking for a MacDonalds that wasn't there. We realized though, that we hadn't eaten since 7 the previous evening (about 20 hours previous). Eventually we backtracked to the Yoshinoya that I had seen on the way in, and ate butadon... at which point the fura-fura took a decidedly happier turn again. We went back to the Animate... and to Gamers... twice... and then wandered in circles around San no Miya(moto Shunichi) subway station before finding the JR Station by the same name. We did find about 12 fabric stores, and one store of buttons. It was awesome.
Then we headed back to Osaka, (passing up a transfer to the 'Sakurazuka line') and heard again the random announcement about Onmyouji and Abe no Seimei Jinja between Sakura no Miya(moto Shunichi)-eki and Kyobashi... I still don't know what they were saying... or why. I really need to get Salem to re-watch that special feature for me and tell me what they said about the Anniversary of Seimei's death, and the location of the shrine.
Also on the way home, we failed to successfully bouken our way to the Kyobashi Animate...
Kat: Ok, let's say it together...
Maya+Kat: *looking at Fuji-Film shop* Gackt lives there!
But had fun, none the less. About 7:30, we made it home, still a bit fura-fura and niko-niko. We separated for a bit, but ended up cooking insta-yakisoba together (see quote below) and playing FFX (Kat played, I watched).
Now I think I'll go play Triple Triad... er... FFVIII... for a bit, and then think about sleep. Perhaps after some fic.
Quote of the Evening: "Miyamoto Shunichi touched my hand, and I don't like mayonaise. So there!"
Current Bishounen: Miyamoto Shunichi (Yeah, predictable, I know.)
Final Note: Waaa~~~~i!! Kakkoi! ^_^
Yesterday we spontaneously wandered off to Kyoto after several hours of CCS, and I aquired volumes 1-11 of Yami no Matsuei at just over 50 yen apiece. Also got the Angelique Tarot Cards... will be looking up useful things to do with them. We also sat in an All-You-Can-Eat Pizza Parlor for over an hour, and they played Beatles music the entire time. (I think that's the theme of my weekend, more later)
This morning was very early. But Kat and I were travelling all by ourselves for basically the first time, so it was very... doki-doki/uki-uki.
After lots of fun trains, we arrived in Kobe and discovered the Yamaha store.
Kat: *pondering map* And it should be right up here... on the left...
Maya: Hello small mob of fangirls outside a closed piano store.
Kat: Looks up. *grin* Yep, right there.
Maya: Ooh, look, they're tuning that piano in the window.
We ran to get food before the store opened and then settled in to wait for an hour or so (until 11). Once the store opened, we bought the neccesarry items (So~ Cool! I wish I was keeping more of it, but I don't know that I can afford to...), and aquired our sign-tickets.
We then decided to wander down to the Animate in the two hours remaining before the mini-concert. After a lot of searching and doubling back, we did find it (and spotted a Gamers too), but just checked what they had and headed back. All through this Kat was all giddy... I swear, in full fangirl mode, she is about the next cutest thing to Minamoto Shunichi. I was rather... dazed. It was all cool of course, but I had no particular attachment to the boy.
So we waited about in front of the Yamaha for... a while. A long while. And then there was a mini-concert. He warmed up with "In My Life" (I think that's the title... Beatles song). I was so happy. He sang "Byakuya~True Light~" also, and I /love/ the live version, so much.
Mostly I don't remember much after the concert started. It was all niko-niko and kira-kira. Until we got into the line for autographs... at which point I started getting nervous. I think the girl behind me said it best, after the second time we stepped forward (rough translation):
Girl: Wah! It's too close. I'm so nervous...
Friend: Don't look at him, don't look.
Girl: *hides face in hands/CD*
It all went ok though. And he shook my hand! That means he's at one degree of seperation from me now! And he was a voice actor in Gundam SEED... so I'm only two degrees away from... well, almost everyone. Except Miki Shin-ichirou... who's still three degrees(through Koyasu Takehito, Yuuki Hiro, or Seki Tomokazu). But that's ok, because when we go clubbing in Tokyo on Miki's birthday, we'll run into him and Koyasu out drinking, and then degrees of separation will be not. ^_^
So... um... yeah, after the signing there was a lot of fluff. I was so fura-fura that I kept saying Miki Shin-ichirou instead of Miyamoto Shunichi... and we wandered around the same block one and a half times looking for a MacDonalds that wasn't there. We realized though, that we hadn't eaten since 7 the previous evening (about 20 hours previous). Eventually we backtracked to the Yoshinoya that I had seen on the way in, and ate butadon... at which point the fura-fura took a decidedly happier turn again. We went back to the Animate... and to Gamers... twice... and then wandered in circles around San no Miya(moto Shunichi) subway station before finding the JR Station by the same name. We did find about 12 fabric stores, and one store of buttons. It was awesome.
Then we headed back to Osaka, (passing up a transfer to the 'Sakurazuka line') and heard again the random announcement about Onmyouji and Abe no Seimei Jinja between Sakura no Miya(moto Shunichi)-eki and Kyobashi... I still don't know what they were saying... or why. I really need to get Salem to re-watch that special feature for me and tell me what they said about the Anniversary of Seimei's death, and the location of the shrine.
Also on the way home, we failed to successfully bouken our way to the Kyobashi Animate...
Kat: Ok, let's say it together...
Maya+Kat: *looking at Fuji-Film shop* Gackt lives there!
But had fun, none the less. About 7:30, we made it home, still a bit fura-fura and niko-niko. We separated for a bit, but ended up cooking insta-yakisoba together (see quote below) and playing FFX (Kat played, I watched).
Now I think I'll go play Triple Triad... er... FFVIII... for a bit, and then think about sleep. Perhaps after some fic.
Quote of the Evening: "Miyamoto Shunichi touched my hand, and I don't like mayonaise. So there!"
Current Bishounen: Miyamoto Shunichi (Yeah, predictable, I know.)
Final Note: Waaa~~~~i!! Kakkoi! ^_^
