weekend love

i read somewhere that your blog gets boring when you

a. have a new job
b. are in a new relationship
c. volunteer a lot
or
d. all of the above.


clearly i'm an underachiever because i don't have a job nor do i volunteer and yet i opened my blogger homepage for the first time in 4 days, my google reader is backing up, and i'm sure i seem to have dropped off the face of the earth to all my other friends. (sorry Chels, i know i was being so good about emailing until thursday hit.)

but...ah i love the weekends. especially when they start on thursdays. ;) (not that every day isn't a weekend over here...)

i cooked dinner and even carted it to his place (talk about service!) on thursday. then friday night Ro was going to come over to my place after a birthday dinner for his friend's boyfriend, but he called and asked if i'd come along last minute because someone cancelled. he seemed really happy to introduce me as his girlfriend to his friend (disgustingly cute, yes, forgive him).

it was also a chance for me to hear Ro's english, because his friend (who is an american raised in england) doesn't speak much japanese. since Ro and i speak almost all japanese, it was a good "ice breaker" into us speaking english. i have a hard time switching languages part way through a friendship/relationship. whatever language i meet someone in and initially speak is usually the one that feels more comfortable, but since friday night, Ro has been speaking more english and it doesn't feel as weird as it did before. i didn't assume his english was bad, but it's better than i imagined. i guess that's what 3-ish years in california (language school plus 2 years of college classes) will do for you.

Ro's friend and his boyfriend have been together for 7 years and part way through dinner, one of the dinner guests looked to Ro and i and then gestured to the two of them asking, "so, have you guys been together long? like, 7 years?" Ro and i both grinned and he replied, "ummm, more like 7 days!" the two of us just looked at each other again and laughed.

saturday included, but was not limited to, eggs and toast for breakfast, tv channel surfing, a 2 hour nap, walking to asakusa, yakiniku for dinner, a visit to the shrine (sensoji), and stopping by the convenience store to pick up a few "necessities" (and because i wanted a garigari-kun. by the way, my local 7-eleven doesn't have pineapple garigari-kun anymore. is the pineapple "season" over?!!) anyway, the cashier was totally flustered and Ro and i laughed about it the whole way home.

speaking of which, we have ridiculously candid conversations and, as Chelsea says, he seems pretty unflappable. these two things put together both satisfies and terrifies me.

sunday was more of the same, with french toast and dinner cooked by yours truly, a break in afternoon (i went to BEST, Ro met a friend to watch the races...sigh.) and finished with a movie (天空の城：ラピュタ).


in all this, however, the boy has shown up in a bit of an untimely fashion. i've got a (HUGE, aah, breath, breath, everything will be fine, slash i need to get my ass in gear and study this week) test in less than 7 days, i'm working in saitama for 10 days after that (he lives in kanagawa, meaning the weekday rendezvous is out) and then am immediately heading to to top of mt. fuji for 6 weeks.

on the up side, because there's always an up side, vacation to somewhere tropical in september looks promising. :)