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hung out with rowan lisa and erik for the first part of the long weekend! on friday i joined rowan at zaza city and we caught up about our holidays even though the plan was to be have a good productive cafe working session before getting curry, but we all got pretty hungry soon thereafter so we got curry with haste. it was quite yummy. so what if i love cheese naan and butter chicken. they do it really good here…

on saturday, i played games with my sisters in the morning!!! we played sushi gambit on roblox and no matter how good we thought we were doing we never managed to not get into debt… we also now have matching fat chiikawa skins. after that good sisterly bonding, i met up with the same folks as yesterday to get kappa-sushi YES!!!!!!! MY FAVOURITE CONVEYER BELT SUSHI!!!! but while i do have one in iwata, i got to enjoy using erik’s extra bike around hamamatsu and i kinda forgot how enjoyable it is to use a bike that’s not 20kg. kappa sushi was awesome and i’m happy that the kani kama roll is universally loved though i can’t really get behind cucumber guys idk my brain hasn’t developed there quite yet. afterwards we tried to find buzz balls but failed, so we went to a fairly cheap izakaya and had several drinks before finding out that we were sitting surrounded by graduates and a teacher from rowan’s school. funny!

sunday i had meant to do my long run in the morning but like… there were wind gusts of like 70km/h… i decided not to run. or do anything… until i was due to make my way to shizuoka city with joel to see andrew and get some pizza! i ate an epic sausage slice and a meatball/caramelized onion slice and had a wonderful beverage famously known as a shandy gaff. after they ogled at a warhammer store we went to a gyoza restaurant because their signs indicated they were famously known for a 99yen high ball and let me tell you that was the worst drink i’ve ever had ever.

monday i played games with my frands back in toronto~~ before that i set up my jpn val account and kinda forgot how much fun that game is um erm. anyways i died fifty times in peak and despite AP and cousin patrick’s effort to keep me afloat i did not make it to the helicopter… in my defense i feel like the controls are wonky but i’ll figure it out eventually maybe. also looking at a screen for so long was starting to hurt my head… and because i was still putting off going to the gym purely for anxiety reasons not even related to lifting, i laced up and decided to run 10k instead LOL. prior to this the “farthest” run was a 4k to the iwata donkihote and 4k back after a 20 minute interval where i failed to find jeowjeow’s request for a keychain… so i guess maybe only a 7km run? anyways i was feeling okay and was excited to run during the daytime and also make up for my lack of sunday long run so i wanted to give it a shot! and i did it!!!!!!! other than some brief stop lights and having to walk up that last egregious hill for a bit i ran it all! my pace was about 7:18km/h which is my bday hehe. and that’s faster than my previous long run paces? maybe walking sometimes does help…? idk i’m new to this. but i’m very proud of myself!

basically right after cleaning myself up i got scooped by bridget and maya to go to lalaport! we caught up about our holidays and i kinda stuffed myself with burgers before we got boba. then i couldn’t figure out where the bus stop after grocery shopping so i sat in the cold for like 30 mins because i had frozen goods to think about. then at home i attempted to meal prep that spaghetti broccoli chicken meal for the week, and thought lovingly about more uses for my new #Japanese knife before passing out in my heated blanket.