Recent snaps

Uh, long time no update! I got a cluster of different personal problems, ranging from disappointments to medical emergencies(nothing too serious), so I've been on bed rest / just not really up to anything lately. I'm still feeling rather shitty, and I just caught a cold to top it off, haha. Why do bad things always come in clusters?

In the meantime here are some snaps from the last two weeks. I hope I'll be back on the horse soon.

My mother came down to care for me, and I got this bag as a get well present! And for Midsummer I tried to gussy up.

For entertainment I've read lula and crocheted roses.

Snap from my desk, and my best friend Gerard! //dork

Good old platforms

Gwuahh! I was looking through my old stuff today, trying to sort things to donate/sell/throw away/keep, and I found my old platforms!
I bought them when I was 12-13ish I think, and I remember being so happy about them! I wore them everyday for about 3 years haha. It's a wonder they're still intact, but they've been on regular visits to the cobbler, I did my best to take care of them.

After I found them we we're going to town, so I decided to take some matching clothes. Unfortunatly I still suck at this whole outfit-picture-thingamajig (it was so much easier when I had other people to take them for me!), but the dress I'm wearing is the pink/black heart dress I posted about the other day~

Oh be still my heart!

My cold has finally ceased it's hold of me, but before it was even over I managed to wake up to a crick in the neck. Usually it goes away by itself in a couple of hours, but I've had it for 4 days now! I'm starting to fear I'll live my life like Kermit from now on.. You know, having to turn my entire torso, because I HAVE NO NECK.
Do anyone of you have any home remedies?
I've tried hot showers, massage, heatpacks, more massage, painkillers, even threats(!), but nothing seems to work :(

Monday

My cold is taking it's toll. I'm one of those people who just can't hide the fact that they're sick, because my face/body just screams it out, haha. My face get's all swollen and red, and I don't think even housepaint could cover that up..
Regardless of what my face is up to, it's always nice to get dressed up(as in, get out of your pajama and into something else that's comfortable), even if you'll snivel and cough and mostly just wait in the car. Which was exactly what I did when mom went to do her errands!

Long sweaters is basically the definition of comfortable! I bought this at Gina Tricot last week, and it's such a gem!  (I really ought to figure out why my camera refuses take sharp photos on objects further than 50cms away from the camera..)

Hat: BikBok

Sweater: Gina Tricot

Shorts & Shirt: Thrifted

Shoes: Random cheap-o store in Fukuoka

Red nose: Kleenex

Picture time!

I'm not kidding when I say I don't do anything at all. I mean, obviously I do things like maybe watch the TV, read a magazine or something similar, but in reality I live a very isolated life in this village. Going grocery shopping or to the doctor is starting to feel as you know, winning a million at the lottery or something, haha. Ohgodi'msobored.

But I take pictures!

So this post will have some of that.

I actually watch my plants grow. Yeah.

I take pictures of the cats. You don't even wanna look into my phone, it's 95% pictures of the cats. This is Sixten.

I find stuff! Like this Swimmer watch that I had almost forgotten completely.

I tie bows on wedding invitations.

I photograph the shelf above my bed. The picture isn't crooked, my room is slanting. Yeah.

I take pictures of my things.

And I sit quietly for half an hour staring at does.

Announcement

It's been decided upon for a while, but I didn't want to write it here until the ticket was booked, since I figured that'd be final.
On the 15th of September I'll be moving back to Sweden.
Booking the plane ticket was terrible. Even though I'll be going back to Sweden to fix things in order to go to a japanese university, it still feels terrible, seeing how it'll take atleast 2 years until I can come back here. (edit: 2 years, because I need to finish school in Sweden)

I've been living in Japan for two years(heading to sweden about a week before the two year anniversary), I've grown into an adult here, I've been living my lifelong dream. Tokyo life isn't all roses, but it's what I've always wanted.

In Sweden I will live with my mother(at first), which is wonderful, to hang out with mom and stuff. Only problem is that she lives in a village up north, population about 30people(all 50+). Nearest friend will be 500km's away. So.. going to that, from Tokyo will be rough.



In other news, I said I'd to what a 15year old does, while my friends little sister is here, and that seemingly is to sleep until 5 everyday. Gonna try and adult it up and get us up earlier from now on!

Jishuban Club Instore event - KGF

I once again went with my roomie to an instore event.. I often go with him to sign events to make sure he gets two copies signed, haha .
Anyway, today was Kyokutou Girlfriends last event, ever. They're having their last live this Friday, so..

 Super long! Seriously, 4 hours! But it was fun, and awkward.

During about a minute you could take as many pics you had the time for.

Summer and bows

So once again summer has arrived to Japan. Truthfully, it's the one time at the year that I really don't wanna live here. It's hot(30-45degrees celsius!), it's humid(through the roof!) and I don't understand how the japanese can survive it, and still look fresh. Whatever product they are using, y don't u share?!

Anyway, japanese summer means that I have my hair up, all the time. Not a day with my hair down, nono. My thin, fine scandinavian hair is not optimal for this weather, less than half an hour outside and it looks like I just showered.


But thank Cthulhu for asia and the abundance of pretty hair accessories!

Cravings from the motherland

It's raining, the kind of super wet rain that soaks you from just looking at it, and a typhoon is seemingly on it's way. Because of that I don't really have anything to do but think about...
Candy!

Some things all swedes, when moving abroad, misses the most is probably Marabou Chocolate, crisp bread and pick & mix candy. I miss all of them, alot. However, both chocolate and crisp bread is available at IKEA, and it's rather easy for family/friends to send.
What I really really miss is the candy. Even though I sometime get some sent to me, it's just not the same, you know? It's the whole feeling about it, mixing your own bag, to fit just the kind of candy cravings you have right then. And it's cheap, too. Last time I checked it's about 1000yen for a KILO of candy.

However, I have indeed encountered pick & mix candy here in Japan though. But, well, not the same really. You can choose from a whopping 5 different candies(!), all hard candies, and you can put them into a tiny teeny little bag, and then it costs 160yen.

Well, better than nothing I guess.

A pretty standard swedish pick&mix candy aisle.
(taken from google)

Japanese pick&mix. (it's about 10cmx5cm)

Strange things happen

You know, you think you have things figured out, that you have a grip on how things work, but alas, you learn something new!

Since Saturday I've had like a strange itching and redness, and no idea what was going on at all, not experienced it before. So today I finally went to the hospital, and voila, it's an allergic reaction. Not so strange, right, seems right. The strange thing is that I don't have any allergies. But according to the doctor it's quite common that people without allergies get allergy symptoms from time to time.

So in true japanese fashion I got a bunch of meds and got told to that if it didn't clear in two weeks I should come back.


The antihistamins are making me sleepy so I just wanna crawl into bed and watch X-files.

Here, have some dancing FBI agents!

Lounge legends

What do I do nowadays, no school, no job, in Tokyo?
I lay at home. Every single day.
I could say that I'm lounging about at home listening to yeye artists and enjoying life & practising my french but even though it's true it would probably make you have a much more elegant image in your head, than my sweat pants and flannel wearing self actually am. But please do!

To my excuse I can atleast say that I've been sick pretty much nonstop for a month now.

But yesterday I braved out in order to eat with a couple of friends in order to say good bye to another friend who's moving away for some time.


I have been planning to take thousands of sakura pictures to send my mother(she loves 'em), but alas, I have myself only seen the one on the way to the konbini basically.
Being sick sucks.

Still sick, still bored

So.. Two weeks. What kind of cold is this?? It's crazy! And since lenses are a no-no, my skin gets dried up(no makeup) and fever makes me unable to do anything else than drag my sorry ass to school and back.. There have not really been anything going on.

So.. nothing much to tell.
(Unless you guys wish me to write reviews over masks, teas and updates on my daily knitting..)
Just wanted to make an update, it felt a bit sad reading "1 week since last update", haha.

They released balloons over Ikebukuro the otherday,
exciting moment in recent everyday life.

Sick and boring

Gotten quite of a cold after the wet FujiQ experience.
And yesterday we cleaned the apartment for 13(!!!)hours (granted, a lot of it was trying to find a PLACE for all the stuff DDD:), so I've strained my back. Yeah, 19 years old and brittle has an 80year old.

So I stayed home, and was bored.
Alas

I made dorky nails!

Bought like 5 nail buffers at Donki the other day, just because they cost 30yen/each and they had nailstickers on them.. Hehe.

Rain and disappointments

FujiQ was a disaster. We went there in spite of rain, and the reward was that everything was closed.
Ya, really. The haunted hospital, the teacups & The Merry-Go-Round was all that was open(apart from "Go and look at cards!Wooh!" kinda things). Soo. Yes.
Also the piggy tights managed to escape during the night, and I was unable to find them this morning.. Gonna take a shopping day or something soon, so I'll be able to post about them then!

Bought a lipconcealer from Canmake the other day, and I can't decide if I love it or hate it.
Pale lips kinda gives me a bratty-vibe, since the brats(or Fjortisar) in Sweden luvz the palelip.

So, do I look like a douche or is it passable?

On a positive note, I found a supercheap nailsalon the other day that I'm indenting to try out in the next two weeks! Around 4000yen for gels! I really just want simple ones anyway, so I think it's great. It'd be awesome having superlong superdeco'd nails but.. housework.. Hoow?

Life as a banana

Well, no problemos!
The doctor I first saw was sure that because I was yellow (yes, like a canary), that I suffered from, Jaundice, and overlooked the other health issues I had. So I had to travel by car for 3 hours there and 3 hours back to a bigger hospital, be sat in an infection-cell(because Hepatitis is kinda contagious.) and there they find out I have the kissing disease. Oh Merry Christmas, Swedish health-system! Oh well, easy mistake. It's really rare that you turn yellow by kissing disease, but my liver was feeling sad and underappreciated so it felt it needed to do something drastic for me to care about it.

Anyway, long story short, going back to Tokyo tomorrow, and no party pics for a while, cause I can't drink! Life sucks sometimes, but let's be happy anyway!

And I'm not that yellow anymore! I'm starting to be more in the shade of milked out eggnog!

Sorriez

I'm really sorry for not updating for quite a while. But it's my summer break, I'm in Sweden for the first time in 10 Months, and I'm also super sick. I've done some testes but they all came back negative, but the only definite thing is that my liver have had better days. Today is the first day in a week that I've been able to eat solid food and keep it. I'm generally starting to feel better, especially after the tests coming back negative, were some serious stuff I was tested for, phew.

As it looks now, I'm going back to Japan on Thursday just like planned,
but on Monday I'm visiting a big hospital to find out more.

Shibuya

Went to Shibuya for the first time in ageees, and things have chaaangeed!
The Mcdonalds at Sentagaai is now by some reason transformed into a McCafe, with a no smoking sign.
What is that madness about?
The youngsters there showed what they thought about it by smoking and putting the fire out on the tables.. Hard times..

Bought some random things while there too, amongst others a T-Shirt from uniqlo by Agynes Dyne x Emily Dyne(?)

Crazy big eyes.


Wuuh

Oy vey

Home from school, 'cause of a cold of flippin doom.
(Protip: don't do that. Go to school even if you're legs are cut off. Atleast in Japan. This day home from school is going to land me in trouble.)

So, spending the time trying to be as productive as can be, feeling guilty for being home.
That means, listening to Hey Willpower, painting my nails and trying to perform easy house chores(folding clothes, bringing the dishes to the sink etc). Nothing works really well.

It always feels so stupid having a cold when it's really warm, and right now the badness of my cold and the fantastic weather really match, it's 30degrees celsius right now!

Puri from last Saturday
Malin, Shouta
Yours truly, Ylva
Ah, yeah, it's the kanji for "Niku"(meat) written on my forehead.

If someone could just show up with some cake it would be great.
I'd really appreciate a summery one with whipped cream and strawberries.
Preferably with moshed bananas inside!