If anyone has ever wondered the secret to my alluring scent, “Mooooooo!”
Cow Beauty Soap (ミルク成分配合 [with a combination of milk ingredients])
Note the highly effective branding: nothing says fresh and clean like a dairy cow.
Milk seems to be a big selling point here in Japan, at least judging from the increasing number of milkfed bags I see [...]
Posts under ‘Domestic Life’
A beauty secret
Positively Pomegranate UPDATE!
Today I finally got a response in regard to my complaint about the positively disgusting pomegranate Orbit Gum that I sent to the Wrigley Gum Company. The letter, printed below, was full of corporate doublespeak, vague promises, and NO coupon for free gum!
What is the world coming to? Is the recession taking that big [...]
Positively Pomegranate, Positively Disgusting!
This gum is absolutely gross. I bought it today at the capitol snack bar, mainly on a whim because I was feeling sick of mint gum and I had never noticed this flavor of gum before (apparently it is a limited edition flavor, which is probably for the best). It tasted like some sort of [...]
It begins…and other odds and ends
My seasonal allergies, the dreaded 花粉症 (kafunshou), have started up. My nose isn’t running too much, but my nose and eyes are super itchy, and I may just claw my eyes out. I never had allergies in America; I wonder if I’ve just developed allergies as I’ve gotten older, or if I’m [...]
Visa Problem
I guess A-Yo can’t get a visa after all….
Click below for details.
If only we had lied and answered “no”!
Old Family Photos
My Aunt Kristen scanned a bunch of old family photos and sent out (in 32 emails!).
I uploaded the photos to Picasa. Bill and I are the little kids that look like extras from “Children of the Corn”.
The Taxman Cometh
Now that 2008 is over, I started to do what I always do…gather up my paycheck stubs and other documents to do a rough estimate of what my taxes are for the year and how much of a refund to expect. I logged into the free H&R Block TaxCut online and started putting in some [...]
sneaky
