Downtown goodies: tofu

It's that time of year where wholesale is ok, or, I have an excuse to go wholesale-ing...so I hit up Downtown LA's toy district with Emily. Although most people are willing to sell to you only one piece instead of wholesale for cheaper than retail, some people only sale wholesale, and some people require a license. I think the store that stocked these need a license, but I managed to obtain these goodies anyway. I WISH I owned a retail store that sold lovelythings like this... a dream come true (maybe after I won the lottery.

Anyway, I made a fabulous find with this "new hot item", TOFU doll! I am not sure of its name yet (like Kogepan, Hello Kitty, Pucca, Mashi-maro, and all those names of all that cutesy crap) BUT I LOVE IT!! It's a block of tofu, slap on a face with some legs and arms, make it softer than baby skin, AND IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL THING EVER! (and in wholesale quantaties!). They didn't have that many big ones and the little ones come in white, yellow, & brown but they were out of everything but white. I love those Japanese for their design (see the little red stamp that says tofu in hiragana!? so adorable).

I love life sometimes. Here is Bobby to help demonstrate the size and scale of these things:

HOTL

I have been listening to Bill Handel since the eight grade (kind of like Loveline, although I listen to Handel more consistently). He has a morning show M-F 5am - 9am and I understand and appreciate it now more than ever as he is a very informative moderate.

However for entertainment, I highly recommend Handel on the Law podcasts available at the KFI AM 640 website- ON DEMAND or here is a direct link to Saturday podcasts and you just click on the ones where the man is in a wig.

If you're up Saturday morning, you should listen in live. SO entertaining and informative as he gives out free legal advice to a variety of callers who call in, basically telling everyone how screwed they are!

(AM 640 is available in SoCal. HOTL is syndicated nationwide and Handel on the News, the morning show, is only available in SoCal I believe).

Winning...

Don't you just love staring at http://www.calottery.com sometimes and wondering what would happen if you won!?

I am going to go write a list down right now. Maybe it is because I've been raised materialistic, but goodness, the power and freedom is exciting to think about!

Something just as good as winning the lottery, but on a smaller scale, & on certain days... getting mail that you realize the post office forgot to void the stamps!!!

LOOK at this JACKPOT package we received at work:

I am sure the feelings are about the same.

My brother is such a nerd...

Because he sends me awesome youtube science videos!

How to make fire w/o matches or a lightert:

How to make "hot ice"

Ooo, I remember this from chem class, instant freeze a drink "party trick"

You put a carbonated drink, like beer or soda, into the freezer for about 3 hrs or so like the instructions in the details for this video say. It is a solution of a carbonated liquid with a lower freezing temperature so that it won't freeze even after being in the freezer for a while. However as soon as you take it out, it is unstable and if you knock the carbon out, it becomes a solution with a higher freezing temperature so it reacts to the cold it has been exposed to and freezes instantly. Right...? Something like that? Goodness chem was fun.

and this is just cool:

Body image or not...

Despite the controversy of arguing about body image critiquing and its impression on women... this is Jennifer Love Hewitt!?!? She looks like... me! She is suppose to be a fit movie/tv star! She shouldn't wear that bikini right now... it's called modesty.

And if she is pregnant, haha, any of you remember Absolutely Fabulous where Eddy tells Saffy, "Oh, well if you're pregnant you better tell people about it right away, or they're just going to think you're fat!"

Source TMZ

弘明寺

I don't know why all the videos of Kamiooka & Gumyoji are of trains on YouTube (apparently there are these "train nerds" and they even have Japanese words for these type of ppl- like a train otaku, diff for both boy and girl.) Anyway, I found this lovely video of the great town of Gumyoji during their April/Sakura season. This man has a lovely family, such cute daughters!!!! GAH! To live this nice life and have a family! Ok, just my biological clock ticking... such cute kids. Enjoy what "Gumyoji life" might look like, well edit video.

Minato Mirai みなとみらい is also gorgeous at night. The Yokohama skyline is one of the best in the world!

YouTube celebrities

Smosh's "The Haunting"


SMOSH
I never knew there were such talented entertaining people on youtube! These guys are soo funny and such cute shaggy haired boys (kinda reminds me of duc's type, only cuter) that it's no wonder they are the #1 subscribed video maker

http://www.youtube.com/smosh

This guy is funny & famous too :D although verrrry long videos...
http://www.youtube.com/thewinekone

I want to cry

The Saddest Song in the World

I wake up, and you're gone
The TV's still on
And I sit, and I watch, another rerun
She is left, all alone, her lover's gone to sea
And I can't, help but feel, that she is just like me

And I gave, all I could, but it wasn't good enough
And you said that you would be here before I woke up
Now you're gone

I don't, know why, my heart still beats
When I, can't feel, anything

'Cause I gave, all I could, but it wasn't good enough
And you said that you would be here before I woke up
Now you're gone

Away
Now you're gone
Away

Why don't you take me, with you
Come take, me, with you
Come and take, me, with, you
Come and take, me, with you

'Cause I gave, all I could, but it wasn't good enough
And you say that you would be here before I woke up
Now you're gone

Oh Oh Ohhwoah, (repeat)