Bonus Mini-Blog 4

"It's time to leave this town, it's time to steal away."

So I bought a lot of stuff on this trip. Maybe too much stuff. I had to buy a new bag strictly for souvenirs, which is completely stuffed and bulging, along with my original suitcase, which is massive and still going to be over the weight limit. That'll be a fee of about $25 for the fatty suitcase, $100 for the extra checked bag, and probably around $50 tax for what I'm bringing into America from Japan. But that's the price I pay for my friends. They'd better appreciate it, goddamnit.

All this, and I still have a massive pile of things I can't fit into my suitcase which goes as follows:

• laundry basket
• red scarf (my original belt from my first day here after the bastards at the airport confiscated my badass one)
• 20 hangers
• wall clock
• pink stuffed animal from crane machine
• 2 books
• unopened package of printer paper (don't ask)
• about ¥500 in change
• cup o noodle
• 2 books
• traditional Japanese sandals
• belt
• large bag of rice
• stack of blank note cards
• pair of black kitten heels 
• half a bottle of laundry detergent
• hair dryer (it had to be done--it just wouldn't fit [that's what she said] )
• bottle of perfume
• black sweatshirt
• pair of scissors
• container full of tacks
• collapsible umbrella
• weird yukata that was a gift from Rory's homestay family...periwinkle doesn't suit me
• Subway membership card
• Tully's membership card

That's not a lot, really...I'm sure somebody will just be rarin' to take it all to their room and give it a nice home...