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hey guys good morning i am just packing
up my bag i'm about to head out in a
minute here going to tokyo for just one
night i usually go down there once a
month for two or three days to oh god
Maro's destroying the place
put together packages for my stationery
business so i thought i would bring you
guys along and show you what i get up to
it's pretty fun i do enjoy it a lot
introduce you guys to ushka again you
did meet her a
long time ago when i met her for the
first time when i rented her airbnb but
um for those of you that haven't met her
i need to introduce you to her because
she's like my best friend
here in japan and you guys need to meet
her and then tomorrow once i'm finished
all my work i've got something really
cool planned with my friend victor so
should be a good little trip down to
tokyo hope you guys enjoy i'm going to
be trying out my new frames thank you so
much to glassesusa.com for sponsoring
this vlog they have sent me this pair of
transitions lenses so these transition
from glasses to sunglasses when i head
out into the sun they should change to a
brown color i think i can already
see them changing a little bit because
it's pretty bright today but they should
be really cool these do have my
prescription in them and you can add the
transitions lenses to any of the frames
on their website i chose these cool
i guess they're hexagon shaped ones that
i've never tried before i do like them
they're kind of subtle but i think
they'll make cute sunglasses as well
hopefully anyways let's go the train is
leaving
very soon
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はい
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Made it to Ushka's so we have a routine every time we order
this banana smoothie and have it
delivered to her house so i tried out a
new flavor today i wasn't sure which one
you want i got a blueberry and a
strawberry and then i'm gonna try the
kale one so you can choose which one you
want
okay wow the strength okay yeah you can
choose which one i'm sorry that's the
one we usually get i think
kale the healthy one it's so healthy
so thick i can't even get anything
does it taste like kale no
it looks like kale it just tastes like banana
they all taste pretty much the same yeah
j banana it's like the new
craze right now everybody's kind of over
bubble tea and banana smoothies are the
thing
this is ushka's newest cat
pixel
hi you're getting big do you smell maro
you're silly you're silly
you're silly
so ushka runs an airbnb and one of her
guests left us it's actually really cool
it's a little mochi
that's really satisfying that's fun
[Sharla] That's fun! I haven't seen that one.
Why is it gray?
Why couldn't I make it white like mochi?
Alright, so let me show you guys
How we sort out all the things that we put inside the packages.
So we do a stationary subscription service every month
And we theme the packages around the current holiday or season.
So our next packages are going to be arriving just before New Year's so they will be New Year's themed.
So in Japan that means it's year of the tiger so
We've got lots of really cute tiger themed items going into this month's pack.
These are really fun stickers that you scratch off and they give you your fortune for the year.
And then here we have some nengajyou.
These are New Year's greeting cards.
It's a custom to give these to all of your acquaintances and people you work with
And your friends and your family here in Japan.
I don't do it because it's a huge pain in the ass.
And I feel like once you start you just have to keep doing it every year.
And um… yeah… I've just never gotten into it.
I do give one of my friends just for fun but not like the serious way.
And then one of the big items this month, we have some really cute 2022 greeting cards
That you can either give to somebody or just display it on your desk because they're adorable.
I love that one.
So we organize everything like this and then we take the biggest item which will probably be the journals.
We usually do 10 or 20 at the time depending on how many we can fit on the table.
It's a nice size so you can probably fit 20 this month.
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so when we're done they look something
like this we've got 15 packs all ready
to go and we first wrap them up in our
personalized
paper bags that were designed for us by
Erica Ward she's a local artist she's
amazing
she does lots of art work for us
that's Maro
that is pippin who you haven't seen
today yet
we'll have to incorporate pixel on here
somewhere next time
and our logo in the corner but these are
great for
holding all the items together and we
wrap them up in this and then
put a cute little sticker on it
Tada!! We try and get different stamps every
month. Ushko went to the stamp museum and
got these really cool vintage stamps. Oh
cute the cat one
that's adorable
yeah so that's what we'll be doing for
the next couple hours and then when
we're finished we're gonna head out to
my favorite bar here in shibuya because
ushka has never been even though she
lives in shibuya we're going to order
some drinks you guys have been there
before if you've been with me for a few
years if you're new here then it'll be
your first time too so should be fun i
ordered a bootable for dinner just gonna
have a bit of this before we go out to
the bar probably a good idea
oh looks nice
hummus
did you find your snacks
did you find them i brought you snacks
you wanna try
Snack time, there you go
I like how she shakes it, like it's alive
heading to the bar now it's so much fun
you guys are gonna love it
5206. it's only open for three hours in
the evening from six until nine pm so
you gotta get there early
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it's pretty busy tonight i haven't been
out in tokyo at night time
in
like two years
so
this is weird
yeah that's it yeah there it is
so it's called The Whales of August
and it's the best bar ever
oh what does it say nikai e dozo
so usually it's downstairs but it says
downstairs is oyasumi today
and to go upstairs
so how this bar works is you have to
tell them which movie you want your
cocktail themed on and
there is a list on the menu of movies
but you can tell them anything and they
will make you a cocktail based off of
that movie i usually pick fun things
like totoro or
like children's movies because then it
ends up being like a dessert cocktail
and they're really fun if you go with
something like an action movie it'll
probably end up being like a really
strong cocktail
so i avoid those i've learned my lesson
so today
i don't know we were talking about maybe
doing e.t
and maybe a cat themed movie like
aristocats or something i thought that
could be fun
well they do have e.t on the menu yeah
what does it say it's made with so
they'll give you like a hint about
what's in it
et says liqueur
and
l
i wonder what that means the style is l
oh
long drink
okay so et is a liqueur and it's a long
drink
when i ordered totoro last time it was a
frozen drink
and it was like a chocolate smoothie it
was so good
ishka's wondering if they'll have back
to the future too and if it'll be any
different from back to the future one i
think we should try it yeah i'm sure
they're they're good with movies they
probably know them all
back to the future
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last samurai was like a solid shot of
gin nothing nothing special it was in a
very fancy glass i think it was on like
a little piece of tatami or something it
was pretty cool but yeah it was just
solid jin zatoichi is one of my favorite
movies but i remember regretting
ordering this one
it's probably another like straight
vodka or something
yeah vodka
the pirates of the caribbean would be
good oh i bet that would be good it's
probably like
pina colada or
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they're both blue
[Sharla] So the lemon slice is the moon in the sky.
It's the night sky from E.T. when he's riding his bike.
[Sharla] I wonder what yours is?
[Ushka] I don't know. Do you think it's the Delorean's tracks?
[Sharla] Yeah… It could be…
[Ushka] They do travel the most in number two.
[Sharla] It's fun because you never know like exactly what you're gonna get
And depending on the bartender it'll change even if you order the same movie.
[Both] Cheers!
Okay, so I cheated and I went online and
I looked up like really cool ones that people had gotten and Zootopia was one of them.
The thing is the drink will differ depending on which bartender you get
So it's hard to say if I will also get a cool one but I think I'm going to try my luck and order Zootopia.
[Sharla] Ushka is going to get… What were you going to get?
[Ushka] I'm going to get Lord Of The Rings [Sharla] Lord Of The Rings.
[Ushka] I wanted to get a fun one. I don't know if it'll be fun or not. [Sharla] Let's try. Let's try!
He was like ”Zootopia is going to take a long time. Is that okay?” I said yes.
That's what I want. That means it's going to be the good one.
The Lord Of The Rings has arrived.
[Sharla] You know what it is? [Ushka] It's got to be Mount Doom.
[Ushka] Maybe that's the ring going into the lava
[Sharla] That makes sense actually, yeah…
[Ushka] Mix up with the lava.
[Sharla] Yaaay!
It's like a fruit cocktail.
It's awesome.
I love how it's all fresh fruit too.
They're not frozen.
It's so good.
It's very sweet. I think it's like an orange based with maybe a cherry liquor.
So we went with Ghibli movies for our final two.
See if you guys can guess what they are?
The colors are a hint here.
Which Ghibli movie do you think this is?
And how about this one?
And the answer is… Kiki's Delivery Service!
Her ribbon. Her red ribbon and her blue dress.
And mine is Totoro.
So they gave us these cool little cocktail recipe books
That show you some of the movies you can order and the cocktail that goes with it and it tells you everything that's in it.
There's some really good ones. We need to come back here and try them.
There was one that was like… oh… look it's Scary Movie. I haven't…
What is that supposed to be even?!
I've seen the movie so many times and I can't figure out what they had in mind when they designed that but it looks really good.
I didn't even think to do Godzilla!
[Sharla] Okay we got to come back. [Ushka] Yeah next time! [Sharla] Yeah!
[Ushka] And the Avengers is amazing! [Sharla] Wow! Whoa!
[Sharla] So fun! [Ushka] So pretty!
[Sharla] I wonder what Godzilla looks like. [Ushka] There's Venom.
[Sharla] Oh… My Fair Lady is a bunch of flowers.
On the sign here it says ”4 am” so maybe the 9 pm closing was just for corona
But normally they're open till 4am so that's a lot better.
We are headed to Don Quijote because they have Ushka's favourite gacha collection.
There're really interesting ones and they change them up like every day.
Every time we come down here, and we're down here a lot, it will be changed.
Sometimes they'll change them like twice a day so if you see one that you like you have to get it right away.
Oh cute!
What do they have today?
They have the praying mantis collection.
Some battleships.
Manekineko. Those are really cute.
What's that? Oh hamsters eating things.
It's a dial phone
What?
I kind of like that, that's fun!
Sumikko gurashi.
Oh, they have the Fukushima akabeko the traditional doll from Fukushima.
Those are really cool actually, I love that one.
Oh cool! What are they?
Pouches. You gotta try and get Shibuya.
Oh i guess they don't have all of them. There's only eight, so they do have Shibuya and Shinjuku.
What did you get?
It's Aki...
Oh, it's Akihabara! *laughing* It's awesome!
Oh it's like...oh what is the whole section?
That's really cool! That's so cool!
It's a little sign from inside the train when they're like showing you where you're stopping.
That's really cute!
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Hello from Sendai! I had a bit of an unexpected trip back to Sendai this morning.
So I have cameras set up all over my house so that when I'm away i can check on Maro make sure he's doing okay.
And last night before I went to bed, I noticed he was acting a little strange.
But at that point there were no trains going back to Sendai so I was stuck in Tokyo so I kind of just stayed up all night and watched him on the camera.
Couldn't get back here until the morning
but then at 5:30 I got up and took a taxi to tokyo station and got on the first shinkansen
So that I could take him to the vet at 9am they found that he had an inflamed bladder.
bladder. They couldn't figure out why because
they tested his pee and everything and
his ph levels were fine so he probably
doesn't have any bladder stones
and they couldn't find any signs of
infection so his bladder was just like
irritated and inflamed and it was making
him go to the bathroom like every two
minutes or at least
think that he had to
that was the problem they gave me some
medication to give him to get rid of the
inflammation it seems to be helping he
hasn't been going to the bathroom over
and over again i think it worked like
immediately which is amazing
and just in case they did see something
on his ultrasound that could possibly be
a bladder stone
forming so they've put him on a special
diet for the next week hopefully he eats
it he's the pickiest eater in the world
so i'm a little worried about that
but
he's going to be on that diet for a week
and then i need to take him back to the
vet and they're going to do another
ultrasound and see if the
spot that they saw has
disappeared i really hope it's nothing
that needs surgery he has had two
surgeries before and he was okay but he
is much older now and i would rather not
put him through that so hopefully he's
okay
he's doing okay right now he's just
resting but he does look a lot better
than he did this morning so
wow I didn't expect him to like it he's
a really picky eater so
they must have made this food taste good
also let's acknowledge my zombie eye
I don't know if it's from staying up all
night or what but it decided I wanted to
look like a zombie today as if the big
gash across my throat wasn't bad enough
now I have to deal with this
you guys are gonna have to look at
this for the next couple weeks sorry I'm
a mess
um
I really want to test out my glasses we
were supposed to do that this morning
too I think just
being in the sunlight coming in through
my windows should change some color
I'm so excited about them
I really do like them
they're a fun shape
and um the brown tinge is awesome
let's see if we can do it oh
I think they're changing
it is a slightly cloudy day today but
there is a little bit of sunlight coming in
I love these window seats I wanted to
get some proper
seat cushions for them and all I could
find were these like
single cushions at the store they do
kind of work
a little annoying that they move around
Maro always knocks them off but oh
I think
they're changing
oh check it out oh my god I love them
they make cool sunglasses I love these
the brown shade is really cool I got
blue last time but I like this brown
I will have my cool glasses linked below
if you guys want the same frames and
you can choose from brown or gray
transitions lenses but
I recommend the brown they're really pretty
he's so happy because I ordered him his
favorite ball off the internet
lost his other one
I found these online it's just this
squishy like plushy ball I think this
one's actually Sailor Moon themed his
last one was Neko Atsume
I think they have a little bit of catnip
in them which is why he likes it so much
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check out this cute cup that Ushka got
me from the starbucks halloween collection
so it's supposed to be a mug
you're supposed to drink from it but the
problem is when you drink like this
the ears stab you like right in the eye
it's it's not the best design it's a
little awkward so what both of us are
gonna do is put a little plant in it
i think that's better anyways because
then i can put it on my shelf or
something and i'll see it more often
than if i was using it as
a coffee cup the face reminds me of maro
actually
your friend
so unfortunately the tokyo adventures
will have to wait until another time i
will be back down there again soon most
likely i'm just going to chill with maro
for the next couple days and watch him
very carefully and make sure he's doing
all right and eating his special food
i'm actually off on a day trip with
chris very soon to somewhere i've never
been to in japan before so stay tuned
for that video that'll be the next one i
will see you guys then thanks so much
for watching hope you have a great day
bye for now
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