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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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