Adventures...

[susandennis]

I went to town! I decided to go see if I could find a salt and pepper solution at the City Kitchens store downtown and, if not, maybe drop by the Market and see what was there. But, when I hit the center of town I remembered Daiso! They just opened one in our city mall in the middle of town. Daiso, if you don't know, is a magical place of Japanese stuff. Everything is pretty much $1.50, $3.00 or $5.00 and they have amazing stuff that you can't find anywhere else. And, honestly, I don't know what half the stuff is. Someday I'm going to find myself a Japanese interpreter and make them take me on a tour of the store.

Some stuff is obvious. And some stuff has pictures like this gem! I have now replaced the office clip that I have been using to keep my milk closed with this magical number! They even had two different kinds of Things To Keep Your Milk Closed With. This one had the better picture. I couldn't quite figure out how the other one worked.

From lj

From lj

And I did find a perfectly acceptable salt and pepper solution. One piece, has big enough salt holes, is purple and looks nice on the table. No napkins yet.

Plus, as you can see, I'm getting the hang of this Picasa thing. If any of you are clicking through to the pictures, how is it? Compared to Flickr?

roadskoller gave me a GREAT idea this afternoon. I'm going to photograph all my shelves in groups and inventory the contents here! I think I'll probably shoot everything at one time - probably tomorrow - a day in the life off... and then post them one at a time. She wanted to see what was on the shelves and now she will be able to. Plus, I'll have a nice record of my stuff for when the flood, earthquake, fire or bugler hits.

Oh and my tax stuff is all organized and packaged up for its trip to the CPA next week.  This has been a good day so far!

Comments

[pisceandreamer.livejournal.com]

Daiso, if you don't know, is like magical place of Japanese stuff.

I am officially jealous.

[susandennis]

It is a wonder. Of course, I am a whore for cheap shit. I've always said that I'd rather have $100 to spend in Woolworth's than $1,000 in Nordstrom's. Of course, now I'd also have to have a time machine for the Woolworth's part but Daiso is nearly better.

[vetch.livejournal.com]

I find it faster to load and easier to navigate than flickr.

Also, that is a nifty milk thingamy. I want a Japanese wonder store in my hood!

[kyrielle]

About equal to Flickr; it shows images. :)

I also got to load up on Jap Crap today

[vixter.livejournal.com]

There's a store in San Mateo called Ichiban Kan. $48 for 2 large bags full o crap. But the plastic is very high quality. I would have gotten more but Kathleen was with me and didn't really approve of me bringing more crap home.

I also got some food, UFO noodles in a bowl.

I got a mesh pencil bag thing with a zipper and have already organized a bunch of errant knitting supplies.