In Which Our Heroine Has A Strange Dream

Weird, weird dream in which I was a surrogate mother for S&S, and after the baby was born, I was pursuing an acting career, and journos kept digging around for information on the baby, and calling me 'incubator' and saying I was a bad person for doing something like that for my friends.

Seriously, what did I eat before bed last night?

Probably my last entry of 2007

My landlady gave me a bowl of special New Year's food (containing mochi and konyaku, the spotty grey jelly that has been an enemy of mine since my first week in Japan) as a way of thanking me for the carrot cake. I ate a little of it, picking out the konyaku and the tubery things that feel like a rotted potato in my mouth, and then eventually dumped it in a bag and put it in the trash. Don't tell.

Then I made rice, and somehow mixed up the ratio of rice to water (my cooker requires less water than anyone else's), and only noticed that the rice was gelatinous and still half-water after I had made the maboudofu. So, another bag of food in the garbage, and I had to use the last scrapings from the rice bucket to make a second (perfect) batch of rice. This is a great bowl of spicy tofu, let me tell you.

It will be 2008 soon. I hope 2008 will be awesome.