Phone Beer
Inspired by phones and beers. I looked through my old drunk msgs to include here but I just hurt my own feelings in the process. I purchased the grey yarn from Masuzakiya yarn store in Osaka. I recommend it if you are in the area, all the yarns are sorted by country of origin. The black cotton yarn is left over from another project
Currently I am sitting at the Narita Airport, the girl next to me just called me pretty…. wth I love her. I have a bag full of snacks from Family Mart, I have eaten half of them. I was stressed I wasn’t going to make this flight, but I have made it. I have no accomodation tonight…. I land at 1am and have a bullet train for Beijing at 6.30am.
This is what I have been doing while I knit this hat:
Sitting in parks
I love to knit in parks. It is nice to see what is going on and I often find myself in a conversation with a stranger about my knitting. I also love to see what activities go on at different parks. Lumpini park in Bangkok is so great, so many people gathering to exercise and hang out. I do love the Japanese toilet culture - park toilets are so clean and not stressful to use and I have a weak bladder. I love Ueno park in Tokyo, so great.
Taking public transport
In Melbourne I take the bus. The bus is great, it’s so easy to fare evade and it is pretty calm most of the time, so I was really not prepared for the amount of people that are able to cram into a subway carriage here, and almost got my dermal ripped out during rush hour. I will say, even when you are pressed body to body in a Japanese train, it is not so bad, people smell fine and keep to themselves. Whereas in Melbourne, there has been times where I have seen a person’s full ass and full on verbal fights.
I do look forward to knitting on the 250 line in Melbourne again.
Eating
I love convenience store food, also all food the food in general. Phoebe and I ate so many pancakes, I think we averaged two to three per day. This couple in Kyoto made these epic pancakes, the triangle thing is a folded pancake and the middle is raw, pretty yummy. The supermarket by our accomodation in Tokyo is 24 hours and has roasted sweet potatoes, I have had so many, god they are so good and only 159 yen. I will miss the 7/11 smoothies and the sandwiches and pancakes.
I went to the post office and posted my friend a little gift I found that made me think of them. I suck with posting things, a couple customers of mine will know this to be true. In this instance, I used the wet roller thing and ended up with an envelope which lost a lot of it’s structural integrity, but it was really sweet, me and the postman laughed together.
I brought so much yarn from Japan that I have had to give up one of my jackets to make room. At least if I get cold I can knit myself a jumper.
Likes
Japanese public toilets
Pedestrian overpass bridges
Pancakes
sweet potatoes from the 24 hour supermarket
Laughing with the postman
Laughing with my sister
Dislikes
Almost losing my dermal
Missing my sister ):
