just got back from the japanese market today

Mom gave me a new electric skillet for my b'day and i'm making sukiyaki tomorrow for dinner

yeahhhhh!!!!

and then:

mom got a new car today!  a new used Honda Civic 2008, i think.  kasey helped her.  but the best part of this whole experience was when she started rambling on "IN JAPANESE" while she told me what was going on and who she talked to, etc.  It's happened several times in the last six months and it's usually after she has spent the morning with her sister and brotherinlaw.  it's is just hilarious.  i'm like... "Mom, Mom, Mom..." trying to get a word in because she's going a bazillion miles an hour in JAPANESE.  it's great!

 i really want to move closer to them.

really really