I thought there was more going on for July. Hm. Btw, just wanted to note how I decide what to publish here and what not to. I’m dropping some artists that I’m not a huge fan of, so the releases that get published here are the ones I DEFINITELY want to get. Since I can’t please everyone by writing up every J-Pop release, I might as well just post what I want, right? Also, I will always admit things like BEST OF albums or LIVE DVD’s unless there’s some new tracks.
Anyway, off we go~

７月８日　／　July 8th

Perfume – ⊿ アルバム (Album)

Tracklisting:

1. Take off
2. love the world
3. Dream Fighter
4. edge（⊿-mix）
5. NIGHT FLIGHT
6. Kiss and Music
7. Zero Gravity
8. I still love U
9. The best thing
10. Speed of Sound
11. ワンルーム・ディスコ “One Room Disco”
12. 願い（Album-mix） “Prayer (Album-mix)”

Sweet Vacation – あいにいこう～I・NEED・TO・GO～ シングル
Sweet Vacation – Going to Love～I・NEED・TO・GO～ Single

Tracklisting:

1. あいにいこう～I・NEED・TO・GO～ “Going to Love～I・NEED・TO・GO～
2. Because Of You
3. Summer Day（DJ TARO “hbs” Remix）

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７月１５日　／　July 15th

堀江由衣 – HONEY JET!! アルバム
Horie Yui – HONEY JET!! Album

Tracklisting:

1. moment
2. JET!!
3. Secret Garden
4. prism
5. バニラソルト “Vanilla Salt”
6. スピカ “Spica”
7. silky heart
8. Get up and Go
9. Peppermint Days
10. Love Countdown
11. Blue Rainy Days
12. 君のそばに “By Your Side”
13. Dear、、、

I don’t know how I feel right now. In fact, it took a good while for me to even come up with that as a starting sentence for this blog. (Pathetic! ) I knew I wanted to blog and needed to blog, but when I sat down to do it nothing came out.

I think what’s confusing me is when I talked with Sam last night he sent me some photos…and, ah, even though I love them, they made me miss him SO MUCH. Sure, tomorrow is July, but that means I have a month and a half until he comes back still. Sure it’s not THAT bad, I’ve made it through 2 months already, so this will seem like no sweat, (I can start counting down at least). But damn it’s just so difficult when this whole time I’ve been on edge about whether he’ll be able to come back, how things will change between us because of the recent situation (I don’t think they’ll change much except I will be depressed more), and that lately I haven’t gotten to talk to him that much (or at least have something other than a serious conversation). Thinking about the time when he’ll be back so I can hug him and kiss him again is both wonderful and tormenting.
It’s been like a week or two weeks since the last time we chatted on webcam. *sigh* I’m too spoiled, I know, but I want to hear his voice and see his face so badly. I just wanna joke around and make cute faces again, feels like forever since we’ve been able to be silly like that and have fun. We’ve always been talking about serious or depressing things, I just want to verify that we’re both still happy enough, sort of. I worry about him a lot and the stress from his family.

Anyway, we finally got to have a decently long conversation last night. I told him I very much plan on spoiling him as much as possible when he gets back. I want to do all the cooking, prepare his meals and pack his lunch early in the morning, and clean and such. Just take care of all those little things. I tried to do that last year, but since he’s a better cook than me, I was always nervous to do these kinds of favors for him, always worrying he’d be thinking “Still, it would’ve tasted better if I made it”. But that’s something I just gotta work through, ’cause I know he’ll be happy to be spoiled for once. I used to be the only always on the receiving end of this sort of thing, because I never found a good way to reciprocate, and although I loved it, I felt guilty, too. I don’t think I was able to communicate to him how appreciative I was, and so I definitely feel like I have to prove my feelings to him now.

But already, I’m the one being spoiled! He bought me such sweet presents from Japan–a lot more than I was expecting!!

He got me an うさぎふうりん～！

Bunny windchime!

Oh God, isn’t it adorable?? I figured he would pick up one for each of us, but OH MAN it’s so cute! He knows my taste so well. He tested out the sound and says it sounds nice, too. He got himself an uglier (his words) fuurin that sounds a bit better…I want to hang them both up and test them out so bad!

He also got me a PINKY~! It’s been so long since I’ve gotten one, and I was wanting to buy for myself, but he saw this recognized it from my Pinky List (what a sweetie! ) and bought it. Again, can’t wait to display/play with her!

Kerori clear files! Will definitely use them to organize my school papers next semester! Unfortunately this picture is just of the back (I only got a chance to save a few of the pictures we shared on MSN), but I’ll definitely be taking more pictures of all these once I get them. (He’ll bring them to me when he gets back since shipping’s a bitch and such). Oh, and PLUS he bought two Moyashimon face towels that we’ll flip a coin over. He REALLY spoiled me! I thought he’d come back with the fuurin and maybe two small things for me. So I’m already searching online for some presents I can give him too when we get back. ww

I’m working on making some updates to the site a little. I added in threaded comments (which was just a handy plugin), and got a Flickr. I’m also going to start cleaning up affys and hostees (I will give you ample warning but some of you haven’t touch your sites since you set it up! ). Plus I’d like to look into getting some penpals. Mostly e-mail at this point, but maybe later on it’d be fun to exchange some small gifts/letters (the old fashioned way!) every once in awhile!