Nabe! and two desserts!

For our first nabe dinner of the season (well technically our second) we invited Tony and his friend over. The plan had been to play a little Nintendo Wii after dinner, burn off some of those calories, but the TV had other plans. Broken plans, broken TVs. Yargh.

Nabe (pronounced "nah-beh") is the best winter food. I love it. I look forward to it all summer and then in autumn we break out the hotpot and cook us up some veggies and what not.

I was up not too early and not too late and i made some french toast, as is becoming my Sunday custom and we enjoyed our nice morning together. Ulala was feeling much better but not tip-top so i let her rest until breakfast was ready.
Today was a beautiful clear day, after all the grey and rain of yesterday. So Ulala and i took the afternoon and wandered around Tsuruhashi and got some mochi-on-a-stick for dessert and some and some of the best kimchi you can get in Osaka. We didn't really need dessert since Tony brought apple pie (which was delicious).

A new TV has been in the pipeline for some months now, but i feel that tonight Ulala snapped and now we are in the home stretch. Now we just have to find the time to go comparison shopping. Truth be told, we have done so two or three times already but "there might be a sale soon" somehow always seems to curtail our plans and i get TV-blocked by the power of the irrational posing as rationality.

I'm leaning towards a Sony Bravia or a Sharp Aquos but those aren't based on anything more than passing research and commercials. Without Ulala i would probably just get whatever is shiniest.

We got some of these for dessert at a stand that we often pass on Sennichimae-dori:


Symian is: sad for his TV but happy for his filled belly.
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