fun days ahead: a game of life with mister donut

We’ve had this pocket version of Game of Life or 人生ゲーム for a couple of years now but never played it. It was a rainy Sunday, so we decided to have a go at it and it’s really fun. It’s good for studying Japanese too, so I was actually really studious this weekend.

We headed to Mister Donut on Monday evening, just to get out of the house. It always makes me laugh when I go there because I was telling my Japanese friend about going one time and she thought I was talking about a Mr Donut which led ...

how greedy can you get?

A quick update on what we’ve eaten recently. I will be back in October and I have formed a new budget and everything and will be sharing my money saving escapades with you all (hopefully!)

Halloween doughnuts at Mister Donut (don’t you love the crazy eyes?)

This was the best one out of the two Halloween choices.

The chocolate on this wasn’t too great, but really, I didn’t expect it to be. It had cream in it.

We thought that this looked a little bit, erm…suggestive.

We had Cinnabon. I always thought Cinnabon wasn’t going to be too great, so ...

spending the money on fukubukuro

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It’s the new year and with brings fukubukuro in Japan.  I wanted a Lush one but for some reason this year, Lush Japan decided not to do them.  That was a nice surprise.  Can I also say that we trudged to the nearest Lush in a shopping centre and queued outside for 45 minutes. Got inside and no Lush goody bags.  Not wanting to let it upset me, I swiftly moved on and instead bought a Baskin and Robins aka 31 bag, a Mister Donut one and a Haagen Dazs one. Spot the theme?  Yes, it’s food.

For dinner on ...