I got a phone call from Mikey, letting me know that he, Dad, and Connor were sitting on the roof to watch fireworks. Then I got a text from Jenny letting me know that it's my fault.

Also! I began the Great Culling of Stuff. There are two boxes of goodies free for the asking: one contains many awesome books (Terry Pratchett is heavily represented because most of his books are now available for the Kindle, which is sweet) and the other is full of random randoms. Random randoms include, but are not limited to, posters (Japanese and otherwise), mini-swords, statue-y frogs, and cork houses in glass boxes. There are also four Items of Storage. IoS are things I want to keep, but can't take with me, so they have to be somewhere until my wandering stage is over... so if you want to make sure that I someday track you down, you may want to display them in your home and taunt me every so often. My four IoS are actually two pairs of Raijin & Fuujin swag: a pair of beautiful, gold-threaded pictures, and a pair of awesome statues.

ALSO. I am choosing which Japanese shirts I will keep, and which I will give away. (Sorry, I'm keeping the crazy zipper skirt.) So if you maybe want a silly Japanese t-shirt or sweatshirt to treasure, you should give me a call.

Finally, Mom wants to store the majority of my paper dolls, but it may be that she can't find room for all of them. I may be updating the IoS list with, say, perhaps a lovely bride doll, or a bath-house doll. They are sugoi kirei, for serious.

I'm moving to Seattle in late August, so there's time to snoop around and see if I have something you like. Anything not taken gets donated, or maybe tossed off a cliff.