Another Day, Another Quiche

I am at Dean and Deluca at Shinagawa station, enjoying this lovely onion and smoked salmon quiche. I am going to the immigration again, this time to pick up my work visa (yay!), but they are closed for an hour for lunch so I am having--well, brunch, really--here.

My first choice would have been the buffet at Shinagawa Prince Hotel, which I heard was amazing. But I don't have enough money (it's 2,500 yen for lunch and 5,000 for dinner), especially since I have to spend 4,000 buying a revenue stamp (I think that's something like a money order) for the visa process later.

Today, I have to do a million things:

* Pick up my visa in Shinagawa (30 mins south of my home by train and bus)

* Pick up my monthly salary in Higashi Miyahara (an hour north of here)

* Get a cheap haircut somewhere, anywhere. Koko has been complaining that I've been shedding so much, maybe because it's hot, so I tie up my hair in a bun every day, and when I undo it, a bunch of hair comes out. I always shed hair, but not this much. I'm not going bald; I just have too much hair! I think it'll be good to chop off a few inches. Tokyo is getting too hot for this shit.

* Buy dress pants

* Buy dress shoes (flats)

* Meet my young women's leader to get some application from her

* Go to Shinjuku and check out the huge 100-yen shop there for knick-knacks to use in my classes

* Check out the second-hand shop in Shinjuku San Chome to see if it has any nice men's bags. Koko wanted to buy a bag for work and after many days of looking everywhere, including the expensive department stores in Tokyo (SOGO, Queen's Isetan, Takashimaya, etc), the only one he liked was a Bottega Veneta tha cost $3,000--yes, USD.

So I'm going to try to find something similar at the what the Japanese call a "recycle shop." The one I want to go to is one I've passed a few times before and snubbed, because well, I could care less about buying Prada, Gucci, etc. But apparently Koko has more expensive taste, haha.

Well, he's not like that most of the time (his casual clothes are from places like Uniqlo, the GAP of Japan). I want to get him something nice for his birthday because it's the first that since we started dating (5 years ago) that I'm working full-time with a decent salary. But I don't know about buying a bag that costs more than my monthly salary.