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1. It's the weekend!

2. We ordered dinner from Coco Ichibanya tonight. Got the regular curry (we always get it with karaage and tonkatsu) but instead of just getting one to share, I got another order so we'd have some leftovers. For the second order I got their keema curry with cheese naan and it was also extremely delicious.

3. I got gas (and a much needed car wash) on the way to work this morning and it was down 40 cents from the last time we filled up before going to Japan. That's still about 30 cents higher than before our great leader decided attacking Iran was a smart idea, but I was really pleasantly surprised to see that not only had it not gone up, but had gone down so much.

4. Speaking of cars, we've been having so much trouble with the key fobs for the newer car that we finally took it in to the dealership. Of course they were trying to say at first that we should just replace the batteries in the fobs, but we've done that and it makes no difference. Plus it's both of them, so it's obviously something to do with the car itself. Anyway, they got that finished up today and apparently the battery in the car's sensor needed replacement, so hopefully that will have fixed it. We had also wanted them to fix the front windshield, which developed a crack the other day after the windshield wiper flew off and the metal part snapped back down and hit the glass. They didn't do anything and were saying it would be $2300 to replace it, but Carla spoke to a manager and showed him that it was not a chip or anything that caused it, but the malfunctioning wiper, so he agreed to replace it for free. They have to order the window, so we've got the car back for now and have to take it back in again next week, but I'm very glad we got these both fixed for no cost.

5. Look at these boys!

I had a really hard time getting to sleep that first night despite having gone a long time without sleep during our travel (no sleep for me on the plane) and the bed being relatively comfortable. Carla seemed to sleep well, though. I think I got a total of about 2.5 hours and then ended up getting up around 4am or something.

( Osaka Kaiyukan Aquarium )

It's been exactly a month since we've been to Disneyland. Well, our Disneyland anyway. We had originally planned to go last weekend, but were still too worn our from our trip, so we put in for a mid-week trip today and went down for lunch.

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1. Back to work today, but since I knew the majority of my day would just be catching up on messages, I decided to work from home. Jasper was extra clingy so I'm glad I was able to snuggle with him so much. And I did get all caught up on email and teams!

2. The other day I saw a post on instagram about some viral loaded fries (the original was orange chicken but they've added a char siu version as well) and it just happens it's at a Chinese restaurant not that far from us. They have delivery, but the fries aren't on the online menu and by the time they got to us they'd be soggy anyway, so we decided to go there for lunch. Since it's gone viral, we decided an early lunch would be best, so we got there around 10:30 (they open at 10) and there was no one else there except someone picking up for delivery, which was good because they only have three tables. We got the char siu fries and they were even better than expected.



The fries are tossed in orange chicken sauce and then there's a bit of melted cheese and sriracha mayo under all that char siu pork. This is like a regular square takeout container but filled so full it would barely be able to close. We shared it and still only ate half. Would definitely get it again, and we want to try the orange chicken version as well.

3. The restaurant is in the same shopping center as a big Mexican market, so we did some shopping there since we usually don't get over there (now we have another reason to go) and got some stuff for carnitas tacos for dinner and those were also delicious.

4. We figured out who the mystery pee-er was, which I'm glad for, because now we know who to keep an eye on. It turns out it's Jasper, which was one of my top suspects. The reason we found out for sure is that I had to throw away all three of the warming beds when we got back because they'd all been peed in and while we'd washed one before, there had been too many recent pee incidents, I didn't want to leave any possibility of a smell. I ordered another one and that came today and not long after we put it down, he peed in it. D:

He is not having trouble using the box, so I don't think this is anything health related, just stress due to us being gone too long, and then I think he now has an association with those warming beds, so thankfully it's not cold weather right now, and when I do get some more for the winter, I'll try a different type and hope that it's been long enough and they're different enough that it doesn't trigger him.

He's such a needy baby, but he's always been a bit weird about Alex, so while he was okay around her in general, he didn't go to her for snuggles while we were gone like Ollie did (Ollie went all in on the snuggles with her; she was not prepared lol), so I think that's what caused him to act out. Hopefully now that we're home and all problem spots have been eliminated, we won't have any more issues.

5. Chloe was checking out the new cat tree.