gurdymonkey | Tanka challenge 11/27/09

Mantled in dark clouds
The hills hunch shoulders against
The rain's cold fingers.
I watch from my window and
Wonder when it will rain here.

EDIT: About three minutes after I initally posted this and it sounds like cats and dogs in tengu geta on the skylight. Which is not helping my headache much. Maybe this is a Two Advil Day.

Best place to go on a Black Friday? Daiso Japan in Union City. For those late to the party, Daiso is a chain of 100 yen stores based in Japan with several branches in the Bay Area. The Union City one may actually be larger than the one over in Daly City and getting there does not require a bridge toll, so I'm glad I checked it out. $1.50 for most items, with some priced a bit higher, they carry a little bit of everything from stationery to kitchenware to plastic containers and organizers of all sizes and shapes.

I replaced one of the two stolen HOCM teapots for a whopping $4, an inoffensive green ceramic pot with bamboo handle, complete with wire tea strainer for loose tea. I picked out two sets of three tea cups (threes are lucky, sixes not so much) in complimentary colors, found a bento for a Twelfth Night gift for someone who had admired mine awhile back and who does not read my LJ so shhhh. And chopsticks in a case and a strap to go with said bento so she can dine in style. Office Christmas gifts are 50% done: nice lidded baskets which can be filled with candy or the ashes of dead project managers or whatever.