Today’s deck is the Runic Tarot.
I thought I already used this one, but instead it was that I made a joke that an earlier deck reminded me of YuGiOh’s Runic archetype.
Deck’s cool though.
Today’s reading is a pat on the back, the cards going “no yeah, that’s some bullshit you’ve been going through alright.”
Guess what bitches, the horrors continue!!
My Paypay and bank account here in Japan are currently locked because my residence card expired. Now, this was something I saw coming, and at the latest I’ll have my new card next week if all goes well, after which I just gotta do the process scanning the new one. But being something I accounted for doesn’t make it more welcome, especially considering the bullshit with the bank.
Anyway, I started the day like I mentioned at the end of last post by throwing out some furniture… well, leave out for pickup more like.
I don’t know if I’ve explained this, but here in Japan to dispose of oversized trash (anything from rice cookers to closets to ottomans) you have to put up an order online (you can also call if you’re more old fashioned) where you say what you’re leaving out and where, and pay a fee.
There’s two ways to pay the fee, one is to get prepaid stickers at the conbini and stick them onto the furniture, and the other is to pay electronically.
This is how I found out my Paypay was frozen, by the way,
Anyway, first thing I took out was the kitchen cupboard, which was basically redundant since I completely forgot I already had a cupboard but I used it to store junk for some reason.
Well… the reason was that when I just moved in I didn’t really have more than one plate and such, but as I started to try and have a more (relatively) normal life I ended up needing to use it.
Taking out that cupboard was HARD, it wasn’t heavy, but I just didn’t have any way to properly grip it, and also people leave their bikes outside the building making pushing the damn thing to its spot harder.
The next were two bookshelves. They were the kind that’s like one layer is for small manga and it was fine until it wasn’t and it was harder in some ways to take out because man, the moment I dragged one of those like 30cm it crumbled (like disassembling, not turning to dust), God knows how it DIDN’T do that earlier.
There’s two smaller shelves that are also gonna be disposed of, but those concern me less, I was in a slight rush to take those three things out because I didn’t want to also deal with dodging people on top of everything else.
Speaking of trash, the whole point of throwing that cupboard out was to make space for, like, actual trash bins. When E came visiting the system of “have one bag and just figure the rest as it comes” really came into relief.
The solution was kinda tricky but worth pointing out though.
So there’s effectively five types of trash to handle: Burnable, non-burnable, PET, metal, and glass. Burnable, PET, and Glass are all self-explanatory; non-burnable refers mainly to things like plastics that aren’t PET, stuff like styrofoam and such; meanwhile “metals” is mainly aluminum cans, but it can include things like razor blades and such.
As you might guess, five trash bins is too much, but after running three laps in the home center (I’ll leave it up to you to infer how literal I’m being with the wording) I found that chest with three compartments, and it was the exact amount of extra bins I needed.
Compared to the other materials I barely have metals, bottles, or glass to dispose of, so it makes sense to let those three be in the smaller bags while the big bags are for the trash that always takes the most space.
On the whole the day was basically round 14 of me moving the containers with stuff from one room to another, yet it strikes me how little by little even that has become more controlled.
The fight to tame the layers of depression in the aprtment continues, but it finally feels like the tides are shifting.