Today’s deck is the This Might Hurt Tarot Deck.
While “reinterpreting the card imagery but without the medieval element” isn’t groundbreaking, I do like the way this one does it.
Today’s reading… so there’s this image/video I really love of some rabbit that is in an obstacle course, and instead of jumping it lifts the bar away and passes through. The image/video is usually labeled something like “redefine success”.
Today’s reading THAT basically, which is a good thing to do, as you’ll see.
So the word of the day is rolling boiling anger Forex.
I’ve seen the word used a lot before, but I thought it was like… in reference to purchasing stock and whatnot. But Forex is basically the thing where you purchase foreign currency and trade it in and out when the price is beneficial to you.
In other words, I needed to look for banks with an option for Forex stuff… and just my luck, by all metrics Yuucho Ginko is the only one without it, it seems. Well, to be more specific, they apparently stopped it in 2021.
So after waking up I start looking things up and apparently Sony Bank has that as an option and since I saw Sony Bank because they had some collab with Yuucho Ginko where the ATMs have reduced rates I figured I might as well try.
Shout outs to being able to get a card with PLAYSTATION on it.
Rakuten application hasn’t been denied but they want me to send them a proof of where I work.
I put an application in Mitsui Sumitomo for kicks.
I’ve heard that Shinsei Bank is very gaijin-friendly and… yeah their application even has a “write your middle name” bit on it.
I also learned in the process that the taxes for those transfers are paid during the transfer instead of something you declare later. The Mitsui Sumitomo bit about registering for Forex trading even lets you either use their own entity for it or choose your own.
Despite this, I was… not in a good mental state. After all, the solution was progress but the bullshit would continue and I’m TIRED man.
A big element is that while we’re not really in any immediate pinch (and I’m taking measures to make sure it remains so), my brain has gone into… it’s not really scarcity mindset, it’s more like preventative mindset.
The point is that usually when I’m this stressed I go out and travel and being a couple of days out helps me unwind… but since I want to make sure we’re not in such a tight spot I don’t even think about going out and travel.
ON TOP OF THAT, aside from going to TGS (which is a different sort of trip) I’ve not really traveled since I came back from Miyakojima at the start of September and it’s getting to me, man.
Hoping a walk would help me, I went to run one last check at my old apartment. I’ve moved everything but there were a couple of loose ends. Shockingly I found a couple of things from a Destiny Child (the mobile game) pop up store from God Knows When.
Also coins.
So many fucking coins.
Being done with that, I decided to go to Kobe for a bit… just to walk somewhere, really.
I checked their Loft. It was fine, but the one in the Hanshin mall is definitely the biggest one so far.
Afterwards I went to check the Volks shop and MAN it feels like forever since I last went to a doll shop, it’s really dawning on me how long I’ve been just in the shuffling back and forth like that.
I even realized that trying to console myself like “well, it’s gonna be the weekend, there’s nothing I can really do until Monday” aggravated me because IT FELT LIKE JUST TWO DAYS AGO I WAS SAYING THAT EXACT SAME THING.
I got some cute clothes, though.
I really need to take the girls out… as much for them as for me…
I got to Japanese lesson on the way back and man, I can’t even try to hide that I’m in a rough spot. I wasn’t trauma-dumping but I tend to at least dissimulate a bit more.
Ah well, the beard will remain until the whole situation is solved. It worked to bring the My Number postcard and I’ll hold the threat untilthings work out.