Today’s deck is the Cookie Story tarot.
Wait, 79 cards…
Don’t fucking tell me…
I FUCKING KNEW IT.
I have a sneaking suspicion that every time I make this joke is with decks by the same company. I’d have to check.
When I got it I thought this deck was from that one game with the cookies everyone wants to fuck, but it’s more of a pop culture Things but drawn as cookies sort of deck. Kinda charming to be honest, even if I find that YOU RECOGNIZE THIS?????? kinda thing a bit exhausting nowadays.
Today’s reading reminds that cooperation begins by taking the first step and communicating that you want to do something. In other words it’s calling me out for being stuck in my own head more often than not.
I’m meeting up with some people to play mahjong at a shop!
I was hella curious about it, my only experience with mahjong is… Every Mahjong Minigame Ever, so I wondered how things would play in real life.
First thing worth noting? We were the only people under 60 in that place. Shout outs to the old lady with a green-colored wolf cut, though.
The second thing I noticed was the predictable: Non-digital mahjong doesn’t give you the reminders that a digital version would have, things like “keep an eye for these pieces” and whatnot.
However, I will say that there’s something to the physicality of handling the pieces that cannot be replicated digitally, it’s like the difference between rolling a bunch of dice and using some digital random number generator.
The three hours of the appointment were basically the EXACT amount to have a full proper match, which was interesting.
After that we returned to Umeda and had some ramen. You know it was good because I forgot to take a photo.
Fun times were had and then I had to part ways because GUESS WHO HAS TO SEND A ✨FUCKING FAX✨. Thankfully it was something Not Dire for a change. It’s just the “hey you forgot to send this form” sort of thing, and the fact that they told me to fax it instead of snail mailing it is encouraging in the sense that maybe the process is almost done and they wanna be done ASAP.
“But Fer, why won’t they accept an email? Wouldn’t that be even faster?” Great question!