Origami Wallpaper Fail

Random bits and pieces first:

I really like singing, but I get really flustered singing in front of people for fear of messing up (not a karaoke story, btw). But then, I was watching some Tegan & Sara videos (one of my hobbies) on u2b (youtube for you n00bs) and half of their live performances are titled "Tegan & Sara mess up (song)", which makes me feel much better about myself, because T&S are two of mah faves, and if they can mess up and still be awesome, then well--that's something, I guess.

Live Action Japanese Living Information Update!

Anyways, my apartment is really boring aesthetically, so I had this idea that I would try

to wallpaper my walls with origami. This is as far as I got. It looks like I put a quilt on the wall, basically. Not that quilts are bad or anything; but I feel like every attempt I make at trying to decorates ends with my room looking a little more child-like. I saw the apartment of one of the guys that I trained with, and his was all sophisticated and stylish, and it made me really jealous because I want to be cool, dangit! But instead I have clear dressers that you can see my underwear through, and a penguin bank (the guy I replaced passed that on to me, and I would get rid of it, but if you read my last post about trash separation in Japan [which no one did], you would understand how that is nearly impossible).

Also, one of my blankets is really just a big towel. But apparently those are big in Japan (big as in popular, not big as in towels in general--those are actually not very big normally).

"What you don't surrender, the world strips away." --Tegan tattoo (and Bruce Springsteen lyrics, apparently)