All Things Kawaii

Sometimes I think Japan is made up of ice cream and marshmellows that puppies dressed as kittens and kittens wearing puppy-dog ears have randomly tossed together with their paws while playing on clouds.  The clouds are smiling with big eyes and even bigger eye lashes. 

Acid trip or factual depiction of Japan? You decide. 

If you said acid trip, EHNT!  Japan actually has a word for things that are unbearably cute: Kawaii.  Its a combination of two kanji characters (the ones they borrowed from China) that mean "can love". 


It's hard to be mature when absolutely adorable things are surrounding you at every second.  And it's also true that everything is smaller over here, and we all know making something small automatically seems to make it cuter. If they can make something small and cute they will.  I'll be keeping a log of everything that has been Kawaii-ified, so you can just search under the "Into The Kawaii" label whenever you need a pick me up.  CAUTION to any diabetic friends, get your insulin ready.

So, I spent the past few days shopping for crap to jazz up my house.  I'm finally staying somewhere for a long time, and I am going to make it as homey and permanent as possible.  Oh, and apparently cute.

Warning: If you hate penguins, frogs, owls or cats DO NOT continue.

Fuck yeah penguin light! $7 at the recycle shop

My swiffer is a blue smiling cat now. Or is that a bear? Whatever it is, its fucking cute.

Just hanging out with my frog loofa!

Frog Magnet that doubles as a "Holy shit that plate is hot! I need something to pick it up with" thing.

There were many things (like a smiling snake dish sponge that wraps around the fauct neck) that I decided not to buy because it was almost ridiculous, but they might worm their way into my apartment sometime in the future. Cute little jerks.