When I promised a fabulous Happy Hour this week, I didn’t realize that this friday is a friends Breastcancer and Pets Unlimited Fundraiser. Two great tastes that go great together! So … I’m going to be drinking with them. Sooorry. If you are insistent on drinking with us, and have $70 or more that you [...]

at this blogs stuff. I write. I forget to post. I forget to write. I forget to invite you all out drinking with us. I know you will forgive me. Won’t you? Next week we will have the Happy Hour to end all Happy Hours. It will be, I promise you, a glee filled evening. [...]

We do not hope to be such a monkey Originally uploaded by Monatopia. Ok. Let’s see. Leaving for my first Happy Hour in the states… what will I need, what will I need. Hmm.. Camera. Always need a camera. Never know what might happen. What else… let’s see…. lip gloss. No one wants dry chapped [...]

Yoko and Mona and Girl Scott Kidnapped and Scott Originally uploaded by Monatopia. After some pretty harrowing Happy Hours in Japan (think karaoke and grilled internal organs), we have returned safely to our home base. Yah! We missed you! We would love for you to come speak English with us! Order in English with us! [...]

6 great iPhotos Originally uploaded by Monatopia. You’re looking around a shop in Japan. Any shop, big or small, souvenier or department store, and you find some little treasure that you like. You take it to the cash register. So begins the Japanese Shopping Ritual. First, you are reprimanded for taking something from the display [...]

Bringing jet lag to new entertaining lows, we are home. We woke up at 7:30am Tuesday morning, packed, ran around Tokyo, got a bit lost, took an hour-something long ride to the airport, shopped at the duty free, watched three or four movies, ate some really bad airplane food, awarded our stewardess the coveted Bitchiest [...]