こんにちは！
Hellos and welcome dear readers!
最近ツイッターで英語学習されてたり
朝活されてる方たちに、謎のやる気を
勝手にいただいているタカペンです！
I've been randomly liking tweets about studying English and getting things done early in the morning. Seeing people getting motivated is pretty motivating, it's nice. :)
朝活、響きがいいですよね！！
夜更かしお寝坊なタカペンには
やりたくても中々・・・な感じですが！
ですがやる気だけなら！
Getting up early to get things done sounds like a dream, especially since I'm always going to bed and getting up late as can be. lol But I would do it if I could!
空 / The Sky
さて、そんなやる気をもらう日々の中
インスタで再び謎な空模様を
投稿しているタカペンです
So anyway, while I'm getting motivated by all the motivated tweets, I'm taking pictures of the sky as usual.
インスタで初の動画投稿です！
This is my first video upload on Instagram!
なんのひねりもなく、手振れが酷くて
見る方に不親切仕様ですが＾＾；
Not that I've done any edits to it or anything, so the image is as unsteady as can be. lol
ただ、お外に出たら良い天気！ 雲が！
雲が…？ あ、飛行機雲が流れてる！！
面白い！ と思って動画を頑張ってみました
It was just that when I made myself go outside this weekend, the sky looked so nice and blue with the puffy clouds, oh and look at the contrail moving... eh why's that moving? I've never noticed a moving contrail! So I wanted to try to take a video of the moving contrail. I guess it was pretty windy.
風の音がひたすらばばっばばばっ
と入ってますのでミュートのままで！
You can just keep the sound muted since all the sound that's in there is the wind blowing heavily. lol
あとはひたすら外出中に
機会があれば雲を撮ってました
Anad after that, every time I noticed anything interesting in the sky, I took pictures, while I was outside.
あ、すごい分厚い雲！
ペンキのはけで流してるみたいな雲！
夕陽の雲と電線！
Look at those puffy and dense clouds!
And there, they look like they've just run the paint brushes on the clouds!
The sunset shining on the clouds and the power lines!
などなど
etc., etc.
お散歩だけじゃなくて、
午後ずっと外出してたので
色んな雲模様を撮ることができました！
Unlike my usual walks, I was out for the whole afternoon, so I was able to take a bunch of different faces of the sky.
ドーナッツ事件 / The Donut Incident
そして外出中に謎な事件が
And during my outing that day, something strange happened.
ラテを求めてダンキン・ドーナッツに
注文しに行って
I needed to get a latte, so I went to Dunkin' Donuts.
何故かドーナッツを押し付けられました
And for some reason, they offered me a donut.
ドーナッツを嫌いではないものの
特にドーナッツを求めていたわけ
ではなかった為、断るも
I like donuts, but I didn't go there for a donut, so I tried to decline.
めちゃくちゃ押し付けられて
押し切られて
ドーナッツをただで入手
But it wasn't an offer, but more like they were forcing the donut on me, so I gave in and thanked them for the freebie.
実はダンキン・ドーナッツに行く前に
同じモールにあるスタバでラテを
購入しようかとスタバに寄ったものの
込み具合が半端なく、店員さんも二人しかおらず
じゃあダンキンでいいや、
とてけとーな理由で訪れたのに
Before going to Dunkin' Donuts, I'd actually gone to Starbucks that's in the same mall as Dunkin' Donuts, but the line was too long and there were only two people behind the counter, so I'd gone with Dunkin' Donuts because there was no line.
こんな好待遇（？）
But given such a warm welcome,
これからもダンキン・ドーナッツを
ひいきするべきか
Perhaps I should always go to Dunkin' Donuts going forward. lol
こちらが押し付けられたドーナッツ
And here's the pic of the donut they forced on me:
匂いと味から察するに
秋の特別ドーナッツで
シナモンとメープルシュガー、
中にもメープルシュガーの餡
みたいなのが入ってました
From how it looked, smelled and tasted, I'm guessing it was a fall special because it tasted like maple sugar and cinnamon. A lot of it. It even had maple sugar filling. Overdoing it too much on the maple sugar maybe? lol
アメリカの食べ物らしく
めちゃくちゃ甘かったですが
アメリカ人味覚なタカペンには
無問題
American sweets are sickly sweet compared to Japanese sweets, but having grown up in the U.S., I'm used to it and have actually grown quite a sweet tooth. lol
疲れてたのもあって
美味しく平らげました♪
I was tired from my outing, too, so I glady took in the sugar high.
オクラとグレープ事変 / Okra and Grapes Incidents
さて、外出目的の一つが
食べ物の買い出しでした
One of my tasks during my outing was grocery shopping.
タカペンの行きつけ(笑)
のお店は主に、日本食品店
韓国食品店、アメリカの普通のスーパー、
及びホールフーズです
For grocery shopping, I usually go to the following stores: a Japanese grocery store, a Korean grocery store, a regular American supermarket, and Whole Foods.
今回はアメリカの普通のスーパーでの
買い出しだったのですが、
野菜コーナーでふと
This time, I needed to go to a regular American supermarket, and as I was browsing the fruits and vegetables section,
なんて綺麗で美味しそうなオクラが！
なんてふっくらで美味しそうなブドウが！
My, what beautiful and tasty looking okras!
My, what wholesome and yummy looking grapes!
と2点ウキウキしながら購入したのでした
So I got myself some okras and grapes.
オクラがびっくりだったのは、
日本の食べ物ではないと言う認識は
あったのですが、日本食のスーパーでしか
買ったことがなかったので、アメリカの
普通のスーパーで売ってることを
知らなかったんですね
Although I knew from looking up on wiki that okras are not Japan specific food staple, for some reason I'd only seen them at the Japanese grocery store, so it was actually a pleasant surprise to see okras at the regular supermarket.
なので
大きい！
おいしそう！
と入手したのですが
So because they were so huge and lovely looking, I decided to buy the okras.
・・・
Well...
オクラに詳しい方なら
既にこの時点で話の流れが
読めるかもしれませんが…
If you know your okras, you might be able to tell how this story turns out...
帰宅して、うきうきしてオクラを洗ったのですよ
After getting home, I was washing away my okras.
子どもの頃から生で醤油つけて
ぽりぽり食べてたので
それ意外の食べ方を知らないのですが
I've always eaten the okras raw with soy sauce, and I don't really know how else to eat them. lol
わーおいしい！ んまんま！！
ポリポリ
ひょいぱく
ひょいぱく
とオクラを次々食べてたら
*munch munch* Yay! These are so yummy! Nice and crunchy, make me want to eat more and more! Next one!
がりっ
Ouch.
えっ
Huh?
・・・？？？？？
Eh????
オクラをかじったら普通は
ぽりって噛み切れるのですが
何かめっちゃすじみたいのが
噛んだところから・・・
Normally okras are nice and crunchy, and break off when you bite them. But this okra, when I bit into it there were a bunch of stringy stuff...
なにこれ・・・？
What on earth...?
不良品？
A bad okra?
はてな？
Hmm?
まぁいっか、たまたまかな
ぽいっ
と捨てました
I just assumed it was just a bad one of the bunch and threw it away.
アメリカのスーパーの買い物で
不良品は残念ですが当たり前なので
気にも留めずに
I mean unfortunately, unlike Japan, American stores sell a lot of bad products, so I'm used to it. (Or is it just that I'm bad at telling apart the good ones from the bad ones? lol)
ポリポリ
*crunchy crunchy*
と次のオクラを食べて
So I start munching away again.
さて、次のも
And the next...
がりっ
Ow.
えっ・・・
Umm....
えっ・・・！？
Ummmmm!?
何これ！？
For real, what on earth!?
と流石にこれはなんか違うと思い
ぐーぐるさんにきいてみる
They can't possibly be selling that many bad okras, so I googled.
どうやらオクラって収穫が遅いと
凄く筋張ってかたいらしいですね！？
ほとんど食べられないぐらいに！
So apparently, okras, if they're harvested late, turn pretty hard so that it's kind of difficult to eat.
大体大きさでわかるんだとか
And you can apparently tell by their size.
で、買ってきたオクラを見てみますと
「大きい！ おいしそう！」と
喜んでた通り大きいのばかりでしたorz
So I check my okras and just as I was happily thinking what big beautiful okras they were at the store, they're all big and likely not very edible. :)
感動を返して・・・；；
Let me retract my joy at the store...!
とりあえず、食べれなさそうな
オクラが多いですが・・・
ゆがくなり、小さく切るなりして
なんとか完食しようと思ってます；；
Looks like they're all pretty big and unedible... but I guess I'll try boiling and cutting them into itty-bitty tiny pieces and hopefully that way I can eat them!
さて、そして続いてグレープ事変です
And onto the grapes thing.
これ、実は私の中でちょっと前から
続いているお話なんですが
This grape incident is actually an on-going thing for me this year.
なんか
These
オーガニックで
シードレスな
緑のグレープさん
organic and seedless green grapes...
気のせいか
unless I'm mistaken
シードレス
と言うわりには
although they're called "seedless"
種多くないですかね？
they seem to have a whole lot of seeds in them??
以前別々のお店で2回程入手して
2回とも種有りだったのですが
3度目の正直だ！ とまた入手してみたら
I'd purchased "organic seedless" grapes from different stores recently, but they all had seeds inside for some reason. But I figured I'd give it at least one more try because I love green seedless grapes.
案の定
And guess what?
種だらけのグレープさんでしたorz
They're full of seeds again... :)
オーガニックだからか
美味しいのは美味しいんですけどね＞＜
I mean they taste great because they're organic, I guess, but...
これからはオーガニックじゃない
シードレスのグレープを買おうと
心に誓ったタカペンでした
So now that I've confirmed that "organic seedless grapes" are in fact full of seeds, I'll just buy regular non-organic seedless grapes from now on.
普通のシードレスはほんとに
種がなくておいしいので！
Because at least I know they're really seedless!!!
その問題のオクラとグレープさんはこちらです
And below are the pictures of the said okras and grapes:
オマケ / And Some
オクラとブドウの後に
オマケを入れてます(笑)
After the pictures of the okras and grapes, there's an extra pic. :)
翌日日本食のスーパーにて
インスタント焼きそばとかを
買おうと思ったのですが
なくて、しかたなく
初めて醤油まぜそば？
なるものを入手したところ
The day after my main outing, I'd also gone grocery shopping at the Japanese food store. I actually wanted to get some standard "yakisoba" but they were out of it, and I could only find this soy sauce soba? So I got those.
今だけ限定の蓋のイラスト！
とかで、
なんか絵画とマーライオン
の絵？ が蓋にありました(笑)
Apparenly the lids have limited time only pictures on them: some piece of artwork and the Merlion.
マーライオンの口からお湯を
ざばーっと出すんですね(笑)
I guess the water pours out of the Merlion's mouth.
絵画の方もミルクピッチャーでも
傾けてる部分か何かでしょうか
And the other one, I guess the girl in the picture is holding maybe a milk pitcher or something and the water comes out from around that area. lol
たまたま二つ出たので
写メっときました♪
I bought two and they had different pictures on them so I decided to take pics of them before I forgot. :)
以上しょーもないタカペンの日常、
お買い物編でした
ではではっ！
みなさま、良い週をお過ごしくださいませ！
タカペンは
「ハロウィンだって☆」の翻訳言い訳記事、
英語バージョンを執筆予定です！
And so, that's it for my weekend grocery shopping stories!
Enjoy your week! I'll be working on my blog entry explaining about the "Halloween datte" translyrics, this time writing in English.
Anyway, thanks fo reading as always! Taka, out!
