{"id":1290,"date":"2014-07-02T21:02:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T12:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/life-in-japan\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2014-07-02T21:02:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T12:02:17","slug":"the-mouse-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/?p=1290","title":{"rendered":"The Mouse and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

For anyone who knows me personally, I’m sure you already know about this, but I guess it’s about time that I should mention that\u00a0I’ll be doing that things adults do and getting married early next year. Shock, gasp, horror.. I know. Hey, it’s a surprise to me too! Well.. no, not really. But let’s\u00a0try to associate a little bit here.<\/p>\n

So in addition to the excitement of having finally passed my first year of being a translator (YAY!) I’ve got a lot of planning to do between now and the end of the year, assuming that my job doesn’t decide to eat my soul in the mean time. If I could ever offer a bit of advice to you, be careful selling your soul to the law industry. They’re fond of souls, and will more than happily take it.\u00a0Trust me.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

No, no. If\u00a0you’re going to sell your soul to anyone \/ thing \/ entity, for the love of all that is holy,\u00a0sell your soul to Mickey Mouse! Which is what I have somehow done. Because, you see..<\/p>\n

I’m getting married at Tokyo Disneyland!<\/h2>\n

Well, the hotel<\/a> next to<\/a> Disneyland<\/a>, to be more exact.\u00a0I think it goes without saying that this wasn’t exactly my idea. But, eh, I’m reasonably okay with the idea. More okay than I figured I’d be, at the very least. I believe I had this discussion exactly a year ago, where I said that “there is absolutely no chance I’m gonna get married at Disneyland,” but apparently things didn’t turn out as planned.<\/p>\n

\"No,<\/a>

No, I’m not wearing either.<\/p><\/div>\n

I bet you thought I was joking, didn’t you. Nope.. I’m actually totally serious. However, I’m pretty dead-set against the idea of dressing up in the horrible red pants and looking like a prince. Surprisingly, I’m absolutely okay with having Mickey and friends attend\u00a0The Most Important Day of my Life<\/strong>, but totally not going to dress like a prince.\u00a0I have standards here somewhere, even if I’m told that they’re misplaced and ill-defined.<\/p>\n

The oddest part about the whole process for me, actually, is that not only have I (obviously) never planned a wedding before, I’ve never actually even been to a wedding. Worse yet, I’m living in Japan and doing it at Disneyland, so I have exactly zero familiarity with the entire process. If anyone\u00a0asks me how “different” it is, I really can’t say. I do credit this with why the sticker shock doesn’t horrify my as much as it should, though. If you don’t know what a wedding\u00a0should <\/em><\/strong>cost, you don’t know how much Mickey is over-charging you. Pretty good in the end, huh??<\/p>\n

I’d like to harass you with more photos of how Disney-fied one can get, but I’m afraid I need to be in the office early tomorrow morning. However, I do have a whole booklet of cakes, decorations, and napkins (yes, napkins) on my coffee table, so I’ll be sure to take some photos!<\/p>\n

And remember: no matter what you do, don’t wear the tacky red pants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For anyone who knows me personally, I’m sure you already know about this, but I guess it’s about time that I should mention that\u00a0I’ll be doing that things adults do and getting married early next year. Shock, gasp, horror.. I know. Hey, it’s a surprise to me too! Well.. no, not really. But let’s\u00a0try to associate a little bit here.<\/p>\n

So in addition to the excitement of having finally passed my first year of being a translator (YAY!) I’ve got a lot of planning to do between now and the end of the year, assuming that my job doesn’t . . . → Read More: The Mouse and Me<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[109],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jrem.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}