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Hello, hello!  So finally I'll be talking about my first EVER onsen experience! ♥ ♥ ♥ It's sort of sad in a way because I've visited Japan a few times before and not even once have I considered going to an onsen.  I suppose I must be more adventurous now. (　”＞　ｗ　＜”　）  The onsen I went to was Kurama Onsen （ 鞍馬温泉） . It's located north of Kyoto.  It's easy to get there as long as directions are written down.  I went with my mom and we took about three trains to get there from Kobe.   At the train station to get to Kurama. Kurama is famous for being one of the homes to the 'Tengu', a legendary mythical creature of Japanese folklore. Kurama was a very quaint little town; very pretty and natural located deep in the mountains.  Unfortunately we were short on time and couldn't walk through the town.  Instead we opted to take the complimentary shuttle bus to the onsen. My first time riding a vehicle in Japan... x...

This topic came to me after my first time experiencing an onsen and sento (public bath).  For anyone who's been to any of these, you'll know what I'm talking about.  You're gonna see everything. I noticed that all the Japanese women (in the baths I visited) didn't shave their pubes.  It seems like Japan is a hair-free kind of country where they shave armpits, arms, legs, etc.  So why not pubic hair? After doing some research, it appears that generally porn stars in Japan shave their pubes.  It's uncommon and not expected of the main public to do so.  I guess that means that if a girl were to shave her pubey's, she's telling the world she's a whore. There's also the theory where pubic hair hides the lady parts so it's seen as more modest. My question is, for the first theory, how true is this belief?  Does a girl really appear slutty if she shaves her pubic hair in Japan? 

I know, I know. It's so late to be doing this. But better late then never right? I was thinking about my mom always telling me that I waste so much water in the shower. For a while, I didn't think much of it because I have a sister who wastes so much more water than I do. But then I took a shower this evening and after thinking about it and she's actually right. I really have to stop running the water so much and at a high pressure too. Today I lowered the water pressure and turned the water off between washing my hair, face, and body. I realize that I usually leave the water running while washing my hair and face and it really does waste a lot of water. I thought to myself that if I put the water on lower pressure so less comes out of the faucet, I can essentially enjoy the hot water for a longer time because I would technically be using less water. So it's a good trade off if one stops to think about it. It will always be my lifelong dream to have a J...

About a couple months ago, I discovered the amazing power of Netflix. I just love the thing! You would think that this would make me want to watch more TV and sit on my ass all day but it doesn't! I'm not much of a TV person to begin with anyway but I don't think that's the only reason. Even my brother who likes to watch a lot of TV doesn't watch for very long. I think it has to do with anticipation or whatever. Like, when you watch cable television, you don't really know exactly what is coming up next and so you have to wait through all these commercials to watch what you want. Maybe it's that. It's weird but that's what I really think is going on. So then people spend hours and hours in front of the TV because they waste so much time waiting for their shows by watching mostly useless commercials. Netflix has no commercials so that's one reason why it totally pwns cable television. With Netflix, I found a lot of... dun, dun, duuuuu...