Good morning, welcome to Vlogmas day 10. I'm here with Maro because he's really cold, and he won't get off my lap
Say hi Maro
You comfy? He's been here for like the past half an hour, and if I get up and try to go somewhere
He gets really angry and meows
So it looks like I'm gonna be sitting here for a while. We ended up not going to Costco today, change of plans
but instead I think I'm gonna start looking through my clothes and
Finding stuff that I don't need to bring with us when we move and I'm gonna donate a bunch today
So we'll be going to a thrift store later, and then we're gonna set up our Christmas tree
And I think I might put the Squirtle costume on Luna. We haven't tried it yet
What're you doing? You cold?
You cold?
Boy you comfy? You comfy there? *Chuckles* Comfy boy.
Luna's eating
She still uses her little feeder things. So she has to fish for it or else she'll stuff it all down at once
Alright, I finally convinced Maro to get off my lap
He wasn't happy, but I went through all my clothes
And I found four bags, four full bags of clothes that I can donate, so that's good. Four less bags
I have to send to Korea. It's apparently the thrift store's closed today, but that's okay. We'll go back another day
I got all my stuff prepared so we just got to drop it off. It's easy. So instead, I'm gonna get to work on
my New Year's greeting cards
I got some really cute stationery in Korea, and I've been collecting stuff in Japan
I got some cute stamps and some cute stickers. Let me show you guys. So these are the cards that I got in Korea
It's gonna be year of the dog next year so all the new year's greeting cards and stationery and everything are dog themed
It's so cute
And then in Japan- these are my absolute favorite their little omikuji stickers. Omikuji is like
Your fortune for the year, so you peel them back, and it'll tell you if you're lucky or not
So cute so I'm going to stick those on each of my cards, and then I got these little stamps- "Happy New Year"
and then "Akemashite omedetōgozaimasu"
Which is "Happy New Year" in Japanese, and a rainbow stamp pad to go with them. Can't wait to try it
Hope it works out, hope it looks as cute as I'm assuming it will. And then I got some little dog
stickers, dog New Year stickers, some Japanese New Year's
decorations on them
Oh no there's more, some different ones. It's also a dog. It looks like a cat, but
It's a dog
Let's do a little test on my notepad cuz I don't want to
Stamp on the cards and totally mess it up. So I think we need some practice
Please work. Oh that looks good, looks promising
Yes, it's so cute. Oh my god. I love it.
Aww, that looks so cute
I guess I should wipe off the corner, so it doesn't do that next time, but other than that
Turned out pretty good. Look it turned out perfect
This ink is so cute
Luna, Squirtle time?
Squirtle time?
Maro, Squirtle time?
Maro do you wanna try it first?
It's warm
Don't cover his face
This is too big!
You can't see his face
It's too small
It's too small for him
Luna, is it warm?
It looks warm
Maybe she doesn't hate it
Come here, you're a good sport, good job
It didn't exactly look comfortable on her so we took it off. It was fun while it lasted
Looked warm though. I think it was just a bit too bulky. She couldn't walk properly
Keyboard-san's making dinner for us tonight. What are you making?
Keyboard-san: Curry.
Sharla: What kind of curry?
Keyboard-san: Huh?
Sharla: [Louder] What kind of curry?
K: Veggie. S: Veggie curry K: Yeah
S: Thanks Alright my job is to find the tree, no idea where it is
Oh is that it? I think that's it
You guys, I cannot wait to get one of those really cute trees in Korea and it'll be next Christmas
They were so pretty. Okay, tree out, now where are
Where are the decorations, oh well I guess we'll set the tree up first
Curry's ready, it smells good. It's my first time trying this sauce. I hope it's good
Good. I finally found a curry, like a pre-made curry sauce that doesn't have any meat in it
I'll put a picture here, so you can see what the box looks like. I haven't been able to find it in any stores
But you can order it on Amazon. Okay so we have a technical issue with the New Year's cards. I ran out of
the cute cards from Korea
So I pulled out some other cute stationery that I got and I did the stamps on those but
Because of the type of paper, it's not absorbent enough or something. I guess it has some kind of coating on it
It won't dry
Oh, it came up on my finger, so I'm sitting here for an hour, and it won't dry. I did all these cute cards
Man
What a waste. I put some tape on this one, it protected it. It's fine, but it kind of smushed it
I don't know what to do. I don't want to throw them all away. They look so cute
Do you think it looks decent with the tape or is that weird I guess that's not that bad?
But it's not perfect, and it bugs me. Look at them, they're bonding
Sometimes they get really friendly with each other and Maro make like these really cute noises. It's like they're having a conversation
They never sleep like touching each other, but they're always really close
I don't know why
It's really weird
I guess they're friends not a couple
Alright the house is looking festive, the tree is up. Let's open some mail because I feel like some of these are gonna be
Christmas cards
This looks like a Christmas card. First, let's admire the very adorable drawings of
Maro and Luna. If you watched my Bunkasai video, there are lots of Norwegian students at my university
and they would sell these waffles at the Bunkasai
Reminds me of university. This is from Marie. I know who this is
It is a Christmas card. I was right. Yay. I love decorating my house with Christmas cards
I get a string and like hang them on the string on my bookshelf or something oh
I would love to visit Norway
I'd love to go so much. I have a few Norwegian friends, and it just sounds really amazing
Maro and Luna, Marie says hi.
They say thank you, aww, thank you so much. I love it. This is from Jennifer in Japan
Don't you hate that when the stickers are so cute and you don't wanna wreck them?
Can do it, I can do it
Yes Oh you have such cute writing
Aww I'm so glad my videos helped you
Good luck with your exercise and diet, as you know I've been trying to do that too
I haven't updated you guys, but I'm doing well. I feel like I've really gotten the diet part down
I still eat what I want, but I eat smaller portions of it, and I don't snack all the time
And I'm just kind of gotten used to that and it's really good. I'll do an update video eventually
How do you like living in Hyōgo? I actually was there for
Three weeks, I think
the second time I came to Japan I had a
Japanese friend that lived in Hyōgo and I stayed with her family for
Three weeks, I really liked it, but we mostly just stayed in the countryside at her house
But everyone was really nice there. Thank You Jennifer
Alright, let's open this one from Monique in Australia. Aww
Thank you so much for the pet pictures
I love getting pictures of your guys' pets. If you ever send me a letter, please include pictures of your pets
Thank you so much Monique. Don't worry your writing isn't bad. I could read it. That's good enough
Let's switch it up and open up a big package
I think I'll just do like a couple packages per vlog, and it's not gonna be like a whole big mail video
Cuz I feel like some people find those boring. This one is from
Jade and Kieran in the United Kingdom
Aww you wrapped them all up!
Should I wait till Christmas to open them?
Look!
Something feels wrong about opening Christmas presents early
There are so many things in here
You guys!
You spoil me!
Oh so cute, is that your cat? You guys.
Oh, you have nice writing too, aww
Don't worry, I never knew what I wanted to do for a job either
Then I ended up being youtuber, who knows what I'll do in the future. As long as you enjoy what you're doing
that's all that matters
I love this card. Oh my god
This is the best Christmas card ever. Oh I want to make ones with my cats too
You guys wanna be on a Christmas card?
Oh there's one for Maro and Luna!
Oh, oh I see a toy
Wanna see the rest? Oh, Luna
Maro's intrigued. There's some snacks. Snack time? Luna
Oh yeah, you heard the food
Oh
Oww, it's a finger, Luna
It's that good? Say thank you. Say thank you.
Okay, this looks like tea. So I'm gonna open it
This looks so nice!
I want to try one right now. It's probably lots of caffeine in it, and it's already late. I will have this in the morning
This one also looks like tea.
Ooh
Ginger bread
Tetley indulgence gingerbread
Looks so good, ooh
one more possible tea box
I know this size and shape.
Yes! It's the cherry one. Okay this series of
Twinings green tea is so delicious. You guys know, I love the caramel one. This is cherry bakewell
I don't know what that is, it must be some kind of British dessert or something
But I think it's like a cherry pie something. Oh it looks so good
Possibly a snack?
This is a new flavor- banana bread. These sound so good I want to eat them right now. I just had curry, but they look so good.
Peaches! They're the gelatine free gummies
I haven't had a peach gum in so long
I really like the texture of these gelatine free gummies. They're slightly tougher and chewier than a regular gummy, and I really like that
Also possibly a snack
Oh my god, *gasp* isn't these bite things?
Salted caramel
I tried these in a different flavor
And they were so good. If you've never tried these Nākd bites before they're like a nice
Replacement to chocolate-covered raisins, that kind of thing which I really used to love so
That looks so good.
Oh my god, it's really cute stationery
Holy crap, the little notepad that looks just like Luna
Ah these are so cute
another notepad
And there's some stickers
I'm never gonna want to use cuz they're so cute
I need to force myself to use my sticker collection cuz otherwise they just sit in a drawer, so
Thank you so much, you guys. You really spoils me. I cannot wait to try these teas. Let's go give Keyboard-san his present
Sharla: Present.
Keyboard-san: Ah, thank you.
Open it!
Huh?
You want me to open it now?
Should open it on Christmas Day right?
You're gonna wait?
I KNOW WHAT IT IS
If I feel it I know
Don't touch it then!!
He wants to wait till Christmas
So we'll put it under our tree. It's our first present under the tree. Alright guys
I'm gonna end the video here because I gotta edit it
then I gotta get up really early cuz I'm doing a livestream tomorrow for my
Patreon. If you're a Sharmeleon tier and up patron I will see you tomorrow in the livestream
I hope. It'll be starting at 11 a.m. Japan time
I'm gonna post the link on the Patreon feed so go check there right before it starts
Hope to see some of you guys there. Bye guys see you tomorrow
I'm hanging with Micaela tomorrow - she's in Tokyo yay, so you guys will get to see her. It's been so long
I can't wait to see her
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