And then Saturday was also a day we got to go see a Ghibli concert by the Lansing Orchestra, or sorry, the Lansing Symphony, Symphony Orchestra, and it was amazing. Like, it was such a nice break from these past two weeks of hectic work, day after day. And we got dressed up, my boyfriend and I, and it was actually a birthday gift from his cousin for us to attend, and so we got like, front row seats, and oh, it was so nice.
Like just being surrounded by the music. And they were playing a list of songs and one of the movies that they centered it on was My Neighbor Totoro, and they had a woman come in who like narrated scene by scene, like what happens in the movie in Japanese, which was like a really delightful surprise. I almost cried during multiple times for those pieces, because it just like, it was so real. Like, we are moving to Japan in three months. Like, that’s insane.
And we had just loaded the car with the bunch of our items that we wanted to sell at the garage sale. And it’s just like, hearing that piece and thinking about how we’re going to be moving to the countryside and we get to literally live the life of Totoro, like we can start a family, find an akiya and like, repair it, and like be so surrounded by nature and like, the — what, the community there? Like, not just like the people but also like the trees and having a garden and being — or going on like nature walks and hikes and, I don’t know. I could just go on and on about it, but I’m just so excited that all of this work that me and my boyfriend have been doing in order to get us into a place where we can even make that move, like is just mind blowing. And all of that like just came up right onto me, like just hearing the music and like my mind replaying the movie in my head, but instead of like the characters it was, you know, me and my boyfriend moving there.