life here: 07/05

Friday, July 29, 2005

strong donger

Don't ask me what it means, I have no idea. Saw it printed on a kid's shirt today. No pictures or characters (rare) or anything. Sounds sexual to me, but I have such a juvenile sense of humour that pretty much everything sounds sexual to me ;0
Carolyn, thanks for the comments. Maybe I should just address these to you as I think you're probably my sole readership. Glad to hear that things are getting together. I hope that the baby doesn't come early, too. (I won't mention here that Hiroki was born more than 2 weeks early-thought I had time to get some stuff together then-oops.) (sorry, I mentioned it;)
One thing I did before he was born was make and freeze some meals as I knew I wouldn't have time to cook after.
So yesterday I went to my first yoga class. It was 2 hours long. Did stuff that I didn't think I'd be able to ie back bridge, head stand. Guess those years in gymnastics paid off. I liked it cause it was a lot of stretching and didn't feel too strenuous. But now, am I ever in pain! Can't breathe too deeply or sneeze (doing lots of now, somethings bugging me)
Again, I apologize for the lack of pictures. There's so many I want to put up but my flickr account has been used up for this month. I might have to splurge and buy an account.
Oh yeah, Carolyn, I think you have the right idea about typhoons and hurricanes.
Here's something to look at if you have time.

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

blame it on the rain

Unfortunately, this is the song I can't get out of my head now due to the fact that a typhoon is coming. f@*k, I can't think of weather I dislike more than typhoons. It's sooo hot and humid, but we have to close all of our windows cause the wind blows the rain in, or cause like last night, if I leave the window open I wake up from the noise of rain pouring down. It also takes days to get here and go through. I hate not having the window open as I feel like I'm suffocating.
We had an earthquake here last Saturday, too. It wasn't really big (at least not here) but still the trains were delayed for hours in Tokyo. To be fair, it was bigger there, but there were so many people stranded at stations in Tokyo, trying to get home or whatever. Atsunobu was on a train, waiting to leave. He ended up waiting on the train for a couple of hours until he could finally catch a train to another station and then wait in line with hundreds of other people to get
shinkansen or bullet train tickets. (I know so much about the shinkansen now as Hiroki looves any train- including the shinkansen.)
I have to go check the water level of the river in front of the house! ;)

Sunday, July 24, 2005

New pix

Well, as you can see, I finally got a chance to add some more photos. The problem is the limit on flickr-once I upload some photos, I basically reach my monthly limit, which means I can't upload for another month. I guess I could post in between pic uploading, but that would require updating more :) Sorry!
We went to Okinawa and had a great time there. It was such a beautiful place and people there have a totally different attitude-they are not all in a hurry and it seemed like they liked kids (I don't often feel that way in Japan.) Hiroki enjoyed playing on the beach, in the ocean, on the streets. It was really cool in Taketomi Island, the streets were made from the white sand on the beach. All of the houses were surrounded by fossilised coral reef. There were seashells and coral reef fossils every where. Every morning, people swept the streets. It was a great experience. Gotta go for now!
PS- Carolyn-we got your birthday card-thank you very much! Sorry I didn't say anything earlier;)