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Thinking Many Things
I stayed at my parents’ last night, and could sleep in pretty well.
I had a big breakfast and this is lunch my mom made for me.
My favorite noodle.
A housekeeper, who has come to my parents’ house since I was an elementary school student, told me secret today.
She was like,
“I always can tell if you came for dinner the last night or not every week by looking at dishes. Not because more dishes than usual but there are more nice dishes when I am there for dinner.”
I knew that my mom cooks all my favorite dishes whenever I am there, but I did not know that she cares about the dishes for me too.
I felt appreciated to my mom again.
We went to a department store to get clothes for funeral.
Actually, doctor told my parents that my grandma would die pretty soon.
It could happen this weekend, but seems like she is now better.
I needed clothes for funeral, so my mom took me to the store.
It might sound cruel to prepare for grandma’s death, but I had to.
In Japan, people judge family members at funeral, especially if the person related to a company.
Too complicated to explain here, but in short, people don’t come to pray for the dead people but to see their family.
It would be sad to see my grandma’s death, but at the same time I want to let her go because she is too sick.
I went to Spa today after the shopping.
I have a cold so I shouldn’t, but I wanted to get relaxed.
I talked with a girl who game me a treatment a lot today, which I usually don’t.
She gave me many impressions of me and asked me many questions, which also she does not do usually.
It was interesting to hear how other people see me.
She told me about her own dream too.
Somehow I got encouraged by her today and got relaxed physically and mentally.
Had dinner, did laundry and cleaned my room.
Today was a national holiday in Japan, an extra day-off for me.
I gotta got to work earlier than usual and will work hard tomorrow.
I have already decided what to wear.
I am kind of excited to go to work tomorrow.
Hope it will be a good day tomorrow!
SPA For 2 Hours+Collector's Store!!
I woke up pretty early, and went for shopping and went to spa.
I had not been to spa for a month, and I have wanted to get a good massage.
Today’s massage was one of the best one, so I fell a sleep.
I hate sleeping while I am getting massage because I don’t wanna the feeling.
After the massage, I went to a professional bike store.
The reason why I say that the store was “professional” is because of the looking of the customers there.
Of course there were bunch of bike stuff compared to the store I have been.
And all the customers were there by a real bike, and looked really tough.
Some of them were wearing bike suits.
Anyway I was there to get something for Rye, a bike messenger, but I got a little excited while I was there.
I am not interested in bike stuff at all, but I love collecting stuff.
So I get excited when I see a store which looks like they have everything what people want.
Like, I would be so excited when a store has all orange-color items.
I went to Kushikatsu dinner with my parents tonight.
They treat me well all the time, but especially before and after I go on a business trip to other countries.
Two more days left before I leave to the US.
I will get up super early to go to office tomorrow morning and will get lots of stuff done at my desk!!
Massage and Beef Pot
Yeah! I did not go to office today!
I slept in, and went to Spa before noon.
At spa I got a letter from technician, and it was such a cute letter, and made my day.
I turned in a couple of my pans and skirts which I will wear at a convention to clean, so I had to go back to the department store at night.
So I decided to go to massage place where blind person gives a great massage for one hour.
I had not been there a while, so I felt really good.
I am so spoiled by getting treatment at spa and getting massage at other place in a day.
And I went back to my apartment to pack my stuff for tomorrow for 5 days in Tokyo.
For dinner, I asked my parents to take me to a restaurant where I can get a nice beef.
I thought I would not get good food for 5 days from tomorrow.
So this white beef pot was such a good idea for the last night before busy busy business trip.
Tonight’s dinner hit my spot!
After dinner I went back to department store to pick my stuff up, and took a bath.
I just ordered a cab for tomorrow morning at 6.
I wish, I wish everything would go well from tomorrow.
I am really nervous to be honest.
Good thing that I could get relax the day before the convention today.
Working On A National Holiday
Japanese people had three days off this weekend.
I wanted to go to abroad, like somewhere in Asia, but obviously I don’t have time for traveling now.
So I am looking forward going to Hawaii this month and California next month although they are not my private trip.
So this weekend, I was at stupid meeting on Saturday whole day, and today, National Foundation Day in Japan, I went to work.
I did not have to, but I was afraid that I start my week from Tuesday and work for 4 days in this week.
I won’t be office two days this coming week because of a business trip in Tokyo, and next week, I will be out of office whole week.
I was not sure if I can do everything I need to do and I don’t want other people to think I am not capable for this position.
So I went this morning, and went to Spa for an hour and a half and went back to office again.
Yes, I had done what I had to do.
I think I will start my day tomorrow peacefully.
When nobody is around me at office, I can do my work as three times as quickly.
I know that, but I should not get used to this life.
Holiday is a day I have to enjoy.
So tonight, I decided to eat brown rice to celebrate National Foundation Day.
This is something I want to eat for my health lately.
I don’t have time to cook (well this is kinda excuse. I should be able to cook although I am busy. I know), so I was happy to be able to eat brown rice tonight.
And I did lots of laundry, and vacuum my apt.
As I could not do any household last weekend, there were so much stuff I had to do.
Wow, I really admire all working mothers in this world!!
Slow Day
Nothing much happened today.
I slept a lot today.
Last night, I passed out and woke up at 6AM and realized that I kept all the lights and TV on.
Of course, I slept again after I turned off everything.
I had been quite busy and had lots of things to do, so I feel kinda weird to have a day off.
It is sad…
Whenever I am at my home, I drink coffee a lot.
I want to drink Starbucks coffee at work, but there is no Starbucks around my office.
Only factories… Not a fancy place.
When I worked at Grand Hyatt in SF, there was Starbuck in front of the hotel, so I bought the coffee everyday.
Now I make coffee with the dipping coffee cup in the picture.
Very easy to make.
I went to Spa today and stopped by Starbucks in downtown.
I wish I had Starbucks near my apt, so at least I can buy coffee beans whenever I want.
Look how cute the paper bag is!
It might be hard to tell, but it made me happy.
What a boring entry today.
Anyway, it was such a slow Saturday, but really did not feel like doing much stuff…
Lazy Lazy Day
Since I went to bed 3 am last night, I slept in this morning.
I bought a new set of bed sheets and they are so comfortable, so I love being in a bed lately.
I woke up and I watched American drama series, “LOST” by my on-demand-TV.
As I can watch as many dramas as I want, I can’t stop watching them…
I totally forgot about an appointment, and I called it off only because I was lazy today.
However, I finally got out of my bed in the afternoon, and went to Spa.
I felt good, and I did not feel like cooking so I stopped by at my parents’ on the way back.
I am very spoiled, so I got to eat good stuff.
My dog was very excited to see me, so she made me really happy.
It is amazing that she knows that I was the one who took her to our house 7 or 8 years ago.
She loves my mom the best, and she knows that my dad is the chief of our house.
And she has special feeling to me, fortunately.
I had homework due to tomorrow for work, so I did with chatting by computer.
I got this website by youtube from my friend, and it cracked me up!!
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=XSq9v1zjcxQ&feature=user
It is stupid and hilarious.
But it might be a good idea to learn English for Japanese, maybe!
Fun Busy Day
Today was a busy day but different busy day from usual.
I was busy doing lots of stuff for myself, but for work. Yeah!!
I got up pretty early and went to Spa and had whole body massage.
It was such a nice one, and could relax a lot.
I bought a couple more Christmas present in downtown Osaka.
Also I shopped some stuff for my computer surroundings.
One the way home, I saw a roast sweet potato (yam) vendor.
I passed once, but since it smelled really good, I went back the way and got a yam.
It had been a while since the last time I had it, but I decided to make it my lunch today.
It costs only $1.20, what a cheap lunch!
Plus, it was tasty and very old-fashion to eat yam, which was wrapped by a newspaper.
After my lunch, I rearranged my room.
It was something I had been dreaming about for a while.
I got a modem for a wires Internet so that LAN cable would not be all over my room anymore.
So this is a picture of my room before “remodeling”.
I moved all my furniture in my bedroom, and rearranged probably 4 times.
I had drawn a picture of my room how to arrange it, but every time I moved, I just did not like them.
So I decided to stick with the original position, but change the position of my computer desk and a bit.
I was so disappointed that I could not have many changes, but still I am planning to make my bedroom a little simpler before New Years.
My arms so hurt because of moving.
I rode a bike to eat at my friend’s noodle restaurant.
It is located two stations away, so I decided to go there by bike for my exercise.
Actually it was a good idea, just 20 minutes bike ride one way.
When I was ready to eat, I hardly could hold my chopsticks because my arm hurts that much.
Anyway, today was such a fulfilled day for me.
I hope tomorrow would be the same on Christmas Eve!
