Christmas Eve W Family

Christmas Eve

Christmas is an event I love so much.
I am not Christian, but I just LOVE Christmas.
Why? Because nobody get in fight on Christmas.
Oh, wait a minute!
I was scold pretty bad today, actually.
My phone at office rang in this morning about my Internet business.
The customer did not tell me her name and started yelling at me suddenly.
She ordered our product and it did not arrived the day she arranged.
That’s our bad, so I will fly to Tokyo to apologize to her.
It is kinda scared but what else can I do?
Customer service is difficult, but I learned a lot from her claim today.
I immediately read through two books how to deal with customers who clam.
We are trying our best, but sometimes it does not go perfect, unfortunately…

Christmas season is the busiest season at our company since we sell cakes and ingredients for cakes.
However, I did not do overtime today!
Cuz I had a party at home!!
Christmas Eve had been a day to spend with a boyfriend but this year was different.
I spent Christmas Eve with our family, four of us.
We also celebrate my sis’s birthday, which was on December 20th.
I got soooooooo many Christmas presents.
I get excited to see the underneath of Christmas tree every year.

It is so nice to spend the special day with my family.
I talked with my dad today as my dad tonight, and it made me soo happy.
He had been my boss for a long time but not my father, and I thought I did not have my father anymore.
Seriously.
But my father was there!

It was pretty rough day at work, but it was very nice and warm night with my family.

Decorating Chrismas Tree

Christmas Tree

Because of lots of beauty sleep yesterday, I could get up early enough to enjoy my Sunday.
Got up and had breakfast with coffee, which is my favorite time of a day.
Started decorating Christmas tree and Voila!
This is a part I do every year.

Went to my favorite store to buy glasses with my little dog, Dalia by my mom's BMW which will be gone in two days.
She will get a new car!
I bought two pairs of glasses today.
I know, it is too much, but could not help it.
I had to wait since they sis not have my lenses at the store today.
I will upload my new glasses soon after I recieve them on this blog.

I went to my friend's exhibition tonight with my sis.
He is one of my good friends since I was 14.
He traveled South and Central America; Latin America　by himself and took so many nice pictures.
I was so happy to see him tonight since I had not seen him for a long time.
It was interesting that boys change a lot!
He got so mature and becmae a tough guy.
Wow...

My sis and I went to Hard Rock Cafe tonight for dinner.
Had chicken wings, onion rings, mac&cheese, and french fries.
Junk food...
Made me miss America!

And went to Karaoke after dinner.

It was such a long fun day today.
Did a lot including cleaning and doing laundry.
The early bird catches the worm!!

Christmas Season, Already??

What!?

Because of my health situation, I have been sleepy whole day today.
I supposed to do some work at home today, but just kept sleeping most of the day.
Last night, I was thinking I forgot something, but could not figure out what.
I forgot to go to my friend’s wedding party.
He was not my close friend, but I should have gone, but I totally forgot about it…

I went to a place where I can receive Shiatsu.
My stiff shoulders are pretty bad.
He has given me massage for many years.
While I was getting massage, I realized that the music at the place were Christmas songs.
I was like,
“Already Christmas??”
He said,
“Yeah, I wonder what kind of music we will listen in December”
Wow…. Time goes really fast.

And I went to have a cup of coffee at Starbuck tonight.
My favorite, Hazelnut latte with non-fat milk.
And this! Christmas version cup!
Starbucks Christmas cup always make me miss America.
It is getting a time for me to go to the US.

Aight, I should got to bed now.
I will get up early and go to work to cover my work which I supposed to do today.

Working For Happiness

Christmas Dinner

I was soooo sleepy while I was working today.
I could not stop yarning.
There were a couple appointments today so quite hard for me to sit at my desk today.
Tomorrow will be the same.
I left my office early today, though.
This is such a good part about me working for my dad.
I sometimes can excuse and leave early without telling any reason on my special occasion.
I went to Christmas dinner to one of the nicest and most expensive Japanese restaurant.
I only had been there once, so today was my second time there.
The restaurant is in Kyoto.
Since I had such a big dinner at Christmas party at my parents’ house, my stomach is not the best condition because of eating too much.
However, there was no way that I can cancel tonight’s dinner, well, I did not want to, of course.
Oh, it was such a great dinner, and I was really happy.
On the way back in a car, I was thinking that maybe I am living and working for this kind of happy moment.
Christmas is one of my favorite events; also it is a hard time for me to go on a diet.
Okay, I think I was recharged by tonight.
Three more days to go before my winter vacation, yay!!!!

All I Want For Christmas Is...

What?? Party?? Food??

I can’t really write much tonight, cuz it is 2 in the morning and I have to get up early tomorrow…
We had Christmas Party at my parents’ house tonight with everyone’s friends.
We have had this Christmas party every year for a long time.
We have some of same faces every year, so all the people at the party get closer and closer.
Since my mom decided to have this party on Christmas Eve, which is such a big deal for Japanese people, I could not invite many friends, but only Shinsuke.
This is why I had to argue with my mom the other day.
I think it is too silly to throw Christmas party on Christmas Eve, and she did not ask me about it ahead.
We had small numbers of people for our Christmas this year, but at the end, I realize that it is not that bad.
We had such a great time.
I love Christmas.
Japanese Christmas is more for lovers, so a little different from American Christmas, which is more for family time.
I love spending my time with my family on Christmas and love spending my time with someone I love.
I just don’t like to go out on Christmas Eve, because it is not worth it since everywhere on Christmas Eve is too ridiculously crowded with many couples.

Anyway, this year, as every year, food was all my mom’s handmade so they are all good.
All the menus are food I only can eat at our Christmas party.
We had so many dishes and 6 kinds of homemade desert.
Oh, I ate too much.
We opened all Christmas presents underneath of our Christmas tree all together.
This is our family traditional thing to do.
This year, I got an orange color lamp from my sis, and got black bag from my mom and dad, and I got three kinds of necklaces and boots holder from Santa Claus.
Yeah, I still get Christmas presents from Santa although I am 29.
Well, it is our tradition thing.
Anyway, I had such a good time and good food tonight.
Gotta go to bed.
Getting too late…

Shopping With My Mom

Christmas Shopping

I went shopping with my mom today.
Went to downtown in Osaka to find presents for me from my mom.
I want to get a bag dor work, an orange humidifier for my room, big accessories, comforable shoose, and so on.
I had not been to expensive floor for a long time, since I had not been interested in brand stuff.
But today I went to a department store and saw many expensive stuff reminds me of the time I was so rich when I was a teacher.
We found a good light fashonable bag, and saw the price, "$1,200US".
I found a watch I really like, "$5,200US".
What can I say?
We got tired of walking so we went to cafe and had this sandwiches.
It is so nice to go shopping with my mom, because now we don't have much time to hang out together.
I love spending time with my mom because I love my mom so much.

After shopoing, we went home together and went for dinner with my dad.
Three of us had such a nice dinner and enjoyed talking a lot.
However, now I am at my apt by myself and feel pretty sick.
Don't know why, but I should go to bed early tonight.

Shopping Is Fun

Crazy Shopper

Finally I got one-day off from work today.
I wanted to sleep in, but also I did not want to waste my day off.
Thus, I made an appointment with my nail artist early this morning.
It has been a while since the last time I get my nail done.
Now I regret that I did, because they were not that pretty…
A part of the reasons was that I only can do simple nails now, not like before I did crazy nails.
I went to Wal Mart sort of place after that and bought lots of stuff.
I was going to get toilet paper, but I shopped $100 US…
It is always fun for me to go to that kind of store, because I can get many different items at one place.

I went to Spa that, and fell in sleep while I got massage.
Trips between Osaka to Tokyo every week make stiff shoulders.
Since the place I go for Spa is located in downtown, I could not help do more shopping.
There are sooooo many people in downtown because of Christmas.
I don’t know where they had been before this season…
I bought lots of pretty orange stuff.
I bought orange and brown cups and plates.
They were cheap, but I thought it would be cute to serve coffee and cookies when someone visits me.
Happily, someone came to visit me tonight so I have already gotten the opportunity to use them like on the picture above.
I was right! It was good idea to get them.

I gotta stop shopping, but I just love to see new stuff at my apt.
I don’t always shop, but when I start buying stuff once, I can’t stop.
Especially because tomorrow is my bonus day!!
Well, I still need to buy some Christmas presents, so after I finish, I will start saving money for sure!

Snoopy Wolrd

Being With Snoopy

I went to a meeting for Snoopy Licensees in Tokyo.
We are one of the newest licensees, so our company was introduced in front to more than other 200 people.
My boss gave a speech, and that time, I was more nervous than the time I had to give a speech in front of those people.
It was the most interesting meeting that I have ever joined.
There are some Americans from NY and Santa Rosa, who are related to snoopy character.
The presentation they gave was with all snoopy cartoons, and was fun.
I saw a snoopy fashion show which was held in NY this year on a screen.
All dresses were quite crazy, but I loved the wedding dress, which was sooo silly dress, but cute!!
At the lunch, I talked with the American guy who showed the fashion show.
I asked him where I could get the wedding dress, and told him I would wear it if I would get married in two years, which is our contract year with snoopy licenser.
Unfortunately, since some of the other dresses were sold on ebay, but not the wedding dress.

At lunch, we had three huge snoopy cakes.
This cake of this picture is one of the cakes, which were all snoopy!
They were all cute!
I have loved snoopy since I was a kid, and now I sort of work with snoopy.
I get to know many kinds of snoopy information now.
All people I saw at this party (meeting) know snoopy a lot.
I never thought I would do this kind of job.

All the attendees got a bag of presents.
Got a lot of snoopy items.
This is such a dream job which I had ever had!

I was at the place from 10 to 16, and had an appointment afterwards.
It had already got dark, but I had to go back to my Tokyo branch to finish up my paper work for this Saturday meeting.
I was suffering for a couple hours till 9PM, and went to drink with my colleagues in Tokyo.
4 of them were older than I, but since I am on a little higher position, I paid for them.
So Japanese… I still feel that is sort of rude for elders.
I don’t know how they think about it.
I don’t get much more money than them, but that’s a role for people who hold an administrative position.
Came back to hotel at midnight.
No more alcohol this week… please…

Better Watch Out

Christmas Decoration Day

Yay! I took a bath tub today, so I feel really good now.
Of course I take shower everyday, but had not taken a bath for a long time...
Today was a quite realxing day except this morning.

Since I went to bed at 4 in the morning, it was hard for me to get up at 10 this morning.
My student came to my apt at 10, and I got up by the bell he rang.
I am such a bad teacher...
I taught him for 2 hours, and took a shower and went to Spa.
I got Aloma Massage for 80 mins, I felt so good and fell a sleep during the massage.
My stomach got much better, and because of the aloma massage I could relax a lot.
The lady who gave me a massage told me to take a bath everyday for my health.
I stopped by hair salon.
I am wondering if I should get a hair cut again or dye my hair.
I could not decide today, so I just left after I chat with a stylist.

After all, went to eat a good Chinese restaurant with my family.
After dinner, my mon, sis and I started decorate Christmas tree.
It is a little bit earlier than the time we decorate it every year.
We got a new Christmas tree last year and it is huge!!
Each of us got a role, so we finished decorate whole rooms in 2 hours.
I can't believe Christmas is almost there.
I will be so busy to buy presents for many people.
Excited but, I gotta start saving money.