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Boring Meeting but Nice and Slow Saturday
Today was the once-a-month boring meeting.
Because my boss’s son entered high school today, so the meeting started from 1PM instead of from 9:30.
My assistant came to pick me up at my apt, and went to office at 11AM to prepare.
The good part of today’s meeting was that it was such a short meeting unusually.
1 o’clock to 6 o’clock.
5 hours meeting!
I know it is still long, but if I did not remind my boss about how long he had been talking, it would be much longer one, probably till 1AM tomorrow…
After the meeting, I went to eat my mom’s cooking.
It had been a while since the last time I ate at my parents’ house, I felt.
Today, I have time to relax by myself at my apt, so now I am cleaning my apt and doing some laundry.
Tomorrow I will attend my friend’s wedding again.
I still have not decided what to wear.
The dress or that dress??
This is a picture which my mom took tonight.
I think I really gain weight...
Phone Calls
Two phone calls I received his morning on the way to my office.
One girl had been sick for three days, and she did not get well today again.
Everyone worked hard to cover for her last three days.
I was shocked when one more girl called me to leave for absence.
So when I got to office, I told everyone, “Change pinch to chance!!”
Taking care of yourself is so important as a business person.
I am weak so I easily get sick.
Actually, I felt a little cold in this afternoon, but if I get sick now, I would ruin everything.
So I took medicine immediately, and got recovered!
At late at night, I got a call from Mr. Sotomi.
He is a son of the owner of a chocolate company who went to Canada and the US on business with me before.
He moved to Osaka from Tokyo on April 1st.
He went to a famous café, which has a special roll cake, which is hard to get.
So he drove by to my office and dropped me a roll cake from the store!
It’s been a while since the last time I ate it.
I ate it at my apt soon after I got home.
Yammmmmmy!!
I think I will bring it tomorrow to my office and share with my colleagues.
Tomorrow will be a hard day for me.
I know I will be scolded by my boss who had been out of our office for three days.
Should I work on my paper work or should I go to bed?
Hummmm, I should sleep…
Being An Uncompleted Boss
Today, I was busy as usual, but I think I could work the most efficiently every today.
I finally understood how to work with many assistants.
When I was in the US, I talked with my ex boyfriend’s mom about my work.
She made me realize how inefficiently I work at my office.
I think I could not rely on my assistants, and I tried to do everything by myself.
When I was at the former department, I did all my work by myself, so I did not know how to trust other employees.
But she told me how to do that.
So I carried out soon after I came back from the US.
And it worked!
Now everyone feel that we are TEAM!
Since everyone helps me with my work, I can concentrate on the work which only I can do.
We discuss about many things now, which made them think a lot about their work, which leads them to like what they are doing.
Today, one of my assistants and I went to café instead of going to gym, since we got late for our pilates lesson.
Ah… I ate this banana float coffee at late at night.
How can I go on a diet…
At café, she told me that they were talking about me when I was not at my office.
She said they are talking how happy to have me as their boss. (Well maybe I should not write this kinda stuff by myself, though)
I was so so so so so happy to hear that!
I am not perfect at all, and I sometimes got depressed because I was not sure if what I was doing is right or not.
And I have felt that I have been supported by my assistants a lot recently.
I worried how they felt about it, so I felt I was so happy, honestly!!
The other happy thing today was my friend’s surprise visit.
My friend, Masaru was in Osaka on business for a day, and he came to visit me to my office.
He came to a restaurant close to my office and waited for me till I finished working.
After we ate at the restaurant, I toured my office for him.
Of course, at late at night, I could not show him much of it, but I showed him my new department.
It was kinda weird to have my friends at my office, but we always welcome people who want to see our company.
Unexpected visit surprised me and made me be happy today.
He might be in SF when I would be there next time, so I hope I can see him soon again!
This picture above is a menu which my assistant, Miss Manabe, ate at café after I ate Masaru.
Since I ate with him, I did not eat with her, but had banana float coffee only.
I was too full to taste her dish.
But it looked good, so I took a picture at least.
Bought a small condo in France
I was promoted today.
There was a ceremony and I received an official announcement this morning.
Now I am vice director of R&D department.
Everyone started calling me with a different name from today, “Ikada Jicho”.
I don’t like this name, because it sounds like a name for old man.
It maybe because not so many young women get this position but old men do.
Now I have so many responsibilities.
I have to take care of about 15 people below me.
My memory is not that good, so this is hard work for me to remember what I told to them, and what they supposed to do.
I have to be smarter.
Today we discussed about new items of our three different projects.
It is always fun to think what we want to make.
However, once we started thinking about details of the items, it becomes such a hard work, especially when we only got short time to think about it.
Today we started thinking about Christmas cake, which we have to do a presentation this coming June.
It would be Snoopy cake.
I am thinking to make cupcakes for Christmas, which would look like a picture above.
The donut on the picture above is called, “Sally”.
We have to make products which suit the image of Peanuts Character.
I went to Hula lesson tonight.
I will be on stage in May.
I practiced for the stage today.
Hula dance is a hobby, which give me energy.
By the way, the title of this entry is a lie.
Of course I am not rich enough to by a condo in France.
Today is “April Fool”.
I tried to lie today, but could not find a good lie.
So it is a boring lie, but I lied anyway for a day.
Too Busy To Feel Jetlag
I was too busy to take any pictures today.
So I took a can of Spam which I got from Hawaii.
I love Spam rice ball!
Today I had to be surprised at piles of papers and tons of e-mails.
It was incredible.
I took so much time to check all e-mails and response to each of them.
Time went so fast today.
I had testing of so many kinds fo sweets already for work, so I did not eat dinner tonight.
I had a couple of appointments and several meetings already.
I should not complain this time, because I was inda on vacation till yesterday.
Therefore working hard after vacation is something I should do without complaining, I know.
Normally, when I come back from the US, I get jetlag, but I had not time for it today.
I wanted to go home early, but unfortunately, since I was out of office for conventions and Hawaii trip for more than a week, all the projects of our team were behind.
So I did overtime, and I was late for English lesson.
Yes, I had my student at home tonight.
It was the last lesson since he is going to graduate college.
I will miss him.
It was hard for me to keep teaching after work, but it was such a good experience.
I appreciate him.
My boss suddenly decided to make me go to Tokyo on business tomorrow.
Ahhhhh, lately, I can’t stay in Osaka much.
I gotta go to a convention and research for Organic and see some people.
I will have a meeting at late at night there too, so maybe I should stay a night there, but I will come home.
So it will be just a day trip.
I don’t want to d anything this weekend.
Give me a break!!!!!!!!!!
Wanna Cry
I woke up early to do household this morning,
And at 10 o’clock, my student came to my apt and taught him English for 2 hours.
Nowadays, I don’t speak much English, so teaching him is a good opportunity for me to speak English.
Poor my student…
After teaching him, I headed to my office by my car.
Now I got a parking spot at my apt, and I am now allowed to drive to my office, so it is easier for me to go to office.
Anyway, I had to go to office because I was not ready for a convention from next Monday.
Lately I go to every holidays.
Although I go to work on weekends, my work has never got done…
I had an appointment for hair salon today at 5:45.
My hair got messed up, so before the convention, I wanted to get my hair cut done.
However, I could not finish my work on time, and I was driving back really fast to get there on time.
I was late.
When I was driving, I wanted to cry,
Because I felt miserable when I think how many times I have sacrificed my private life for my work lately.
Also I was sad to think about a guy who now hates me.
I was thinking how I can get along with him while I was driving.
I have gotten along well with all workers, but since I moved to other department, I have had someone who became hating me.
He does not like a crazy girl who came to a different island (department) because we have a different way to achieve our project.
When I was thinking lots of things, I was about to cry, but couldn’t.
I have not cried for a while recently.
I used to dry a lot about many things, but it seems like now I forgot how to cry.
Am I too tired? Too dry? Or Am I getting strong??
Hula Girls
Today, a guest from last night came to our office.
I was too busy, so I just greeted them and went back to my desk.
I had a couple appointments with designer for the convention we are going to exhibit out products.
Soon after the appointment, I left my office to see a man.
He is a son of he owner of a distributor in Japan, who does import organic stuff.
He knows a lot about importing organic stuff, so I went to see him to learn for the first time.
It was interesting because I learned lots of stuff which I had not known at all.
It seems like it would be difficult to import stuff by myself, but I have to ask a couple more people to know the fact.
This picture is what I ate after the appointment, by the way.
Later, I went back my office and tried to clean up what I had to do.
However, I could not.
I did a few meeting with girls who works for me about their project.
And at 4, we held a big meeting with all people who will help us for the coming convention.
At 5, I had a meeting with Board of Directors of our company.
At 6, I had another meeting for our department/
And from ‘ o’clock, I started teaching Hula dance to girls/
We are going to dance Hula at a party in Hawaii the end of this month.
My dream is to be a Hula teacher when I turn to 70, but my dream has already came true.
Well, I wasn’t good enough, of course.
Teaching dance was very difficult.
Moreover, it is impossible mission to make all girls dance well by teaching only one day for two hours.
We’ll see how it goes at the party…
Feel Miserable
I feel seriously seriously miserable tonight.
I missed Hula lesson tonight again.
Lately, I cannot leave office on time, because my work is endless.
And now I strongly think this is the time I have to work the hardest.
However, the more I try to do the best, the busier I get.
Being busy is okay, but I get really disappointed when I can’t get things done the way I have to.
Now I have to work in a team.
I have to lead the team.
However, for them, I am the new boss, and I am quite different from their former boss.
I understand that they are afraid of a big change.
I argued with one person this morning.
I tried hard to understand what he wants, but I never could.
He has totally different idea about working.
I believe making money is not the easy thing to do, and working is something you have to seriously do for your life.
At the same time, you have to enjoy what you are doing, and you can feel happy what you are doing.
I talked with three people after work about what I expect the department as a boss.
I wanted to motivate them and let them feel relief.
I want all of them to feel responsible what they are doing.
I don’t mean that I don’t want to take all responsibilities, but if you don’t feel responsibility on your own work, you would feel empty.
I wanna treat all workers as an grown business people.
If they fail, I would take care of their failures, but they have to do their best not for me but for themselves.
I discussed a lot with them, but I am scared if they understood me.
I had to keep telling people what I want them to do over and over.
Anyway…. I am very very tired today.
I might be too pessimistic tonight.
I gotta get ready for a business trip from tomorrow now.
Gotta take an early flight to Tokyo as usual.
To be honest, I wanted to cry tonight, but I was too sad to cry.
I don’t understand why I feel sad.
I think I just am not sure if I am doing the right thing right now.
I am running fast in my life now, so I might make a mistake and don’t realize…
Weak tonight.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
All Day Meeting On A Snowy Day
Nothing much happened today.
I just got upset at the meeting because it was ridiculously long!!
I drove to my office today, and it started snowing when I left my apt.
I was really nervous driving on a snowing day without any snow tires.
Since the meeting was last for 10 hours like usual, I was getting annoying.
Like what a hell you guys wanna talk about for this long time!?
It was nothing to drive when it snowed in Denver when I lived there.
Now I miss Denver.
I wanna go back there sometime.
Denver was really cold but it was such a pretty town.
It was true that I thought Denver was such a boring town after I lived there for three years, but I guess I loved the town!
It is not normal to have this much snow in Osaka.
I had not seen this much snow since I was little.
I remember I made a big snowman in front of my house.
After a meeting at 7:30 PM, I drove back to my apt to pack my stuff and went to pick up my dog from my cousin’s.
He is a veterinarian and my dog was at his hospital for a night.
I went to pick her up and I am taking care of her since my mom and dad are not at home.
I will be able to sleep in tomorrow mooring with her next to me.
But this house is too big by myself and too cold here by myself…
Nothing much happened today, but I got such a relaxing night here.
Supposed To Go To Gym, Though
I attended the first morning meeting at R&D department today.
The meeting was 30 minutes earlier than a normal day.
I forgot how early I had to leave so I got my office one hour earlier than usual.
Everyone at my former department got so surprised to see me that early.
Because I got up really early I was sleepy, but I did not realize till I got home.
My day passes really fast.
There are tons of stuff to do at this new department.
Today was the only day I could go to gym, but I did not go.
I was called to my new boss’s room, and he told me to go out to drink.
I could not say, “No”.
I should have gone, I know…
However, I was pretty happy with the menu tonight.
It was Kushikatsu!
We found a new Kushikatsu place close to our office.
It was really fancy Kushikatsu place, but we went on Dutch.
Damn, I have to spending so much money on food...
Ayyway, we talked about a plan of our department.
Besides a topic about work, we talked about English.
He said if I would make him be able to speak conversational English, he would pay 10 thousand dollars.
If he is not a liar, I would do it, but hard to find time now…
Awww, I need sleep, seriously…
