October 22, 2011

Oh my, another blog post within 24 hours…even I have impressed myself!!!!!

J is home…Yayyyyyyyy…call us when you’re close, we told him…Ok was the reply….we get a call…where are you??? He askes….hummm at home waiting for your call…..Why? I texted you he replies…arrggghhhh We drive to the school…I call him to see if he is at the front or the back of the school…..NO answer…I call again NO answer… again ARGGGHHHHHHH
So we drive past all the field studies buses…(only 2 but they took up a lot of the street)
We drive to the pickup zone…there he is…just hanging out….arggghhhhh….so pleased he is home!
REALLY I am I have missed him

We went and watched the rugby…with Mr. Bubbles input via text messaging……

This week I had to drive into Tokyo, on my way back in HIS CAR…NOT MINE…I noYtice a car the same colour as mine….My car is a sort of baby blue….and NOBODY else has the same car in that colour in Japan, or so it seems…most people know it’s me….(it’s not mauve, TBL) So I speedup a little to see why MY car is driving on that road…it should be parked outside G’s office. Well I see the number plate…Still no idea if it’s mine ….Don’t know what my number plate (only 4 numbers as well, and I have been driving the car over a year) It was G… when I was talking to myself saying “that’s my car’ he was saying the same thing to the person in MY car…he knew HIS from a distance….He said there are very few cars like the colour of his on the road….is he for real, I passed 2 on the way to Tokyo and 1 on the way home….REALLY I did

We had Lunch out twice this week….same place, same seat with almost the same people.
I think they even know what I want know before I order…same thing every time…Spicy chicken, which is about as spicy as a jar of baby food…and spaghetti.

Seen a man who looked in his 70’s (who was probably in 90’s because everyone seems ageless in Asia)
With his walkman….I have not seen a walkman since at least the late 90’s….even the headphones looked like the original ones.
Then while listen to the American radio station, they were talking about walkmans..then the mp3 when every was like…wow , it can hold up to 150 songs….then onto the iPods that can hold 1000;s…Which made me think….of course I need something that holds 10000’s of songs…REALLY I do….I have something in my car called a music catcher…you put in a CD and press music catcher…and it will record the songs to the hard drive…pretty cool huh?...well kind of cool, would be even better if I knew how to delete some of the CD’s but it is all in Japanese….Also this device…does not have an on/ off button…not the music catcher but the WHOLE device…it’s a radio, GPS, CD play and something else all in one…ALL IN JAPANESE….Arggghhhhhh…………………..So what I am saying is…I have put quite a few CD’s on this thingy and I know which CD is coming on next and what songs…so I can appreciate where people were going with the MP3 and IPod
………………Yes so back to the man with the silver walkman and orange foam ear pieces and a silver headband…I wonder if that would be class as an antique? (The walkman, not the old man)

I have also decided I have to get better and stop pulling faces at things I don’t like or want…because it seems people know what I am thinking with these faces….. It’s amazing…people just guess I don’t like something….
So next week I am going on a train…no idea where but I am going and J is coming with me….Lucky J….
I think he might have something to say about all of this but hay…..

Getting excited about a few events in the next week months…..
Signed up for a few things also…..First being couples Bunkco night…G is not here so I am taking SoM as my date for the night. Casino night….and Burns night. Just to name a couple.

Now I am looking forward to staying in watching movies on this wet, rainy Saturday. Don't think that will happen, no matter how many faces I pull... REALLY I don't

October 20, 2011

OH my, I can’t believe it has been so long since I last posted…almost a month…dear me….
SORRY!!!

So Yeti Moo has left….the house felt strangely quiet after they left…NOT because their loud, but because after a week you get used to somebody being there…after 2 weeks they become part of the furniture!
SoM is arriving next week….for my birthday.

J is away this week on a school field studies…..not amused as G also may as well not be here!
(Not because I am being mean, but because of work)
So I have been talking to myself which would not normally be a problem…but I am answering myself and I DON’T LIKE THE ANSWERS I am replying with!!! REALLY

Sooo…I tried to or I should say I downloaded the new version on my phone…sounds like I know what I am doing…..right?......WRONG!
Now my apps are in Japanese…I mean come on, ANY NEED, REALLY ANY NEED?!?!?!?
This had better be sorted soon or I will lose the plot!!!!!
I read and speak English…well I try, hence my phone was meant to be in English…my C/C linked to my account is from a Western, ENGLISH speaking country….come on guys…pull your finger out!!!!
Just NO need!!!! REALLY, ANY NEED?!?!?!?
……Life is NOT a bed of roses while living overseas…they speak funny (and not funny haha)…Well not the same language me
Can’t find frozen peas, you have to play charades EVERYDAY not just at Christmas….TV is normally useless…showing the SAME programs 100 times a month… Normally crime shows…what is it with Asia and crime shows?
I don’t stand and stare at them…but they stand and stare at me!
I remember once being in a supermarket…having gotten used to people staring into the Westerners shopping trolley/Cart, somebody decided they wanted what was in my trolley…they picked it up took it and ran away…I mean please…they were in the next aisle on the middle shelf if you wanted them….…J, G and myself just looked at each other as if to say…”did that really just happen?
…….Right after that little rant I just typed up….…just checked my phone and ALL back in English!!!!!!
Way to go me…or the PC , I am sure it is me…REALLY…It must have been me!

I am still growing my fringe/bangs out….did think about going to just get it cut back into a fringe…but I always look like I should not be allowed around people when I have my fringe first cut….I might look like I should not be allowed around people anyway…who know????

I have ink painting tonight….I am still wondering if I like this craft or not.
Gets me out of the house….Nothing on TV at that time anyway J and G are normally doing stuff that makes it difficult to read…like..J calling ‘MOMMMMMMMMMM’ I need this or ‘MOMMMMMMM did you wash my PE kit’….. At times I so want to say no I left it were it was dropped it (cause it’s not always in the basket) Then there is G doing stuff….Not that their extra loud. But their moving around, light going on and off…so just not book reading time…G will not agree with this…he reckons I can read a book ANYWHERE.

This week also found me learning a new craft….the lady said to everyone…’ALL I ask is you pass on what you have learn, like I am doing’.…I mean how sweet is that?…REALLY, how sweet?

Monday of this week was book club and I never got there….The book was called ‘Room’ can’t believe I enjoyed this book…Well not enjoyed but had me wanting to sit back, feet and just read….
One of the lady’s in the group mentioned she would like to try a different style of book….I think the new Steve Jobs book that is coming out soon…great Christmas present…etc ..Then I find out over 600 pages….Yayyyyyy…NOT!!!!!
Next book is ‘Still life with Rice’ I am sure this will be a very interesting discussion.

Right as it is G’s Birthday I am off to make him a nice dinner…that has to be eaten before I leave for my class….