Well…I did manage to fit a movie in on Saturday…we watched ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ with our breakfast. Been ages since I had seen and it had us ALL laughing out loud…GREAT start to the day!
We had a lovely Saturday night out with the Bubbles’ lovely evening, lovely company and everyone listened me because I talked and talked and then just for good measure…well I talked some more!

J is off school this week…so for some bizarre reason I keep say…’what you doing this spring break’ …Spring break…it’s fall break , come on Wend!…Well it’s really called Half term…well it is in the UK, I guess I have become very Americanized.
This week found me playing a board game with Jamie…Before starting the game…I was oh no…REALLY, ANY NEED???? Yes there is a need….but that’s for a WHOLE OTHER BLOG!!!!
Then Yesterday, we watched another movie.......Then today I drove Jamie and 2 friends to Disney Sea….This was a big deal for me….I don’t things like this on my own…NEVER, REALLY I don’t.
…BUT…I had fun…great time with the kids and met up with another friend and her child.
I had taken my kindle, some magazines and my trusty phone… (Which died just before we left)
Great drive there, great drive hum, great kids, great company…a little kindle reading and the weather was good!!!! ABSOLUTLY no complaining from…REALLY NONE!!!!!
I might just do this again...not promising, but I might.

I then came home and cooked from scratch…Well G, had chopped onions and mushrooms and cooked the rice…but I did the rest.

So know I have been in the running for mother of the year for the last 2 days…I think it’s time to stop!
I am exhausted!!!!!

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

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….

Well…..I am not a happy bunny, I lost an earring that has a means a lot to me….I am gutted!!!
Well I have looked, others have looked…it seems it is gone forever….not happy 

I am awake writing my blog at stupid o’clock because of 2 cats, that seemed to be under my bedroom window making the most awful noise EVER!!!!! I mean REALLY, ANY NEED????
We seem to have a lot of stray cats in our area….Which surprises me, because when you go to buy a cat her it cost something close to the price of a small villa in Tuscany….Well not that much but may as well be….I mean $1000 for a cat…They look like most of the strays I have seen around here, except they are in a class cabinet.
I have also noticed hardly anyone uses a pushchair/stroller here for their little children…most seem to carry their children or they are walking very young…Mums her must have more time on their hands than you can image…I mean REALLY…you need to go somewhere and the kids (under 2 or 3 year) are walking with you…I mean a 5 minute store trip must surely turn into a 5 hour trip or may be that’s the plan…and don’t get me started on those awful shoes the little’s ones wear here…They squeak with every footstep……Arrggghhhhhh
…But getting back to the pushchair /stroller thing….dog owners have strollers for their dogs…They also have special baskets on their bikes for the dog…I mean REALLY???? A dog is meant to walk…It needs to walk, come on People ANY NEED?
Then you have the end of the spectrum, some guy with a big fluffy German Sheppard, dog rides his scooter and the dog runs beside the scooter…So you either have pet owners who think their dogs are to fragile to walk on their own 4 paws so they dress the poor things up in silly outfits and take them out in their strollers or you get owners who think the dog needs to be at running speed for his daily exercise.

Had a night out on Saturday night and never got home until 1am…now for a lot of people this is not late for a night out…but as I am normally thinking at 6 pm “is it only 6pm…wonder if I can get away with being in bed by 7pm” Love night with a love bunch of ladies.

Yeti Moo has been here a week…Today I am taking her to Costco…I just know that this will be a highlight of her Japan trip…

We had a typhoon through here last Wednesday. I was like…’Has nobody ever seen a Welsh rainy day’
I soon realized it was not like a normal rainy Welsh day when we were driving home and I seen the door of a convince store window shattered, 2 trees blown down… Even school was closed that day.

Thursday I was at my art class. Just about to finish the class when somebody spotted a cockroach…well that was it for me!!!
Then the organizer came down the stairs and was going to ask me to remove a cockroach upstairs…hummm I refused to put on those slippers you had waiting by the door in because I have no idea who’s feet was in them last and you think I am going to move a disgusting bug? Hummmm NO!!!!
I have enough problems with people, animals with 2 legs…any more than 2 legs and your own your own buddies….

Yeti Moo arrived….can’t believe it’s been 9 months since I have seen here…maybe because of the 2-3 times a week weekly calls… it’s a small world!

I have decided that I am going to grow my hair and get it cut for locks of love.
A very special girl had done this last year and I thought I am going to do this.
My hair is it’s natural color, no dying, highlighting or perming so why not…may be that one white hair I found might put them off…I am sure by the time I have grow my hair to the required length there might be a few more grey hairs

Found out my birthday present while being mouthy about what I want from Christmas…
SoM is coming over…can’t wait.
…Oh and the Christmas present I want is an iPad, Well J won’t let me have his…so I want my own and if I don’t have one for Christmas, I am hoping that the Apple Store has plenty right after Christmas when I go and buy my own!!!

Enjoyed the rugby on the weekend when Wales won!!!! Yayyyyyyy Wales…..

I have also read a couple of books one being “How Starbucks Saved My Life’ I really enjoyed this book
Not what I was expecting, but a quick easy read.

It’s been a lovely fresh day today…not a nice crisp day but a fresh day…
No A/C needed today, Windows wide open, and lots of fresh air coming in…I love it!!!!

The school sent out a message to say that there may be no school tomorrow due to the typhoon….ANY NEED! Not the school but the weather….but saying that I remember early last school year we collected the kids early due to another typhoon…seemed like a normal summers day in Wales to me.
I love my country and I am extremely proud to be Welsh, but I do wonder about the Welsh weather at times. Makes me smile when I read Facebook and people back home are complaining about the cold and putting the heating on…it’s 30 + degrees here and I am praying for a early winter.
How I would love Alaska!!! Well I would with books, TV (that shows good TV) Internet and a decent food store….I mean REALLY how awesome would that be?

Today I went to Dan the man and explained how the rugby is a bit of a problem for me….I find I need to eat extra…I am thinking its watching all the running around the pitch I am seeing…I am exhausted just watching it…my eyes following them around the pitch are having a real work out. So I am gathering that’s was why I ate more.

Oh my I can’t believe I have not written since August 29th…oh yes I can…cause not a lot happens…REALLY it doesn’t. So I had forgotten about the lost credit card…hummmm, 2 seconds while I give him the evil stare…..Okay…stare done….Don’t think he even noticed!!!!!
So what has happened….Well Yeti Moo has been giving me grief because of the lack of my blogging…
Yeti…blog well under way!!!!
Had a few lovely ladies over for lunch and I decided I want to make a kind a jacket/baked potatoes bar …well that never quite happened but I did do Jacket spuds…(in the oven) I made a couple of fillings one being prawns in a thousand island dressing…(got to love tomato sauce/ketchup) So I made the sauce…and added the prawns…Well I need to add DOUBLE the amount of prawns than I originally had gotten ready…why? Well I will tell you why….All because the prawns where drowning in Thousand Island dressing…I mean ANY NEED??? Honestly they where…even when I add DOUBLE, yes DOUBLE of the amount of prawns they still looked like they were drowning…..
I have started back at the gym with Dan the man and I am swimming EVERY morning…no need REALLY…well there is a need…but there is not if you know what I mean….
I have started growing out my fringe/bangs…. Not sure if I like it…but I really don’t like having my fringe/bangs cut and looking like I have just been allowed out in the public!!!! I mean ANY NEED????
Also blow drying my hair most days…killing my arms but you know what….I am treating it as a work out like I have been to the gym…shame I can’t add it to my exercise page…
20 lengths of the pool (actually swimming!!!)
30 minute tread mill
20 minutes weights
30 – 45 minutes fighting to straighten fizzy hair …Again ANY NEED!!!!

Started thinking about Christmas shopping today…I need to get the ball rolling…but what will Father Christmas bring???? Well For J I have no idea…and even less for G…I was so stuck for ideas for G last year one present he got was a Meccano set….It’s still in the box…but I was thinking practical…unlike him when J got his first Scale Electric as 2 years of age…or the Lego that can be attached to the computer…which I believe in still in the box(he was older than 2 but even so….)…J and Lego would never be used in the same sentence…a bit like G ordering a cheese sandwich for himself…just would NEVER happen…May be if Lego had brought out a WWE series…but even then I doubt he would be interested.

I have read a couple of books….book club book all read….My choice so I liked it!!! REALLY I did.
Lots of choices I like in my book pile right now…sometimes I have a pile of books that I would rather use for a fire…but at the moment all the books seem good…well until next week when I am sure my mood will change…then I will complain, I have nothing to read!... I REALLY thought that 20 boxes of books we shipped here I would enjoy …nothing in there I want to read normally…seems my mood is improving!!!!

Spent a lot of time watching the rugby this weekend….I am very proud of my team...They never won, but played a good game and losing by 17 to 16…To all the Welsh team…you might be a large bunch of home grown lovely young men (well nearly all of you)…some needing to tie back their hair in case it gets in their eyes or some thug from the other team might want to pull your hair!!!!…I mean REALLY!!!! And you might not have the Dan Carter gene pool in your DNA but your Welsh and you are awesome!!!!!!
If you had have won I might have gone on a online shopping spree today with G’s credit cards…..If you DID win the world cup…I would not be shopping online I would be in the country of choice with G using his wallet….So Wales you will be in my daily prayers until October 23rd….. REALLY you will….

Well, I have almost gotten over my train ride….Not in a rush to take another train!!!!
And….I finished THAT book…YAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!

Saturday there was a pool party, off we went me and that book…my intention was I would sit there and read THAT book….REALLY it was…I did read a few pages but then seen an a blade of grass growing and that caught my attention more than the book…..
The kids had a ball….the guys watched the rugby…well done Australia…and Mrs. H and myself watched the world go by.
We had a nice relaxing day…the nap I had Saturday afternoon did not help me go to sleep on Saturday night….but it did help me in finishing THAT book!!!!

Sunday we went to an outlet mall…Outlet, Outlet…they have no idea what an outlet mall is here. I am sure of it. It looks like any outlet in North American but that’s where it stops…normal stores and normal Japanese prices….Anyhow J needed new soccer boots…picked a purple pair!!!! Better than the first pair he picked…but purple!!!!
So…G says….
‘Where’s my credit card?’
Me‘…hummm I gave it back to you…’
G…‘No you didn’t’
Me…‘I did’
So I start to panic….Where did I put it…I am almost 99.99999999999999999999% sure I gave it to him….
I come home and start ripping things apart looking for a credit card that seems I was the last to have….
It’s NOWHERE to be found…I even go to the local restaurant to see if it’s there…
Last night I am lying in bed thinking and thinking and thinking and over thinking… (My head started to pound…me and thinking NO, NO, NO!!!! thinking gives me a terrible headache)
So I get up this morning...Make J’s breakfast, make dinner in the Crockpot…make my almond milk…
Start the laundry then start cleaning from top to bottom…I lift furniture, moved furniture… (I even cleaned as I went along….) I started going through cupboards…I went through the plastic rubbish bag (thank goodness the Japanese separate the rubbish/garbage – I know I would have not gone through it if it was mixed with all the yucky stuff…my stomach is churning just thinking about those egg shells and drain nets that catch all the yucky stuff!!!) I even start to think may be…I imaged giving the card to G….J came home and he said....’Oh you have been busy’ G came home and he says somebody has been busy’ I look at G and say …I have looked and looked and I have no idea where it could be…I ask again if he is sure he does not have it…same reply…’No’
So I finish cooking dinner and G looks at me and says ‘oh looks what I have found’ Yep he had it!!!
In one of his pockets that he had forgotten to check….I mean REALLY!!! ANY NEED…
If I had have had something in my hand I would have thrown it at him!!!! REALLY I would have…Making me doubt myself…
So the moral of the story is…Wendy is ALWAYS right!!!! ….seriously I am…REALLY!
Don’t even know why I had HIS card…There is another moral to the story…Don’t give me anything to look after unless it has an app that you can locate it from another device!!!! REALLY…ANY NEED!