Yesterday I had soooo much to do and get done and I pretty much did I needed and a little bit more….
EVERYTHING that needed doing outside the house, I did! I pretty much did all I needed to do in the house…Never washed my car but I am always looking for ways to get out of cleaning the car…
I have to say I even surprised myself at how much I managed to do today….

Today I decided NO MORE WASTING FOOD!!!! Really I did….I’m not talking about the food left on your plate…In our house I threw out so much. We never eat all the fruit I buy and when I buy less fruit…we run out…the carrots I buy from Costco have been known to turn a little whitish, broccoli has also be known to turn yellow…Yogurts past their sell by dates…
So like I said NO MORE!!!!
After checking what we had and realizing there was actually a lot I could make for dinner…..
I made up a new recipe (a chicken and potato patty) and served it with carrots and broccoli…carrots were NOT whitish and broccoli was NOT yellowish so all good there.
While I was cooking dinner, G came into the kitchen and seen what was for dinner….his face was a picture!!!! He did not look in the slightest impressed by dinner…Oh well…we were having this for dinner…if it was horrible; J and I could eat later when G had left for training … Well it was a hit!!!!
I have to be honest I was not excepting it to get a response…G said was the first to say something…
’this is not bad’ he said then J said ‘these are ok’
J then tells us how he is missing Chinese food. So out of my mouth (and I REALLY, REALLY have no idea why) came the words shall I make something Chinese for dinner tomorrow……..He said yes.
He asked for Sweet and sour pork…well he is having sweet and sour chicken…found my recipe and apart from the juice I need I am already to go….
…So then as I am looking at blogs and recipes I decide I will make another blog and post what I am making for dinner everyday…Well this would work if I was prepared to make dinner every night… )I can tell you I am not prepared to make dinner every night)
I now the novelty will wear off soon…this is the 2nd time recently I have thought about having another blog….What is wrong with me????

Arrrgggghhhhhh……
So Monday we went to Fuji Q, we decided that we would leave at 6am, with the hope that we would be there at 8am opening time. I had made sandwiches’…which I left at the house…I had thought I had sun screen with me…but left at the house…I thought I had brought towels...Nope I left them at the house…I did remember the water, a few snacks and the most important thing wallet, with money inside… (I DID REMEMBER TO GO THE BANK!!!) We finally got there just after 10 am, bought our tickets, and J and No: 3 headed for the new ride. No: 3 comes back and tells us it’s a 4 hour wait…He goes and checks the other rides which are pretty much the same waiting time….So 4 hours to get there! Four hours waiting in line for the ride! 1 ½ hours waiting for another ride and then more than 4 hours driving home!!!!!
The place seemed not to sell water! To buy food you needed to go to a vending machine for a ticket! The food run out, the drinks ran out… (Everything except the nasty tasting Japanese tea drink sold out!)
So while we waited for the kids I posted on Face book…4 hours here, 4 hours waiting…I think I might have mentioned it once or twice…the 4 hour drive and four hour waiting in line!!!!
The boys were extremely happy; the smiles pretty much said it all. So it was well worth the 4 hours drive and four hours waiting it seems…
We arrived home after 10pm hit some traffic jams pretty much all the way but with a few songs played at an extremely high volume...(so our own voices could not be heard ) the 4 plus hours did not seem as long.
The Japanese people watching opened mouthed as we drove by each other was too funny…
Especially as somebody in the car was doing her Rapping impression in full costume.

We went to the pool yesterday just sat there lazing around and not for long….and now I look like the color of a cooked Christmas turkey…ANY, ANY NEED!!!!

School starts tomorrow…now don’t get me wrong I am not looking to kick him out the car and go running to do my own thing….but….I will know what day of the week it is…I will have routine back in my life…and well let’s face it I do need routine cause I can be a nightmare!!!!

I have actually read up to page 200 of that book….I am still waiting for it to get exciting….can’t see it happening yet…but you never now….

Yesterday I went with G to the gym…well he drove to the gym and went in and actually did something while I sat outside with the intention of reading my book…hummmm. well I played with my phone…I chatted away and then decided ENOUGH!!!! I scolded myself and told myself to read that book!!!! (I am sure the book is actually quiet good…but I have a block and my approach to the book is not helping)
So there I am…drink ordered and delivered, book open…big sigh and off I go reading my book…Then Mo3 walks and in that all went out the window….
Now normally I would think…REALLY, ANY NEED Wend? But it was Mo3 so, YES, there was a need!!!!

We watched the movie Super 8…Oh My…ANY NEED…I jumped and I screamed…PG 13 my backside…
The movie was set in the 70’s and there is an alien…I am sure I am not giving anything away…Well I am sure I jumped twice before I seen the alien….A few choice words might have left my mouth as well!!!!
Oh dear…is there any need????

Today I went with my book and pretended to watch G play football/soccer… The weather app said 70% humidity…yeah whatever…more like 170% humidity… That was why I could not read today…REALLY!!!

I have fallen in love with a bar of chocolate…Just love special addition chocolates!!!
The chocolate is a cherry ripe special addition from Australia – a very nice man brought me some chocolate back from his trip.

Tomorrow we are off to a big Japanese theme park…J is so excited, seems there is some special ride and I REALLY can’t put this off AGAIN… But why oh why am I going…I hate crowds, I hate, theme parks…I hate traffic jams…well I pretty much everything…Don’t you all know I am special???? REALLY I am!!!
Also I have a bad feeling about this, stomach is churning and I don’t think it was the dinner I made…Hope I can be nice ALL day…. Will be VERY surprised if I can…but you never know…

BABS I think the REALLY Wendy is coming back!!!!!

Thanks you The Bag Lady, Bubbles, Mrs. H and Miss Williams…You all rock!!!!

I did not think I would be sat here typing for at least another couple of days…I mean not much happens in Wendy’s World!!!!
Really it does not…Wake up..Shower dress..Breakfast, unload dishwasher, laundry….not always in that order but you’re getting my drift….

……I was extremely tired this morning and I can’t even blame it on the two quakes we had last night…It was the ColaI had drunk and the fact I was playing online word games (so only myself to blame, but we won’t go there….So my events of the morning did not make my mood any better…..
….We have a jar that when we remember we throw our change into or I seem to walk around the house finding change everywhere….I even have a little dish by the washing machine for all the coins….Well I decided before I went away that I wanted to take this to the bank and change it all up…..well guess what???? I never got around to it….SHOCK, HORROR!!!!
So I tipped out the jar and started sorting out…well all for about 5 minutes…then left it there and I took J swimming…well I never went back into the room and forgot all about the change jar…Until I walked into the living room and see G has sorted it all out…I stated that I thought there was around 1,000Yen, G thought at least ,2000Yen…well we were both wrong nearly $150 (sorry I work 1Yen at around $1 much to most people’s annoyance) …So today J and myself went to the bank…I needed to go anyway…(still I need help form the lady there…she even remembers me now) So I show her the money and she says…hummm no!!!!! Your husband must come in and do this….I was thinking yes, of course he must
( I do type that VERY sarcastically ) I was thinking how the conversation would go…hummm you need to take the money in because you’re the account holder ect…( I was not living here when everything was set up)His reply would be something like “When I have got time to do that?’ or just a simple ‘Sod off’ So she makes a call and she tells me ok you can do this today….Lucky me….So she gives me a ticket…Tells me I will need ID (seems my bank card with my name and account number is not enough even though the money is going into that account) They call number 10 (which is my number – just in case you’re wondering.) she checks my ID, makes sure I have filled in the form correctly, then tells me the machine will count the money, which will take around 15/16 minutes…So after a short while, no idea how long as I was busy playing games on my phone…She calls us back…gives me all the bags back…and around 30 cents in foreign coins. She tells me I can’t put the money in the account, I can only have cash….hummm why????
(I have just been to the ATM…arrggghhh) Ok I said waiting for my cash…which I wanted in my account not purse. She has me sign a few times…changes the number because of the commission I had to pay….had to sign again…REALLY!!!! Any need She then tells me to go sit back down….ok…I go sit down and start abusive text messages to G…She calls us back and gives me a piece of paper…hummm - ok where my money (never actually said it like that)…oh no she said you can’t have it…must only go into the account, your husband’s account…you only have a family card with name…your husband’s account…hummm so you keep telling me…Ok great, money in the account…that’s what I asked for!!!!
Now all this could be avoided if I could open an account for J (the coins are all his, whatever is in the jar is always his)…but you can’t open an account here I am told unless you’re 20 years of age or above….I mean come on, REALLY, ANY NEED?!?!?
Don’t even get me started on the cost of the parking…………….Again….ANY NEED?!?

I was just messing around on the computer….I have found this week chocolate muffins with bacon…..
Yep you read correctly.
So I ask myself….
Who thought this up?
Was this a drunken 3.00am stupid cooking experiment?
Did the chocolate chips fall into a bacon breakfast casserole?
Whatever the answers are….all I can think of is YUCK!!!!! I mean come on ANY NEED, REALLY, ANY NEED!!!

Well, I have not gotten very far with my book….maybe 2 more pages read…… I did think about reading it when I was awake in the middle of the night (three nights in a row!!!!)
I keep telling myself…read the book, read the book… but I just go find something else to do - Laundry is all done, made a pork curry and a chicken curry…made some almond milk…went to Costco, read some magazines, went to the pool, watched TV repeats but still have not read the book…..ANY NEED????

Ok…..So I have not been back to the gym…no real surprise there….But I did swim a length of the pool yesterday…well ok half a length…Ok, OK bit less than half a length but I think with all the energy I used getting back on the noodles I was sitting on the pool, every time I fell off them, well that should REALLY have made up for the lack of time I have spent in the gym…
I weighed again this week.....Well I had actually lost a 1KG. How I managed this is beyond me…not going to think about it too much because I will give myself a headache!!! Plus extra indigestion from all the rubbish that might have gotten in to my belly somehow…..
I was good tonight when G and J had ice cream I had fruit….
I did think I should I should start a new blog on my moaning about exercise, diet and complain EVERYTIME I drink a coke….But as I don’t always get on here when I want not sure how I would work on that….I mean I am extremely busy…avoiding reading my book club book…REALLY I am busy!!!

A week today school starts…Thank goodness!!!! I have no idea what day it is half the time. Unless it’s the weekend and G is home….or when I go downstairs and see which bin/trash has gone out to be collected. I need to get back on track ASAP.

This week I spoke with Shutter bug and Mo3 I miss both of you!!!!

Ok….So since I last wrote what’s happened….
hummmm a quake or two. Lovely…NOT!!!!
Read a book or two…..Started my book club book –CUTTING FOR STONE…..I hope I will enjoy it…I need to get it read now because I know I can’t leave this book until the last minute like the others.
I WENT TO THE GYM…I think that line needs capitals!!! Hey a big deal for me next time I will make the letters bigger as well as capitals!
GL is back and we have renamed here Mama G….Well she renamed herself….
Went out for dinner with the ladies…Lovely evening.
Went to the pool a few times lovely weather…Ducks like it more than the people at times!!!!
Went to the local Bon Odori, outside our house….This is a great event, lots of local people and Westerners mix and dance, local food to buy (I would not touch it with a barge pole, but I am in formed it is nice) Hummmm I can’t ask what’s in it so I am not eating it!!!!!… Some do and they assure me that there is no fish…hummm NOT convinced!!! During the day time of the Bon Odori , some of the people dress in white outfits and then carry this HUGE wooden frame with something on top of it…not sure what that something is, but while carrying this heavy frame, they sing or chant and I think there is a drum…(on that description I can hear the travel magazines rushing to ask me to work for them…NOT!!!)
So…while carrying the frame a guy in the front and is pushing them back…Now I am sure there is a logical explanation for this, but I would be SOOOOO made going forward to paces and back a half a pace…I would shout…’Oy mate get here and carry it and I will push you back’
Yes I know more of my obnoxiousness is coming through…Sorry!!!!
Took J to a local arcade type place…nothing like what I have seen in the UK…but then I was not looking.
Today when we got there I sat down with my book…read a page then played on my phone until I got bored…(that never took long!) I look up and see the machines that seem to be a big hit with people…So I wanted a go also…I take my seat…and it is like a coin flipping thing and you need to get the coins into the light up slots and if you go Mario gets to move a couple of spaces….Well let me tell you 1000Yen does not go that far!!!! I had J show me how to play and I think I was kinda of getting the hang of it…
I was so tempted to go get another 1000Yen worth of coins….Well it was fun!!!!! Oh yes and my screen was called Dasiy…No idea why I remembered that but I did…may be because it was the only English in front of me….

I love my phone…I do I love it!!!! I get to make calls, send text messages, check email, take photo’s, play games and find where I am if I am lost (not also that much help in Japan as I don’t read, write or speak Japanese) I also use it as a GPS for when I walk to tell me how far I walk and how many calories I have used up. (I actually use two apps for that in case one of them is lying…so far neither is telling lies….) Well….I have now decided I don’t think I actually need a phone for the calls…that part can be removed.
I don’t really use my phone for calls…in fact I think I should have a discount on the calls front….seriously…I never use the phone part...So I was checking all the apps I have…I REALLY, REALLY can’t believe some of the apps I down loaded I was seriously not thinking straight when I typed in my pass code ….. I play the games more than anything…I would like to think I am getting better at them…well I can dream!!!


Yeti Moo 41 days and counting…NOT 41 SLEEPS…41 DAYS!!!!

SoM, I want you to know I am extremely proud of you!!!!
Thanks for your help this week…You rock!!!!!

While cooking dinner last night, I burnt my finger…The pasta was boiling…I was making the sauce to go with it when the metal pasta utensil (which I NEVER thought I would use, but find I have used every time I have made spaghetti in the last 11 years) I noticed was on the stove…the nasty elves must have put it there…So I use a dish towel to move it…I then needed to stir the pasta, using VERY,VERY hot pasta/spaghetti picker-upper utensil….without a dish towel and burnt my fingers…I mean ANY NEED!!!!! I screamed and ran my hand under cold running water…. G then finished off cooking dinner…Which I might add was ALL pretty much done!!!! …So every time I took my hand away from the water, the throbbing pain was a nightmare I think I let everyone know how much pain I was in. Poor me, those elves have a problem….ANY NEED!!!!!! So one VERY, VERY whiney Wendy last night!!!
Well let me tell you, earthquakes can make the body have jet lag like experiences - So last night - well early hours this morning the house started too wiggly, honest it wiggled. Normally the house would rock side to side…Well I know with wiggling you have to kinda of go side to side…this felt a bit more like a snow globe being shook the right way up…Again ANY NEED!!!! So then I could not go to back to sleep… Actually surprising how many people on Face book…me being one of them!!! Well I made a few Skype calls and then was really wide awake. Wanted to watch TV but never had any glasses or contact lens at hand and I did think it was mean to wake the house up in the process…until I remembered my sun glasses…So I was watching Law and Order eating porridge with fresh blue berries while wearing my sunny’s . By 8 am I was tired and ready to go back to bed, which I did until 11.45am, all I can say is it was AM when I removed myself from my bed!!!!...Then this afternoon at around 3.30 I fell asleep…not a good idea…I woke up and felt lousy…not only was I not happy that it was only a nap… so know I won’t be sleeping tonight which will have a knock on effect and be all like last week’s jet lag ALL over again….ANY NEED…I mean REALLY, ANY NEED!!!!!
When I did come downstairs this morning, it was to find G and J playing Wii….You would have thought they were actually out on a golf course listening to the two of them…’Huh, I am guessing you have fixed my Wii fit then?’ I asked… seemed neither had even looked at it or tried to fix it…Well they did fix it ( I am still being a witch…come on winter the people around me need the winter to arrive ASAP!!!) Apparently it was not broke…hum yes it was…don’t care what you say…Never worked for me, so it was broke!!!!
After I woke this afternoon and watched them playing Wii I decided that when I play the Wii on my own with nobody around was still the best plan!!!!! Just no need!

This afternoon (before the nap) we watched ‘The Big Bang Theory’ I LOVE this show…really it awesome…I think it is one of the funniest shows that has come out in a long time. I think this should TV show should be given out from the Dr as a prescription…I believe this show will make EVERYONE smile… Well it’s making me smile and that takes a lot right now!!!! Did I mention I hate humidity? REALLY I do!!!