Oh my it is already June 10th, school is nearly out summer is trying to decided if it wants to come and stay or just keep visiting… Well I hope it is here fully by the time I get back in July.
I have still not written or even started the book that I wanted to write… Think I need to give on this…may be I will write something and send it to Yeti Moo to approve…
I have still not lost have 20 lbs in one hour!!! I might have lost $20 or even £20 sterling but not 20 lbs in the form that I want!!! Arrrggghhhh
I have lost inches…very pleased but also ADDED inches to another area which I needed like a hole in the head.
I have also done enough washing this week for a family of 20!!! I mean come on there is only 3 of us!
I have had a few strange dreams…one where a bottle of Champagne popped it cork and left a lovely hole in my ceiling…. Another one with Dolphins and Whales…that was a nice dream except don’t know why the whales had red and white t-shirts on….Bizarre right?

This week I have gone to the gym…had a training sessions with Dan the Man.
Been to the Arctic pool…which I might add is not nearly as cold as it has been.
Been out for dinner for LLL birthday…Nice place, nice food and a 5.7 quake to get the dinner started… NICE! (Sarcastic tones there as I type)
This weekend we have Bubbles, Mrs. H and The Bag Lady with Hubbys coming over for dinner.
All new recipes except for one… and I would choose to make a menu with stuff needing to be done last minute…

I really need to start reading my book for book club…. Yeti Moo the book is called ‘We need to talk about Kevin’ if you want to read it and let me know what you think… … This was Orange Ping Pongs choice of book….I think this will be a very interest discussion.
We have a very nice book club group, a really mix of ladies from all over.
I love the name of one of the lady’s book club back home….’11 wines and a beer’ I mean how cool is that stating in the obvious for a book group name. I think if I was in that group it might be called 11 wine and a beer plus a Pepsi….Just a thought

So not long until holiday/vacation….yayyyy apart from looking forward to seeing people I am also looking forward to
1. A cheese savory roll from Greggs with a packet of bacon crisp
2. A nice carvery …with veggies I recognize
3. PF Changs if we can find one in the areas we will be in
4. Panera sandwich and soup
5. Raspberry ice tea that has NO tea taste!!!!

Also of late I am also noticing more and more how much J is like me … Now this is great and not so great…Not impressed with the attitude…which I am being told is identical to mine….hummmm ...thinking NOT!!!!! I mean REALLY any need!
Every morning that child has to watch his basketball with his breakfast…(breakfast for J seems to be getting more leisurely by the day I might add)….I remember hearing kids talk about rugby, football/soccer and get excited about Liverpool or Man united….but now I hear all about The Miami Heat team….I mean Why Miami???? Why not the Celtics, or the Raptors…I like the Raptors Mascot.
Every day he comes home from school he is outside at the basketball hoop I have had enough of that basketball banging….. Bang, bang, bang arrggghhhh no idea what the poor neighbors must be thinking….

Where has the week gone????? I mean I have to have more time to do stuff….well do nothing…because I never have enough time in my day….But I never have anything to show for doing NOTHING! I mean come on any need?!?!?

So this week I have noticed…..
….. that if you wear high heels and you can’t walk in them properly…then walk on the road instead of the path/sidewalk…this way you won’t break your ankle but you might be hit with a car!
….. That a dog in Japan is treated like a baby and while most parents of really human babies don’t use stroller they carry their babies in sling like thingies….most dogs here…well in this area, have their own doggy stroller….I mean come on any need?!?!? Dogs are meant to go for a walk…not be pushed in a stroller!!!! ANY NEED!!!!!
….. The ¥ 100 store, ($1 store) is not ¥ 100 but ¥105…but I think I already knew that…
….. I don’t necessarily have a sweet tooth…more like I LOVE food tooth!
….. I don’t think I like Vanilla ice cream…bit of a waste of an ice cream flavor really!

Miss. Sugar high smile sending you the biggest hugs!

So this week our visitor Charity went home. We never did much but she did make a box…well cover a box and she also made some book marks.
I caught up with Yeti Moo, spent more time on the call than either one of us intended…funny how we live thousands of miles apart but that does not stop the friendship.
We had dinner with GL and Mr. GL, (boy was that curry thrown together quickly!)
We also went to a 40th birthday where the theme was red. (Painting your own finger nails with bright red nail polish is not a great idea when you are useless at paint nails!
Image… if you can, walking into a room where a young child has found a pen and decided to decorate the walls, hummm you seeing the picture right…So now image me putting on the varnish and pretty much having the same out come as that young child only the childs uses the walls, I use nails plus fingers and a bag of cotton wool….I think I had more varnish on my fingers rather than my nails! Finally gave up and Ms. GB painted the RED nails for me!...thank goodness…So guessing that attention span of mine was ALL used up with the washi eggs!)
Also been to the Arctic pool and gym!!!!! Attention spam REALLY going out the window on these two… Go on roll your eyes…
I finished my washi egg project…only to start another washi egg project with quail’s eggs this time.
I also downloaded a few books on to my Kindle. Planning on reading a bit on the holidays!!!
Threw a few things away, which is a big deal for me … As I can’t throw ANYTHING away; guess I am a bit of a nightmare…..
Can’t really think what else I did….hummm Well those washi eggs, did take some time!

I got on the scales yesterday (no idea why I did that) No real exercise done this week…But I lost weight…..Yayyyyyyyy
So I treated myself to a bowl of ice cream…I know…I can image the eyes rolling…I am doing it now…Who loses weight and treats them self to ice (well I never actually said yes I am treating myself to a bowl of ice cream, but it all happened in a very close time period!)….Arrrggggghhhh

I am having trouble keeping awake during the day…ridiculous really, I think I need to make sure I schedule in an afternoon nap every day. I am typing this I am trying to think how I can find an excuse to go nap…but the problem is I am going into deep sleep mode…. Then I am walking around in a even more dozier state than normal!

This week Charity and I went to another Japanese craft class, this time we made Japanese paper doll book marks…My attention span actually lasted the whole time, which I think surprised everyone…Still no Koi paper…ANY NEED????

This morning I went to my first dragon boat race where G and colleagues had entered a team…
This is where you have 20 people in a long wooden boat, with a dragons head on the front.
You have a person at the front banging a drum and a person at the back steering and 18 others in rows of two rowing (J and G were paired up, extremely happy child) …Well today was a very, very wet rainy day and I think I got as wet as the people in the boat. No need REALLY!!!!!
I told one look at the water and thought hummm is J’s tetanus injection up to date? I felt no better when they were in the boat and heading to the starting point and I seen a dead fish slapping against the sea wall….I mean come on, any need?

So I decided I was going to make Washi eggs…
This where you use Japanese paper, some of the papers are beautiful… (Some are just plain ugly and the designer or maker of that paper must have drunk to much Saki)
So I go on YouTube and find a way to make washi eggs, I actually found how to blow out eggs….(yukkkk!!!!) I the measured my eggs, measured the paper and cut it to size. I then painstakingly pasted every piece of paper slowly and carefully…. Some of those ugly papers look a lot better on the egg.
Well know I am addicted to making these Eggs…the paste is drying on my hands and this is minging!!!
I am not quite sure how I get so much paste on my hands but I do.
I have made normal chicken size eggs, I have Quail eggs, all ready to be decorated and I have even attempted to make the plastic kids eggs you get at Easter.
Guessing, and it is just a guess that my attention span just might be growing!

NO exercise Monday, No exercise Tuesday ( not unless you consider the walk I went on with Mrs. H last night for what was meant to be 30 minutes and turned out to be an hour because we got lost!!!)
So there I said NO EXERCISE…I am surprised it took me this long to take two days off!!!....But I am back in full swing today with a morning swim in the Arctic pool today…well I am heading there after school drop off.

My friend ‘Charity’ arrived to stay with us on Monday on her Asia tour….It’s amazing how even when you have not seen people for years you just fall straight to where you…

So yesterday Charity and I went to a craft class to make a Japanese tea box…Well make is the wrong word…decorate is more like more like it…Well I wanted Koi fish on my mine…but there was not enough to cover the box had chosen… So I decided on a blue Japanese style…looked better on the box than it did just lying there with all the other sheets of paper.
Well Charity was top of the class, A plus student…She was enjoying herself…completed her box (took notes so she can make some when she goes back home) Looked as if she could have taken on another 20 boxes!!!!...I on the other hand had a headache from peeling tape, finding paper (not Koi patterned!!!)
Measuring, adding up, cutting, pasting and getting gluey/paste fingers!!!! To say I was ready to leave by the end of the class would have been an understatement.
I think taking the pictures of each step made me happier…I am very happy I have made a box…I still want to make a ottoman/chest size one…but thinking I might need to take some medication before I start that one!!!

I decided last night that I was NOT doing ANY exercise today… I mean come on I need a break right???? I have been marvelous….Not sure I have EVER been this dedicated!!!!
5.30am I awoke... (That sounds posh…I awoke) By 5.45 I was in my swimmers and off to the Arctic pool….which was either not as Arctic this morning or I am getting more used to it!
I did my exercises and swimming and then decided as it was warm I would sit by the side of the pool and dry off a bit….So I get my book (which is extremely funny I might add) and I sit by the side of the pool and just let the world pass by when I am sure the floor is moving under me…. We had two 5.5’s 4 minutes apart….I mean come come…really as I am sat there in my swimmers, relaxing reading my book!!!! Any need, REALLY!!!

I came home from the pool, showered, dressed, had breakfast and potted around for a bit then sat down with my book and I feel asleep on the sofa at around 9.45 am…Ok I must have need the sleep right???
So I went out around 11ish and was home by 12.30 and promptly fell asleep again…and now at 7.30pm I am more than ready to go to sleep again….I mean REALLY, Any need?

So the mozzies (mosquitoes) are out and biting me, just seen J’s leg and he has 6 huge bites…again any need?
It is starting to get very humid here right now so you know the mozzies are looking to party!!!
Well I wish they would do one!!!!!

I really need my fringe/bangs but…but it seems when I have my fringe cut I come away looking like I might be a danger to the general public….Honest I do…I need my fringe feathered and thinned out…not cut straight across and look like I have just been released!
So hoping to get that done tomorrow….wish me luck.


Yesterday I had dessert sushi….It was awesome….
So it seems your cook your sticky rice in milk and add vanilla and sugar and then make the sushi shape and top with fruit….I have to say it was pretty good…I was not convinced at first so I tried one and I was hooked! Like I needed to add another food like that to my life!!!!

Well another two early mornings at the gym plus 2 more swimming time added…While I don’t seem to be losing weight something is different…clothes fit different and well I just feel better in general…well until about 7pm and then my eyes are burning and need sleep…..
On Thursday J said he would like to go to the Indian restaurant for dinner….
I ordered a butter chicken and a naan bread…I was not disappointed...the butter chicken sauce was so creamy and the naan bread was so doughy…..I thought it was my birthday not J’s
I did not need the chicken part of the butter chicken, just the sauce/gravy and the naan bread…..as good as any roast potatoes and homemade gravy!

So this week I have found a few things out
1. I have a pair of flip-flops that sound like ducks quaking when I walk…will I be getting rid of them…Hummm NO!
2. When you make pasta salad that small box of pasta makes MUCH more than you thought it would…it makes a BIG load…
3. It is ok to take the rubbish/trash out while in your PJ’s. (well seems the new fashion here)
4. Open air pools have Arctic feeling water in May
5. Cars don’t clean themselves inside????? ;)

So that all been typed I can have a whinny minute…..Why is it when you have been shopping there is still nothing you fancy or want to eat in the house???? Why is it, that while fruit is is lovely and refreshing at times and full of natural sugar it does not have the same satisfaction as chocolate?????
Why is it that a glass of water does not quench your thirst like a cola can of coke???


I mean is there any need at all….Water is good for you…Wonderful but I can drink liters of water and still be thirsty…one small can of cold fizzy beautiful cola and I am no longer thirsty…
Now fizzy water can sort of quench the thirst…only problem is most take like it has a aspirin or something like it in there….

So Tuesday I was at the gym at 5.55, thought about going in the pool but the shiver I got down my spine put a stop to that!
I then went back to the gym in the evening with G and did another little bit…which wiped me out!!!!
I felt I should go to the gym again after going to a birthday and having a desert….
To be honest I never felt guilty after eating dessert, maybe I should have but I just never….

Yesterday I was at the gym at 6.10 ( this upset me a little as I had been awake and only dozing since 3ish am and I looked at my clock again and it was 6am) So after my workout I did consider jumping in the pool…once again a shiver down my spine but a stop to it!!!!
I came home did my chores and took J to school…Then I headed for the pool….
So the sun was shining, I am thinking ok……can’t be that bad the kids have been in it all weekend.
I notice one of the lifeguards who was cleaning and doing checks etc….
I go and find a bed for my towel and stuff…Not difficult as I am the only one stupid enough to be there!!!
Then I walked over to the one side of the pool…(the only side I use for some bizarre reason) and I start climbing down into the pool…..The words that went through my mind at that time were too many mention and some not printable…So I have the water about waist high….I can do this right?…come on Wend’ just jump in and get your shoulders under….come on Wend’ it will be time to pick J up from school at this rate ( I should have just went straight in from the deep end)…Well I did it…I thought my heart had stopped….Thank goodness there was a life guard there in case I died of a heart attack after the shock of the freezing arctic water …Well I carried on and very quickly I warmed up…
I actually spent 40 minutes..Swimming and doing water aerobics…go me!!!!!
So today I am going again after school drop off…..
Really hope there is a life guard there again early in case the pool is any colder than yesterday…I don’t think it could be….

Today is J’s birthday…can’t believe he is 12….I mean REALLY, ANY NEED!!!!
Gone are the days of me telling him hair cut time….That topic is going to cause major hassles I think with us and his curly hair…
Gone are the days the lights were out at 8pm..Because if he was a sleep by 8pm I know he will be wandering the house at 3 am…
Gone are the days of reading stories….. Big shame!
Gone are the days he did not have an opinion!!!!....Oh I wish those days where back!
……but also gone are the days he would only eat chicken nuggets and fries and NOTHING else….YAYYYYY!!!!
I actually remember him telling another mother at her child’s party at a party where pizza was served that he was allergic to the pizza…..REALLY!!!! Also told another mother he was allergic to mashed potatoes….

Happy birthday sweetheart….Love you!