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| Tuesday, January 16th, 2007 | | 7:49 am |
So this is day 23456753343 off from school due to snow and other weather related events. Now, I am all about not going to work, but this is ridiculous. Granted I am stopping work to go to school in march, so most likely, I wont have to make up the brunt of missed days, but year round school is looking like it might happen. I love the look of snow. Everything is pretty and it seems to equalize the world for just a moment. not in any real sense, but looking out everything is out of a picture book or something. Current Mood:  hopeful | | Friday, December 1st, 2006 | | 9:42 am |
| | Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 | | 7:02 pm |
Cancers dont suck as much as this LJ test is making out. All y'all act all sad when I leave and yet no one i know, including my own boyfriend, should be dating me. stupid. Cancers rule! | | Friday, July 28th, 2006 | | 12:17 pm |
Just wanted to say: I LOVE YOU GIANTMEME. That is all. | | Wednesday, July 19th, 2006 | | 1:57 pm |
birthday!
I have the most amazing boyfriend ever. Not that I only think this when he buys me amazing things, but it is the thought behind all of his gifts and everything he does for me that brings me to tears. There really aren't any words that can show or tell what he means to me or how much i love him. He showed great restraint buying me exactly what I wanted, not what was maybe considered "better", then filled it with amazing memories and things i love but he doesnt necessarily. I just love him. I am always sort of ambivalent about birthdays, but they never fail to make me feel loved and appreciated by the people i love. Thank you all for the kind words they make my heart feel good. | | Friday, June 23rd, 2006 | | 2:02 pm |
BRAINARD OR BUST!
AHHHHH! still dirty from camping. I love it outdoors. we sat around and read and listened to music went on a hike took naps. ahhhhh. we also finally mastered fire. thanks katy and bo for coming up and making sure we didnt go crazy or anything, and for bringing firewood. now i am packing for minnesota. It will be a stressful trip, but fun too. That is all. Yeah for summer! Current Mood: content | | Saturday, March 11th, 2006 | | 12:46 pm |
hmmmmm. Fun and low key night. great wine and return to oz, which still sort of freaks me out, but fun nonentheless. thanks Kaaaty and housedjbo for hanging. Getting ready to meet my moms quaker/lesbian/childhood friend. should be interesting. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MACY! you are an amazing lady who never fails to make me feel special. i am so happy that this is the day you came into this world and that i have been able to share some of your life. i hope that you feel as loved as you make everyone around you feel. i love you sweetie, happy birthday. Current Mood: excited | | Monday, March 6th, 2006 | | 2:01 pm |
Thanks KAATY for the nudge
I am sitting out on the porch in amazing sunlight and warmth. It is so perfect right now it almost makes me forget all the stuff i have to do and have been putting off for a month. Get a job, start studying for the GRE, sign up for said GRE, deal with my pics on my puter, do my albums, be better about seeing my friends, not eat so much, get a costume together, plan NYC.....it just goes on. I have loved just taking every day, and every moment, at a time and not truly having plans. But i think i need to start being a little more proactive about my own life. We had an amazing weekend. Went to BC and chilled, ate amazing food, and saw a great concert. I loved hanging out with people that i have never had a big chance to get to know, Nikky (SP?) is amazing. drove back down to the ham and stayed with my womnderful friends who i want to spend every moment with but cant cause they are in the ham and i am in seattle. Thank you Macy and Stefanie! enjoyed some quiet time with dan and our PB from casa que pasa, yum yum yum. i will make this day productive! there are like 12 things i should/will do today! well i will try, it is just so damn nice out! | | Thursday, February 9th, 2006 | | 1:47 pm |
OHMIGOD
so right now i am typing on my OWN LAPTOP! dan and i just had "christmas" and i won. actually he really lost cause i didnt have any of his ready, they are all still packed. but the amazingness of my gifts is mind blowing. i cant actually process it all, but soon it will hit me and my brain might pop. anyway, i am home. i love it! see you all soon, i will call you soon too! | | Tuesday, February 7th, 2006 | | 4:42 pm |
Last Time at Comic Paradise
So i am sitting in my little porn/internet den for the last time. It is so weird to me that this year is over. sure i spent a lot of time wishing i was home or seeing people or eating food, but this time and place still mean a lot to me. i think it was because it was all so new to me. it was a huge unknown, an adventure. now that i have `made it` a year i think that it will be very hard to leave. it was all just foreign when i came, now i have made it my own little japan. none of this is to say that i am not sooooooo excited to come home. just that it isnt like japan is kicking me out. i am leaving with really amazing memories, a new sense of self, and a accomplished goal. i dont think i can put into words exactly what i am going through, maybe i dont even know. I just want to tell this country how much i love it and thank it for taking me in and teaching me so much. see you all in 34 hours! | | Sunday, January 15th, 2006 | | 9:26 pm |
Stupid Hotmail.
So my email wont send anything i write. correction, it will send it, just not with any words in it. therefore, I have not been able to wish Jen a happy birthday (anyone who reads this and also communicates with her, please pass along my intentions) nor help my chinese pal larry write an english resume. i just hate that i require so little from technology and yet it fails to give me even that! on an up side, three more weeks! down the other side, i dont have an hour of free time between tomorrow and when i get on the plane. crap. | | Friday, December 16th, 2005 | | 8:53 pm |
hehe...
| You're an Passionate Kisser | 
For you, kissing is about all about following your urges
If someone's hot, you'll go in for the kiss - end of story
You can keep any relationship hot with your steamy kisses
A total spark plug - your kisses are bound to get you in trouble |
| | Sunday, December 11th, 2005 | | 6:28 pm |
| | Monday, November 14th, 2005 | | 8:03 pm |
Christmas is coming. It is ever apparent here in the land of Shinto and Buddha. Because there is no Thanksgiving to ward off the retail industry from starting the season in July, there are trees and santas and holly all over the place. In a strange way I really like it. Maybe it is because this is the first season i wont be working in retail. Actually, when i saw the first small christmas tree in a hair salon today, i cried. to my defense i am sick, but i think that the fact that this will be my first christmas away from home is getting to me. i just need to focus on getting through the holidays and not savoring them. memo to self: if you have been thinking about barfing all day, dont go have mcdonalds even if it is the closest thing to 'homecooked' you will get over here. gross, now extra barfy. | | Tuesday, November 1st, 2005 | | 2:36 pm |
THREE MONTHS BABY! that is until i can hug all you wonderful people. I am excited, the nearness is making me love japan more. i can taste being home, so i really need to appreciate the time i have left here. Going to China! on christmas day i will be standing on the great wall. how fun is that! Had an amazing tempura lunch yesterday. one of my housewife classes invited me to one of their houses. sooooooo good. who knew,i do like japanese food, as long as it is deep fried. menu: tempura (pumpkin-good, sweet potatoe-good, mackeral-good, green pepper-good, mushroom-good, squid-not good) pumpkin with pork and onions inside and steamed-sooooooo amazing spinach gratin-yum! salad-well japanese salad, pretty good cream puff-duh! jasmine tea-amazing, my first time. i get an extra day off this week to! so happy. i love not caring about work in any sort of stressful way. so nice to come and do my job and go home. yeah! thats it for now, sorry i haventhad any amazing things to post for a while. i had to dig for this one. | | Sunday, October 2nd, 2005 | | 8:51 pm |
like leaves changing color in the fall, with the cool weather comes the vending machines changing from cold to hot. their displays light up telling the customer if it is hot or cold. now, most machines are half blue and half red. ahhh, japanese fall. since my friday decision of withdrawing from work, i have been much happier. doing things that give my life meaning outside of work and work related things. i guess i should have done this earlier and i think i tried. it is just so seductive to use the ready-made sorority that is set up for you. on my walk to the far away but way nicer internet place i realized that there are so many things that are japanese that i love. just looking at the old houses with their yards full of a lifetime of collection (and probably cockroaches)reminds me of how much i love my surroundings. i just need to look and appreciate them more, espically if i question why i am here. off to listen to peter gabriel sing my favorite song on repeat (Thanks dan!). oddly enough it really applies to my life. 'so i went from day to day. though my life was in a rut.....open doors would soon be shut.' | | Friday, September 30th, 2005 | | 8:33 pm |
i guess its that time
i guess i have hit the point i always seem to hit when it comes to jobs. near the 9 month mark i figure out all the problems with the management and realized that no matter how hard i try, i cannot affect change. super. it seems here, that anything that can go wrong within the perameters of my contract does. it isnt like i am not getting paid on time, or live in a crappy place or even have terrible work conditions. it just seems that while i do my job well, and better than some, i get the short end of the stick. i just have to realize that selling my soul to this company was never why i came here and i can totally withdraw from anything that seems to be realted to the school. i dont even want to talk to teachers who i love (my precious michelle). i dont want to have to explain how i was dicked over for the umpteenth time, and how they somehow were overlooked when shit was being handed out. fuck it all. i can still travel (just booked my flight to china!) and shop and prepare for what i have wanted to do for the last 4 months, go home. i have started studying for the GRE. holy crap it is a hard test. but consider that my social life for the next four months and one week. added to my list of reasons i want to be in seattle. dryers. i am stuck in a void. none of my clothes fit (all to big, yay say some, but wait). it is because they are not being reshrunk as i have no dryer (no one in japan does). so i am left with clothes that look slopply big and no ability to buy new ones, cause i am still too damn big to fit in pants that were made for Barbie (aka japanese women). again, super. dont get me wrong...i love japan. | | Monday, September 12th, 2005 | | 10:19 pm |
So today was one of those days where you want to bitch-slap 6 year old children. I ran upstairs to take a break outside for 5 minutes (all the time i have between classes) and as I walk out the door i am greeted with bandstand music. weird i thought. then i looked across the rooftops as saw the high school band playing on the roof of the high school. so bizarre and yet so great. just what i needed to remind me that i dont hate my job or fellow humans. | | Tuesday, August 30th, 2005 | | 10:15 pm |
| | 9:38 pm |
FUJI BABY
dan and i are the awesomest people. i say this only because i know us and we are not the mountain climbing types nor are we really the hiking types. so for us to climb a legit mountain is pretty intense. dan will do this more justice, i will just sum up the big points. getting there: you take a bus to the 5th station from tokyo. there are only a couple going up each day. dan and i being typical americans thought we could just go to the station and get on one. wrong. it was totally full. so we were put on a waiting list and had to hang out in uber trendy shinjuku looking liked the thrown together hikers that we were. it was also too hot for what we were wearing. so we go back at the appointed time to see if we could get on the bus. our chances were not good as the japanese are not cancelling people. once they make plans they do it. however, we did not consider that gaijin are cancelling people, espically when a typhoon came the night before and the only thing to do was sit inside and drink. so....we get out spots on the bus. score 1. sticks and gear: when you climb fuji you can buy a walking stick and get it branded at these different huts along the way up the mountain. as this was 75% of the reason i was climbing fuji-san in the first place it was scary to think that the stick and brand sellers might be closed. we had read that a lot of huts are closed at night. that didnt make much sense as a ton of people climb at night to see the sunrise. well, we get to the 5th station and a stick seller is open. score 2. once we start climbing we find that most, if not all, of the huts are open and ready to brand. score 3. thus far pretty damn successful. not being hikers and hiking gear not being a priority for either of us during packing (me for a year in two bags, and dan for a hot and humid summer) we had to scrape together enough clothing and accessories to not die on the mountain. we divided my heavy coats and supplemented with some 100 yen store `rain gear` aka plastic garbage bags with hoods. we also invested in some 100 yen store flashlights and batteries. (note: a 100 yen store is a dollar store. cooler stuff, but basicall the same quality as in the states) we were taking this very seriously. we were both wearing tennis shoes that were over 2 years old (dan`s were three) and had negative amounts of tread. however, the flashlights were troopers, still work. and our clothing was perfect as it didnt rain and the cold was minimal (though refreshing in august in japan). to top it off, our shoes were near perfect. score 4,5, and 6. the actual climb: we started out and were just amazed at the beauty of the moon over the impossibly far off city lights. the clouds were forming weird formations, which dan, being the smartie that he is, told me only happen around mountains. we hit the sixth station after what seems like a nice stroll for about 20 minutes and are greeted and given a map by a friendly little japanese man. (note: another nod to how serious we were taking this, we were climbing a mountain without a map. really good idea) we head on and continue up these impossible switch backs made of loose dirt and fist sized rocks climing at a near 50 degree angle. we started to feel head issues from the altitude and gung-ho-ness pace we were using. so we decided to implement our game plan: rest whenever we feel like it. that said we took the switch backs one and a time, pausing for a couple of minutes each one. good to go. we werent sure if our initial station stop had been the 6th station or a sort of welcom hut, so we felt really accomplished and damn happy when we reached the 7th station. we were climbing at night, so you cannot see how far up the moutain you have to go to get to the ewok-village looking lights that mark the next station. we get our stamps, sit down and dwell on how good we feel and how awesome we are. we start off again, this time to huge boulders that you have to scamper up. (note: we are both carrying flash lights and our walking sticks. we have two hands....you can see the problem) on either side of us the is a huge ravine that you wouldnt survive if you fell and a wimpy chain `protecting` us from said fall. we cliffhanger it up these boulder and rock faces, making amazing time, cause you are climbing straight up and we reach the 8th station! at each station i am adding a layer of clothing, and the stamps and opportunity to put on more layers keeps me going up each impossinble leg of the fastly becoming stupid adventure. we are still feeling pretty good and not feeling any of the altitude sickness that others around us are. i am going to leave off at the 8th station. this is like a mystery serial from the days of yore. next time: shennangins, bad fathers, and the summit! miss you and love you all! |
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