it's not romantic at all

Yesterday I had my stomach checked up with a gastric camera.
I had experienced it when I had a terrible stomachache 10 years ago.
I went to the hospital after 10 years.
A doctor who looks skinny and kind of nervous became the head of the hospital.
I had him checked my stomach with the camera.
I wanted him to check my stomach again but I chose to check my stomach soon more than
to appoint him. In the early morning I went to the hospital, there were already many patients.
A friend of mine made a story about a woman met her ex-boyfriend at the waiting room when
she waited to see a doctor.
But reality was not sugar coated.
Most people who waited there were old men and old women.
If I had sugar daddy when I was in college, I would’ve met him again.
I would’ve said “ Daring, you’re getting old…” to him.
Gee, it was not romantic.
I wasn’t worried about the result at all.
I had thought probably I didn’t have a cancer yet and if I had some holes in my stomach,
I could get well with medicines. When I had my stomach checked up, I got nervous but
this check-up was not heavy.
If the doctor said how much longer I live, I’d love to eat 30 pieces of cookies with butter cream
and raisin, cake, a lots doughnut, ice cream and go to the BBQ restaurant often.
I know it but it’s totally not romantic.lol
By the way I went to the hospital to check the result and my result was awfully fine! lol

might put weight after jogging?!

Last Sunday I and my husband ate two kinds of cake that I baked. So I took my husband
to jog even though he didn’t wanna jog.
My husband said “ only 15 minutes, right? “ but I tricked him and we jogged for 25 minutes.
Actually I wanted to jog longer but I don’t want him not to like jogging if I pushed him too
much. So we finished jogging.
I made soup for Soba but he wanted to eat grilled beef. So we decided to stop by a restaurant.
He decided to run to lose weight but after jogging he worked up an appetite.
So he doesn’t lose weight and hi might put on weight.
I’m not sure what is good for health but probably it’s good to jog and eat more than being
at home in a whole day.
We were gonna go to eat grilled beef but we stopped at a Chinese restaurant because
the sign was changed.
The owner changed probably.
We used to like the middle aged woman at the restaurant and we were wondering if
she’s gone?!
A young Chinese woman who hadn’t been at the ex-restaurant was there and she spoke
Japanese unwell.
We sat at a bar and talked with for a while. She came form China near Mongolia.
You can eat a set of Chinese dishes for 650yen. It’s inexpensive.
We’ll stop by the restaurant from now on, too.
By the way this is Teriyaki-burger that I made for lunch last weekend.

Happy Valentine's day *2009

I baked two kinds of cake for Valentine’s day this year.
One of them is gateau chocolat that I’ve been wanting to eat and another of them is rolled
cake that I baked with a recipe that a friend of mine made to try to bake over and over.
Rolled cake that I bake usually is moist. Is this rolled cake soft or what?
I’ve never eaten such a soft rolled cake.
I put rolled cake and gateau chocolat in the box and brought them to my mother and
my sister’s family.
My husband said “ It’s really good. “ and my family enjoyed eating it.
I thank her! I know you made a lots effort to make this recipe.
I’ll value it and bake it over and over. I wanna be able to bake it much better!

addicted*

I’m addicted to something always.
I was into mystery books written by Keigo Higashino before.
I just finished reading his mystery stories titled “ Secret “ and “ Byakuyakou”.
“ Secret “ had became a movie that a pretty actress started in and “ Byakuyakou”had became a drama, I didn’t know that though.
“ Secret “ is about a story that is unthinkable in real life and I thought this is the secret reading it but the end was not the ending that I imagined. After reading it, something is on mind and it’s a little bit sad melancholy store.
I got tired of his books because I read only his books in this two months.
I’m gonna read books about histories from now on, too.
And recently I’ve been addicted to “ Twitter “.
I forget time passes when I check “ Twitter “ of my favorite artists in U.S.
What is a difference between blog and Twitter is that other people can’t read words about your “tweets” on your home. It means only your words are appeared on your twitter. It’s not fun to read it and it’s fun when you join it.
When you “ tweet “ something, somebody reply soon. It’s fun and you’re addicted.
And just before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games was held in Vancouver.
I didn’t know Bryan Adams in Canadian.
It’s been a long time to listen to his husky voice.
Gloves that torch runners wore were the same as my gloves that my friend sent me.
In this about three weeks I’m definitely addicted to Olympic games.

can't wait!

Asashoryu

Asashoryu is small but a really strong Sumou-wrestler. He's a bad boy but cute. He announced he decided to retire today .gonna miss him!!!

girlish English*

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I hadn't gone to the English conversation class for a long time.
But I started to go there since last week and I go there once a week.
We try to listen to English on some interviews by Letterman.
I didn't know him but he is a famous comedian, probably.
It's hard to listen their fast conversations. I wanna be able to listen to their conversations!
My teacher has very attractive characters and the way he teachs English is the best.
When we learn something, we choose teachers who have good characters or whom we can
respect.
It's not that everybody is OK.
He is very American and cut and dry.
When I take his personal lesson, it's the personal English conversation class but also it's like
counseling.
Taking the personal lesson is similar to counseling. Because we pay money and we talk our
stories that we want to say to the person.
I’ll go to the class next week, too.
By the way I became friends with a girl from Hong Kong when I went to Hokkaido.
She used to live in UK for 9 years and she can speak English perfectly.
When I read her conversations with her friend on face book for the first time, I was really
surprised. Becoz she uses English like girlish and in short.
I didn’t know girls use the English like her!
But its fun and exciting to read tht! I wanna learn English from various places.
Did u notice I used English like her?

please order my rolled cake called Ayar for thank-you-gift*

Last week I went drinking with some female associates at work.
But I couldn’t drink. So they paid much more than me.
I baked some rolled cake for thank-you-gift.
Please order my rolled cake called Ayar for thank-you-gift. ahaha:)

Hello to the heaven+

I sometimes remember you and I go over your emails.
And I remember your word “ Keep smiling “.
You didn’t forget keeping smiling and never giving up.
You make me remember the word probably.
I met you in Peru and I met you in person only once when I met you in Peru.
But you’re in my mind always and sometimes I really miss you.
I wanna see you. ….
I remember you sometimes. You’re my friend also you’re a man like my grandfather.
I wish I saw you in my dream.
I wish I emailed you in the heaven.
This is the scenery from the window at your room.

My first antique*

About a week ago I got something from an Austrian friend called Maria.
I opened it while wondering what she sent me. I found old post cards there.
She got them at a shop in Vienna of Austria where she lives and
Their post cards are old picture cards that are about 100 years ago.
Something in German or something in it and I can’t understand what it’s said.
These post cards are written by someone about one hundred year ago.
I’m imagining what it’s say.
I thought I asked Maria what it’s say but I decided not to ask her it because I can enjoy
imagine what it’s say.
Now people use emails much more than mails.
Texting is gone when the you change the cell phone and emailing is gone when you change the
PC or PC is broken. But mailing is not gone. We can keep it.
Emailing is a easy way to communicate to others but also it lose in touch easily.
Doing something that is a hassle is important?
You could say the same thing as studying?
I used to send post cards in summer vacation but these days I don’t do that.
I’ll mail her or him whom I don’t talk with recently.

slipped and snowboarded

My husband and I have been to Hakodate twice already. So we couldn’t seem to find places
where we want to go.
We asked people there any tourist spots that are worth going. But we’ve already every spot.
My mother came up with going to Tachimachi-cape.
We went through a narrow path. Nobody walked on such a slippery path even between graves.
When we got to the cape, nobody was there.
We took some pictures and walked on the mountain path.
The path was frozen.
We almost slipped and went up the path and went down the path.
And then I ended up slipping over.
When I slipped, I thought I couldn’t live in Hokkaido.
Probably I would slip easily. So I wouldn’t walk safe and sound.
In the downtown I saw a girl who wore heels even on the frozen road.
These days I don’t wear heels even in Tokyo.
I must slip when I wear heels even on frozen road.
Thing that I have to do in Hokkaido is slipping. It means snowboarding!
On the following day we went to Hakodate-Nanae-snowpark where we went to two
years ago.
This ski resort is small but you can see fabulous scenery when it’s sunny.
By the way this is Komagatake-mountain that I saw from the train.

one page of our memories

　

Time flies quickly, when I went to Niseko, it was a week ago already.
A half of customers were foreigners but people who soaked in the hot spring in the morning
were only Japanese.
I wanna recommend foreigners to go to hot spring in the morning also when they come to
Japan. Hot spring wake you up and it feels very nice.
I like hot spring in Niseko-Higashiyama. So I wanted to soak in the hot spring much more
days.
We were tired because it kept snowing and winding strongly. So we didn’t snowboarding
on the day and left for Hakodate. Ten years ago I couldn’t imagine I didn’t snowboard even
in the front of the ski resort.
We took a train to Hakodate again.
At a station of stations where the train stopped we had about ten minutes.
Kids got off the train with their cameras. So I went out there.
I asked a boy who had SLR to see his pictures. Most his pictures were cars.
Every stations were small tiny. Some stations of them made from simple unique one unit
box. We changed trains at Oshamanbe.
Oshamanbe is a name that I just saw a kind of TV game.
I heard Lunch box of crab with rice is famous.
We knew we need to make a book for it after getting on the train and my mother and my
husband were sorry for it.
We started to talk with a mother and her kid who sat on the behind seat on the train.
We were able to see fabulous scenery from the express train that runs on the side of sea.
So I took many pictures from the train.
Komagatake mountain looked beautiful. So most passengers took pictures of it.
When I took pictures, I got along with a girl from Hong Kong.
I was able to connect to her on face book.
There are many tools for communication. How convenient these days are!
After a while a woman who sold lunch boxes came to us.
She told us she had only two lunch boxes of crab-rice that we wanted.
It was around at 10:30 in the morning and we weren’t hungry.
But my mother and my husband was pleased.
We got one more memory that we ate delicious special lunch box of crab-rice.
By the way this picture is my mother who skied on the top of the mountain.

I went snowboarding to the north of Japan

I went snowboarding to Hokkaido with my husband and my mother.
We left home at 5:30 in the morning and we got to the airport in Hakodate around at 10.
We took a bus to Hakodate station from the airport.
The announcements on the bus spoke in Japanese, English, Korean and Chinese.
I don’t know why but only Korean announcement was funny because of sexy.
Then we took a train to Niseko through Oshamanbe.
I’ve been to Hokkaido for snowboarding many times but it was my first time to take a train
to Niseko.
It was hard to bring heavy baggage but it was fun to do something different as usual.
For a while most of people were Chinese tourists. It was like being in China.
They talked with each other aloud.
When we got to Niseko it was around at 2:30 and when we stood on the ski slope it was over 3.
The first thing that we saw on the ski slope was Australian.
I saw people from Russia and Europe.
The other was Taiwanese and Chinese.
A half of people was foreigner.
It snowed and winded strongly. But we were able to enjoy snowboarding and skiing
Because there were gondolas even thought there wasn’t them at Miyagi-Zao a week ago.
After all we rode the gondola three times and enjoyed night ski for a while.
And then we enjoyed eating crabs.
Hot spring that we call Onsen in Niseko smelled really good like trees.
I’ d say the quality is great.
I enjoyed soaking in hot spring outside with my mother after a few month when it snowed.

a romatic drean and then...

When I waked up on third of January, I remembered my dream clearly on the previous night.
The story was that a famous Japanese actor was one of classmates in elementary school and I used to have
a crush on him. I saw him at reunion after a long time. And I knew he saw me there.
And I was thinking when I asked him out.
It was a romatic dream and I was pleased to have a good dream from the new year.
My sister have dreams to fall in love with celebrities but I hardly have the dream like that.
My husband who slept next to me said “ Have I told you I heard someone cried in the middle of the night? “ even though I had a good dream.
I didn’t listen to his story because I was scared.
We went down stairs to have breakfast. And we heard Korean that Korean tourists talked to each other.
On the day the weather was nicer than the previous day. But things that we were able to see were white color everywhere.
And it snowed all the time. In addition sometimes there was strong winds and that’s why we were really cold on the lift.
The last bus to the station leaves the hotel at 2:30 in the afternoon.
We were not satisfied and thought why the last bus left so early.
But we couldn’t snowboard even in the terribly cold weather longer.
We ended up not taking lunch break and kept snowboarding.
Speaking of which, I didn’t have guts more than me in my early twenties.
When I was young, I didn’t care snowstorm was strong or I couldn’t see ahead because of snowstorm. But now I lose my will to keep snowboarding.
Does it mean am I getting old?
It was terribly packed on the Shinkansen-train on the way home.
Everybody got home from their parents’ house.
We got lunch box and we were gonna wait in line till taking seats.
But it was really lucky to get seats not to wait in line.
People got on the train one after another and they stood on the aisle and even around the sliding doors.
It was awfully lucky.
Our trip was busy and we didn’t have enough time during this trip.
But trips are wonderful.
I wanna go traveling to various places also life.

snowboarding in the white sky*

　

I went snowboarding with my husband on second and third of January.
The small ski resort where we went to has only three lifts. In addition there weren’t much
people there and it looked like money-losing.
The ski resort is called Miyagi Zao skiing area sumikawa Snow park.
I heard this year is the 50th anniversary for this ski resort. So it has a long history but
also lifts have a long history.
It is on the top of the high mountain. So snow was very rich smooth fresh deep snow
but also snowstorm was very strong.
When we walk as usual, we almost flied with our snowboard.
Our hands got stiff when we got to the top of the mountain because all lifts moved slowly.
Sometimes things that we were able to see were only white color. So I lost my balance
sense and I fell over.
We started to snowboard from the afternoon when we got there to the finishing time of
lifts. But I had been wanting to soak in hot spring all the time.

Happy new years*

I spent time with my famliy with special meal on New year holiday.
Every year we play card games till in the middle of the night.
And someone who lose the game have to go to get some icecreams:)
I hope many happy things and wonderful time come to us this year:)

not need something special

For starters I started to clean the fan in the kitchen for cleaning house the end of this year.
I used “ orange clean “ to get rid of oils on the fine screen but I don’t have “ orange clean “
now. So I used powdered cleanser instead of it. Then I could get rid of oils by it not to use
orange clean.
I touch switches of the fan when I cook. So it gets dirty easily but I don’t wanna clean it
with orange clean or something.
That’s why I used the toothpaste to clean it. It worked very much.
We don’t need something special to clean the house.
Speaking of something special, tea that I’ve been into these days is not special expensive
tea. It’s normal tea with grated ginger.
Grated ginger goes with milk tea also straight tea.
It tasted a little bit spicy and the point is very good.
Also it’s very good to warm bodies.
You don’t need expensive teas. You make tea with a tea bag at your house and put grated
ginger in it.
By the way my husband and I watched a Japanese drama till 5 in the morning last night.
We enjoy spending holidays already.
I have to start to do something for new year’s already!

Christmas cake 2009*

Christmas is just around the corner!
I baked Christmas cake this year, too.
I decorated the cake like a picture that I got at some patisseries.
By the way And this is the Christmas cake that I baked last year.

two wonderful days I spent*

I was away on business from the night of Monday to Wednesday to participate in the
training program.
You know when you work at the company, sometimes you have tough days also sometimes
you don't wanna go to work.
But I thought it was really good to keep working.
Even though I worked only for five days in October, the company got me to go away for
training program..
I gotta return the favor to the company.
I'm awfully happy. I'll write it down on my happy notebook.
Today I'm going to work after few days. I'm gonna work even in lunch time.

almost perfect holiday

In the morning I had the wash machine fixed.
They got back and it was time to be relaxed! I lay down on the floor in the living room.
And I played Ella Fitzgerald and started to read a book.
It was raining.
My husband made coffee.
Almost perfect!
All that’s missing is that I’m not at an old café in America.
I wanna be spending calm time now. It’s almost perfect holiday!