getting one more fun thing and putting weight

Last night I learned to bake cake with a friend of mine.
This time we learned a short cake.
This short cake looks totally different from it that I had learned before.
The way it’s baked was different from it I imagined and I was able to study one more cake.
When I take a lesson, I want tools that I use in class.
I’m gonna go get a cercle and mousse films.
Learning a way to bake one more cake, I get one more fun thing.
So, I’m going to one more class tonight, too!
It’s a good thing I enjoy making it but oh, I must put weight!

I wanna enjoy drinking a glass of wine under the cherry trees

On Friday nights I grin while working.
When I thought of it, a woman who sits in front of me at work said the same thing.
Everybody is happy on Friday nights.
When I was single, I used to go drinking on Friday nights. Now I go straight home most of time.
I go straight home and vacuum my house right away.
On my way home from work I called my sister and she told me to visit me.
She likes drinking but she can’t drink now. So it’s not unusual there days.
I said “ Well, you can come over and have dinner. Then we’ll go see cherry blossoms and I’ll drink wine with a glass and you can drink the juice. “ to her.
Sister got to my house sooner than I imagined and she was around my house when I got home. I got her to stay at my house and jogged for 30 minutes.
Cherry blossoms were in full bloom at the park and it smelled like alcohol because many people enjoyed drinking under the cherry blossoms.
I decided to drink wine with a glass while seeing cherry blossoms this spring.
Because a friend of mine who is female Austrian and called Maria said “ I'm sure that we will drink a glass of wine together in Vienna one day or I'l bring a bottle of wine to Tokyo and we will drink it there under the cherry trees.
In Japan we drink canned beer outside and it’s not fancy like drinking a glass of wine.
We could drink Japanese alcohol called Sake with a plastic cup outside.
It’s exciting when I imagine opening the wine bottle and pouring wine into the glass with a good sound.
After all I didn’t see cherry blossoms at night with sister. But cherry blossoms are still in full bloom. So I wanna drink a glass of wine under the cherry trees.

I'm in the mood to eat simple dinner*

When my husband comes home late, dinner for me is really simple.
I sometimes eat out. But there is hardly delicious meal in the restaurants.
So I think I have dinner at home and whip up something.
Putting that aside, I’ve been reading a book named “ 1Q84” written by Haruki Murakami.
These days I only read books on the train. So I read books slowly.
When I’m really into the book, I read the book at home.
This time I haven’t soaked in his world yet but I look forward to time for reading the story.
While reading it, my five senses are simulated and there are some things that I wanted
to do.
For instance I’m wondering what kind of music is sinfonietta by Janacek.
And I wanna listen to it very much. And one of main people makes simple good dishes in it.
Reading it, I wanna cook very much.
I don’t need sophisticated dishes.
I’m not a gourmet. So I’m not interested in fancy food and restaurants not much.
If you don’t know delicious food, you can’t make delicious dishes. So I wanna eat delicious
food. But it doesn’t mean they must be fancy and expensive.
I think it seems delish and I wanna eat it when I read something about simple Japanese
dishes in books.
Probably it’s familiar for me and those dishes are dishes that I wanna eat the best.
By the way this picture is my dinner last night, it’s a Japanese pot-au-feu.
I cooked it for the first time. It was very goood!
I made it with Japanese radish called Daikon, carrot, burdock, Japanese mushroom called
Shitake and chicken and put salt, pepper and Japanese liquor called Sake and soy sauce.
It ‘s very simple and easy to cook.
I found the recipe in a free paper that I took in the hospital when I caught a cold.
It’s very good for dinner in winter.
I wanna make it from now on, too.

my first Cartonnage*

Yesterday I took a half day off in the afternoon and learned Cartonnage.
I’ve interested in it and often stood reading the books about it at book shops.
You’ve glued the wrapping papers on the boxes, right?
Can I do this even I don’t have good hand with it?
Then as I imagined I was the last person to finish making it even though other
people already finished it.
I couldn’t make it fast but I was able to make such a cute box!
The work of the blackboard-picture in the left picture is mine and the work in the back of
the picture is made by an architect.
The works in the right picture are the works of the teacher.
When you use the same wrapping paper as other people, they’re totally different works
which part of the wrapping paper you use.
It’s very fun more than I imagined.
Probably I’m into it!

good medicine for asthma

　

On the second day of three-day-holiday I was in the bed after my husband going to work.
I sometimes got up and watched American dramas. Then the phone rang.
It was from my sister’s husband. He said “ Are you fine? If you want me to get something,
I’ll bring it to you. “ to me.
I heard his voice after few weeks and talked to him various things automatically.
I had a terrible cough still. So I said “ These days it’s been tough days because of terrible coughs and I didin’t know anyone at the wedding party of my associate at work yesterday and I was lonely there. “ to him while coughing terribly.
He was listening to my stories while nodding and sometimes laughing and he asked me to eat out for dinner.
At night he picked me at my house also picked my husband at his work and he took us to a famous restaurant called “ Kimukatsu “ in Ebisu of Tokyo.
I watched fried pork called “ Tonkatsu “ at the restaurant and broth comes out from several-tiered sliced pork on TV. So I wanted to go there once at least.
There were many people who waited in line outside. But we were able to go into the restaurant earlier than we imagined.
Eating a piece of the pork, we took one look at each other.
And eating second piece of it, we tilted our head.
They were good but we didn’t see the difference between it and inexpensive familiar pork.
We were full and only thing that we could eat was some sweets.
But there weren’t café that still opened at 10 at night. So we got back to my house.
Our night was over after eating ice creams that we got at the grocery store with coffee.
By the way where’s the terrible coughing gone?
I couldn’t believe it but I almost didn’t have a cough.
A friend of mine said “ Asthma comes from stress and mentality sometimes. “ to me.
Probably it’s true.
I couldn’t seem to get well but one great night soothed my body and fixed it.
I hear it a lot but it’s true the body connects to mentality.
By the way the left side of this picture is a strage that was used for a Japanese drama.

gateau chocolat

Today it's the last day of three-day-holiday in Japan.
My husband is working today even though it's a holiday.
So I baked gateau chocolat for him and his colleagues.
I don't have a taste when I cook.
but I'm a little bit worried I can't have a taste of it.
Because he brought a whole cake.
I hope they enjoy eating it!

Ｆｉｎａｌｌｙ

Last night I had a terrible cough all night. So I went to doctors before going to a wedding.
Actually last night the doctor recommended me to use an inhalator for asthma.
But I didn’t wanna take various medicines and I had a confidence in my strong body.
So I didn’t say yes to him.
But last night it was tough and finally I decided to take it.
This hasn’t worked yet and I can’t stop coughing when I talk, laugh and so on.
Speaking of “ finally”, finally I started to read a book written by Haruki Murakami
nameed 1Q84.
But I didn't buy it and I borrowed it from an associate at work.
Before reading it, my heart is kind of pounding.
It's been a while since I felt this feeling.
I like him very much and I really love his some books but there're some books that I couldn't
understand how good it is.
I hope I like it.
When I'm absorbed in his stories, I go into his world and I kind of can't get out of it. It could influence real life.
I haven't felt this feeling when I read other author's novels.
His stories just began.
Tomorrow I’ll take a rest and enjoy reading it after getting well.
By the way I took this picture at the establishment for a wedding today.

Chiffon cake for breakfast

I baked chiffon cake for my husband's breakfast.
This chiffon cake made with lemmon peels and marmalade.

My Mother wins yet

Last Saturday it was a beautiful day.
Waking up in the morning, I was in the bed while thinking is my mother gonna jog on the side
of the river today, too?!.
Around 11 the phone rang.　
I knew who called me.
Of course it was mother.
She said “ It’s brilliant sunny day. Wanna jog? “
I got dressed quickly and left home.
I should’ve wore a T-shirt not sportswear because it was kind of hot also it was windy
as spring.
There is a lot of dust in the air when it’s windy. That’s why it’s the worst condition
for me because of wearing contact lenses.
So at first I jogged while tears running because of a lot dust and I didn’t enjoy jogging.
My mother changed the course where there isn’t much dust and I was able to jog easily.
And she took me to places where you can see beautiful Japanese plum blossoms.
Then my complain, “ I should’n’ve jogged when it’s windy.” was gone.
We saw a egret like a smugly woman on the pond and it looked cute.
It’s much fun to jog with somebody more than to jog by myself.
After around an hour and a half hour suddenly my engine started and much power came out
from the inside of my body.
My mother beat me even though I speeded up.
Oh, mother wins yet.
This is my mother with plum blossoms.

Linda made me delightful

　

Linda who I met last Tuesday is definitely blood O type.
I heard she gets a lot.
She often laughs, smiles also the way she talks and listens to stories are very good.
She only sees positive sides and she doesn’t mind negative sides.
She isn’t worried about small things and forgets everything easily.
I said “ I’m jealous of you. “ to her. Then she said “ Why? You don’t have any worries, do you?
You have husband, energetic mother and you can enjoy jogging, snowboarding also you like
cooking and baking sweets.” to me.
So I said “ but… brabrabra….” to her.
She said “ Oh, you can’t chose it. So you don’t need to think about it. Nature decides the best
thing for you. Don’t worry. You can’t chose it like chose drinking tea or coffee. “
As Linda said that, I was able to understand it and agreed with her. And I laughed myself.
Oh, why have I thought about it? I don’t have to do it. I thought and my feelings became
delightful.
And she said “ Your English is very cute, girlish and natural. Many Japanese speak English
like text books. “ to me.
I was more than delighted of course. Also she said “ Your teacher is very good. “
There were many things that we talked about and we really enjoyed spending time
like seeing friends from college.
It was over 10 without knowing even though we met up at 6:30 pm.
Going outside, it was very windy and there were a lot of snow on the road.
The weather became terribly bad.
Every door of every building wasn’t open and we couldn’t go into the road in the basement.
So we looked for entrance and stood many doors one after another.
Our coats and shoes were soaking wet because of terribly strong winds and snowy rain.
But we cracked.
Even though we met in person for the first time but I wanted to be with her much more.
When we said good-bye at the station, Linda hugged me tight.
Linda is gift from God and I thought she was an angel. I really thought so.
She was attractive and I wanna be like her and learn something from her.
Thanks to God to meet Linda.
Needless to say, after getting home I said “ Linda is really attractive, I was really lucky to meet
her. “ to my husband.
Of course I texted my teacher and said “ I always think so. Thank you. “ to him.
Because he teaches us real English not text books. That’s why I can communicate
people from other countries.
I wanna value friends who I can meet by coincidence and get along with them.

I met Linda whom I met on the blog:)

Last night I met Linda who is female British in person for the first time.
I met her on the blog. She wrote a comment on my blog about special dishes for new year in the beginning of this year. She said “ It’s yammy. “ or something on it.
And after that I often visit her blog and she often comes to my blog.
We met on the blog last January and we met in person on 9th of March.
So it didn’t take much time since we met on the blog.
But I should’ve met her.
Coz she is leaving Japan on 21th of March.
I had been thinking what I wanted to talk with her. I have many things that I wanted to talk with her but I didn’t come up with something special.
Before I met her I was kind of nervous.
It’s not that she is a foreigner. I’m kind of nervous when I meet someone for the first time.
But at a glance we hit it off.
She has a really delightful aura from all over the body.
She is very western and it’s different from Japanese atmosphere.
Plus she has a power to make people be relaxed.
At the moment when I met her, I thought I’m really happy to meet her.
We met up at a restaurant called Sizzler.
I used to go there often when I worked in Shinjuku.
I used to eat too much vegetable that is my favorite and icecream for dessert.
I ate too much and sometimes I had a stomachache.
Linda is vegetarian. That’s why I chose this restaurant.
We went and picked vegetables many times and enjoyed drinking various tea and dessert.
I picked too much lychee. So she laughed her head off a lot!
When she remember me, definitely she remember the much lychee on my plate and terrible bad whether.
Anyway there are a lot of things that I wanna write about Linda but it’s a long story.
So I’ll write it tomorrow, too!

Tokyo marathon 2009*2

Well, my story about Tokyo marathon hasn’t finished.
I was working on cheering on my mother.
I went to Ginza after it and my body got cold because I waited for mother in the rain for an hour. I wanted to have something hot for my cold body.
Establishments didn’t open yet and nobody was on the back road in Ginza.
I didn’t have time. So I went to McDonald and ate a set of hamburger.
Hot coffee made my body warm.
But I didn’t take time to eat and watched the stop-watch.
I know my mother gets to the 20km-point after two hours since she started.
I wanted to go there earlier and waited for her. So I couldn’t be relaxed there.
I walked fast and went to the main street in Ginza.
When I went there, I saw a uncomfortable thing….
Some male runners peed in front of the shops.
On the day it was really cold and I understand they must’ve wanted to pee.
But nobody pees in front of the entrance of own house. I want them to watch their manners.
I lost feelings to cheer them on and stood on the side of road while seeing runners.
Then I found mother! She ran on time.
I ran aside her and followed her while taking two pictures of hers to Nihonbashi.
And then I stopped to follow her and went to work to go to the bathroom.
And I got back to the side of the road again.
Even though I waited for mother to take pictures but she might run through there when I saw other places for a while and I couldn’t find her at all.
I kept running on the side of the road to the goal but after all I couldn’t catch up her.
When she called me after the goal, I was on my way to the goal.
When the marathon was started, it was raining but it stopped raining and let up in the afternoon. The sun came out and it was sunny.
Is it like life, isn’t it?
When I saw runners, I really wanted to run.
It was not easy to go to cheer mother on coz I had to get up early.
But it gave me a good influence and I was pleased to be able to cheer mother on in the race.
I enjoyed Tokyo marathon as a supporter this year, too.

Tokyo marathon 2009* 1

I have to get up in the early morning when Tokyo marathon is held.
It’s like when I go snowboarding and I got up at 5:30 in the morning.
I thought it’s a hassle to go a little bit when I was walking to the station in the rain.
I tweeted “ come join Tokyo marathon! “ on Twitter and left home.
Even though it was in the early morning when I got on the train, I found a boy who read a mystery book in the seat. He wore uniform of elementary school.
He must’ve borrowed the book at the library and the tanned book reminded me.
being a student in elementary school.
I used to read the same mystery books also Lupin and Sherlock Holmes that I borrowed at the library.
Of course the hard cover books turned brown already.
I met up with mother in Shinjuku and we went to the basement of a familiar building as usual.
People were excited and nervous just before the marathon and when I’m there, I think I really want to run the marathon with them!
Mother got ready and I split her and went to Shinbashi.
Till last year my sister was there, too. So we had hot coffee and something light while being relaxed. But this year I was alone and I wasn’t in the mood to have coffee alone.
So I stood on the side of the road around Uchisaiwaicho for hour.
I was able to get a spot because there were only few people.
Shoes for running has mesh fabric on the upper surface of them.
That’s why water got in shoes easily and my feet got really cold when I waited for mother.
After a while a police car went through and a police bike went through slowly.
Then wheelchair runners ran through really fast.
They were not much runners as Honolulu marathon but it was very impressive and
They were really cool.And then the first runners group appeared and general runners appeared.
The spot where I waited for my mother was 10km-point. So many runners ran the road.
So I couldn’t seem to find her. I was disappointed coz I waited for her for an hour.
And I took a picture of my face. Then my mother found me and said “ Aya “
Oh, I gotta take pictures of her! And I was able to good pictures of her:)

Roule the vert

I baked rolled cake with green tea and Azuki-beans in fresh cream.
This is very Japanese rolled cake:)

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*

　シー

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!

Fake it till you make it

There is an American drama called “ Brothers & Sisters “.
It’s about a family and it’s fun to watch it.
When I watched it, there is a good word in it.
“ Fake it till you make it.”
I understand it and it’s right.
It means if you can’t forgive someone, you should pretend to forgive someone.
Then you forgave someone without knowing.
It works. If you get mad at something, you should pretend not to get mad.
Then you forgot it.
Speaking of that, we do that usually.
You pretend to do something.
If you didn’t do that, you couldn’t have relationships with anyone.
It’s very easy and simple also I do that often.
I really wanna forget one word from a friend.
But I can’t forget it and it is still in mind.
But I should pretend to forget it.
I got it! I’ll fake it till I make it!
By the way I took this picture at Daikaku-temple in Kyoto last weekend.

Sky Watch Friday***Happy things have come.

　

I heard there are only two things in life.
One of them happens in real life.
Another of them happens in mind.
You can’t change the thing that happens in life.
But you can change the thing that happens in mind.
Don’t waste your time to think about things in the past also in the future too much.
You deserve being happy. Happy things have come.

Happy sky watch Friday

calligraphy*

I went to learn calligraphy for the first time.
Though I’ve been interested in calligraphy, I hadn’t learned it yet.
I borrowed books about it at the library and checked out schools.
But I don’t have enough money to learn it since I’ve learned other things.
This time it was very lucky to learn it not to pay much money.
It was easy to draw it more than I imagined even if it’s just a hobby.
Italic letter that I learned this time is kind of easy and it was good for beginners. I really enjoyed doing it.
So I wanna do it in my relaxing time.
All people who took part in the lesson were calm and kind.
Everybody enjoyed doing it also communicating to each other.
I was able to spend comfortable time in the afternoon in holiday.
I'm looking forward to take next lesson and I'll practice it from now on.

be hospitalized from last Saturday to Friday

When I had to be hospitalized, my sister and her husband drove me to the hospital.
I was gonna cry when I thought I couldn’t go home for a while.
Getting on the car, I felt that I couldn’t believe I had to be hospitalized and I wanted to run away. My surgery was decided all of sudden. So I had to go to a hospital where it took 2 hours to drive from my house. I don’t know why I didn’t want to get to the hospital soon, we were stuck in traffic and couldn’t seem to get there.
Getting to the hospital, I finished procedures and went into the room.
Then my sister put stuffed animal of Doraemon and a small figure of Popo in Dragon ball.
I was allowed to go out for a while and went to a restaurant for lunch.
I usually eat a lot but I didn’t have an appetite because of being nervous.
So I couldn’t eat even a half of spaghetti.
After getting back to the hospital my sister, her husband and my husband was there with me until around 4 in the afternoon.
It was fun when I was with everybody and I was able to forget the fear of the surgery.
In the evening I had to prepare for the surgery and everybody got home.
When they left there, they said “ It’s not scary. You’ll be fine. “ to me and I cried a little bit.
My husband was gonna cry and my sister’s husband said “ Popo is with you. All right.
No worries.” Like Popo. Popo had been watching me in the hospital.
Mr. Popo lives in the temple of God in Dragon ball.
My sister was sweet even though I took it out on her two weeks ago.
She cried on the car when she read email from me to say thank you to my family.
I heard it on the phone when they were on the way home.
The surgeon made a book the room for me. So I went into the private room.
The hospital was bright and beautiful because it was still new and there was a small screen to watch TV and movies like planes. In addition I was able to see website.
At first I wanted to go into large patient’s room because I was scared to sleep alone.
But it was good to choose the private patient’s room.
I was able to talk with somebody on the phone and I was allowed to be up after time for lights-out.
My husband called me some times and my sister’s husband emailed back to me while watching the GP Final of the figure skate for me.
On the day my mother made Oden that is one of Japanese dish for family who cared me
all the day. When she brought it, my husband asked my mother and my sister’s family to
eat it at our house. But my family went home because they wanted to come home at early night.
I heard my husband looked lonely when they came home.
I went to bed around at 11 and I was waked up at 6 in the morning.
This picture is Popo in Dragon ball and stuffed animal of Draemon that my sister put in the
room and my favorite stuffed animal and towel that I use in the bed.

bread and love

　

On the second day I started to go to hospital, I ate a toast with peanuts butter after getting
home since I had to eat something to take a medicine.
By the way I ate only bread on the previous day, too.
When I lose my appetite, something that I want to eat is definitely bread.
When I have a fever, I've eaten French toast not Kayu(rice gruel) since I was a child.
I was a princess in France in my previous life.
At night my mother called me. She was worried about me very much.
She said " I'm worried about Aya's body. " I didn't imagine it at all.
So it took as a surprise to me.
I wasn't able to see my mother being worried.
Because I just thought " Why is this happening to me? "
I went to the operation room twice for nothing.
And she was worried my body after the treatments even few times.
I'm worried a little. If I don't have to do it, I don't wanna do it.
I said " I don't wanna but I'm getting back on my feet.So I'm fine. " to her.
I'm pleased mother 's worried me.
People say " Children sometimes do something wrong because they want to feel
their mother's love. " It's kind of similar.
Of course I didn't mean to but I'm feeling mother's love when she's worried me.

climbing a ladder

I was hoping it would be good after the terrible surgery. But I needed another treatment
at the hospital.
So I went to the hospital in the early morning on the following day.
I had a stomachache also my feet hurt since my feet got stiff during the surgery from
being terribly nervous like running full marathon.
Getting to the hospital, I was a patient in urgent need of treatment. So I was able to
have a blood test first.
I lay on the bed at the room before the treatment and dozed off.
I had a nurse measured blood pressure at the bed.
She said “ You had a surgery yesterday, didn’t you? It would be hard for you. “ to me.
After a while the treatment started. It hurt very much and I felt that something burned and
I said something loud.
After the treatment it hurt more than after the surgery. So I rolled on the bed for two hours.
On the day I climbed a ladder from the low of the lows bit by bit.
I got back on my feet because of emailing with my friends and sister.
I was able to enjoy reading the traveling essay written by Haruki Murakami for a while.
But I didn't have an appetite even though I didn't eat much on the previous day and I hadn't eaten anything on the day.
I lost about 2kilos.
By the way this picture is castella that my friend baked and soap that she made.
I was so pleased she sent me something that I wasn't expected.

I'm in a freefall.

　

It was raining and a little bit cold on the day when I had a terrible surgery that I didn't want to have again.
I cried on the day when Doctor told me I needed have the surgery also on the day when I had
the surgery since I was scared. I couldn't have a good sleep.
I went to the hospital wearing a cap that I didn’t want people to see my face.
I lay on the bed at the room divided by a curtain before the surgery, I don’t know exactly why but I couldn’t stop crying.
There was a woman who had a surgery, too next to my bed.
She seemed to have the surgery for the first time and she asked something cheerfully to the nurse. After a while the nurse called her and she went into the operation room.
And then she got back to the bed.
She talked to the nurse cheerfully but I heard she cried after the surgery.
Doctor who operated was an old man and used to operating. He was very kind to me.
He said “ I’m sorry. But I’ll do it well and it won’t hurt. “ to me because I went into the operation room crying.
The nurse put her hand on my chest during the surgery and I was encouraged.
Her hand was warm and if she hadn’t put her hand on my chest, I would’n’ve stood the pain.
I thought the same thing when I had the surgery last time.
I felt devastated on the day.
I didn’t see bright hope in life and I wasn’t moved at anything.
Reading a traveling essay written by Haruki Murakami, I couldn’t tell anything at all.

Sky Watch Friday

Have a lovely weekend!

Happy sky watch Friday

How much longer?

I cleaned my house well last Sunday.
I cleaned side the house also scrubbed tiles of the balcony and the entrance and poured water
in the sash and scrubbed it.
When I finished cleaning my husband left home and went traveling on business.
I went out with him and went for jogging to the park.
Actually I wasn’t in the mood to jog.
So I decided to go to the large public bathroom.
It was really hard to jog after a long time.
My heart hurt. But bit by bit I got used to jogging and time passed without knowing.
There is my favorite course even in the park and I kept my feet moving in the course.
I wasn’t mood to jog but when about 50 minutes passed, it felt good and I was able to
jog rhythmically.
It might take time to get used to doing something for me.
Running is easy.
The only thing I have to do is just moving my feet and the more you make efforts,
the faster you can run.
You don’t need go along with somebody and you don’t need to have patience.
They say marathon is like life but if marathon was the same as life, how easy it’d be.
How much longer do I have to run to live easier?

Sky Watch Friday ** I got a message

I got it.
Hang in there.
Just keep it up and never give up*

Happy sky watch Friday

time I think of when I feel happy is .....

　

I baked rolled cake for a younger colleague who took maternity leave.
She emailed me three times on the following day also two days later.
She said “ Is it persistant? This rolled cake is really good. My husband said the same thing. “
When somebody compliments, I feel happy.
It’s different time when people feel happy.
The best time I think of when I feel happy is having lovely time with my family,
meeting good music, finding out an old associate who is uneasy at work crackling on the phone,
hearing the uneasy old associate saying “ Girl in Tokyo is on the phone.” to another associate,
being able to make my dishes and sweets incredibly,
Stepping into the airport of the country after landing when I go abroad.
It’s no end when I pick up something when I fee happy.
By the way this picture is the rainbow-colored sky that I saw at Tennozu-airu in Tokyo.
My camera couldn’t take the beautiful picture of the sky. It was the rainbow-colored sky
not the rainbow.

The things that make me feel intrigued

The things that make me feel intrigued are
listening to and singing songs of a movie " Mamma Mia ",
imagining that my sister acts in a scene of Mamma Mia and sings a song on the beach,
seeing a scrapbooked notebook of pleasant words from friends,
saying funny jokes that I come up with in my mind.

my favorite smell*

　

The smell of my favorite perfume,
trees at the park after raining that it smells when I jog,
fresh trees in spring when I feel that all lives bloom,
coffee that a master makes at a cozy coffee shop,
tea that friends make when I go over to their houses,
wrapping papers that I used to getting something for Christmas from Santa Claus,
frying fish from someone's house that it smells when I go for a jog to the park,
the smell of cherry blossoms, lavenders that my father-in-law sends,
the sunshine from the mattresses that we call Futon that is dried when it's sunny,
dishes that my mother whips up from something in fridge when I go to her house all of sudden.
By the way this picture is a shinning bug that I saw when I went to Kinugawa.

My favorite sound

The sound of doing dishes, beating eggs to make scrambled egg, cutting leaks
to make miso-soup for breakfast, pouring water to glasses, making coffee with
siphon coffee maker,
putting ice in the glass, stirring water and ice with straw,
swinging leaves by soft winds,voices and sounds by a baseball team in junior
high at a far ground during a summer vacation, the sound of small fireworks
that I feel the end of summer, heels that thin ankles wear,
footsteps that my darling comes home and unlocked the entrance door.
( Is it cheesy? Of course it' s joking!)

humming

I often hum during working.
It’s not that I hum when I have fun.
I often hum because I’m busy and I don’t have space in mind or people at the same division get angry and I don’t wanna care it.
Humming makes me delightful and I can treat people well after humming.
I can communicate with people delightfully because my mind turns delightful after humming.
And then people around me turn delightful.
I’m not sure people around me hear my hum. I think people hardly hear my hum.
I hum various songs.
I sing western music that I listen to in the morning.
In this morning I hummed a Japanese pop song in the program without knowing when
I watched TV last night.
In addition I hummed a Japanese old dance music that I heard in the summer festival last weekend.
When I hum, I don’t think anything. The point is one of good things about hum.
There is a love song called “ Mystery train “ sung by BON JOVI.
This is one phrase of this song.
She cries because she's happy
She sings songs when she's mad
I like the woman like her!

the last summer festival

Last Saturday there was the last summer festival and fire works exhibition this year.
I didn't look forward to going to the event and I looked forward to drinking while seeing fire works.
On the previous day my husband came home around at eleven at night.
Eating out together and I said " Let's go and get some alcohol for tomorrow. " to him.
He said " I don't go there tomorrow because I'm exhausted. " to me.
And then his phone rang and my sister's husband called him.
My husband said " Yeah, we were just about to go and get alcohol, too! "
I laughed and said “ You said the other thing now! “ to him.
So, on the day of the summer festival when I got there, there were lots of people at school already.
There was an annual event at the exhibition. It’s old Japanese dance by junior high school students. I look forward to seeing it every years. But this year they didn’t dance hard.
It was too bad. They might be too young to understand that it’s cool to do everything hard even if they don’t want to do it.
The summer exhibition is a small festival for people at the town and it looks like old Japanese festival.
The fire works aren't shot like the big fire works exhibition.
So it finishes soon. But it's wonderful to see them that bloom on the right above.
There was only one bad thing that I got drunk soon since I drank while seeing fireworks right above.
When I stood up after a while, I got a head rush.
Even if the fire works exhibition is over, summer festival was not over.
When the famous Tokyo-dance played, we called out and enjoyed dancing with others.
My family can enjoy doing anything.
The event was over and when we went to the entrance of the school, a person who has a problem of eyes walked alone.
I talked to him because my mother worried him.
We ended up walking to his house together.
This summer we enjoyed spending time at various places.
Small beer garden in the town, fire works exhibition, rented bungalow and the summer Festival.
This summer was short but it was a really wonderful summer.
Only one thing that I wanna in this summer is snorkeling.