Sky Watch Friday **** couldn't be happier

On the following day it was brilliant sunny that was different from the previous day.
We sweated a little and felt like wearing too much.
Even in February it was already spring.
I saw water from melting snow flowing from the top to the down from the lift.
Snow was already heavy but I was able to enjoy snowboarding.
My sister snowboarded really well on the day and she competed against me when we
snowboarded from the top of the mountain.
Snowboarding together is fun like that.
We stopped snowboarding when we wanted to do it one more time.
Getting back to the B&B and we took a bath.
We used the room that wasn’t usually used since we were kind of many people.
That’s why we were able to put the baggage in the room after checking out.
In addition, we were relaxed after changing clothes.
We made fool of the name “ hutte “ but this “ hutte “ was the best because they
allowed us to use the room.
It was not fancy but B&B that is flexible like this is more comfortable than hotels.
You can walk inside the establishment with slippers also PJ.
couldn’t be happier when I don't push myself.

Happy sky watch Friday

the sun like Dragon Ball

　

I went snowboarding last weekend. It was my first snowboarding this year.
My husband has been busy these days and there is few snow this warm winter.
So this is my first time and might be last time to go snowboarding.
In the morning when we go snowboarding I always don’t wanna get up since it’s warm
inside the bed.
But snowboard is fun.
I hope I go snowboarding one more time this year.
By the way this picture is a Dragon Ball of the sun that I saw on the express way.
Dragon ball became a Hollywood movie. I wanna see it I might laugh because it’s funny.

dinner cruise*

I enjoyed dinner cruise for company trip in Yokohama.
After getting in the room it’s the same as drinking at establishments.
But we enjoyed seeing beautiful scenery at night out of the windows an cold comfortable
winds felt good when I took pictures outside.
Actually I’m not in the mood to drink since I had a hangover two weeks ago.
When my husband drank on holidays and said “ Why don’t you drink? “, I didn’t want to
drink at all.
Probably I drank amount of alcohol for few months.
By the way when we took a train to Yokohamam I was kind of shocked when I heard
something from a younger female coleague.
She lost 5 kilos for three months.
She looks slim in the first place. But in addition, she lost 5 kilos!
I felt like slapping my cheek.
Even though I spent time with her, but I didn’t change at all.
I gotta make efforts from now on like her!

Gee....

　

I couldn’t use my PC from Friday night since my PC was infected with the virus.
My laptop is very old. So I can’t install new soft because there isn’t enough memory.
Of course some problems happen often.
But I haven’t paid back 100 thousand yen out of 240 thousand yen that I lost two years
ago. In addition, I borrowed 250 thousand yen to go to school for sweets.
I can’t buy new laptop…..
But I use laptop everyday. I have to use money for laptop already.
By the way speaking of using money, I used money for my hair.
My hair looked gold by the sun shine because my hair was damaged.
That’s why I had my hair colored dark blown.
A part of gold hair turned black like a little bit blue and every time I saw my black hair
in the mirror, it looked very fresh and strange.
But after two weeks the hair turned brown already.
Gee, is it a waste of money?

Sky Watch Friday **** TGIFriday

　

We don’t have to work overtime these days. But I’m busy in the beginning of the month.
So I can’t finish my work till the finishing time at work.
I’m arrowed to work overtime instead of getting home earlier in the end of the month.
Getting home earlier is not fun when you’re forced.
When someone make you do something, it’s not fun.
Human is funny, right?
When I work overtime, I think I don’t cook anything at all or it’s lucky time to buy fish
inexpensive at the basement of the department store.
The night before the last night I felt like it and went to the fishshop in the basement of
the department store.
It was not too late and too early. It was very good time for good deal.
A man lowered the price of sardine.
It was shinning because of being fresh and I was able to buy them only for 300-yen.
Only two boxes left but I got one of them.
Much sardine, Sashimi of natural tuna, Mitsuba leaf and spinach came to 750-yen.
I like fish like sardin so I was imagining I cut them and put it soy sauce and eat it.
After getting home I made sauce for tuna, soaked them, cleaned sardine and put them
in fridge. Of course I ate some while cleaning and cutting.
By the way last night I put a little bit sweet miso with Chinese leek and dried Japanese
plum and thin ginger on the Japanese basil and rolled them with sardin.
And then I fried them.
It was very good but I didn’t take pictures because I wanted my husband to eat it hot.
Sometimes you feel so?
By the way this picture is the sunset in Nara.

I wanna be relaxed in a temple of Kyoto

It’s hard to survive for even TOYOTA that is major car company in the world in this term.
Of course my company is sharply lower profits that we hadn’t seen before.
Temp stuff and employee hasn’t gotten laid off yet but we can’t work overtime and
we have to hold a meeting on TV not going away on business.
We gotta cut down on expenses.
If we work overtime, we have to come home earlier than usual on other days.
Our chief push us.
A strong female employee said “ It’s not possible. I do it as hard as possible! What are you
seeing? “ to him angry. Then she said “ “ He doesn’t see how we work hard and he thinks
about only his grade.” Aloud in a whole day.
So the atomosphere at work is not good.
We can’t work overtime. That’s why we don’t have a space in mind and work hard
and nervous.
So I sometimes feel sick and have a heavy headache.
I wish tomorrow was Friday!
I wanna be relaxed and go jogging and go to a large public bath.
By the way this is a garden in Daitoku-temple.
I wish I went there by bicycle.

satisfaction

This story is the story one week ago……
When I wasn’t at home at night last Friday, my husband called my sister to ask her
to go drinking. My sister wanted to go driking, too and she said “ I’ll go drinking if you
comes to my house. “ to him. And he decided to go there but she ended up saying “ aya
must get angry if you couldn’t go home because of missing the last train. So why don’t
we drink tomorrow. “
When I got home, he said “ I really wanted to go drinking….” to me.
That’s why we went to my parents’ house last Saturday.
We decided to make Japanese pan cake called “ Okonomiyaki” for dinner.
My husband and I love it! Friing few pieces of it, everyone “ I couldn’t eat anything. “
But friing Chinese noodles, it’s gone right away.
On the day I got a rolled cake at a patisserie near my parets’ house since I wanted to
learn the difference between pro and me.
The rolled cake of this patisserie has sugar of loose texture arund the body.
I like the texture and it’s simple and good rolled cake.
But yeah, I thought of it and it was good but I win!
Rolled cakes that I baked are much better than it!
The texture of the cake is much better than it.
I was really happy when I got it!

my crush

Probably many women in the world are the same as me. I’m having crush on Obama!
He is really cool and hot! I see the news since I wanna see him! And I’m absorbed
seeing his pictures at book shops.
Putting the politics, the thing that I like him the most is his butt!!
His pretty butt is small and shapely..
His masculine upper body is attractive when I saw his figure in a swimsuit.
I can’t stop looking to his pretty butt that I can tell how pretty it is even if he wears the suit.
I hardly ever have a chance to have a crush on the president of US!
I wanna enjoy it and learn English from his beautiful words.
Speaking of love, my sister’s husband seems to have a crush on me.
On the following day when I talked with him on the phone I talked with my sister.
She said “ He looked really fun and crackled like talking with girlfriend.”
Now I remember she said the same thing before. He sometimes calls me when he gets tipsy.
Yeah, she is right. He must fall in love with me.
By the way I took this picture at fire works exbition last year.
Two fire works, My crush and my sister’s husband’s crush, are set off!

* of course my story and my sister's husband's story is a kind of joke:)
but I really respect Obama!

Sky Watch Friday **** new year's eve

On New year's I got back to Tokyo around at 5:30 in the evening and took a bus to our
house once. And then we took a hot shower and went to my parents’ house with something
that we got for them in Canada.
When we got to parents’ house, it was already at 10.
My mother and my grand mother waited for us also my sister and her husband waited for us
while drinking.
They ate incredible “ Sukiyaki” already and they were relaxed.
My mother served us Sukiyaki and she put vegetables and beef one after another.
We just ate them. And then we started to drink relaxed.
The annual year-end song festival was on TV.
Unfortunately Enya who is my favorite musician sang already.
My parents and my grandmother sat around the Kotatsu that is Japanese warm table.
And my husband, I and my sister’s family sat on the dining table while drinking.
Spending comfortable time with my family, I couldn’t believe we were in Canada
14 hours ago.
After that I started nodding off.
It was no wonder the clock in my body showed at 3:30 in the morning.
But I waked up at the right time when we started to play card games.
We ended up playing card games till 2:30 in the morning.
By the way this picture is the sunset in Tokyo international airport.

Gondola that my friend's coutry's company made

There is one of longest in the Whistler
It's called "PEAK 2 PEAK " and it runs from blackcom to Whistler mountain.
The gondola is built with only four towers. When you look down the scenery from the gondla,
you, you'd find out how you're on the high place more than you imagined.
There isn't any towers between blackcom and Whistler and it's connected by only ropes.
We used this gondola twice.
There are only two silver gondolas out of red gondolas.
You can see the scenery from the clear window of the bottom in the gondola.
There were many soft woods like needles
What if I would fall down there…..I thought of it, but the wonderful scenery made everybody
happy.
Speaking of this gondola, this gondola was built by an Austorian company.
Austrian friend called Maria whom I met on th blog told me it.
When I make a friend in some country, the countly turned the special country.
So I’m pleased when I learned the gondola was buit by Austrian.
Can you get it? Isn’t this gondola amazing?

tha last day in Whistler and accident happened

　

On the last day in Whistler it was snowing in the whole day.
It had been snowing since the previous day. So the snow condition was incredible.
We couldn’t seem to see anything well. But it was so nice to snowboarding on it.
By the way it’s hassle going to the bathroom when I snowboard.
When I snowboard in JapanI don’t go to the bathroon soon even if I wanna go to the bathroom.
But if you hold it in in the ski resort of Whistler, it would be hard.
Because you can’t seem to get to the end of the lift and it takes a long time from the top of mountain to the bathroom. And sometimes you might get lost.
It was the best day to snowboard. So I often held it in and dashed to the bathroom.
So we really enjoyed snowboarding more than the previous days.
But on the day we had to leave Whistler and go to Vancouver.
We booked the bus at 3. So we quit snowboarding even though we wanted to snowboard more.
This picture is me when I had to leave the Whistler resort.
Anyway if it was good when it ended, it would be great.
When we took our baggage at the hotel, an employee talked to us.
And he told us they found their error of our fees that we paid already on the first day.
On the previous day we lost small money because I got wrong to listen to English at Body Shop. After paying I found out it and asked her to get back money to me.
But she said “ I said so exactly. “ strongly to me. And she ended up not getting back to us.
We thought when the deal was over, we couldn’t get back and we had to leave there even though we couldn’t be convinced.
But this time the hotel had a mistake and they told us to go over their calculation.
We couldn’t be convinced at all and said “ The receipt said we paid the fee from 25th to 29th already. “ But she said “ It’s OK if you don’t get it. Because we know your card number.
So we can use your card and get the fee. “ We felt uncomfortable to hear the word.
And actually when we remembered it later, we got pissed off.
But we didn’t have time anymore on the day.
The only thing that we were able to is giving up…..

Sky Watch Friday **** the blue sky in Whistler

On the third day in Whistler sometimes snowing and sometimes the sun appeared.
On the previous day we started in the late morning. So we got up early and go to the gondola at 830 when lift started.
In spite of going there earlier there were many people in the front of the gondola like people who were waited in line at Disney land.
There were various countries, people there and I couldn’t tell the difference between
Japanese from other Asian people.
There was a woman who said sorry to me when she bumped me.
I noticed she was Japanese because of her English. But she didn’t notice we were Japanese. So she looked surprised when my husband talked to me Japanese.
On the day it became more icy.
We heard " the snow was 2m less than last year " from a person who seemed to live there.
It was the third day there. So we got used to being cold. But it was hard to stop suddenly.
Sometimes a stuff there said " Slow down " loudly.
Even though it was a large ski resort, when it was crowded we often wanted to take some break. So we went to a restaurant in the ski resort and ate soft omlet that fresh cooked.
On the day we went out around at 1130 at night.
We tried to make frozen bubbles that I saw it on asamican-san’s blog. So we brought bubble
from Japan.
At such a late night we blew bubbles in the front of the hotel. So many people saw us weird.
Grown up men blew bubbles as hard as they were able to in the cold air at night.
Is it weird? Hahaha.


Happy sky watch Friday

What would you think of me if young me saw old me?

On the second day in whistler resort we started snowboarding in the late morning.
It was on Saturday. I thought it was of course but there were many people in the
front of gondra. We didn’t see it coming.
By the way most kids who learned skiing at the ski school skied very well.
They skied fast after their teacher also jumped one after another.
The sun shined and it wasn’t colder than the previous day.
We went to a restaurant in the ski resort around at noon.
There were noodles like Udon also Yakisoba.
Canadian who sat in the front of us didn’t know how to use the Chinese spoon called
“Renge”. So they ate it with chopsticks and spoon.
I thought I taught them how to use it. But I couldn’t talk to them.
I became a boring grown-up woman.
If I was young, I would’ve talked to them before thinking of various things.
When did I lose the courage to talk to them or something?
I think when I was young, I wasn’t wondering if I should do everything.
When I fell in love with somebody, I asked him first and I didn’t use to flatter my boss also
if my boss was wrong I had said it to them.
I used to think this is the way I live. Where did my strong character go?
Without knowing my priority is coordination and I became a person who doesn’t tell the
thing that I think of. And I don’t do something that people are surprised.
I became a good person but if young aya saw me, she would think such a boring person.
By the way this picture is also me. Even though I wore two fleece clothes and three long
sleeve shirts, it was really cold.

rock'n' roll?? in Whistler

On the first day in whistler resort it was reallu cold even in the town.
So I wore even PJ and went to the slope.
It was still on the 26th of Dec. There were only few people and I realized it was week days
later. We didn’t waited for the lift and we hardly saw people around the top of mountain.
I was a little bit scared because we didn’t get used to snowboarding there.
But on the slope that was required T-bar advance we were able to use T-bar lift even though
we were beginners of T-bar lift. Of course we were taught how to use the lift
Around the top of mountain there were many rocks and even on the slope we found a lot
of rock. Then we found out why many people wore brain buckets.
The mercury had minus five degrees there.
Thew was a little bit sprinkling of snow but slope turned icy.
If I fell down on the icy slope and hit the rocks, I would die. I thought it like that and
I got scared. My feet got stiff and I got tired easily.
We ended up getting back to the hotel earlier than the finishing time of the lifts.
This picture is me around the top of the mountain.
Seeing the slope on the picture, it looks like much snow stacking up.
But it was icy slope. I almost sliped! It was really scarly.

Christmas decoration in Whistlaer

I was terribly jet-lagged because I didn’t sleep on the plane.
My plane left in the evening in Japan and it took 8 hours and a half hour to get to Canada.
It was 1:30 in the morning in Japan. But it was in the early morning in Canada.
It’s no wonder I was sleepy.
We didn’t join tours. So nobody waited for us there.
We looked for the bus that we booked and went to the bus stop.
At the time I heard Japanese English accent that Japanese tourists spoke.
Oh,Canadian people must hear the same Enlglish accent as my English.
I was skimmering. Hahaha.
Chinese who sat down in front of my seat spoke Englishe very well.
Their children were native speaker. Probably they were born there.
Parents sometimes spoke Chinese.
The Chinese woman looked very beautiful. She had Fendy’s sun glasses on her head and
beautiful brown hair of bob hairstyle.
Her first language is not English. But she spoke English beautifuly.
I was interested in her and I was wondering if I should’ve talked to her.
But that’s too bad we got to Whistler while wondering it.
It was really cold in Vancouver but it was much colder in Whistler than in Vancouver.
It was such a cold air. I hunched my back even though I wore a down jacket.
After lunch we slept for few minutes and went out.
The Whistler town was decorated with Christmas something and it was really beautiful!
Some shops that we wanted to buy something were gone and some restaurants that
we wanted to go to were gone. But some shops that we wanted to go to were still opened.
On the night we ate some pizza and got café late at a coffe shop.
The first day in Canada was over like that.

a thing that I enjoy on the plane is....

　

I can’t believe it but it was last year when I went traveling. I left for Canada in the
eveningon 25th of Dec.
When I talk with my mother and my sister at the last minutes to leave for foreign country,
I miss them even though I just go to foreign country even for few days.
It’s interesting and kind of strange.
By the way in general the worst thing when you go abroad is getting on the flight.
But actually I don’t hate that much.
Of course after being in the narrow space for a long time my body hurts and I get tired.
But I kind of enjoy spending time.
I bring a book there but most of the time I enjoy seeing movies and seeing the mail-order
book when I’m on the foreign air planes.
This time I flied with JAL to Canada.
We had a TV on the front of the seat. So we were able to chose movies that we wanted
to see also see them many times. I didn’t have time to sleep!
Movies that I saw on plains are “ Mr.incredible “ and “ Love Actually “ and Japanese one.
I really enjoyed seeing every movie and they were movies that I wanted to see.
So I saw every movie twice.
By the way this picture is
The first thing I thought when I got to Vancouver International Airport was the feeling
that I got back.
I remembered various things and I was more than delighted to get there.

Fly away to Canada

I’m going to Canada after three years!
When I went there last time, I just started posting this blog.
And I stayed in Victoria for two weeks while going to a language school.
It was few yeas ago. But I still emember the arrangement of the class rooms at school ,
the dirty red bricks side of the stairs and inside of the bathroom of the school, how the rooms
were at host family’s house and many stores in downtown.
This is our third times to Whistler.
I hadn’t imagine we could go there again.
We made airline reservations, booked hotels and bus ourselves.
We’re leaving for Canada on Christmas and We’re getting there in the morning on
Christmas.
We’re getting back on 31th of Dec. We’re going to my parents’ house and spending time
with family on New Year’s.
We mustbe jet-lagged but I wanna stay up late playing card games. Because it’s definitely
Our New Year’s.
I wanna sleep on plain and leave my energy.
Thank you guys for everything! I want you guys to get along together next year, too.
I wish you a very happy new year!
By the way I took this picture at our Christmas party on 23th of Dec.

Merry Christmas

The first thing that I did on the day of our Christmas party was making the crust of quiche
and pizza.
When I left the dough of pie, I kneaded the dough of pizza.
When I let the dough of pizza dough rise, I stretched the dough of pie.
I made the filling of quiche and put it in the ovenstove. And then I cleaned my house
a little and set the table.
Time flied and it was 3:30 in the afternoon when I realized it.
The following day was a week day this year. So we decided to have the party earlier time
than usual. When my family got to my house, any dishes weren’t ready yet.
When I cook, everyone enjoys finding treadures in my house.
I put the menu at each seat. Flipping the page, they can find instructions of treasure
hunting.
When they did that, I stretched the dough of pizza and broke 4 kinds of cheese.
Cooking while seeing them enjoying doing it is one of fun things.
And chosing something for someone and getting something from someone is fun, too.
Next year I’ll put many boxes under the Chiristmas tree like friends from other countries’
blog.
Putting that aside, the most delicious dish this Chiristmas was definitely short cake.
Short cake that I baked this Christmas was much more incredible than last Christmas.
Sponge cake was really goooood!
My mother who doesn’t flatter me said “ It’s so incredible! “ to me, too.
It was worth learing making sweets.
Our happy Chiristmas party finished after eating good short cake!

expecting Christmas

On 23th of December we have the annual Christmas party at my house.
Every year I think what I cook for it this year.
The following day of 23th was Saturday or Sunday for few years.
But this year the following day of 23th is weekday.
If I stay up late cooking, I wouldn’t work. So I had thought I had to start cooking
from Sunday but I couldn’t do it.
So I was up till at 3 in the morning last night.
But I can’t cook every dishes.
I gotta cook from now on, too.
By the way I took this picture at 3 in the morining.
I forgot getting blue berries but it’s not bad!

nodding off on Saturday

　

Last Saturday it was the day that I had to work.
It was not crowded on the train and I was able to get to work earlier than usual.
But I worked for 6 days in a row. So I was really exhausted.
I did my task qucikly and I left work in the early evening. Then I went to the familiar hair
salon in Shibuya.
I had my hair trimmed when I read a book and magazines.
And I got sleepy when I got my head massaged while getting wrapped.
When I got my bangs cut, I nodded off.
Time flied and there are only about 7 days left this year.
I got transffered in the beginning of this year and some teribble things happned.
But there were many happy things this year.
I wanna make effortes to say “ It was a happy year. “ next year.