I ended up going into the city this morning and I posted some late Easter gifts off to some friends in Melbourne. Then I got on another train and headed to my mum’s house. She met me at the train station and we went in her car to the newly refurbished shopping centre. We had lunch in the new fandangly food court, she had Chinese and I had Fish n’ chips. It was nice, but it gave me indigestion later. That was my fault for eating something I really shouldn’t. (With no gall bladder my body can’t handle greasy foods).
We walked around and looked in all the new shops. I found a really good book about Chinese medicine, which I bought. It gives the history of TCM and then it gives out info about all the remedies, and how to self diagnose. And most importantly what each herb is for etc. Very interesting read and really useful for me.
Then we bought a couple of muffins for afternoon tea from Muffin Break and went back to my mum’s house for a cuppa. I played with my mum’s dog Toby. He is such a cutey and a little terror all rolled into one.
We watched Bonanza on her cable tv (the episode where Little Joe falls in love with a gypsy who’s posessed by a wolf spirit), and then about 4pm I headed home and Yasu picked me up at the train station.
It was nice to catch up with my mum today, and it was nice just to have an easy, relaxing day.
This morning I got up early and turned on the Japanese news on Nhk, only to discover a big hoo-haa about a crane that had crashed in Chiyoda-ku, spilling onto 3 lanes of traffic and injuring 6 people.
There was 20 minutes or so coverage of the incident, then another 5 minutes while the presenter got a small pre-made model of the crane and showed how the crane, trying to lift a 6 ton cylinder used to pour concrete for a building foundation, fell over.
What I don’t understand is why Japanese people can’t just get the facts and move on? Why do they have to be shown step by step on a model exactly what happened.
In Australia, we hear that a crane fell over, and we’re already over it. No more details needed. Not so interesting.
The next news item was that a store in Ishikawa is selling bento boxes cheaply at 250 yen. We know what Japanese and their stomachs are like, so the next 10 minutes was spent on footage at the grocery store watching customers buy the cheap bento and their reactions to it.
I can’t say that this kind of news is a rare occurence. Japan seems to broadcast really lame news, or make mountains out of molehills like the news with the crane. God forbid real news happened!
Do you watch Japanese news ever? And if so, what do you think of it? Do you think it’s lame or do you think it’s more interesting and more viewer oriented than other countries’ news?
Yasu woke me up this morning at 5am and we started to talk about him giving me the silent treatment last night.
I told him basically that I need his encouragement. I’m not losing weight for myself, it’s for us, so we can have a baby. I told him I need his support on this.
He never gives me encouragement, he leaves me to lose weight by myself. I told him it has to be a joint effort. Even if it’s me doing the losing, he has to be there with me emotionally otherwise it won’t work.
So finally he got that part. Up until now he’s been emotionally detached. He doesn’t understand what its like to have a body that won’t do what I want it to do. Somehow, whenever I get myself on track I have a health crisis. Yasu has perfect health, or what I would call perfect health besides the occasional flu bug, and he can’t understand what it is like to be sick all the time.
So now I’ve drilled that into him, he is saying “okay, lets reach our goal together”, which makes me feel better.
Yes, that is what Yasu is giving me now.
When I got home from having acupuncture, he picked me up from the train station. He asked how my day was then I told him about having some seeds put in my ear by the Chinese doctor, on the acupressure points for losing weight, and that she gave me some herbal medicine to speed up my metabolism.
He ranted and raved because I’m already on the Gabriel Method. I had to come off it while I was in hospital and I haven’t started it back again as I was worried about how my stomach would cope.
He thinks I start things and never finish them. I agree. But my only comeback is that I’m an Aries and I can’t help it. The other thing is that the Chinese medicine worked so well, straight away, that I’m more inclined to follow their way of dieting too. The digestive enzymes I was taking with every meal I think, might be the reason why my stomach troubles came to a head over that short time I was on the diet. I am just guessing.
He promptly started to give me the silent treatment. And went to bed without speaking to me all night. I really hate that.
Considering he hardly ever gave me verbal support about my weight loss I think it’s pretty damn good of me to even stay on a diet/life change for so long. He wants to have kids but he doesn’t want to do anything about it. Ugh. Men.
So I’m sitting up here drinking a chai latte and reading twitter and facebook. My two new favourite past times. I feel like I have offended a friend with my assumptions (previous post about comments) and I’m having a shitty day in general.
So that’s my rant.
Yes, Jesus has appeared in a Kit Kat in Japan.
http://nu.web-log.nl/photos/uncategorized/2009/04/10/kitkatjezus.jpg
I knew Nestle were not content with weird and wacky flavours like potato and corn, they had to outdo themselves!
To me though, it looks more like a samurai.
