Kelly Azuma

I bought myself a new pair of fluffy, chenille-like material socks today. Ahh they are sooo nice and warm! Lucky I didn’t buy more though, turns out I won’t need them for long. ;)

Had a great day. I walked 2.3 km to the nearest shops, picked up a few groceries including some chickpea ‘hamburgers’ that are pre-cooked. They have other veggies in them too. I thought they would be good this week as a substitute to meat. I also got some veggies for a stirfry, some pre-cut watermelon slices, and salad. I also checked out the other meat substitutes, tempeh, vegetarian bacon, vegetarian sausages, vegetarian chicken, I was amazed at the range, I’d never actually looked at it before.

I plan to eat about one meat meal a week, probably red meat as that is my favourite.

Anyways, Yasu had other plans, I found out when he got home tonight, he had bought pork belly again, and wanted to make butadon. So I let him make it, but I only had a spoonful of rice to make him happy, and had a side salad. It was quite nice. We had some watermelon for dessert, very juicy.

I took a pic of my new socks with my mobile phone. I haven’t taken them off since I got home, they are so comfy!

Today I decided to start eating vegetarian, because of some issues I have been having when I eat pasta, rice, and bread. If I eat them, I feel really tired. I also feel lethargic from eating meat and dairy. A few of my spiritual teachers eat vegetarian, they are not strict, they do eat cake and sweets when they need a sugar hit, and sometimes they will have meat, like once a month. I’ve been getting a few suggestions from spirit lately about what I should be eating so I decided to go with what they are telling me, try vegetarian, you have a sensitive system. I know I feel really good when I eat vegetarian, I feel light, and alive.

I cleaned out my pantry and threw out all the old tins of stuff we never used, and I’m kind of glad that’s out of the way, I’ve been meaning to do that for a long time. I can actually see what is in there now!

I’m going for a walk to get a few groceries. I really need the exercise. When it’s cold and rainy like it has been every day so far, it’s so easy to stay inside and hibernate!! Today is sunny, a perfect blue sky day, 20 degrees, and I’m going to get out there an enjoy it. :)

I finished watching Okuribito – Departures, and it was a great movie!! I love it! Such a moving story. Actually the actress Ryoko Hirosue is Yasu’s favourite, he’s a major fan of her, has collected all her photo books and what-not over the years, but he hasn’t seen it yet. She is a good actress but I really wanted to slap her at some point in the movie (if you watch you will know what part). The male lead is great too. I also like the male supporting actor, he’s really good. So if you can watch this movie, I really recommend it to you!! :)

Day 3 of Yasu being home and he drove me crazy all day. He’s well enough to annoy me but not well enough to go to work.

He keeps following me around, then making a mess, I think I have re-made the bed about ten times today because he keeps getting in and out and mucking it up! Then I discovered that he hadn’t read the back of the package of the flu pills correctly and had taken 6 in a 4 hour space instead of 2!! No wonder he was so high, they had pseudoephidrine in them.

I am at the point today where I said to him “Yasu, go to work tomorrow okay? You’re really pissing me off”, and he laughed. He gets it I think. It wasn’t a mean thing, I’m telling the truth. He knows how he gets.

I had a marathon chat with A on Skype tonight about everything. Loving Skype, just loving it.

In between that I was crying my eyes out watching a Japanese Movie that was originally a drama called One Litre Of Tears. I didn’t realise it was a true story before I watched it. Very sad, but also makes me think about my life and realise how good I have it. Really brave girl, very inspiring.

After that I started watching おくりびと (Departures), but I’m only half way through. It’s really good!!! I’m really enjoying it.

Today we woke up and Yasu decided he still wasn’t well enough to go to work. I don’t know what it is but having him home the last two days has totally thrown me in that I’ve been so lazy. The only real work I have been doing was sorting out my healing room and my website.

I’ve felt abit tired myself the last two days, not sure if it’s because of major energy work on the weekend, the coldness temperature-wise of Perth at the moment, or because I’m coming down with Yasu’s cold. (Hope not).

I made quiche for dinner tonight, just chicken, bacon, and tomato. I had some major drama’s with the shortcrust pastry in that it stuck to the baking paper I was rolling it in, but in the end it worked out ok and tasted good without me having to make a second batch. Patience under fire I guess.

After dinner, about 6:45pm I felt really tired, and despite having a few squares of chocolate and a juicy orange, I really felt drained energy-wise. Yasu was off to bed and I went too. He woke me up with his coughing at 11:30pm and I couldn’t get back to sleep so here I am. I don’t mind as I had a good 5 hour sleep that was deep and must have given me some energy back.

I’m not sure if Yasu will go to work tomorrow, but I’m supposing he will. When he isn’t there the team just kind of grind to a halt because he is the supervisor of the project. I’ve been fielding their calls for the last two days…I’ve been really mean actually, not really putting any calls through because he really needs his rest. He said himself today that he thinks he pushed himself too hard on the project the last few weeks.

Hmm so not really interesting, but basically that is what is going on with us at the moment. I’m hoping to get my healing room sorted by the end of this week, at least that is my personal deadline.

I got an email from Yasu’s sister too to say that she is going to keep the fact of me going to Japan in November a secret, so it will be a good surprise for their parents. I think it’s a cool idea, haha, just arriving at their doorstep – SURPRISE! haha. Otoosan still hasn’t been back to work because he’s still undergoing rehab for his hand (that got caught in the brick machine), and he can’t even start the car because he can’t turn his hand enough. I didn’t actually say to her to keep it a secret, but she obviously thought it should be.

This morning I woke up just after 9am and because it was quite cold I was just laying there thinking about what I was going to do with my day when I heard a key in the door. It was Yasu, he had come home from work sick.

He told me last night he didn’t feel well but he didn’t really elaborate. So I set about getting him sorted out with a blanket and a cup of tea, heated up his bento for him and gave him some flu pills to take. We watched some jtv and then about 12pm I bundled him off to bed with a heat pack.

I got stuck into my business website and it’s almost finished. I also tackled my healing room, I didn’t realise how many books I’ve accumulated in the last year!! I seriously need a small bookcase for my healing room now. I’m quite happy with the amount I got accomplished today. I really made a good effort.

I also got outside for a while, sat and ate some fruit outside on the patio. I was going to go for a walk up to the river at the back of us but it was soooo cold and the wind was freezing, I decided to do it tomorrow, hopefully it’s warmer.

I cooked lasagne for dinner and Yasu woke up more or less when I was serving it, so good timing. He stayed up for a while and has just gone back to bed with a heat pack, some vicks on his chest and some flu pills. I’m such an old mother hen but I can’t help it. Whenever he is sick I seriously want to look after him so much, I’m not sure where it comes from, maybe it’s just being a woman?

Apart from that I had two pieces of good luck today, I received a $20 gift card in the mail courtesy of a survey I had done last month, and I also got a phone call from a market research company to come in and watch tv for an hour and get paid $60. The research is about car insurance, which we have, just have to watch the tv and the following cm’s and say what we think about it. Pretty easy money. Thanks Abraham! :)