Hi and welcome to my blog. I am a female, 31 years old and living in Perth, Western Australia with my Japanese husband, Yasu.

Random facts about me:

  1. I got married to Yasu on my 25th birthday.
  2. I work from home as a Reiki healer and Clairvoyant.
  3. I studied Japanese at university for 5 years, 5 years in high school and 1 year at Tafe.
  4. Besides Japanese, I’ve also studied Chinese (Mandarin) and Indonesian and still remember enough of those languages to have a conversation.
  5. Before I married Yasu I thought combining chicken and egg or ham and cheese was weird. I’ve gotten used to it though.
  6. My inlaws live in the inaka (country) and I love it, because it’s wide open spaces, lots of farms, lots of yummy food and so so beautiful!
  7. My mum got pregnant with me when she was 36 years old. I wasn’t planned but I was the first and only child of my father (my mum’s second marriage).
  8. When I was born I was blue and not breathing, and fit inside the palm of my mum’s hand I was so small. My first two weeks were spent in a humidicrib because they weren’t sure if I would make it. Mum said my cry was like the squeak of a mouse, so faint no-one could hear it.
  9. I really love chocolate, especially milk and white. I’m not much of a dark chocolate fan.
  10. I’m forever searching for new Japanese snacks to try and I love Japanese food.
  11. I don’t drink alcohol very much. I like peach chu-hai and midori & lemonade, but apart from that my body can’t stand alcohol that is too strong. For example, if the vodka is too strong in a drink, I get a really bad pain down my spine and it’s excruciating.
  12. I’ve always hated sports but since marrying Yasu I have become interested in baseball because he plays in a team. I find it more interesting than typical Australian sports like football and cricket. I also enjoy playing baseball and my favourite is batting. I’m actually pretty good at pitching and batting from lots of practice with Yasu.
  13. My name was actually going to be Alicia-Tamara but my dad thought Kelly was better as it was a true Irish name (my dad’s family is Irish).
  14. My third toe on each foot is bent over and has been since birth. It doesn’t hurt, it just looks weird. No-one really knows why it happened.
  15. I have broken my left wrist twice. The first time my sister sat down on it while we were jumping together on the trampoline at the back of our house. The second time was in 2005 when I was hit by a car while I was crossing the road.
  16. I don’t have any tattoos or piercings and I don’t plan on getting any.
  17. I still love eating bbq potato chips in a sandwich, but I don’t have it often. :(
  18. Yasu and I both hate natto, tofu, and miso soup.
    Yasu also really hates daikon, tsukemono, okayu, konbu, goya and chawanmushi. People often ask him “are you really Japanese?”
  19. My favourite shop in Japan is the “hyakkin”.
  20. My favourite dessert shop in Japan is “Beard Papa’s”.
  21. Up until I was 16 I had really long hair down to my waist. One day I went in and got it all chopped off and have sported a short haircut ever since. I never miss having long hair, short hair is easy to maintain.
  22. When I was a kid I really wanted to be an Astronaut. I studied every astronomy book I could get my hands on. I did some Astronomy units at university for fun alongside my Japanese degree because it’s still a really big interest of mine.
  23. I have always been really into music. My tastes are pretty eclectic.
  24. My most hated household chore is doing vacuuming. I really hate it.
  25. We don’t have a dishwasher, I wash everything by hand. I don’t plan on getting a dishwasher. Ever.
  26. We have a “washitsu” in our house, decorated Japan style with all my ornaments that I’ve bought over the years – daruma’s, dolls, hina dolls, toys, cultural displays etc.
  27. Our bookcase is chocka’s full of Japanese magazines, books and manga, so much that we need to buy another one. Yasu and I are both voracious readers.
  28. Yasu doesn’t ever want to live in Japan and neither do I. We both want to go back for a holiday regularly though.
  29. My other favourite place in the world is Singapore. If I could live there for a couple of months out of the year I would be very happy.
  30. My favourite shows on tv are CSI, NCIS, and House. My favourite Japanese shows are ためしてガッテン！ and 私は子供だった頃. Oh, I also love Tsurube!!!
  31. I met Yasu on ICQ when he came to Perth to work. We knew within the first week that we really wanted to be with each other, and we have ever since.
  32. I really love vegetables, I have since I was a kid. I think I get it from my mum because she loves them too.
  33. I’m not a vegetarian though. I tried to be but I love red meat too much!
  34. Every room in our house is painted a different colour because we both like colour :)
  35. My favourite colour is the colour of the rainbow!
  36. I’m more of a nature/bush person than a beach person.
  37. I’ve seen lots of UFO’s. They seem to follow me and recently I have learnt I can tune into them and them to me. I’ve also had an encounter with a being looking into my window.
  38. I am an Aries.
  39. I love cooking. My favourite is making desserts.
  40. I love flowers, my favourites are Gerbera and Morning Glory.
  41. I collect letter sets and pens. I write to my in-laws every week and I love writing to them on different paper. I have a kind of pen fetish. The weird and wackier the pen, the better.
  42. I love furin (windchimes) and I have lots of them hanging around our house. I especially love the iron ones and the glass ones with goldfish or morning glory painted on them.
  43. I don’t have any living grandparents.
  44. When I was growing up my mum bred turkeys and she also kept chickens, roosters, ducks, cockatoos, weiro’s, canaries, budgies, dogs, cats, pigeons, rabbits and a guinea pig! It was like old macdonald’s farm.
  45. I have a big love of animals :)
  46. I love helping people. I’m a giver not a receiver. The joy for me is in the giving and seeing other people happy.
  47. I love drinking egg-nog all year round.
  48. I get on with my in-laws better than I get on with my own family.
  49. I’m the first person in my family to marry a non-Australian.
  50. I love my mago-no-te.
  51. I love Cinnamoroll, Hello Kitty, Pom Pom Purin and Usahana.
  52. Up until last year I bought a new handbag every month. I’m now over my habit though and have stuck with the same bag for 4 months! The shed is overflowing with 6 years worth of handbags that I have rarely used.
  53. I’ve bought lots of cute baby clothes and toys in preparation for when I have kids. Whenever I go past a baby clothes sale I buy more. I can’t help it.
  54. I don’t drive. I walk, I take the bus and train.
  55. I love banana sandwiches.
  56. I have a big interest in Ainu culture and I have been to a couple of Ainu Kotan in Hokkaido. I also have an Ainu costume and lots of dolls and carvings.
  57. I’m scared of clowns.
  58. I love Hamtaro, Anpanman, and Doraemon.
  59. I love travelling on the Shinkansen.
  60. I love Taiyaki from Fukuhara.