The Feeling of Youth

Last week I won a free double in season pass to the movie The Ghost Writer starring Pierce Brosnan, Ewan Mcgregor, and Kim Cattrall.

When I looked online at the cinema near us it was the last week it was being shown so last night Yasu managed to get off work early and we went to see it.

There were some projector problems which delayed the showing for about 20 minutes but it was ok and started in the end. It was kind of a slow movie at first but gradually the story unfolded and it ended up being a kind of crime thriller. I didn’t think Yasu would like it but he said he thought it was good. I loved all the British accents and thought Ewan was a bit of a babe.

We got this *huge* big box of popcorn and a drink and Yasu managed to eat most of it, despite saying in the beginning he didn’t want any. Afterwards I was hungry, my god at 9pm no less – but Hungry Jacks (Burger King) was open so we stopped in there for a burger. I just had a whopper but Yasu had fries and the new bourbon whopper which has cheese, bacon and crispy fried onions. Lots of grease!!

It was good for the soul, I felt like I had been transported back to my teens almost, out late, eating burgers after a movie… not something we usually do…we are boring old married farts haha.

Another Good Day

Yesterday Yasu finished work early again because of the rain. It was good though, to have him home early again. He came home, changed and then we hit the shops.

He wanted to get some more glasses because our health insurance lets us get two free pairs of glasses each per year, and we both got one pair last september. I didn’t want to get another pair because my eyes have changed since I got the last pair so I needed to have another eye test and couldn’t be bothered. But anyway, Yasu was hoping to get the same pair as last time as we both like the frame, but it seems to have been discontinued which was a bummer. Anyway, we looked around and he found another pair which really look funky and have a tortoiseshell-like effect on the frame, even the girl there complimented him on them, so he was chuffed.

Anyway, we had to wait for an appointment with the optometrist so Yasu could get more contact lenses and we had about half an hour to kill so we wandered around to the cafe and bought some wedges and sour cream and sat and watched everyone walking by.

After that Yasu went to his appointment and I waited for him on their plush leather sofa. When he was finished we went to the supermarket and did some grocery shopping and Yasu announced he was going to cook omurice for dinner – something I had requested a couple of weeks ago.

As usual it was yum! He definitely makes the best omurice I’ve ever tasted, I love the buttery egg. :)

And to top it off he made mine personalised:

Omurice in my name :)

To top it off he washed all the dishes and then gave me a small pressie :) Keep it up Yasu! x

Hello Kitty netsuke in gacha :)

What a Night! :)

Well yesterday was a really good day. Yasu came home early from work, around 3pm and then we took our newly fixed… yes fixed! car back with the mechanic (we had to drop him back at his workshop). Well, god, on the way, he started talking about cars and mechanical stuff and wouldn’t shut up. And who did he turn to when he started to talk about it all? Me.

I often find that Australians when faced with Yasu and I, mostly turn to me to talk instead of Yasu, even though Yasu can understand them just as well. It’s like what Japanese people do to me in Japan, talk to Yasu instead of me.

I guess, fear of the unknown, or the fear of the person not being able to understand what they’re saying. But anyway, I wished he had talked to Yasu because the guy kept going on about pistons and ball bearings and sparks and all this stuff I have no idea about because I don’t have anything to do with cars besides being a passenger in one.

I was trying to catch Yasu’s eye in the rear-vision mirror, as I was sitting in the back behind him, but he wouldn’t look at me. Probably a good thing or we both might have burst out laughing. Anyway, finally we get to the guys place of work and dropped him off and I climbed into the seat and Yasu was like “I could hear from your answers to him that you were totally clueless about what he was talking about”. The only problem was he didn’t try to rescue me the rascal!

Anyway, after that we didn’t have anything to do so we went and cruised some op-shops in an area near where Yasu used to live (before we met). We didn’t find much in the oppy’s really…and I couldn’t believe how overpriced things were. Like in the oppy’s near my mum’s house, crockery and bowls and casserole dishes and stuff are about $5 max, but in this one they were like $25. Even second-hand sneakers and stuff were $25 and you could get them cheaper if you went to kmart.

Anyways, after that we wandered around this huge oriental store and I bought some House Vermont Curry. It was pretty cheap for buying in oz, so I got a few packs. Looking forward to having curry now the rainy weather is back!

Well, on the way out of the shopping centre we spied a “sushi bar”, but the thing that looked curious was there were bags of prawn crackers for sale. We went in for a closer look only to find they were also making chinese meals.

You could get a Tokyo set meal for $69.99, which had dumplings, spring rolls, 4 x kutsu chicken (yes kutsu! we cracked up when we read that), 4 x omelettes and 2 x rolls of sushi. (I think it’s wayyy overpriced).

They also had an Osaka set but I can’t remember what was in it, that was like $99.99 or something worse haha.

But I can’t believe even on the menu they put “kutsu chicken”. What kind of sushi bar can’t even spell katsu properly? I think they were all filipino or thai’s who were running it to be honest. Yasu said I was mean to laugh but he laughed too. I wanted to take a photo but the shop was too busy.

So we turned around to go home and when we got in the car Yasu asked me if I wanted to have dinner out. I was thinking he meant KFC, but he actually meant at a restaurant. I really wanted to go to a new Korean buffet that had opened but I thought maybe not as I still have a few stomach problems that are exacerbated by spicy food so we decided to go when I was better. We ended up going to a Chinese buffet that we have been to before and it was really good! It’s kind of a wacky chinese buffet though because they have spaghetti, roast ham, prawns, chinese combination-like foods – curry, beef black bean, honey chicken, fried chicken, garlic veggies, those kinds of foods, and also curry puffs, spring rolls, samosa’s and lots of other stuff. I can’t remember it all, but it’s called Buffet King haha. Yasu of course always eats plates and plates of fried chicken and one time we went there they didn’t have it so we assumed that maybe they saw Yasu coming and took it away. But anyway, last night it was back and he had ALOT. I had a bit of everything and lots of tapioca & coconut pudding for dessert, yum yum.

After that we went home but we were both really sleepy. On the way home I saw some funny lights in the sky headed directly towards us, and I knew it wasn’t a plane, because the lights, kind of hard to explain, were on two levels. The right side was higher than the left side, and the craft seemed kind of in a V shape. When the right side lights went on, the left side lights went off. But each time the lights came on (red, gold, white), they seemed to rotate around in a circle. Well, the craft flew over us and to the left of us, and I was lamenting the fact I didn’t have a camera with me. Such a bummer! The way it had come, meant it had gone straight over our house! By the time we got home I had lost sight of it though, like it had disappeared. It had a kind of inner illumination so I could see the shape, it was magnificent!

It made me think, how many nights I spend outside in summer and I do see stuff, but never as magnificent as this. Then I realised, everyone is outside in summer, what a better night for an ET craft such as this than a dark, wintery, rainy night when no-one is outside? I think I’m going to be doing some ufo hunting over the next few nights to see if I can catch it again.

Below is a picture I drew, not the greatest, but you get the gist of what I saw.

(BTW, Yasu knows we saw something but won’t admit that it’s ET by nature, but he said he doesn’t know what it is…he’s still in denial)

疲れたのに嬉しい

I’ve been quite sick the last week and on the weekend but I’m not going into it too much other to say than I have really been going through some tough times with my health and on saturday night I thought it might have been the end of me.

I’m now much better than I was though, thanks to Yasu’s care and support. He has been up at night with me when waste was coming from both orifices, helped me clean myself up at times when I looked and felt like hell and we have both emerged at the end of it. I don’t even have my indigestion any more, (touch wood), my body seems to have balanced itself out, I don’t have issues with eating meat or anything, and feeling totally fine once again. Thanks Yasu for being such a nice husband.

In spite of all that was going on over the weekend we had pre-planned a lunch at our house with another couple the week before, and I didn’t feel like cancelling it, and surprise surprise my body actually behaved itself while we had company. (After is another story though!)

We had a Japanese-Czech couple over for lunch, the wife is Japanese and the husband is Czech. They decided to live here as it’s a neutral place for both of them. They are both studying and working, quite hard to do, but their positivity about it all shines through. Neither of them speak each other’s language so they only converse in English – a second language for both of them.

It was a pleasure to have them over and we talked and ate a lot of yummy food. Time flew, and they ended up staying to watch the Sumo review on TV, which was the husband’s first time ever to see Sumo and we were all remarking how the European Sumo wrestlers have such hairy chests… haha :)

Tonight is my last Tarot class..I’m looking forward to it but sad it’s going to end. Though I do intend to do the 2nd and 3rd levels when I get the money. I’m doing her herbal workshop this weekend, so looking forward to that. :)

I’ll leave you with last night’s dessert. Was yum :) (food again…can’t help myself!)

The Week So Far

So far this week:

—- I heard back from Heinz. Last week I bought a can of Sliced Beetroot from them and in it found a triangular piece of clear material that looked like glass. Luckily as I was pulling out the beetroot slices, I felt the foreign object with my finger. It was pointy and sharp, if I had swallowed it I might not be here today. Anyway, they came and picked up the can and the object and have written back to me indicating they found that it is a piece of plastic, and because they have a “no plastic and no glass” policy at their factories, they are at a loss of how to explain how it got there. They said they were grateful for me phoning them and letting them know and gave me two Woolworths gift cards to say sorry for the incident.

—- I went to my Tarot class on Monday night. It’s already the 4th week, and next week is the last week! I can’t believe how fast it has gone. This week we learnt how to do spreads for Careers and Relationships. It was really interesting. I had a relationship reading done for me and it was very accurate. I also had a general reading and the daughter card came up, for about the 5th time in two weeks. In the relationship reading, the son card came up. Recently every time I do Yasu’s cards, the son card comes up. It’s very intriguing.

—- I have been working on manifesting $ because I want to travel. I have really itchy feet at the moment and want to head back to Japan. I actually want to travel by myself from Kyushu to Hokkaido, and I want to stay with my in-laws for a month or so. I would love it if Yasu could meet us in Hokkaido though. So I am using affirmations to manifest money.

I started out by saying “money comes to me in unexpected ways”. A few days after that I got a job doing income taxes for Yasu’s co-workers! That was so unexpected, I had never considered it. Anyway, I am $150 richer just for doing 2 peoples taxes and saying some affirmations over the duration of 1 week.

I’ve now changed the affirmation to “money comes easily and frequently”, hope to arc up the amount of money and the frequency with which it comes. Maybe I need to fine-tune it some more, but I will try to as I go along.

It’s funny that readings that have been done for me and that I have been doing for myself, in every one, the Travel card comes up. I think at least the energy surrounds me as a possibility for travelling, so I hope that the money energy is is starting to build as well. :)

—- Yasu got asked if he wanted to go work up North ages ago, and he just got asked again, but he declined saying “my wife doesn’t want me to go”. Not true at all, he just used it as an excuse! I miss him sure, but I told him he can go if he wants to. He told me that his baseball season is starting soon and also he will miss Ryomaden if he goes, so he would rather stay here! haha I’ve got to admit, I’m a bit partial to Masaharu Fukuyama! There is something about the long hair and yukata that samurai wear that turns me on. Okay, TMI. :)

—- Oh, yes and my heartburn/indigestion is pretty much gone, the pills must be working. In it’s place though has been 下痢 for the past 2 days. Ugh. I’m beginning to think it is the pills that are doing it. I have to wait 1 week before going back to the doctor, so I will see about it then. However, I can handle that much better than indigestion and heartburn, it just means I have to carry a bottle of 正露丸 with me in my bag. This is the only thing we ever use. It works so well and doesn’t bind you up like other drugs.

—- I keep seeing on everyone’s blogs all these delicious cakes and sweets they are having in Japan and my mouth waters every time. But last night we had a delicious cake for dessert and it was just as good, if not better than ones I have seen online! We were lucky enough to find a cake shop that has a French-trained Japanese chef and they make the most delicious cakes!

Here is the matcha swiss roll cake with azuki cream that we had last night. It was sooo soft and moist, and very light. Looking forward to having some more tonight!!!