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Letter From Japan

After 7 years of being married and 7 years of pleading with the in-laws to come over to my fine land, they finally sent me a letter today to tell me they are planning on coming over to Perth to stay with us! Yay.

I think the recent visit was what had the greatest effect, in that we all connected in a very big way and now they realise they really miss us. They even wrote in the letter that they had been having people around for bbq’s and they realised something was missing…. but what? Then they realised that Kelly and Yasu were not there!

It’s nice to be thought of in that way, and we are also missing them. Yesterday was MIL’s birthday but we were both in no condition for talking so Yasu called tonight and spoke to his mum who confirmed they were planning on coming over, but because they have never been outside of Japan they are really nervous about the whole thing. (That is what stopped them before coming before now).

We have decided to go over to Japan and stay with them for a couple of weeks, and then they will come back with us and stay for 3 or 4 weeks. When asked where she wanted to go, my MIL said “the supermarket”. haha! She has never seen a foreign supermarket before and being a housewife, that is her first port of call. I’m pretty much the same as in when I go to Japan, I love perusing the aisles and looking at all the different products available. I can’t wait to show mum and dad around all the shops!! :)

I’ve got a whole menu to plan as well, mum and dad really want to eat my roast pork so I plan to make that a couple of times while they are here too. We have a lot of planning to do, I’m so excited :)

In other news, I had a major windfall of $10k after entering a competition, so I’m pleased to say that I will be able to pay for our central heating and cooling. Thankyou Abraham!! :) The guy is coming to our house tomorrow to have a look at our house and give us a quote. I’m hoping it won’t be any more than $8k. The rest of the money will be squirrelled away for when the rellies come over :)

I didn’t go to any of my classes today because I had a “hangover”, in a spiritual sense. I think I overworked myself yesterday and all the good food, readings and lots of sun and sunburn just wore me out! My head was woo-woo and I couldn’t keep my eyes open. I didn’t have the energy to go to yoga tonight so I gave it a miss too.

I made chahan for dinner with the remaining roast pork and it was delicious.

Roast Pork Chahan

Roast Pork Chahan

I also am down to less than 10% of one anti-depressant, so looks like my Friday goal will be reached. The only withdrawal symptoms I’ve had is in the afternoon I’ve been getting headaches, but that I can deal with. If I was nauseas that would be hard, but thankfully none. :)

At the MCD yesterday I met a lady that told me about a guy that has come over from Queensland and is doing energy therapy here, and she told me that she had suffered chronic neck pain for 25 years since a car accident and no-one could help her get rid of the pain. She saw this guy and within the 2 hours treatment, 90% of the pain was gone, and another 5% later, so now she suffers nothing at all, an occasional twinge but that is it. Her friend who couldn’t fall pregnant went, and got pregnant immediately after, and people who had trouble losing weight, dropped the kilo’s afterwards.

It’s all about balancing the body’s energy and replacing the energy that was lost. As well it works on the premise that some people have parasites in their bodies and when not picked up and treated they cause the following symptoms:

  • INABILITY TO GAIN OR LOSE WEIGHT

  • CHRONIC CANDIDA

  • YEAST INFECTIONS

  • CHRONIC SINUS OR EAR INFECTIONS

  • URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS

  • ITCHY EARS OR NOSE

  • ANAL ITCHING, ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT

  • DIGESTIVE PROBLEMS

  • GAS AND BLOATING

  • DIARRHEA

  • MUCUSY STOOLS

  • HEMORRHOIDS

  • CONSTIPATION

  • IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME

  • GRINDING TEETH WHILE SLEEPING

  • HEART PAIN

  • NUMB HANDS

  • PAIN IN THE NAVEL

  • PAIN IN THE BACK,THIGHS OR SHOULDERS

  • ARTHRITIC PAINS

  • BURNING IN THE STOMACH

  • BED WETTING

  • DROOLING WHILE SLEEPING

  • ANY MENSTRUAL COMPLAINT

  • CYSTS AND FIBROIDS

  • EATING MORE AND STILL BEING HUNGRY

  • ALL SKIN PROBLEMS

  • FORGETFULNESS

  • DEPRESSION

  • CHRONIC FATIGUE

  • CHRONIC VIRAL SYNDROMES

  • PROSTATE PROBLEMS AND SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION IN MEN

  • WATER RETENTION (mostly from tapeworms)

  • CRAWLING FEELING UNDER THE SKIN

  • FLOATERS

  • LIVER/GALLBLADDER TROUBLE

Included in his fee is medicine (drops) that you take to eradicate the parasites. Some people have parasites as well as blockages in their energy and some people just have blockages.

I called this morning and secured an appointment for next wednesday morning at 9am. I’m really looking forward to it!! I know something is out of balance in my body, and I can’t wait to hear what it is. By the way, the girl with the neck problem never told him what her problem was or why she was there, he picked it up first thing.

I will be the full bottle on it on Wednesday though so I will post about it then.

Monday Shmonday

It was one of those days today. My phone was ringing from 8am this morning, it all started when a boat at Yasu’s work caught fire because of one of the welders who got too close and then Yasu had to put out the fire with the extinguisher, but ended up inhaling half of the stuff and ended up feeling really sick. Being a man, he didn’t think to drink some water, but kept walking around like a zombie feeling bad until I made him drink some water and sit down for a while. I had to keep ringing up to check on him and he kept ringing me, so it was like playing phone tag all morning!

Sunday night we had talked and decided to get reverse cycle central heating and cooling in our house, thinking that we’ve already been here nearly 3 years, if we don’t get it now, we never will. So I started to call around some of the specialists and book them to come out for quotes.

I also had to chase up our insurance company and got the royal run-around, fielded from section to section until I got to a very grumpy lady with a real attitude problem. A few months ago a car hit the lightpole around the corner from our house head on, and it blew the mains of our reticulation system, so we had to get it fixed. $300 later, and now we don’t even know if the insurance company will pay up because they ‘requested’ a detailed report. Then I had to go organise the stupid report, more time wasting, delaying, and just pathetic really. We’ve been paying it for 3 years, never missed a payment, and how they repay us is with suspicion and attitude.

By 3pm I was running around in a mad scramble because I had to make something to take to the Melbourne Cup Lunch tomorrow (dessert), and make a roast for dinner as I’d promised Yasu.

I turned to an old favourite, Lemon Shortbread Bars from La Fuji Mama. They have been very popular in the past and are very simple to make.

Lemon Shortbread Bars

Lemon Shortbread Bars

I then got on and cooked a pork roast. In order to get the crackling nice, I had to turn the oven up to 250 degrees celcius for 30 minutes. This ensures a nice crackling but it also makes the house really smokey, and I managed to set the fire alarm off, even though I had the fans on, and all the windows open. Yasu arrived home and thought the house was on fire!

Roast Pork and Crackling

Roast Pork and Crackling

Roast Veggies (Butternut pumpkin, Sweet potato, Potato)

Roast Veggies (Butternut pumpkin, Sweet potato and Potato)

Yasu's dinner

Yasu's dinner

It was all worth it in the end though, as the pork came out really lovely and was sooo tasty! I couldn’t stop picking at it. :) The veggies I cooked in my George Forman fat free cooker, because I can’t take alot of fat due to not having a gall bladder. We both really enjoyed our dinner though, and after I did the washing up I sat down with some lemon bar and a cuppa.

Looking forward to seeing all my ’spooky’ friends tomorrow and having a chin wag, and with any luck I might win on a horse! :)