randomnicity

sonic online until the hockey game starts.


coffee in my mug and d downstairs (downladder?) cooking breakfast.

payday tomorrow. holiday on thursday.


almost no trace of the gross cold i had.


countdown to mom and dad: 39 days.

ah the weekend..

d is making breakfast and just yelled up to me "YOU CALL ME UNCLE FLAPJACK!!"

holy f***!!!

these are possibly the spiciest things i have ever eaten.they are chips... the name says "don tacos" (that's right, i can read it!!). and i see the chili peppers on the bag. i even see that it says "chili" (well, it actually says "chiri", but you know). there are even flames at the top of the bag. "good" i think. "these will be like spicy salsa-y chips."

holy hell. that is all.

cool-ish

ice cream in a bag. mmmmmmmmmmm... seriously, it's delicious.

update

so it's 47 days until mom and dad come to visit.

no, we don't have furniture... unless you count the 2 shelves we bought when we first got here. we do plan to get something to sit on before my parents get here.

it's not bunk beds... it's a loft.

saturday morning

so that's it. the inside of our apartment. i guess it's more like a room. it's very very tiny. questions about any of it... comment people!!

how many days until my parents come to visit? i don't know. but i'm going to count today.

i have a very runny nose and a sore throat. oh, i also have a zit on my lip. i'm sexy in japan.

d ate all of the chocolate last night while i was asleep. he was up till 5:30am. no coffee for him after like noon from now on.

it's rainy right now. it's been sunny and warm like all week so i guess it's ok. i don't have to go anywhere today so rain on japan!! rain on. but just for today. maybe tomorrow too. but on monday, you definitely have to stop it.

gayle just got back from her wedding. told me that she drove marc crazy saying "when chrissy and i were here...". that made me happy.

did you ever think that anyone in the world still used 1-ply toilet paper? japan does.

ok... back to bed. crap, the oilers game starts in 10 minutes. decisions, decisions...

just some pics

we really haven't changed at all.

our apartment, 2nd one from the left on the top

the 17 stairs we have to climb, mailboxes, and d's bike

on a clear day, we can see the top of mt. fuji from here.

another ladder shot. man i hate that ladder.

i really like it here.

mommy...

my head hurts and i have the sniffles.and now my foot's asleep.

trick or treat, smell my feet...

first we partied with the kids. then we partied with the "adults". i wore my pyjamas and carried around a stuffed animal. cute, right? lame i say. darren was very popular as superman. why? i'll leave that to your imagination...some of our pictures are too, shall we say, risque? to be posted. not of us, of course. but of stuff like this guy...this is the most clothing this guy had on all night. seriously. where do you even buy a shiny gold g-string?

we're listening to the oilers game right now. the announcers keep reporting accidents all over edmonton. scary. pisani just scored!!! yay!!! uh-oh...they're going upstairs. it's good!!!!!

ok, now more halloween pictures.and then at the end of the evening... we snap back to reality.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

don't mess with noodleman

first, thank you to b & a for the 'taste of home' that we got yesterday. everything was awesome. by the way if anybody else wants to sent me beer please feel free.

onwards. we felt our first earthquake last week, it shook our place for what felt like 10 seconds. pretty cool. there are, on average, 1500 earthquakes a year around japan, that's a little f.f. (fun fact) for you. this weekend is going to be great, parties and costumes until sunday night. it's still +20 here in the daytime so this halloween, we won't have to try to get our costumes on over our winter coats.

and now... some pictures...

... this is shibuya, possibly the busiest place ever. seriously it's ridiculous.


... the station at shibuya.

... this one is for jennifer.


more to come... after the weekend.

orange fanta it is!!

sunny day chasing the clouds away... true that my friend. true that.

have you ever had fanta? do you even remember if you've ever had fanta? well, if you have and if you do, you might have been wondering where it went. we found it! it's all in japan! grape, melon, and orange. you are welcome.changed our costumes for halloween. darren's is super. mine is tired. figure that out, bitches!!

seriously, things have been going great lately. i got paid, phone and internet hooked up, not much rain, short weeks at work...

shower? yes please.

online once again

finally finally finally. internet hooked up at home. sweet sweet communication. it never tasted so good. from now on i promise more updates. more emails too. more of "hey, this is what's happening right now." ok? ok. oh... listened to part of the oilers game today. happy happy.

matthew good is recording a new album next month. he spent awhile in the hospital recently. he better never die.

halloween. what are you doing for halloween? darren's costume is very scary. no hints though... you'll have to wait to see the pictures. we are going to a party for halloween. they don't really do halloween in japan but everywhere has decorations and places are having "halloween sale"s. weird.

darren is making me dinner right now. gyoza and yakitori. delicious.

pictures? sure. i like pictures. these are of my school and such. pay no attention to how bad i look in the last picture. thank you.

roberto's list about me

For C of C&D
1. I'll respond with something random about you.
Your old love of New Kids on the Block is even more hilarious now, knowing your adult taste in music.

2. I'll challenge you to try something.
Eat a vegetable with every meal.

3. I'll pick a colour that I associate with you.
Purple.

4. I'll tell you something I like about you.
Hard to pick...gotta be the laugh that can be heard from blocks away.

5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
That's a toughie when you've known someone their whole life. Playing with you when you were little..Concentration, your Fisher Price Sesame street toys, and the Ronald McDonald doll.

6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
A really cute laughing Hyena!

7. I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you.
When did you first get the idea to go teach in Japan?

to answer the last one... about 2 years ago. d and i were just sitting around and talking about places we'd like to go. the next day i typed "tesl courses" into google and the first one that came up was oxford. they had an info session in edmonton and we entered our names in a draw. i won a free course so we decided that it was the world's way of telling us that we had to go.

and also... i had a ronald mcdonald doll?!?!?

one more time

pictures are working so...this is where darren played last weekend. i'm so proud. who knew it would take japan to get him to sing infront of people?this is looking down our street. there is a shrine in the middle of the road. a little girl was praying there last sunday. sometimes there are fresh flowers in the vases.train station and me (and some other random people).this is asaka station. right by our apartment. not busy at all. most of the time. weekdays around 7pm is madness.some kind of festival we happened upon in ikebukero (part of tokyo). lots of food and dancing...and guys dressed like this:our humble form of transportation... i rode to and from school in a typhoon yesterday. i think i might get a rain suit this weekend.and for those of you who may have forgotten how gorgeous we are...i know, i know. the lip ring. i miss it too. we will be reacquainted when i come home though. don't worry. tonight we are going to shibuya for thanksgiving dinner at a canadian bar place called the maple leaf. we've never been there before. darren is hoping hard for canadian beer. i'm hoping for unpumpkin pie. if not, a bowl of whipped cream will do just fine.

telephone hook-up on october 10th. internet within a week after that. yesssssss....

better

better week.
better feeling.
better food.
better weather.
better.

darren played at a bar last night. his first gig ever. pretty sweet. tiny place. nice people. good songs.

i missed a birthday party. first one ever i think. how am i going to feel on my birthday?

i had a dream last night that i was at john`s school and there was a christmas dinner for the students and their families. i was sitting at the table decorating cookies with all of the kids. i think i am going to do that.

teenage girls here really like my hair. for like the third time i had some of them come up to me in the hallway at school and touch my hair and then giggle. they told one of the english teachers that they think it`s beautiful and they also said that my eyes are very pretty. yay me!

i can`t wait to get paid. maybe we can finally get some furniture.

started teaching at elementary schools 2 afternoons a week. i`m like a freaking celebrity. they follow me and scream and touch me. it`s crazy.

sorry there are no pictures. internet cafe and blogger and what not. i`ll try again... nope. still won`t let me.

have you noticed that the apostrophes i type aren`t really apostrophes??

roberto... got something for you...