Picture time!

Michelle located her card adapter and was able to put up some pictures so I will share them with you.






Here are pictures of her cake, this really cool candy flower thing (yes, candy... the whole thing. I shit you not), and the Pumpkin shots we had at Peek-a-Boo. Yes, they are flaming. Awesome.

I just got home from yet ANOTHER BBQ for someone else's birthday. Although this time I did not know the birthday girl. It was the wife of one of the guys Sky works with. Thankfully my key spouse was there because if it weren't for her I wouldn't have known anyone. The food was amazing though. I ate WAY more than I should have. Sky is still over there playing poker so I think I will take this opportunity of alone time to clean and make my katakana flash cards. Just wanted to share some pictures. I should have taken my own but I was being lazy. Next time we go out I'll get pictures of the bars and stuff. Promise.

"I was just making a point, Frank. You don't have to celebrate it."
Bernard 'Beanie' Campbell (Vince Vaughn) Old School

Yesterday we had a blast

It was Michelle's birthday so she, Gian, Sky, and I all met up for lunch at Cake House. We hung out there for a bit and then Sky and I went to run some errands. We went to the BX and got some things that we needed and some things that we wanted (NCIS season 6, baby!). Then we came home and watched it for a bit before heading over to Michelle's at around six. We got all the way over there and then realized, like dumbasses, that we forgot all the stuff we were supposed to bring. So we went back home and then back again. We were still the first one's over there though. We then hung out a bit and played with Roxy and then a whole bunch of people started showing up. One of Michelle's Japanese friend's family owns a bakery or a chain of bakeries so she brought the cake and OH MY GOD this thing was HUGE and DELICIOUS. Mmmm... It was amazing. Anyway, after the tons of food and LOTS of cake the party moved to bars in Misawa. First we went to Dacha, but that place is ridiculously expensive and tiny so we all had one drink there and then moved to a place called Peek a Boo and had Pumpkin Shots, then we went to Forever Second and everyone else had a shot called Devil's Brains, then we went over to a bar called My Place and that was where we stayed the majority of the night. I definitely think if we go to a bar again it will be that one. It was the biggest of all of them (which is quite sad because it was still pretty small) and the drinks were a little cheaper and there was karaoke and darts. We had a lot of fun. We didn't get back home until like 3am. I will put up some pictures as soon as I steal them from Michelle. :)

"THE NINJA PATH promises skills and the masters to help you master those skills. Skills that if you do not master will most likely lead to a maimed or dead you. Masters who if you do not master the skills they teach will most likely maim or dead you."
- The I.O.N from The Ninja Handbook

Oh boy....

This is going to be a LOOOOOOOOOONG semester.

I hope I didn't bite off more than I can chew. My Japanese teacher is very cool but the class is going to be difficult. I did not get the fuzzy feeling that I was going to be the top of my class in this course. I really need to step up my game if I'm going to stay in the running with my sister!

So posting may be sort of sporadic since I'm going to be SUPER busy. Ay, wish me luck.

"Hey, why do women have boobs? ... So you got something to look at when you're talking to them!"
Peter Griffin (Seth McFarland) Family Guy

Photos

From the festival and homecoming.















"You could dual-weild Sasha-bears."
My husband

Possible hiatus...

SKY'S HOME!!!!!!!!!!

So we'll probably be busy getting settled. Plus I start Japanese tomorrow also. So I may get the chance to post, I may not. Check back whenever. :) Thanks for reading.

*singing* "Everybody hates you. Everybody wishes that you were dead. Peter you suck. Peter you suck. Peter your music is fucking terrible. Peter you suck, Peter you suck. You don't do anything of value. Peter you suck. Go write some music. But instead you sit and write these bullshit songs. It's so self-loathing. Go see a psychiatrist. I hate the psychiatrist. Go see one anyway. I don't want to see a psychiatrist. You need to go see one, see a psychiatrist. I'm not going."
Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Quick update

My internet browsers have been kind of lame all day so just a quick post since I'm about to go get my beauty sleep.

I got a fantastic hair cut. YAY! :)
I got an A in Child Psych. YAY! :)
I went to a super sweet festival. YAY! :)
I get to see my husband VERY soon!!!! SUPER UBER GIANT YAY!!!! :D :D :D :D

Sweet.

"Okay, well maybe we should tell that to Rain Man, because he practically bankrupted a casino, and he was a ruh-tard."
Alan Garner (Zach Galifianakis) The Hangover

It's been a little while

But I've been pretty boring. I've just been home studying and watching Charmed. I went out with a friend (my key spouse) yesterday for dinner and I'm going to her place today to help her paint her kitchen. Then it will be back to stuyding and cleaning for me. Cleaning... seriously needs to happen.

That's about all that is going on with me. I am bursting at the seams with excitement for Sky coming home. We still don't know exactly when it is going to happen but it is going to be soon! :D :D :D I cannot wait! We've already decided that we're going to Sukiya when he gets back. It will be nice to go out to eat with my husband again. :D

Ok... I'm talking to Kimmie (she and her family got to California alright, been there a while but family had been visiting) and soon I need to get ready so I will post later.

"And I will find myself sassy and delightful."
Phoebe Halliwell (Alyssa Milano) Charmed

Sooo...

Today was this town hall meeting for all the spouses of deployed people. I thought it was going to be more informative. Like perhaps a date of when they were coming home! That would have been nice. But I guess we still only have that rough estimate and we'll find out for sure from our key spouses. God I can't wait!!! :D

The meeting was pretty much just them letting us know what services were available to us. It didn't help me really because I don't expect any "reintegration" problems that require counseling and we don't have kids so the child care does us no good. Oh well. I went anyway. I'm super tired though and I totally don't feel like doing anything but going to bed... So I think I will. G'night.

"She's going to meet bikers... big ones... full of sperm."
Katerina Stratford (Julia Stiles) 10 things I hate about you

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I GOT A 100% ON MY TERM PAPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hopefully I do as well on the final! I am SOOOOO happy!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Off to get dinner and then study for my final. :)

"You eat corn? I hate corn."
Master Shake (Dana Snyder) Aqua Teen Hunger Force

I'm so annoyed with myself

I got up today at 0 dark thirty because I could not for the life of me remember whether my appointment was today or tomorrow. It is tomorrow as my sister and I both thought but I wanted to confirm because the last time I was sure of when my appointment was I totally failed. lol So I got all paranoid and got up at the butt crack of dawn to call. So I get to get up again tomorrow but at least I know for sure I'm going somewhere at that hour. Which is not fun either. So I called and then I cleaned a bit, then I spent way too much time on the internet. Then I was about to get to reading my child psych book and Michelle called to see if I wanted to come to Sanwado with her to get puppy pads since her puppy (now officially named Roxy) might have a slight bladder infection. So I decided, a chance to see Roxy, hell yeah! And went with her.

Roxy slept on my lap on the way to drop her off at Michelle's. We put her in her kennel and then off we went to Sanwado. Not only did we get puppy pads we got this cool little thing for them. It's sort of like a cat box... but for dogs... and minus the litter. It has three pieces: a tray, a grate, and a top with snaps. You put the puppy pad on the tray and then the grate over it and the snap on the top. So dogs get on it and pee but it goes down through the grate onto the pad and then they don't get covered in their own urine. It's pretty sweet. They're going to use that to train her. Since she's a pet store puppy they tend to be harder to train so she's thinking this might help. I hope so. I know how frustrating it can be to potty train a puppy. So anyway, we got that stuff from Sanwado and then we went to Shiroi Mori (Cake House) for lunch because we are total sluts for cake house. :) lol Then we went and played with the puppy a bit and then she dropped me off at home. Now I will stop procrastinating and actually start homework.

I just need to do this week's assignment and then study for my final. He gave us a study guide to use so that's good. I'm so glad our final only covers chapters 11-15. Hopefully I do well on it. I need to re-read chapter 14 though. I had problems getting through it. I should probably go back through all of them. We'll see. I'm definitely going to look through and find all the answers for the study guide and study those. Anyway, before I go check out these super adorable pictures of Roxy.



Isn't she just so cute????? :D

I thought so too. <3 I puffy heart Roxy. Mmmkay, I'm going to stop procrastinating now.

"No, I need to B my L on someone's T's."
Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Oh man

The remainder of this month is going to be super busy. I'm already all disoriented. I totally forgot Kimmie's birthday (and I STILL feel like an asshole), I can't remember which day my appointment is so I'm waking up at the crack of dawn to call and find out, my house is still ridiculously wrecked, and I need to study for my final, as well as continue the work for each week. Luckily we've moved back to one chapter a week (I think, I hope anyway!)

I'm totally going to bed here soon since I have to get up so early. If my appointment is tomorrow I'll go there and bring my child psych book and study while I wait. Then I will come home and do homework and clean pretty much all day. Same thing for tomorrow except I'm actually going to have dinner with some friends. Then my days will pretty much look the same until the 20th which is the day of my final. After that it will be just cleaning until Sky gets home and then we'll PARTY! I can't wait. I'm so excited to see him (although, I hope when I do see him he doesn't have his mustache anymore! :P srsly though honey, if you're reading this... shave that thing).

Anyway, let's hope I can keep my head on until Sky gets home. Then at least if I fall apart he'll be here to pick up the pieces. But I'm going to bed now. Oyasumi.

"Ease up, Pillowpants. He's not into your D&D, gobots bullshit."
Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson) Clerks II

Jeez-us....

That paper for child psych kicked my arse. I'm just hoping it's good enough. :s The people who read it said it sounded good so let's hope my instructor feels the same. Sorry about the hiatus but I needed to work on that. I'll probably be going to a BBQ at Peggy's tonight. That'll be nice to get some great food and hang out. Maybe we'll go relax in her neighbor's hot tub with some sake! :) That would make me feel better after this long week.

Although it wasn't all bad. I did take some breaks for some good food (cake house and pepper lunch to be exact) and Gian and Michelle got a very cute border collie puppy. It is unclear whether or not she has been officially named. But she is ADORABLE.

We went to Sanwado (which is a little like Wal-mart) and got a couple things for the puppy and then we went to Daiso (the 100 yen store) to see if they had any pet stuff. They really didn't but I got my last charm thing from the Nightmare Before Christmas mystery package things I was getting. :) Yay! I'll have to take a picture.

That's really it. So I'm going to relax and eat before I have to start getting ready to leave. I do have to study for my finals soon and prep the house for homecoming but I will try and blog as much as possible.

"I got stuck doing a piece for Vanity Fair."
Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) Robert Downey Jr. Iron Man

Ra-se-ra-ra-se-ra-ra-se-ra-se-ra-se-ra!

:D Nebuta festival!


Freaking awesome floats. And Michelle's friend picked like the perfect place for us to stand because they would stop the huge floats and spin them right in front of us. It was awesome. See?


After the festival we went to a resturant called "Biki Donkey" (I think) and it was pretty good. I got the dinner set with my meal which had a really good soup and salad. I was stuffed. Which made me kind of sad because their dessert looked awesome. But whatev.

Anyway, I just got some suitcases that Sky sent me and I need put those and lots of other laundry away. I need to clean up a bit and then start reading for my paper. I'll probably post some of the other videos again later. (It takes forever and I don't have the patience right now.)

"Now you see, the changing of the worrd is inevitabre!"
Kim Jong Il (Trey Parker) Team America: World Police

Dang...

Writing a paper in APA is hard! lol. I'm struggling just with the format! My sister sent me a really good link to a very helpful resource which I very much appreciate. It has been saving me. So far I only have my introduction but I wanted Desiree to read it before I proceed (with the writing) so after I get dinner I'll just be reading the articles I selected.

So my paper is dominating my life after tomorrow until it is done. Tomorrow is the Nebuta festival (and I was mistaken, it's in Aomori not Hachinohe).

The only other thing to post is the monkey sightings! That's right, there is at least one monkey who has decided to call our base it's home. There have been quite a few sightings in the past week. We are not entirely sure what kind of monkey it is but some people think it might be a snow monkey. I really want to see it so I can get a picture! I will let you know if I do. :) Off to fetch me some dinner though.

"Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts."
-Author Unknown