progress

this week was a productive week:

early on: initiate download of a bajillion movies and videos, mostly oscar contenders

tues/wed: talk to the head cheese about my future at the office: outlook looks good and changes seen in the horizon

wed night: found the okonomiyake place and had dinner with barbara...later on, birthday bombed evie's door

start:batter, pork, cabbage, corn, bean sprouts

end: yummyness

thur night: engrish crass & a good coffee

fri night: karaoke at evie's with manda, barbara, and nicole...and actually sang

sat: bummed around all day because i felt like i was getting sick, that,
and i was tired from friday night (4am??!!), did laundry,
cleaned out the fridge and pantry,
went to the commissary for groceries

today: woke up early, went to the yuzawa-ya in kichijoji with connie and her daughter audrey, bought some stuff to make a necklace, tested the miso salmon and sake butter recipe,
and made the necklace!

miso salmon with rice and sake butter and spinach salad
(similar to the one at cheesecake factory)

final necklace
close up of the beads, chain, and connectors, i used some old faux pink pearls i had laying around and got some green teardrops and pink sakura beads
all in all, very satisfied with this past week, however short it was...

i wish we had 3 day weekends more often though, work is a drag...i guess that's why it's called work...argh.

later, gator!

spoke too soon...

i got to finish thad's curtains when i went home early because i wasn't feeling well...now to get through the rest of this week...and the LeMay team. i hope we win this award, we need bragging rights.

i'm excited, just when i thought i wouldn't be getting to hit the slopes again for another year, i got an invite for sunday to go snowboarding. i'm excited. really excited. i hope it don't break anything...just my ego.

time to hop in the shower and get ready for bed...and figure out how to purl!

night night loves!

feb vs nov

i thought that november usually had a lot of birthdays because everyone copulates in february because of valentine's day and the results of all those couples....copulating...come out in november...case in point: moi, a november baby.

but this months seems fulls of birthdays, first noriko, then eric and andy, eugene, shizu and evie. that's alot of presents to buy. I managed to get a cute purse for noriko and a cake, and for eric, i made him some sequinned pasties. now for shizu and evie...

here are pics from the table decoration contest and a snapshot of the pasties...XXX fun!



i have yet to go snowboarding...that's something else i'm working on...now if only i can finish making these curtains for thad...i think this was one of those times i should have used the "hobby card" = don't turn my hobby into a job...so i agreed and got suckered into making curtains for him, beggars can't be choosers, so he'll have to live the rest of his natural life with the prototypes i've made...

jeremy is still gone and life is exceptionally boring, although quiet, without him. i like the quiet, but if only i could get him to stop making so much noise everywhere he goes...

february

february has had a good start. aside from jeremy being gone all this month, which sucks, i don't have to worry about fixing dinner or keeping the house clean, because i pick up after myself.

on sunday, we (me, tamae, kumiko, rumiko, hiromi, izumi, and shizu) went to a 'table decoration' show that showcased the winners of the tokyo table decoration contest (read: interesting table setting, centerpieces, and ambiance creation). lots of nice table settings, which made me want to invest in some nice china...but i know the movers will eventually break them.

they had alot of pottery and china vendors. i wanted to go to the noritake and the arita vendor, but we had to leave early. but at least i got to see the inside of the tokyodome and the tokyo dome hotel, which has a nice chinese buffet.

i plan on going snowboarding soon and figuring how to knit all those neat yarns i bought from mrs. colleen uchiyama. she handspins these yarns, let me tell you, they are pieces of art and beautiful.

here's a cool video i found on Spike:

Ultimate Canon Rock | Viral | SPIKE.com