Sunday, May 30, 2010
a proper drink today...
Saturday, May 22, 2010
30 something odd days later...
Saturday, April 24, 2010
ok, 7-11 isn't the devil
coconut milk tapioca jelly from azumi (can't find a pic)...
some weird pulpy orange juice with jelly
i managed to score a striped swing tank and a striped tank dress for a measly $30 bucks...now for the beautiful magnolia flowered hairpin...i must return for that. i think i purposely didn't buy it so that i would have an excuse to come back. now that i think about it, when the husbandface was deployed, i went to the mall EVERY week. how i miss those days...
in any case, the little one will be here any day now...i guess i'll have to make do with online shopping for the 6 weeks i'll be on maternity leave, so not all hope is lost!
Thursday, February 18, 2010
latest discovery: coffee jelly
Saturday, January 30, 2010
adventures in food
i finally found a place that sold ice cream mochi by the singles and not surprisingly, i love it. Chateraise down the street on the east side carries about 6-8 different flavors and i got to try the matcha green tea and the adzuki bean one. deliciously sinful: pounded rice cake on the outside, green tea and vanilla ice cream on the inside. *drools*
Friday, November 27, 2009
everything and all at once
it's 49-39 now, less than 3 minutes on the clock, eeeek!
so i have to work backwards, since i uploaded pictures in chronological order but they posted all ass-backward.
i finally started knitting again, nothing special, just another scarf, but look at the yarn i picked up. it was from a year ago at last year's annual craft fair on base. mrs. colleen uchiyama spins her own yarn at home and the results are amazing and beautiful. it's taken me a year to decide to use it, it's just too pretty to knit and contain it in one form. i like scarves, but i'd like to imagine that if my knitting or crochet skills were better, it would be a beanie or hand-warmers. i guess i'll need to stalk her again and get some more before she leaves...or i do.
here's what i started yesterday at the thankgiving dinner party at the glapions.
i started this today, since i have about 2 weeks to get them done before i head out: some basket liners for tameco's baby room. it's gonna be a dallas cowboys theme. 2 down, about 6 more to go and a changing pad cover.
over the weekend, jeremy put the baby crib together. since i declared it a 'daddy-only project', i sat in my sewing room putting together this little guy from http://saltnpaper.blogspot.com/. they've got a bunch of other neat paper folding projects too, so i'll have to favorite them to keep up.
last weekend's baby shower for tameco. this was all gissell's planning and ideas, but i got to put them up. it was a super classy event. turns out, she's an events planner!
i bombed manda's door! birthday bomb! this year's theme was t-rexes, so i poured confetti all over her front door and planted little plastic dinosaurs all around, with balloons, streamers, and her birthday presents. i got this ridiculously awesome baby t-rex for her too, i just couldn't pass it up!
a couple of weeks ago, i met up amanda for her birthday outing to the round 1 in hachioji, she had made me some purple clay roses with glitter. she's getting so damn crafty now!
a daruma i painted at the craft fair this year. totally worth the 500Y. it's supposed to be like a sugar skull for dia de los muertos...but close enough, since i free-handed it!
a pretty hand crafted choker i bought from tamae's friend at this year's annual craft fair. i was disappointed about the number of vendors there, but some of the booths more than made up for it.
and an early birthday party for me from thursday class: a delectable 5 course italian meal with antipasti, pasta, seared crusted scallops, dessert, and great coffee.
so to end it on a good note, i'm glad that the holidays are around, finally some extra days off for me to rest, relax, and unwind with the projects i've been putting off for forever. TX won too! Hook Em Horns!
Sunday, October 4, 2009
furrrever
the latest scoop is that there will be a mini-me come april 2010 and i have so many plans for the little one. homemade clothes and toys, tons of photos to remember what it was like being pregnant, but it hasn't been what i expected. i've completely drowned myself in work (from the hours of 8am-5pm) and when i come home, i crash. no morning sickness to remember how the first few months were like, just a sonogram and a memory of a teeny tiny eensy weensy little fluttering heartbeat. sometimes, i can't even tell i'm pregnant...or i forget. other than gaining a little weight, not much going on the in the buddha belly department.
in any case, pray for change and that i get my creative streak back. i'm hoping to make special something by a certain day, a project to work on with manda, since she went through the same thing i did, and to make some neat stuff...i don't care what. i'm starvicating for A&C.
Monday, February 23, 2009
progress
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!
Labels: miso salmon, necklace, okonimiyake
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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!
Monday, February 9, 2009
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...
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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:
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
awww man...
i embroidered a scarf for loulou and made kairi a little cape from the pink fabric with the crowns on it, but i forgot to take pictures of it. maybe if i get to see her with it on, i'll take a picture of it. i finished our christmas stocking ages ago, i must take pictures of it...which i'll do as soon as i remember.
now, for my next projects...knitting and shrine-making.
merry christmas, loves! see you next year!
Saturday, December 13, 2008
sooooo...
i got help on the blog overhaul, but it wasn't much help. i finally have my very own christmas tree and sad little wreath on my door. gold and burn orange of course. all the presents underneath the tree are my birthday presents...*giggles*
i started working on jeremy's and my christmas stockings but i didn't get to finish, so i'm hoping i'll finish it tonight. i painted some banners for the kid's christmas play at the chapel tomorrow. nothing fancy, but helping out a friend.
so here's what you missed, wow, i have't done anything since february...when work got CRAZY...:
february: got butt-naked at the hot spring in the freezing cold. snow...lots of snow...and nekkidness
march: officially became a sworn-in member of civil service...i'm a government work-horse now
april: my sister turned 30 and cried....seriously
may: jeremy deployed, along with g-money, brandolonius, and galvan, all i had was johnitra and dreyson, my little mans
june: johnitra left me for georgia, i'm still waiting for her to end this charade of moving and to come home to japan
july: brewster left his asian mamma
august: nothing much
september: jeremy returns! adjust to having him back around
october: halloween and the bestest costume evar!
november: officially turned 18 again, awesome presents
now: just hanging out and trying to make it more like christmas here. i got a bigger wreath today from the bxtra because it was almost 50% off and got some stocking holders for the floating shelves.
still need to make those damn stockings...
been buying copies of 'cotton friend,' it's pretty good and has alot of cute patterns, i'm currently on the country look, flat riding boots, sweaters and knits...running now too, so we'll see how this goes...
Saturday, November 29, 2008
overhaulin'
so i totally spent most of today overhaulin this blog, i'm not done yet and there's more to come!
Friday, February 22, 2008
wicked
many compliments on how well i'm performing at work, a few of the senior leaders
think i'm doing great and that i deserve a raise...
it's not possible for them to give me a raise since
i'm a contractor, but just hearing it means i'm doing something right
i finally got an offer to become a permanent department of defense employee,
which rocks because i can finally get benefits, but sucks, because i'm taking
a huge pay cut...we'll see if i take the firm offer...
near the end of january, the senior leaders decided to 'reward' me
for my 15 months of hard work by giving me a good tdy to HAWAII!
i thoroughly enjoyed myself, made some new friends and drank maitais every day
last week, i made 75 conversation cupcakes for valentine's day:
then i went to the hot springs earlier this month and it snowed!
yes, my nekkidness was very cold, but sitting in the hot springs was soooo relaxing,
that i'll have to make another trip here again...i got to make paper and 2 postcards at a
paper making workshop:
tonight, my awesomeness made a diaper cake for my friend
tameco's baby shower, i'm so cracked out tired and my neck & back spasm
is starting up again, i think i'll just give up on playing with
my new apple itouch and go to bed, but lookie lookie!
yes, i am this talented. toot toot!