Cherry Blossom Adventures

Stolen from Steph!

When I was a kid, I had three dogs before I turned 8. One died, one bit the neighbor because he threw stuff at me and my brother so we had to give her away, and the last one, Sophie, we gave away when we moved. I haven`t had a dog since but Shun and I are contemplating getting one. I would just feel really bad about keeping it in our TINY TINY apartment.

When I was a kid, I ate no vegetables. But would have a fruit platter every night with dinner. Usually made into funny shapes like faces, trains etc. Usually the work of my father. I now eat some vegetables but still stay away from a lot of them. But I can safely say i eat more than my brother…who has only recently introduced one or two vegetables into his diet.

When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up and either go to the Olympics as a runner or be a doctor. I now realize they were fairly unrealistic dreams. Firstly, while I was fast, I was never THAT fast and secondly I never had the brains to be a doctor.

When I was a kid, my brother and I shared an imaginary friend. He was bald and looked a little bit like a tiny crash dummy. When my brother was born I had two different imaginary friends called James and Mary. James wore blue overalls and Mary wore pink ones.

When I was a kid, my best friend stabbed me with a pacer or a pen in the knee. We were about 10 I guess….She got angry at me and stabbed me. I still have the little dot where the lead or pen ink is still there.

When I was a kid, I used to think teenagers were so old. Then I became one and realized they knew nothing. A friends sister was only 3 or 4 years older than me and I thought she knew everything and was such an adult yet when I got to her age I realized that it was nothing and that been 14 seemed no different really to been ten. Except I had better boobs.

When I was a kid, I imagined I would be a virgin til I got married. I think my friends thought the same thing. My, how times change.

When I was a kid, I was an avid reader (still am) and started reading at an unusually young age. I used to pile up the funken wagnell encyclopedias and spread them out around me to look at. This was even before I turned two. I still read a lot, yet it is pretty trashy compared to the good old funken wagnell encyclopedias!

When I was a kid, I am pretty sure I thought Japan and China were the same thing (place). Now when I send my godson money for his birthday he gets all excited and tells his friends he received `Chinese money` despite his mother telling him over and over again it is from Japan.

When I was a kid, I had the worst haircuts. It is not my mums fault. I am sure she was going with the fashion of the time. But I guess because of my GIANT front teeth it was hard to find a haircut to compliment that.

Anyway who wants to do this, please take it. Link back to Steph! Let me know so that I can read yours too!!! I love hearing `when I was a kid…` stories!

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I am so tired this weekend. I have slept most of today. I think it is the medicine I bought for my cough (asthma) because I started taking it at lunch time today and then slept from 3 until 6:30. It isn`t like I didn`t sleep much last night because I had at least 9 or 10 hours. I hope the medicine doesn` t make me drowsy at work.

I had a fairly quiet weekend. (Read: No hangovers!) I had dinner with friends on Friday night and then hung out all day on Saturday with them since Shun was snowboarding. And then last night I had dinner with the same friends plus 5 others. I really love my friends. I love the fact that we all get along fine despite some of my friends not speaking Japanese and some not speaking English.

Last night S introduced himself to J (Although they have met before S forgot). He stuck out his hands to shake it. J doesn`t speak much English and S`s really strong Scottish accent makes it hard on anyone. J thought S was offering to take his bag so he handed over his bag. S looked at it blankly.

This is when I leaned over and said to J `S is introducing himself, he wants to shake your hand` J looked at me and said `But we have met before`

Anyway maybe it is the kind of story where you had to be there!!! I thought it was so funny. I find S hard to understand at the best of times…I am constantly saying `What?` but he seems to have no problems understanding me. He is from Glasgow and has the strongest accent ever. But I guess it really doesn`t matter. Last night was lots of fun, although I came home early cos I was feeling sick. I guess I just love the fact that we can all hang out, an eclectic bunch of people, to have dinner last minute just cos we can. And the fact that despite language barriers at times we all of have a great time anyway!

Question time: Are you a bad person if you laugh at non politically-correct jokes? I felt bad laughing but they were so funny.

Just to end off the post on a weird note…check out this pig and strawberry. There has been some strange news recently wouldn`t you say…I wanted to post the pictures here but the damn things wouldn`t work so you`ll have to actually click on the links!

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