Cherry Blossom Adventures

• I have a sewing lesson next Sunday for 2.5 hours and another scheduled for the same amount of time a week later. I think If I have a bit of guidance then I will be able to go from there. But get this, the five hour worth of lessons only costs $85 and it is a private lesson, at her house, and she provides all the practice materials, instructions and gives all students a mini sewing kit. I am stoked to have found this lady and even better her house is just a 5 minute drive from my house.
• I am thinking of singing up for a cooking class with my dad or a weekly writing course somewhere near town. Not sure yet. I might do both depending on costs. My dad likes to cook and I thought the cooking would be something we could do together. We are thinking Thai at the moment… I also really want to do a writing course of some sort also but I guess I am thinking really I should just write more and that would give me the practice I need.
• The next couple of weekends are pretty busy- next weekend especially. Friday night we are eating out in West End at a famous Indian resteraunt with some of Shun`s school friends and my friend Dani. Shun`s friend Yuya has been wanting to meet Dani for ages so it is kind of a mini set up although not really I guess due to the communication issues they will face. Then on Saturday Shun & I are going whale watching. THen on Sunday I have my sewing lesson and am then meeting about 5 friends from primary school, some of whom I haven`t seen in about 10 years…..that is the wonders of facebook for you!
• We are making a vegie garden tomorrow. I am very excited. We are thinking Corn, Capsicum, lebonese cucumbers, snow peas, strawberries, different types of herbs, lettuces of some kind,cherry tomatos,red onions and garlic root (ninniku no me…still not sure where to get this from yet though). I also have my heart set on a mulberry tree!We will need to build a little fence for it so that Abbey can`t get in as at the moment that is what she is doing with the strawberries I had growing. She eats them before they get ripe enough for us to pick them. Silly dog!
• I met up with my friend Dani last night for the first time in ages. We enjoyed thai food, wine and then back at her house a very unpolitically correct movie. This morning she cooked me breakfast and I went off to have an hour long massage before coming to pick me up at my place to go shopping. The shopping idea was a bit spur of the moment. Dani & I have not shopped together since highschool but we have discovered that we now make EXCELLENT shopping campanions! Plus a lot of shops where having mid season sales…I got a couple of bargains! Dani got to my place before I got home and she was playing with Abbey and talking to Shun when I got in. She was very impressed with how much better his English has gotten in the six or so weeks since she last saw him. He was very humble about it but I think he was happy that she noticed! Dani & I had a love hate relationship most of the way through school…we are both scarily similar and that caused some problems but now that we are older we just deal with each others crap and I have to say that one of the reasons we get on so well is because we both spent time overseas when we were about 19/20 and grew up a lot where as some of the other people we went to school with pretty much failed to do this. Dani cracks me up….today for example we were driving along and saw something on the road which looked like a roast pork…I said “wow did you see that, what was it” and she replied ” It looked like a roast- should we stop and pick it up for dinner and when mum asks us where we got it we can say side of the road” …..we both agreed later that it had probably been a palm frond (sp?). We also decided that spatious shouldn`t just mean full of space but also “out of space like”.
• Shun & I went to pick up my engagement ring the other day because they had it since they were making the wedding rings and we saw our wedding rings- they are done and I am in love. They were SOOOOO good! Shun`s only requirement for his that he wanted to be able to wear it in an onsen (!!! I know right!) and I wanted mine to fit with the engagement ring. So Shun choose a titanium ring and I had a platinum ring made with white and blue diamonds to match the engagment ring. We are SOOOOOOO happy with them!
• Would it be appropriate to rock up to my own wedding in a mini? I am thinking of doing it. We are having hiring car difficulties at the moment for the wedding since a lot of classic cars etc are no longer available and my mother has proved me wrong again because she did tell me about 2 months ago that I really should book cars sooner rather than later and yet I rang 5 or 6 places the other day and nothing. Shun likes the idea of a limo though….so maybe we will go with that (or a mini!)
• There seems to be a bit of a baby craze happening at the moment- it is making me a little clucky. Not enough to make me want to get knocked up just yet, but I am getting cluckier all the same!
• Work is driving me a little insane at the moment. The lack of communication where I work is amazing- I am only a temp staff member and I know this, and I also know that it means I shouldn`t let stuff get to me, but the lack of communication amougst the staff is making my job harder and it honestly feels like I am hitting my head against a brick wall at times. Plus, the girl I started with Sam, is leaving in two weeks to go back to travelling (she was backpacking, over from England). I am thinking about telling my agency I do not wish to be extended anymore and asking them to find me something else. Knowing that I am only going to be in Australia until end of May, makes job hunting a little difficult. I might see good full-time jobs online but I would feel really bad taking on a permanant position knowing that I will not be there for more than six months. That is why temping suits me, but I just feel like I could be doing something so much better than general admin work and I also feel like I should at least be trying to use the Japanese/PR/Journalism skills I have. I know I should just pull my head in and deal with it, especially since I am unlikely to be extended past Christmas anyway since the person who used to do my current job will return to his position then but still, I am more than a little over it.
• Hard to beleive Christmas is just over 2 months away- I better get started on my plan to make sure Shun experiences a proper Australian christmas. I guess we will have to get a tree…
• I might be going to Melbourne in November- if James, our friend in Japan, heads home to Melbourne for a couple of days then we will go down to see him and hopefully catch a show while we are there. I have my heart set on seeing wicked!
• I guess I had a lot more random stuff to say then I thought- thank god for dotpoints!

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