Cherry Blossom Adventures

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Z is for Zero…

Well the encyclopedia of me series is coming to an end. I started originally to have mini writing goals to work towards but it never really worked out the way I planned. I also thought I would have finished blogging it all a lot sooner but life and other blog posts got in the way.

There are now zero posts left in the series as all 26 letters for it have been completed. I thought a recap from A-Z would be a good idea as some of you who read my blog now might not have been reading my blog back when I originally started this way back in February. (You can start here to read from A, or click on the links below for each individual post)

A is for Ashley

B is for Beliefs

C is for Cancer

D is for Depression

E is for Exchange

F is for Future

G is for Growing up

H is for Happy times (announced engagement)

I is for Internet & Blogging

J is for Japanese

K is for Kokyo

L is for Life List

M is for Mother

N is for Nancy Drew

O is for Occupation

P is for Possum Magic

Q is for Questions & Queries

R is for Rainbow Bright

S is for Sandalot Kids

T is for Travel

U is for Unbelievable

V is for Vicious Cycle

W is for Wedding News

X is for X-rays

Y is for Young

Z is for Zero

I enjoyed participating in this encyclopedia of me “meme”, and am a little sad to see it end. Some people have participated in it more than once (for example gone from A-Z twice!).

Ps: Had to add this, so far Shun has had ZERO smokes today!!! Yay!

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Y is for young…

23 is not that young but it isn`t exactly old either. Some people have commented on the fact that I am so young to be getting married but I don`t see it that way….in fact I will be 24 when I get married and I will have known Shun for 4 & a half years by then and we will have lived together for more than 3 years. Getting married at this age was never the plan I had growing up but life moves in mysterious ways and I met my soulmate at 19 instead of say 25. Shun will be almost 28 when we get married in May….and he was 23 when I met him- the age I am now…and he wanted to get married and have kids then and I was like “What? Your 23, are you crazy?” and I turned down his proposal (he asked me to marry him the second time we met- the night of our first real date)

And here I am, at the same age, preparing to get married and thinking about starting a family.

A friend has announced her pregnancy (Hi S!) and another would like to have a baby sometime next year and Shun & I have been talking more and more about when we would like to start a family. If he had his way I would already be pregnant (well actually if he had had his way we`d already have had two kids!) but I never felt I was ready (or that we were financially stable enough to have a child) and I guess I am a bit traditional and would prefer to be married before having kids (although I have absolutely nothing against those who have kids out of marriage) and now that our wedding is coming up, the talk of the future, children and having babies is on our minds and something we have been talking about a lot.

I know that some would think I am too young to start a family and others will say we should wait a couple of years and enjoy been married and time for the two of us(and this post might open myself up to some of these comments) but Shun & I have lived together and had a lot of time for the two of us over the years and I have studied, travelled & done the kinds of things people say you should do before starting a family.

We would like a couple of kids and I think I would like to be a younger mum- In fact I would like to have two kids (most likely) and I think I would like to be done by the time I am 30. I used to worry so much that I would be a crap mother, in fact as a teenager I was so scared of having kids as I was so worried I would screw them up but I know that Shun & I, together, would be able to handle it and I am confident we could raise beautiful well adjusted kids!

With the complications people can have trying to get pregnant these days as well I figure the sooner we start trying then at least if we do have any issues we can go see someone  about them while we are still relatively young.

So we are thinking we will start trying sometime next year, after the wedding and we return to Japan, and if all goes according to plan we would be welcoming a bub sometime in 2010. It`s funny, when I was in China I had my fortune told and they wanted Shun`s name, kanji, date of birth etc to see if we were a good match (we were) and I was also told that the most amazing thing would happen to me in 2010 and that I would become unbelievably happy. I didn`t think much of it at the time but recently when we were talking Shun brought it up and said “maybe the baby is what they meant” and maybe he is right- maybe that is what they meant.

I may be young (to some) but Shun & I know what we want and I don`t think it matters what age we are because it is the kind of thing that you know, deep in your heart, when the time is right. I want to be a mum, and Shun wants to be a papa and we want to have a baby together.

I tossed up whether I should post about something like this on my blog as I know it might open myself up to some critism but honestly I have written about other things in recent months that I never thought I would write about on here, in such a public form, but I have found writing about it and getting it out there has always made things so much better.

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X is for x-rays…

There are not many options for the letter “x”…but it was one of the easier choices of topics.

See I have probably had more x-rays in my 23 years of life than my father, mother & brother have had all added up. I was an accident prone child always falling over, always twisting something or pulling something and constantly at the doctors having x-rays for all different parts of my body. In this x-ray category I am including cat scans, bone scans and any other kind of scan you can think of. My first x-ray, that I remember, was when I was five and squashed my foot in a bike (between the peddle, wheel & spokes). It was my left foot, and to date that is the body part that has caused me the most trouble in my relatively short life. There were no broken bones…it was just a sprain.

I was a runner when I was younger (hard to believe now I know) and was constantly rolling my ankles or knees and ending up on crutches after x-rays- in fact when I was in highschool and on crutches for what was probably the tenth time my parents decided to just buy some crutches so that they could stop borrowing them from the chemist or hospital. Of my ankles alone I would say I have had at least 15 x-rays & bone scans.

Having braces at the end of primary school meant teeth x-rays…lots of them.

In highschool a friends ex boyfriend twisted my hand (long story) and then I sailed all weekend and it swelled up to three times the size and a week later I had an x-ray. The found a chip I think? Then I got angry one day six months later and  slammed my hand down on the kitchen bench (I couldn`t find chocolate- that is why I was angry) and it swelled up again. More x-rays. Then several months later it swelled up for no reason (I woke up and it was fat) and I had more x-rays- they found nothing & now I just have a slight lump on that hand…even now.

Dislocated my shoulder (I fell out of an above ground pool- I may have been a little drunk)- more x-rays…dislocated it again in Japan running into my bedroom doorway. Had another x-ray and there was a cracked bone.

There was also some finger x-rays in there…and a head x-ray or two (one in Japan when the crazy guy hit me on the head with the beer glass and split my head open). Had some torn cartlidge in my ribs last year and had a couple of x-rays then too…no broken ribs though.

Plus in Japan they are fans of doing chest x-rays and I had to have a couple for visa`s in the past. (and for some reason whenever I go to the doctors in Japan with ashtma they usually take a chest x-ray then too)

So yeah, you could say I am SLIGHTLY accident prone…and have had too many x-rays. So many in fact that  they now make me wear a lead coat to prevent me from becoming radioactive!!! I don`t think there is a body part I have not had x-rayed…

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W is for Wedding News…

I tossed up many ideas for “W is for…” including the following: words, wiccans, witches, women, women`s rights, where is wally, wax museum & wallowing . These were just a few of the contenders but then I realized it has been awhile since I have done a proper wedding update and a lot has been happening and I have much to report!

We have crossed many things off our list and it is hard to believe that this weekend will mark six months to the big event! For those who don`t know Shun & I will be getting married on May 9, 2009 in Brisbane. We set the date back in February when we were still in Tokyo and my mum organized a venue for us before we even came back to Australia.

We have since been the venue together and it is lovely- perfect for kind of wedding we want. Our ceremony & reception will be held at the same place and there is also hotels on site which will be able to accommodate our international guests. We actually went just a couple of weeks back to see how it all looks when a wedding is coming in and it was all so pretty and enchanting.

We have also sent out “save the date” cards due to the high number of international invitees (The fan in the background was a gift from Benay & Naoki`s wedding)

I am still working on trying to incorporate some other Japanese traditions into the wedding…Any ideas are welcome.

We have gone for a cherry blossom theme (with pink and silver as the colour scheme!) as previously mentioned and are busy trying to incorporate that into as many aspects of the wedding as possible. It might be difficult to do that in the bouquets (which is a little dissapointing but I figured that already since May in Australia is not the right time of year for them) but we can use silks for the decorations etc.

We have organized a band, Soul Therapy and also cars (champagne coloured rolls royces!). We also have an awesome photographer who we will actually be having an engagement photoshoot with sometime in the new year. She will come to my mum`s house on the morning of the wedding to take photos of us getting ready and then will go to see Shun & the boys at Shangri-la (the venue!) before photographing the wedding and also coming with us down to the bay to have some photos taken by the water. All of this is part of the package we choose and it will include a magazine style album & some large prints. I have met with a a florist who will do all our bouquets, button holes & possibly deocorations for outside in the garden. I have also found a terrific dress maker for my dress & for the bridesmaids dresses…The style for the bridesmaids is choosen and I have a fair idea what I want for my dress also. We will meet with the dressmaker again in December or January and the bridemaids (none of which are in Brisbane by the way- one in London, one in Tokyo & another in Mt Isa) will send their measurements to me directly. When Clarie, one of my bridesmaids, was in Brisbane a couple of weeks ago down from Mt Isa we went and bought the material for the bridesmaid dresses- It is a bright fushia pink in dupian silk.

Several months back we found a great celebrant also who we both felt extremely comfortable with. We still have a lot of things to read through and choose for this though for example readings and what kind of vows we would like to say. I am hoping to find time in the next couple of weekends to go through this all with Shun as it will involve a little translating on my part.

Our wedding rings have also been chosen, bought and paid for! We already have them and we are both sooooooooo happy with them. I would show pictures but I am not sure on the ettiqutte of that kind of thing?! You might all have to wait six months to see pictures! Mine was made especially to fit with

Lastly, we also already have a cake maker (it will be a cherry blossom cake- probably marble mud cake with pink icing- she is also making us customized wedding cake toppers which Shun is so excited about as he had no idea people could do that kind of thing!)- Going to visit the cake maker in general has been Shun`s favourite wedding related meeting I think! Although he also loved seeing the venue all set up for a wedding as well.

Next on the list to organize is suits, honeymoon, bridal accessories, favours & getting the proper invitations ready to go. I will then have to start working on translations for the programs etc…Although T from TJ in Japan sent me translations from her Aussie wedding a couple of years back which are going to be extremely helpful!!!

I don`t think we are forgetting anything – we have no idea where to go for our honeymoon. We had a couple of ideas but I think we are back to square one now I think. Any suggestions??

So there you go, that is all the wedding news as of now….Am I forgetting anything?

I wish I could show more photos but it is a little hard I guess. All in due time though!!!

Some of the wedding planning has been a little stressful- like when one our groomsmen said he didn`t think he could come…we are still not sure if he is or not. The concept of groomsmen is kind of lost on Japanese people and I don`t think this friend understood that when Shun asked him and he agreed that it meant he would actually have to come to Australia. I know this is a big ask…Shun doesn`t (or didn`t- he has more of an idea now) exactley understand much about groomsmen and bridesmaids either.

Overall, things have gone fairly smoothly though. I can not believe that this time next year we will be married…It sounds a little crazy when I say it outloud but it still sounds so right! I am really looking forward to being married to Shun….

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V is for Vicious Cycle…

My father is an alcoholic.

He was never violent or abusive in the way you think alcholics are. In fact we had no idea he was an alcholoic until one day he went into hospital with severe stomach pain which turned out to be pancreatitis. He detoxed in an emergency room and ended up in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) before getting transferred to a private rehabilitation centre. We knew he drank, we even knew he drank a lot although we had no idea how much.

My father is an alcholic and he will always be that way. I was a student in Japan the first time he detoxed. I was not here and I am constantly reminded of this. He stayed in hospital and a rehabilitation centre for almost six weeks all together. He almost died.

My father is an alcoholic. I came back to Australia earlier this year because he was drinking again (they had also found that his cancer had returned after 8 years in remission however he is not undergoing treatment for this at this time) and while my family had not given up on him they had been through it many times before so I came back to care for him.He entered rehab again 3 days after I arrive. This was is 4th or perhaps 5th time to enter the facility and like we do everytime we hoped it would be the last time. It was a bad detox, perhaps the worst or at least the same as that first time. He ended up in ICU again and we were told that he probably wouldn`t make a recovery and it was very touch and go for about a week. We were told if he did make it he would be left with a type of alcoholics dementure meaning he would more than likely need 24 hour care.

My father is an alcoholic and when I returned to Australia earlier this year I almost lost him. He was lucky to survive the latest detox and I honestly thought he would not make it long enough to see Shun & I get married or ever meet his future grandkids.

My father is an alcoholic. When I saw him at the hospital he did not recognize me and I barely recognized him. He could not walk, could barely talk and wanted me to help him escape. Now, several months later he still does not remember me coming to see him.

My father is an alcoholic and when he left the rehabilitation centre this time around we really thought things would work out (like we have every other time). He attended AA meetings 2 or 3 times a week and would go to his rehabilitation centre for one day a fortnight. While he didn`t remember much of his time from the hospital his mind eventually returned back to normal.

My father is an alcoholic and he takes a medication that makes him violently ill if he drinks or has anything with vinegar in it.  He has tested the boundaries of this medication at least once since getting released from the hospital. If he drank while on it, got sick and continued to drink he would go into a coma and die.

My father is an alcoholic and today I found three empty beer bottles hidden away under the house.

My father is an alcoholic and I fear this vicious cycle will not end until he kills himself. And that scares me so much…

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U is for unbelievable…

Choose which of the following is the MOST unbelievable about me- only one of the following is not correct. Are you any good at guessing which? You are allowed two guesses and everyone that guesses correctly will get some Japanese candy and if you are in Japan, well I will send you some minties, the only Aussie candy I can think of. (23 to choose from since I am 23)

1. I once stole make-up from kmart while I was still in highschool but I can not remember for the life of me what it was.
2. I have had something I wrote published under my real name and also have had something published under an alias/psudonym
3. I knew all the words to “Imagine” by John Lennon by the time I was six.
4. I modelled togs in my year four fashion parade and a strap slipped down revealing my chest…and I did not notice. It still remains one of the most embarrassing things to have ever happened to me.
5. In primary school I also played the part of a speaking tree/bush in a school play
6. I once slapped a highschool friend in the face, knocking her down, while walking to school one day. This incident is still brought up by people I went to school with.
7. Shun proposed to me for the first time the second time we met.
8. I am a gossip magazine addict.
9. When I was younger I was suspected of having menangitus, scaring my parents to death, but in the end only had a virus.
10. I attempted to gain the Duke of Edinburgh award.
11. My favourite sunglasses cost $11 from Target in the city.
12. My first ever gift after I was born was a paddington bear from my dad.
13. It was raining the first night I was ever in Tokyo.
14. The first time I tried smoking I was in elementrary school.
15. I have been on the radio several times and once an emal I sent was read out on air of Triple M.
16. When I was 15 I had a crush on a guy two years younger than me who lived in New Zealand.
17. My favourite Tv Show as a kid was flying doctors.
18. I started to read at age three.
19. I used to teach English to a famous “manga” writer in Kichijoji.
20. While walking down the street in Harajuku, with Enny, we walked past Nicole Ritchi…
21. I used to be really afraid of staying home alone and used to think every little noise was someone trying to break in and come in and murder me.
22. I also used to think a native Indian lady lived in my closet.
23. My favourite flower after cherry blossoms are Gerberas.

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T is for travel…

I am lucky enough to have travelled quite a bit. Not as much as some but a little bit all the same.

I love to travel- exploring new places, tasting new foods, experiencing new things and meeting new people. I love it all.

My first passport photo was my mum holding me up because I was less than 10 months old. In fact I learnt to walk in an airport in New Zealand on my first overseas trip. Several trips to New Zealand have followed over the years to visit my grandparents and relatives in Auckland.

My next international trip took me to Bali in 1998- this was a real eye opener and while I had a great time I must admit at 13, walking through and airport and seeing the security guards with guns and signs with “Drug traffickers will face the firing squad” and “Drug traffickers will be executed” was a little daunting and led me to worry about the ventalin I was carrying in my bag.

My next trip overseas took me to Japan for a year which I have already talked about so much on this blog that I think we all know I can skip over it. While in Japan that first time I met up with my mum in Thailand which was fantastic and then last year I headed to China for another trip with my mum. I loved China- and would love to go back someday as I don`t feel I saw nearly enough.

My biggest travel escapades after Japan would have to be Europe. And really I probably should of titled this T is for Travel in Europe but anyway. When I finished up uni in Australia I knew that if I didn`t go to Europe before I returned to Japan that I would never get there. I worked full-time while finishing up uni (and I had a part time job on the weekends) to get enough money together to travel through Europe and still have enough to go back to Japan and start up life there.

I did a couple of days in London where my kiwi cousin showed me around and then I embarked on a Contiki tour through 8 countries (Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France – oh and Vatican City!) and while I was never in one place for more than a couple of days I still had the best time and it has definitely made me want to go back. After that I headed to Scotland to see my bestfriend Cat…10 days in Scotland, mainly in Edinburgh but also in Crieff & The Isle of Skye.

It isn`t just international travel I love. Our trips around Japan to places like Okinawa, Fuji, Kyoto, Nara, Kobe, Kamakura, Niigata, Hiroshima, Nikko, Osaka & Nagano have always been a lot of fun. In fact I look forward to doing a lot more trips when I return to Japan next year.

Sadly, I haven`t seen much of my own country, Australia. Have never been very far North (Yepoon would be the furtherest) and while I have visited Sydney & Melbourne I pretty much only saw the cities. Although if Shun & I head back to Melbourne sometime over the next year I hope to be able to do a winery tour while we are down there.

There are so many other places I want to go. Shun & I have never done any international travel together either (except coming back to Australia)  and he has only ever been to Australia & Thailand. I hope that we get a chance to do some other travel together sometime. I really really want to go to Vietnam, Egypt, Korea, America & somewhere in South America, probably Peru or Chile. I would love to go back to Europe one day too- there is so much more to see.

I think it is so true what they say- once you have the travel bug you can`t stop! I just wish I could express in words how much I adore traveling and how grateful I am to my parents for opening my eyes up the wonders of traveling at such a young age!

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In an effort to improve on my writing I have decided to sign up for Encyclopedia of me which started over at Bella Dia (and which I found out about by reading Laura`s blog here...)… I have noticed though that participating in this has not improved my writing at all and I am way behind really because I should be trying to do at least one a week- oh well, hopefully I will try to get it done by the end of the year!!!

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S is for Sandlot Kids

When I was about 8 my dad took us to the movies to see The Sandlot Kids in town. I am pretty sure we were in there visiting mum on one of her many hospital stays and it was our first time to see a film in the city and probably also one of the first movies I saw at the cinema. My brother was about 5 or 6 and it was most definitely the first time we had gone to the movies with just dad.

We bought our tickets, popcorn drinks and lollies (My father spoiled us rotten) and headed into the cinema and dad asked the question “Where should we sit?”…any mother would know you don`t ask your kids that you just choose seats somewhere in the middle and tell the kids to sit there but my dad was new at this so my brother and I pulled him down to the very very front row.

Two years previously my father had lost an eye at work when a nail went through it so he has so vision from his left eye and sitting in the front row, and been so close to the screen, meant he was constantly swinging his head from side to side to try and catch the movie. Despite this, we left the cinema that day and dad could not stop raving about the film. Despite it having been a children`s film he had loved it.

Tonight, I watched The Sandalot Kids DVD with dad and Shun and it brought back memories of that day. We had the video when we were younger and a couple of years back dad bought himself the DVD. My father has a strange collection of DVDs most of them old concerts and shows about old and or dead singers and pop groups. His others include Happy Feet, Jeremiah Johnson, The Man who Shot Liberty Valence, The Blues Brothers & Across the Universe. All of which he has introduced to Shumpei since has been here.

What is your favourite childhood movie? I would have to say mine were probably The Sandalot kids, Mighty Ducks, The Little Mermaid or The Lion King.  But I am sure there are some I am forgetting.

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R is for Rainbow Bright or Rainbow Brite…

Rainbow Brite was a animated cartoon that was around when I was little. And on my first Christmas, at 10 months old, I was given a Rainbow Brite  green Colour Kid stuffed toy from my Godfather. I loved this toy with all my heart and it was originally named “Rainbow” but was quickly shortened to just “Bow”. I am not sure I ever saw the show when I was younger or not but doing a You Tube search brought up some fun watching!

“Bow” went everywhere with me, and I mean everywhere. I am pretty sure in year one mum let me still take him to school as long as I left him in my backpack. Soon after receiving “Bow”, who as previously mentioned was green, my dad went out and bought me two more stuffed toys exactly the same but in a yellow and in blue.  See the squashed green one in the photo below? That was what “bow” originally looked like. The yellow/blue colour kids in the photo is what the two my father bought me still look like. They are in a box somewhere and from doing a  bit of research online trying to find pictures I now know I could sell them on ebay and make a bit of money! hehe!

And well, here is a photo of “Bow” now -taken 10 minutes ago

As you can see “Bow” is not quite in the same condition he was when I got him. It turns out, despite my dad buying me two brand new Rainbow Brite Colour kids after I received “bow” it turns out that I didn`t want to have anything to do with them and it was “Bow” alone that received my attention.

As time went on he got rattier and rattier. At about age 2 I ate his nose. Before that he had a tag on is back which I would swirl around to fall asleep until one day while watching flying doctors when I was about four, it promptly fell out which was more than a little distressing. So I switched to the star shaped ears…which are definitely no longer star shaped.

Most children growing up have a favourite stuffed toy to sleep with or a blankie of some kind. For me, I had “Bow”. We had tea parties together, we played in the sandpit together and we always slept together.

What was your favourite toy growing up? What did you sleep with?

Tomorrow I am thinking of going through all the boxes in my Dad`s spare room which might contain the other two Rainbow Brite Colour Kids I talked about- perhaps I should take one back to Japan to give to our kids one day when we have them!!! I will also have to track down a Rainbow Brite DVD I think!

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Q is for Questions & queries…

Well I opened up my blog to questions in my last post and got nothing (Except for Nay who asked who I went hooping with- that was Jen, Jac and Jey!) . So……….I thought I could look at questions that people have asked and then landed up on my blog- I saw someone else do this and I think it was here but I could be wrong! If you think I stole it from you, contact me and I will put your link here also!!!

how to use a journal to do lists?

I find putting pen to paper helps. And a check box next to each item is great too- Better than crossing off because a nice little neat cross or tick in the check box is so much nicer!

How to grow up cherries?

Sorry? Not actually sure how to grow cherries or how to grow up to be one- try wikipedia because when all else fails that is where I go!

How to get to work?

If you gave me your starting and end point I could probably help- perhaps try train, bus or ferry! Car might also do the trick! Or get your daily excersise and walk or ride to work!

Lyrics to “This is our school”?

Try googling again but I know the first couple of lines are- This is our school, let peace be found here, may the rooms be filled with something something something!

 How to get a Japanese boyfriend?

Good question- um, go to Japan? Learn to speak the language and try and go to a uni or club or something with lots of Japanese people! I have heard mixi is good too! hehe! I met mine through a friend?!

How long do cherry blossoms last?

About 10 days to 2 weeks!

I thought I would find some more interesting questions that people would of asked to get to my blog and I could of included more that sounded like questions but I thought it best to only include those with question marks in them (that is the question definer after all!!!hehe)- Pretty much ALL searches/queries that lead to my blog are about cherry blossoms. Cherry blossom weddings, where to see cherry blossoms, types of cherry blossoms, cherry blossom scented stuff etc etc. Some other really random searches/queries that landed on my blog are listed below!

-picture of a possom (Try google images!)

- to do list of adventures (Try 1001 things you should do before you die- or it is called something like that)

- pee cone (This relates to one of my very early posts!)

- napisan in Japan (This search actually led to some people I used to work with finding my old blog at typepad- I guess everyone wants it!)

- +occupation+life+love+adventure+being (Yes I am looking for this too!)

- japanese cherry blossom shampoo (don`t know but that would be cool!)

- 25m sq room (Yes it can be done- we did it- for more than a year- I wouldn`t reccomend it though!)

- learn how to play mahjong (go to one of those mahjong clubs- it helped me- although it was dull!)

- I hate pack up stuff (Me too!)

What random questions and queries have led people to your blog? Lets see who can get the weirdest one!!!! Mine are not nearly as strange as some I have seen on other blogs!

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