Category Archives: Rants
TILT and Rants…
I missed Things I love Thursday yesterday because I had visitors and a friend and her daughter stay over, so playing catch up today while baby naps! Things I loved this week Home made ricotta cheese for the lasange for … Continue reading
Filed under Friends, Noah, Rants, Things I love Thursday
So-called sewing adventures…
Or more appropriately titled Lulu`s sewing blunder #32 Turns out there is a different foot for zips. I attempted to make a little zip purse on the weekend and couldn`t for the life of me figure out how people do … Continue reading
Comfort food…
Had a crap day. But just ate toast with butter and vegemite and it was damn good. It is definitely my comfort food. That and chocolate of course. I wish my comfort food was something like vegetable sticks or rice … Continue reading
Train travel…
I am actually enjoying my commute to work. I was driving when working at the hospital but now that I am in town (temping for a government department) I leave home just before 7am and catch the train into the … Continue reading
Freak out…
OMG, am currently looking for wedding entertainment and am having a giant freak out because I just realized that Shun and I will have to do a “first dance”. Crap. I do not dance and come to think of it … Continue reading
Filed under Rants, Shumpei, Wedding stuff
No weightloss for me…
Despite my best efforts this past week, I found out I put on weight at my Weight Watchers meeting last night. Only .5 but it is still a bit of a blow. I know that that last week I wasn’t … Continue reading
Filed under Diet & Weight, Rants
Wordless Wednesday #6…
Taken in Okinawa in 2006. I wish I was here. It is starting to get a little cool in Brisbane now, especially in the mornings. Two winters in one year hardly seems fair (Although 2 summers next year will probably … Continue reading
Filed under Random, Rants, Wordless Wednesday
Done…
Moving is DONE! We moved to Chiba yesterday…packing and cleaning are done for now! My muscles ache from moving boxes and trying to fit everything that couldn`t go in the moving van into Shumpei`s grandmothers tiny little car. Last night … Continue reading
I hate packing…
I really really hate packing….I am over it already. It really sucks. That is all I have to say on the subject! But last week I was looking at wedding dresses online and I found a couple I liked one … Continue reading
Filed under Random, Rants, Wedding stuff
It has begun…
Yes it has begun. Since I have now finished up work it means that I need to spend the next two weeks cleaning up our apartment and packing everything into boxes. Packing is by far the worst part of moving….but … Continue reading
I am just a twenty something Aussie girl living in Chiba, Japan with my Japanese husband trying to make sense of the crazy Japanese world we live in! We welcomed our first son in December 2009 (Noah) and a second son in January 2011, 2 months premature (Shion). I am working hard at raising them to be confident, bilingual, happy kids!
