Category Archives: Shumpei
Sorted…
Yesterday I left work a little early to visit the Passport Office (The building next to my work luckily!) and then the Japanese Consulate. Earlier in the day I rang the registry of births, deaths & marriages office (and waited … Continue reading
Hamilton Island Honeymoon…
We booked our honeymoon! SQUEEL!!! So excited. We tossed up whether we would have one or not as we were a bit worried about it cutting into our savings but in the end we thought, what the hell, it will … Continue reading
Filed under Shumpei, Travel, Wedding stuff
Smoothly…
Things went smoothly today- we took Dad to the hospital, waited until he got settled in and hooked up (Wasn`t about to let him do another runner!) and we went to see a movie. On the way back to the … Continue reading
Filed under Family, Language hysterics, Shumpei
Over the rainbow…
As 2009 is just around the corner, it also means that our wedding is getting closer and closer. Just over four months now which means we are starting to have to think more and more about the finer details including … Continue reading
Filed under Shumpei, Wedding stuff
Nengajyo…
Last year I got all inspired to make nengajyo, or new years postcards and I even bought all the stuff I would need to make them including some extremely cute mouse/rat stamps and stickers since it is quite common to … Continue reading
Melbourne in so-called summer…
Finally getting around to doing the Melbourne catch-up post- listening to Christmas Carols to get myself in the Christmassy mood! Friday afternoon, Shun & I headed out to Brissie airport so that we could get to Melbourne. We left steamy … Continue reading
Y is for young…
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…)… participating in this hasn`t actually … Continue reading
Filed under Encyclopedia of me, nablopomo, Shumpei, The future
Quitting…
I never thought I would date a smoker- then I moved to Japan and everybody I dated was a smoker. In fact I even smoked for a little while when I was in Japan the first time, which was a … Continue reading
Filed under Japan, nablopomo, Shumpei, Uncategorized
Drive in…
When I was about eight we went to the drive in theatre- at the time it was a 5 minute drive from my house. It is no longer there- instead it was replaced with factories and they expanded the bowling … Continue reading
Things I could of done today…
As you know the last couple of weeks have been a very emotional and busy time for us. Yesterday I was off work to take my father to the hospital to have some tests (a CT scan & a biopsy) … 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!
