About myself

1. I am stubborn, not only sometime, but always so stubborn. I can't say sorry even I know I am wrong. That's bad, but can't help it. 

2. I want to be strong all the time, at anytime, in any situation, with anyone, even with myself.  So I don't rely on anyone or ask for help even when I really need help. Contrariwise, I can't offer any help or say warm words when someone need help, because I don't know how. 

3. I don't listen to others. Even when I ask for it, I don't.  Sometime I do, but that's only when I REALLY need someone's opinion. Otherwise, always think everyone has different opinion, so go with my way. 

4. I want to try too many things, and I can't do anything after all.  

5. I am really good at any sports.  Without any practice, I can do it pretty well at most of sports. That makes me think that I don't need much practices for anything.  Because I can do it anyway. But the thing is, I can't be professional in any field, because I don't practice. 

6. I am smart.  Not joking but I love studying.  I don't read any story book but text book.  I don't like fiction at all. In my world, everything has to be based on the fact. 

7. I can't stay in one place or condition for long time. Work, never want to stay more than two years at same place, even it's really good and fun place, I need to move on and find something else. Except with Adam. He is the only person who I feel I can stay with for rest of my life.  

8. TV shows are different than books.  It's totally ok if it's fiction or not.  Doesn't matter.  In fact, I am The Office freak.  

9. I am so sensitive to smells.  I can't stop thinking when I smell something unusual. Also I am cleaning freak.  I can't sit down until house gets totally clean. 

10. I don't like kids and old people.  Because they don't understand what I am talking about and can't make conversations. 

11. I can't be satisfied with anything.  I don't think I will be satisfied even I have a million dollars in the future.  

12. It's impossible to change my mind if I started disliking someone.  

If I can correct these, I think I can be a better person.  But it's awfully hard for me to change the way I am.  I have been being myself for 27 years, how can it be possible to change so many things at this point? 

I thought it's good idea to list them up so it's obvious to know how do I think myself and what do I know about myself.  I am pretty sure there are tons more stuff I need to change but haven't realize yet, but I will work on what I can see right know. I will start from 1. and if I think I am doing well, go to next step. 

Please be patient with me, I will be better person soon. 

自分のこと

１、とても頑固。たまにじゃなくて、いつもすごく頑固。だから自分が悪いって分かっててもごめんねって言えない。悪いことなんだけど、どうしょもできない。

２、いつも強い自分でいたい。いつでも、どんな場面でも、誰とでも、自分自身の中でも。だから誰にも頼りたくない。本当は助けが必要なときだって頼らない。逆に、誰かが助けを必要としてるときには助けてあげられない。あったかい言葉とかかけたりできない。だってどうやったらいいかわからないから。

３、人の話、意見を聞かない。たとえ最初に自分から意見を求めたときだって聞いてない。でもたまに聞くときがある。本当に誰かの意見が欲しいときだけ。でも結局は人それぞれ考え方は違うしって思って、自分の考えを曲げない。

４、いつも何かしたいことが山ほどある。山ほど。で、結局何もできずに終わる。

５、スポーツはどの種目でもたいてい万能。練習もろくにしないのにさらっとできちゃう。でもそれが小さい頃から自分には練習が必要ないって思わせてきて、だから結局そこそこのレベルまではいくんだけど、プロにはなれない。

６、頭の回転は速いし、頭もいい。ジョーク抜きで勉強大好き。物語の小説とか、全く読まない。読むのは科学、歴史なんかのノンフィクションや教科書、実用書。物語とか全く興味なし。自分の世界ではすべてが真実に基づいているから。

７、ひとつの場所や状況に長く留まっていられない。仕事は、たとえそこがすごく楽しくていいところでも絶対に２年以上は同じところで続けたくない。何か別のことをしたくなって次のステップに行く。アダムだけは違って、彼は唯一、生涯一緒にいたいと思える人。

８、テレビは本と違う。なぜか知らないけど、フィクションでも見ようと思えば見れる。あまりはまらないけど、はまると一気に最後まで見る。The Officeに関してはオタク級。

９、匂いにとくかく敏感。特に変わった匂いや、変な匂いのするところに行くと、他に何も考えられなくなる。そして掃除のきちがえ。家の中、全部がきれいじゃないと座って落ち着けない。

１０、子供と老人が大嫌い。自分の言ってることがわからないし、話にならない。

１１、何にも満足できない。もし将来１億円持っててもきっと満足しないと思う。

１２、もし誰かを嫌いになったらもう好きにはなれない。

もしこのリスト、全部直せたらきっともっといい人間になれるんだと思う。でもそれを変えるのは本当に難しい。だって今まで２７年間こうゆう人間で生きてきたんだもん。この時期になってどうしたらこんなにたくさんのことを変えられるんだろう。

ここにこうやって書き出すことはいい考えだと思った。みんなにもっと本当の自分を知ってもらえるし、自分でも自分のことを見直すいいチャンスだと思ったから。たぶん、ここにはのってない私の欠点ってたくさんあると思うんだけど、まずは自分が自覚してることから直していきたいと思う。１から始めて、よくできてるなって思ったら次の改善。

こんな私だけど、気長に見守っててください。もっといい人間になるために努力します！

Anything

As a wife, I cook at home almost everyday.  When I cook, if there is Adam at home I always ask him what he wants to eat.  He sometime helps me with his ideas about what to eat that evening, but most of time he says "anything's fine".  Here is the thing.  What exactly does this "anything" mean? 

Anything means anything to me, which means "anything".  Whatever I want, I have, I can cook, or to me that's anything that we can eat.  By saying "anything", I take he leaves all process of cooking decision to me.  So I decide.  Normally, when I decide after he said "anything", it is easy Japanese food that I can cook without going to HyVee to get ingredients.  Onigiri and Miso Soup(sounds yummy),  Cha-han and egg drop soup, Udon and vegetable, stuff like that. 

But his answer is always "I don't wanna eat any of those".  

And I think in my head, " Wo, Wo! Didn't you just say anything's fine?" 

He suggests something else, usually it's American food after I suggest my "anything".  He does have preference for what he eats for supper.  But it's almost impossible to pull that answer from him with first question.  Why is that? 

I just finished my supper for the night by myself.  When he works evening, I usually make "anything" supper.  Today I made Tofu with okura, green onion, ginger topped with katsuobushi and ponzu.  Wow, it was amazing.  To me, anything supper is always tasty. 

To figure what Adam's anything mean, I will keep track what we end up with each day.  Man, even 2 years after we got married there are till tons of stuff to learn about each other. 

2009

Happy New Year!  Wooo, it seems like I have been so lazy about posting here....  Oh well, I am doing right now at least, it could be worse.  How was your holiday? Mine was pretty good.  We had our Christmas with Adam's mom and step dad, Turk at our home.  We had nice family Christmas and had delicious ham dinner.  Against our agreement in our past conversation, mom and Turk brought too many presents for us, even for Roxy.  I felt shame that we didn't prepare anything for them other than just one present for each.... We also got some nice gifts from Adam's uncle family, my friends and my family in Japan.   

Our iPhone is pretty awesome!  I don't think I can use normal phone ever again after I got used to this all functions and apps in the phone.  Wow, I'm just so impressed that this small devise can do so many diffrent things.  I thought it's so expensive to spand $300 on the phone, but it's totally worth it.  

On 27th of December, we adopted a dog from Nebraska Dachshund Rescue.  Roxy is so excited to have brother who plays and stays with her all the time.  He is laid back dude, nothing like Roxy.  I can hear he says " Calm down, lady" to Roxy when she gets so excited about everything.  Everything is well with us and Burton(his name) so far, but I just found out that he has ear infection.  I took him to the vet yesterday because I couldn't put up with that smell comes out his ears.....  Sorry this is gross but it was aweful.  I need to bring him back to the vet tomorrow again to do deep cleaning in his ear and start medication.  Hope he gets well soon. 

Oh, we decided to go our honeymoon end of this month finally!  It's been 2 and half years since we got married and we've been waiting so long time.  But fainally, we get to go!  I am so excited and can't wait.  Since we both have job and can't get long vacation time, it will be only 5 days honeymoon, but I am totally happy with it!  To be honest, I almost gave up to go our honeymoon at this point.  So I can't explain how happy I am right now. 

This year will be so busy for us.  My best friend will come and stay with us for 2 months from April and our Japanese family will visit us sometim in spring.  And I am thinking to change my job if I can find good place.  

Hope all our friends and family have a great year!!

Our Second Second Anniversary

This title sounds little wired, but today is our second second anniversary.  We got married in Japan on Christmas Eve and it was 2 years ago. 

I don't feel it's still two years, I feel like it's almost 10 years or something.  Adam and I always do a lot of things togeter so that makes me feel like that way.  This anniversary, we don't do anything special, we just celebrate by saying Happy second second anniversary to each other. And that's totally enough for me. 

Speaking of which, we are getting iPhone today as Christmas gift for each other. It is awesome phone (well, everyone knows that!) and we are waiting for Apple store opens at 10:00am. Seems like Adam can't even wait now.  

I am getting white one and he is getting black.  I was going to get black but when we had exactly same phone in Japan, we always took wrong phone to work, so to prevent that happens again I am going with white this time.  White is cute, though. It's more girlish (sorry if you have white already and you are guy).  Anyway, we are so excited!

OKDK, I will update my new phone soon! Maybe from my new phone!

Last shopping day

Today was supposed to be my last shopping day for the year.  But it seems like way too cold to step out from the house. 

We had a nice time last night with our friends.  I always think how nice friends we have around us. Especially, I don't have my family here so it means a lot to me to have good friends who I can totally feel comfortable with.

We went to Pizza Shoppe in Benson last night.  It's our the most favorite pizza restaurant in town and awesome about that shop on Friday is $1.00 PBR.  Well, it's not my favorite beer but Adam can drink that and we can save money.  Not only the $1.00 beer, but their pizza is actually really good.  If you like pizza, this is the place to go.  

We came home after we filled our stomach with good pizza and beer.  Adam made girls Chocolatini and enjoyed our conversations about dog, TV, vacation, and so on. 

We need to start thinking about what we should do on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.  Luckily, Adam has 4 days off in a row from new year's day so we are thinking to go somewhere but don't know where to.  But at the same time, we are thinking to adopt a dog soon and if that really happened we should be busy with new dog.  We'll find out soon.  

Hope everyone is having good time with family and friends for Christmas. 

本当は今日、今年最後の買い物に行くはずだったんだけどなんだか外はとても寒そうだから

外にはでたくないねぇ。

昨日の夜はうちらの親友と一緒にピザを食べに行って金曜の夜を楽しみました。こっちに家族がいないからいい友達がいるってことは本当にありがたいこと。

昨日はベンソンにあるピザショップっていううちらの一番好きなレストランにいったんだけど、金曜は特にいい。だってPBRっていうビールが$1ドルなんだもん。私はそのビール好きじゃないけど、アダムがそのビール飲めば安くすむし、いいでしょ。ビールだけじゃなくてピザも本当においしい。ピザが好きなら、ぜひそのレストランに行ってみてくださいな。

食べたあとで、家に帰ってアダムが私とジェイミーにチョコレートのマルティーニを作ってくれた。おいしい！調子にのってたくさんおかわりしたら酔ったけど、友達といろんな話をして楽しかったなぁ。

そろそろ大晦日と元旦になにをしようか考えなきゃ。アダムは１日から４日まで連休だからどっか行きたいなぁなんて話してるけどまだどこにいこうかわからない。でも今新しい犬を飼おうとしてるからもしそうなったら犬の世話とかでいろいろ忙しくどっか行くどころじゃなくなりそうだし、ま、なるようになるか。

楽しいクリスマスをお過ごしください！メリークリスマス！

Snow

Freezing, it's freezing outside.  When I woke up this morning, I saw outside through the kitchen window and I was like, NO WAY.

It was white. Really white.  

I hate snow.  Not only because it's so cold, but it's also dangerous. 

But the main reason is cold. 

Although, it's pretty.  Especially this time of the year, there are many houses which put lights on the trees and house, and it is very pretty in the white snow world. 

Hmmm, I have to go to Christmas shopping tomorrow. I've been too lazy and didn't do anything till now. I went big shopping on black Friday, but I bought mostly my stuff. 

No, that's not true, I bought Adam a beer tender which he can serve draft beer at home. 

But he didn't want it and we took it back. So I did do shopping for someone else.

After we took Adam's beer thing back, we decided to not exchange any present this year. 

Sounds bad, huh? Actually, it's not bad. Because we are going to get iPhone together for our Christmas present this year. We will wait till January to get it but I am so excited. 

Hmmm, but what happen to my longest wish list ever? 

Do I still get something from that list? We'll see. 

Hope snow will stop tomorrow so that I can go shopping and do some errands. 

今日は本当に寒い。だって雪が降ったんだもん。けっこう降ったよ、今日は。

あたり一面真っ白だもん！起きて窓の外見たら、え？ってかんじだった。

雪は嫌い。だって寒いもん。それに運転するとき危険だし。今日も滑った。。。

でもこの時期になるといろんな家で外にクリスマスの飾り付けしてるとこがあるから、

そのライトとかはやっぱりきれいだよね、よけいに。

雪の中で光ってるライトの方が何倍もきれい。

明日はクリスマスプレゼントの買い物にいかなきゃ。いままでグータラしてて行かなかった

けど、そろそろ重い腰を上げないと間に合わなくなるしね。。

サンクスギビングの次の日に朝４時から買い物に行ったりしてたけど、買ったものは

ほとんど自分の物だったしなぁ。あ、でもアダムにはちゃんとビアテンダーっていう

ビールサーバーを買ったんだよ！家で生が飲めるっていう代物！

でもそれに使えるビールの種類がアダムが好きじゃないビールだからって結局返品。

そしたらなんだか気合い抜けてもういいやーってなった。。。

二人で話し合った結果、今年はプレゼントの交換はなし！なんかさみしい響きでしょ？

でもそんなこともないんだなぁ、交換はしない代わりに、一緒にiPhoneを買うことにしたの！

実際買うのは１月だけど今からすっごく楽しみ！！！！

でもこないだせっかく作ったちょー長い欲しい物リストはいったいどうなっちゃうんだろう。

ま、期待しないでおこっと。

明日は雪がやんでいい天気になるといいなぁ。

Welcome to my new blog!

I've been thinking to start my new blog but didn't know how, well that's not true, I knew but 

being lazy. But I finally set up the page and started! 

Hope all my friends and family can enjoy visiting here and catch up with my latest update. 

Feel free to leave comments!

I also use Facebook and mixi if you want to check those out. I don't know if I can update lots of pictures on this page but try anyway. 

It's been almost 2 years since I moved into United States in 2007.  Time goes by too fast.

My first 5 months was so slow, because I didn't have any job back then. Now I have a job, this is my second job in the United States, and having busy days. 

We bought a house in June and put some updates such as gardening, painting, fixing, etc....

Those house works keep us busy and I don't have time to watch The Office, my favorite show,

for 5 times a day anymore. 

Today, I came into my store and found out that heater and water wasn't working at all.

Our heating system broke down and all water pipes got frozen. Seriously, it was freezing, I mean, it is freezing right now.  I closed store and now watching heater guy fixing our heater by the fire place.  

Christmas is coming soon.  Are you ready for that yet? I am not. 

I still need to go shopping for presents and stuff. I like going out shopping, but not for this. 

Just too many people everywhere. And too cold to walk around. And windy. Wow, I can list buch of complaining about Nebraska winter up. 

Looks like they fixed heater, it's working now. 

ずっと何か新しいブログでも始めようかなぁなんて思ってたんだけど、どうやって始めたらいいのか分からなかったし、というのは嘘で、ただめんどくさかっただけかな。。。でもやっとこうして始めました。

私の最近の出来事とか、写真を載せていくつもりなので、気軽に読んでくださいな。コメントも残してね！反応がないと寂しいから。。。。

もうすぐアメリカにきて２年かぁ。なんだか時間が経つのは早いね。あっという間！

来たばっかりの初めの５ヶ月なんて仕事もしてなかったし、毎日たいくつだった。。。

でも今は２つ目の仕事に就いて毎日がとても忙しい。。。

６月には家も買って、ガーデニングやら、壁塗りやらっていろいろやることがある。こないだはガレージのドアが壊れて修理したし、家を持つっていろいろお金がかかるのねぇ。

おかげで今じゃ大好きなThe OfficeのDVDも一日まったく見ない日だってあるよ。

変わったなぁ。

今日は店に来たらなんだかすごく寒い。暖房が壊れて水道管が凍っててエスプレッソマシーンが全く動かない。。。。土曜になんだか寒いなぁって思ってたけどまさか壊れてたなんて。

日曜は店休みだからその間に凍ったんだね、きっと。だから今日は店を閉めて修理。

今は暖炉の前のソファに座って修理の人が直してるのを見ながらブログ書いてるところ。

だって私には何もできないしさ。コービーだってつくれないしさ。

もうすぐクリスマスだね。みなさんもう準備はできましたか？わたしはまだまだ。

プレゼントの買い物にいかなきゃいけないし、買い物は好きだけどクリスマスの買い物は嫌い。だってどこにいっても人だし、寒いし。今年はできるだけインターネットで買い物してるよ。ありえないよ、ほんとうに、ネブラスカの冬は寒すぎます。

あ、なんだか暖房が直ったみたい。