Operation De-clutter:
well, there will be no photos of the declutter, because I am too embarressed to show everyone what a really pathetically small area I am talking about, hahah! But I think it is a great idea, which I will use for my own reference only in the future! On Friday, I actually did manage to get the area around the phone and genkan, and the table all de-cluttered......and all the clutter moved to form another pile of clutter!! Some of the stuff went in the "I will deal with this later" pile sitting in the bedroom clutter. I am trying, but I think my body us not built for keeping a house clean tidy and decluttered, *sigh*. Baby steps, right?!? I still have the area around the TV to do, as that was the most cluttered, and I am going to be brave and post the pre-clutter picture here. The original idea was to keep K away from the TV, by using her playpen, but gradually all the stuff that we didn't want her to touch, and other random stuff ended up there.
Stay tuned for an de-clutter update sometime in the next millenium.
Sew it:
Nothing happening on the sewing machine front yet. I am still thinking of buying a machine, but haven't looked any more into it. It will probably be another dust collector, anyway. I might go into the Janome shop down the road one day this week for a squiz. And I am going to check out that link, thanks illahee.
My time:
This weekend just gone, I had my very first bout of "my time". J looked after K for the whole afternoon, from her after lunch nap until she went to sleep at nighttime, while I was off at the movies (THE MOVIES .... I haven't been to the movies since J and I went to see the documentary movie Deep Blue several years ago. Oh, he did remind me last night that we saw some movies, including DaVinci Code while we were on holidays in South America. But the last movie in Japan was Deep Blue!!)
A friend and I went to starbucks (where I ordered a VENTI (?? the hugest one anyway) sized frappacino and a poppy seed cake) then to see Sex and The City (while pigging out on a L size popcorn and a soft drink) then finished it off with a few chuhais and skewars at a yummy yakitori place. Hehe, I think I got carried away, but I was excited about being "free"!! I really enjoyed SATC, so glad we saw it on the big screen. It was funny, and entertaining and pulled on the heartstrings too.
This is the first time that J has looked after K for such a big chunk of time. Actually, only the 3rd time he has looked after her while I do something other than go to the dentist. One time, was when friends were here and I took them out to TOkyo Tower at night, and the 2nd time was a nomikai with the local mums group, that he rang me up at 2 and half hours after it started asking when I was coming home. Hm. That didn't do down well!
But yesterday, they had fun together, and so I think it was good for him too. Am already planning my next mini-getaway
But can I be a real wuss(and oyabaka), and admit that on the train ride home, I was soooooooooooooo lonely - it didn't feel right just being me on the train, without having to entertain a 1 yo with random songs, or pulling out more snacks etc. I missed K. We have been lazing around all day today, as she wouldn't leave me alone most of the morning, I think she missed me too (haha).
Gari-gari-kun (it's an ice block):
I am eating a cola flavoured one as I write this. Yum!
J always says to get one from the bottom of the freezer because they are the lucky ones. They have had this competition going with gari-gari-kun for like the last 30years or something that you can win a free gari-gari-kun if you get the lucky one, with "winner" on the stick. We got a winner the other day, actually, but that was when J picked it. The last several we have eaten (ok, it is our summer addiction for this year) I picked out of the freezer, and I have no luck whatsoever so they have all been losers. Oh well. Guess it just means I have to buy more!
I am soooooooooooooooo jealous. I do have a hub that comes home on time more than not - but I have NEVER done the away thing. Actually I lie. I did it with Shou - but I was pregnant with Marina so Ruth and I couldn't get plastered. What I would do for some yakitori close by. Next step... come to Oita for weekend!!
ReplyDeleteHey there! It Nicole from Nooh Girl in Tokyo here! Thanks for the comment on my blog today! I just hopped over here for the first time, and see that you are looking for a sewing machine? I am not a huge sewer, just made curtains and the odd heming, cushion covers, etc... But I picked up a cheapy on Japa-net TV shopping. It cost less than 20,000 yen, and has all the festures I need as an accasional sewer. But maybe if you are more serious, regular sewer, it might not be what you are looking for. Check it out anyway on the link below. They deliver it to you as well, and you can choose to pay it off in installments.
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Hey again! Silly me. I read on further and I see you have already found the Jaguar, with the overlocker! I have that one, and it is really easy to use. I didnt even need to read the manual. I just went by memory from using my mum's janome from when i was in highschool. I say go for the cheapy. It is really compact too, so can be stored easily too. It has a foot pedal or you can just push a button on the machine with your hand too if you want to. I prefer the foot pedal, but if you are doing a big job like curtains and working on the floor, the button works best. Let me know if you want some more info. Oh, and the Japa-net deal comes with a bobin and thread kit, a detachable board that you hook on when you are doing a big job. this was great with the curtains.
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