yikes

I am having a bad day of it I think. Nothing major, just little things like, so far this morning I have:

stood in front of the wrong elevator while the other one opened and shut and left without me

when going to get out of the carpark - forgot I had to put ticket in to open the boom gate, so drove car right up the left side to make a big turn, only to have to stop the car, put it in park, with park break, wind down the window AND open the door to put the carparking ticket in.

then I tried to drive out with the car still in "park".

then I realised I had come the wrong exit anyway

got stuck in traffic trying to get back to the road I needed to get to

basically slammed on the breaks to stop at a GREEN light. Granted, it was one of those stupid Japanese lights that has a green straight ahead arrow, with a big round red light above it, so I am giving myself the benefit of the doubt for that one, lol And there were no cars behind me, thank goodness.

mounted the kerb going through the Maccas drive thru (thought a choc mcshake and cheeseburger would "fix" me, I know, I know, was gonna be "good".....no more junky food from tomorrow, I promise, lol)

ok, so it is all basically car related things. makes me think maybe I just shouldn't be driving!!

I had a good sleep last night, first time in a while. I have been having trouble sleeping, tossing and turning trying to get comfy. Lying on one side on the futons was making my legs ache. So last night it was back to the bed, with the nice comfy matress, but less room for us to sleep - futons give us more room to "breath" and escape from K's relentless kicking during the night. I set up a a side-car type bed for K on the side of our bed. It is too cold to be sleeping in different rooms, sleeping together keeps us all warmer, esp K who ALWAYS kicks off the blankets. I bought her a sleeping bag, but she won't wear it, actually, she has started taking her p.j.pants off at night too, which I think she got from J, who sleeps in just undies. Anyways, I have to keep covering her all night too so she doesn't freeze!
Have also been a bit off in general the last few days - tummy is crampy and I haven't had much of an appetite at all. I think I am gonna have a cruisy afternoon, bugger the housework, am gonna put on my uniqlo room pants and read magazines while K naps.

wak-a-me-up before you go-go

Third attempt at tonkotsu ramen tonight was yet again thwarted by me. Actually, I only thwarted the first and third attempts (both times saying we had stuff in the fridge that needed to be used up). The second time was last weekend when we walked around there only to find it closed for obon. All well and fine to take holidays, but it has only been open for since August 6th!!

Anyway, tonight we made do with:

salmon

clams (butter/sake)

daikon radish, lettuce, red capsicum salad

vine ripened tomatoes (yum!!) dressed in virgin olive oil and sea salt

wakame miso soup

rice

We got a big packet of fresh wakame seaweed from MIL ages ago, as I must have mentioned once that K likes it. I have been racking my brain how we are going to get through it all (it is the size of a large ziplock bag packed jam full of wakame), and asked J what else I could make with it to get rid of it. Turns out J thought I was being scingy* with it - I was putting what I thought was a reasonable amount in the miso soup, but apparently I should have been putting like 7-8 times MORE in. I can't believe he though I was being scingy though, with free wakame! lol!

This morning was pretty good - we got to the bank at 9am, to beat the rush, only to find it totally empty. Like, seriously, I was the only one there for at least the first 25mins after opening! There are more people lining up for pachinko and the supermarket opening time! Crazy!

Came back home and grabbed R to take her for a walk - managed to get K to sit in the pram so that was easy.

Lunchtime however, was a write off - K refused to eat her sandwich, spilt a glass of milk everywhere (a habit she is getting into lately *sigh*) then played with her banana and got it everywhere. So she ended up having basically nothing to eat as I took it all away from her. She did go down for a nap easy though, so might have just been a bit tired. But she was a pain in the butt all afternoon - plugging things (like the vacuum cord) into the power point, pulling out the computer cord, and just basically annoying me. I know I have to be more patient, but I am so not good with the little things - they DO annoy me and get me worked up. aarrrggghhhhh.

Anyway, tomorrow is playgroup and she is usually a good girl when we go out to that, so fingers crossed tomorrow morning is not a repeat performance.

* a spell check revealed that I was using the word "scingy" instead of "stingy" lol. My english is going to crap! On skype to my brother this afternoon I couldn't remember the word for those buoy type things hanging over the side of boats like bumper bars to stop them bumping into other boats (the answer was "fenders" - of course!!)