might even let loose and do some asari狩り
that's how I felt when I made it to the video store this afternoon, only to find out that my much anticpated return to watching GA was shattered - they only have up to the 3rd season. bummer. now what am I gonna do??? I don't really want to get hooked on another series, because it tends to take over my life (obsessive compulsive tendancies that I have, lol) but man I was looking forward to my time out with the 200yen GA rental vids tonight while J is away.
natto-gohan and cheese toasties.
guess who isn't home for dinner tonight! J is away again for the week for work. And K and I are enjoying the simple things for dinner.
I just realised that it DOESN'T take me 2hours to iron 5shirts....without a dvd of Grey's Anatomy playing, I can get them done in a snappy 35mins. who would have thought?? (lol)
nothing much happening. gave myself the morning off (although, I seem to do this more often than not, hmmm) and didn't do a thing until my guilt at keeping R in the house all day got to me, so we went for a walk (K in ergo again.) I actually felt a bit rejuvenated - don't they say you should work through the pain?? Having her (K, that is. R is, of course, on lead) in the ergo feels comfy, it is just afterwards that my shoulders and side/back ache. I think it is more to do with that I am having sleep issues the last week or so. Cannot get comfy at night, and seem to be waking up several times during the night for no reason. Ok, so we co-sleep, and I do feel that I am squashed up in between K and J, with no room to actually spread out.......hhhmmmmm. I think this has contributed to my body aches a lot too. (and my head is still sore from the face-plant the other day, and the bruise on my knee has doubled in size and now my knee looks like I rubbed dirt all over it and baked it in the oven for a few house so that the dirt wont come off. lucky is still too cold for mini-skirts)
yeh, so a quick morning walk with r, we stopped off at he supermarket to pick up some tomatoes and asparagus to go in our salad which is gonna be the side dish for our "ラブラブ lasagna" (recipe courtesy of gaijinwife many moons ago). we had a long nap that I partook in too, and a yuumy blueberry pound cake with cuppa for afternoon tea when we woke up (K had milk, I had the cuppa). I went all out and used my new starbucks sakura coffee mug - we have bought the sakura mugs a few times, and I really liked this year's design. the photo is pretty average though - an attempt at using my webcam to take a photo, lol
so, now just trying to work up the motivation to get the lasagna going. maybe once いないないばぁ starts I will head into the kitchen and let the the babysitter (TV) do its work.
had another kotatsu moment this morning.
Well, actually, I got all the way to the train station (the 10min walk away one. and this morning I had K in the ergo on my back, rather than in the stroller) when I felt a flash of dread wipe through me - did I turn off the grill??? I had been toasting bread crusts (for some reason the bread shop around the corner gives me 20slices of crust every time I buy a piddly 8-slice loaf of bread. Now, the bread there is delish, and the crusts are yummy to eat too, but now that K is no longer teething (I originally got them to make rusks) I don't have such a need for all that crust))anyway, I was going to bring the crusts with me to feed the kid to try to keep her quiet on the train (bribery in its best form) but I realised that I didn't have the crusts with me....then I wondered if that simply meant I had left them at home, OR they were burning to a crisp as I waited to cross the road to the train station. I spent a few minutes going back and forth in my head as to whether I had turned off the gas or not, but even though I was 99.9% sure I had turned it off, I couldn't shake the 0.01% chance of the whole house and surroundings burning to the ground if I had forgotten. So we ran/walked home (I am not as fit as I used to be, esp with a 12kg sack of poatoes, or close on my back). Of course the gas was off, but I thought I should just check the kotatsu while I was home, and wouldn't you know it - bloody J had left it on. I know it was him, because he is the only one that uses it in the morning. K and I usually aren't up to use it, but it seems that when we are, he assumes this means that the responsibilty to turn off the kotatsu is then passed on to me. I don't even think that leaving the kotatsu on all day would cause a problem, but I guess I also don't want to have to find that out.
In other news, I have a very bruised and battered ego (and forehead and right knee) after misjudging the baby gate in the kitchen when going in yesterday afternoon to fix tea for visiting friend E. My foot clipped the top of the baby gate as I tried to climb over it...luckily my forehead broke my fall. I must have thumped down hard because E came running over to me "are you ok" while I was all lying face down in the dead-body-on-the-road-with-chalk-round-them pose. I half wanted to cry out of shock and embarrasment, but I ended up doing a silly laugh-to-avoid-crying-thing instead. It *was* pretty funny though. But that, added to my 2往復 to the train station this morning with K on my back (after we had already taken R for her morning walk, of course with K in the ergo), and I am feeling kinda sore all over at the moment. I can hardly raise my arms above my head. Seriously considering flagging dinner tonight and getting take away or meeting J at the cheapie Chinese joint by the station for dinner. Cannot be bothered making anything. But, the rice was pre-set to cook, and I have everything I need to throw together a quick at home chinese (mabo-nasu and 八宝菜 (chicken chow mein minus the mein) so I guess I should just get to it. I will, as soon as I can drag myself up off the sofa........
On a bit of a spur of the moment decision, we ended up at:
(cue Wada Akiko voice)
"FUJI
Safari Pa-----ku"
on Saturday with PILs. The ad for this is one of the most annoying in the world! It totally sticks in your head,
needless to say we were all singing "honto ni, honto ni, honto ni, honto ni lion da" all day.
This is a different kind of zoo, where you lock yourselves in your car, and drive around the bears, tigers, giraffes, etc who are all out in the open. The coolest part was when a giraffe walked past our car. Man they are big fellas.It wasn't cheap (2700yen per adult, kids under 4 or 6 free to drive in your own car, an extra 1500yen each to go in the safari bus!!), but it was cool seeing the animals right up close like that. And all of K's favourite animals were there - elephants, giraffes and zebras. There was also a small patting zoo, with pigs, kangaroos and some very sad looking wallabies with their ears all eaten away, possibly by one nasty boss wallaby. We had a good day, but K has had a bit of a persistant cough for a few weeks now, and it seems to get worse when she runs around. So of course she got so excited at the petting zoo and ran all the way to the restaurant where we were gonna have lunch, so that as soon as we got into the restaurant, she coughed so much she up-chucked, everywhere. All over herself and of course me. So everyone else ordered lunch while I got her cleaned up. Then J said they would watch her while I ordered at the counter. There should have been 3 sets of eyes on her, so I still can't work out why she ended up in the men's toilets, with MIL standing at the door trying to bribe her out. Once they got her out, PIL and J were then too busy in some stupid conversation about where that door leads to, that no one was watching K. Even me at the counter ordering had an eye on her, but not them. I stuck it up them - 3 sets of eyes and not one of them on her!! Am sure I hav been labeled psycho gaijin mum now. At least it might give them a kick up the butt to be more vigilant in watching her, if only to stay out of my wrath, lol。
can see the floor, possibly even eat off it - and remembered we have carpet in some places!
was so tired tonight but as soon as i got into bed I became fully awake. Am looking for something to do (no, not *that* - j is away for work this week,hehe). A friend lent me books 1&2 of the twilight series and i devoured them. read book 2 in 3 days- havent done that since bk(b4-k) i guess... although there was that nora stint last year... Anyway, I need some more vampire and werewolf action soon. hopefully i will get #3 in the series tomorrow- but HOPEFULLY that wont be until evening bcoz i dont think i should put the housework off for another day: I can barely see the floor and my undies have been worn the right-way-round, inside-out,back-to-front and reverse back-to-front! yep, my latest obsession is in full swing.
