HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!

To my amazing parents! 32 years and still going strong! Congratulations! I hope you guys have a wonderful anniversary! You deserve it!

Aside from that, Ive just been enjoying my vacation. I finished Twilight and am now just as much consumed in the 2nd book of the series as I was in the first one :) I have a hard time putting this one down also! The weather is getting a little chilly here. I cant wait for Justin to come home because we are going winter clothes shopping! He said the first weekend he is back he wants to go to Yokohama for the day and go shopping and eat at the Hard Rock Cafe. Aww.. a man that loves to shop... and has great taste too, what more could a girl ask for? :) Justin pulls in to Guam tomorrow, which I am excited about because I get to see him on webcam! Tomorrow also means 3 weeks till he comes back, AND tomorrow is pay day for both Justin and I, which mean we are going to be rich! (ya right) But it does mean that I get to go shopping tomorrow and buy these boots that I have been eyeballing. Ill probably do that in the morning while Justin is waiting to get off of the boat. Then Ill come back and talk to him. On Saturday, Ill probably stay home and talk to him on the computer, Sunday Sanae and I are going on that bus tour, and Monday will most likely be spent recovering from Sunday. The bus tour leaves some station near Tokyo at 730am, which means I have to leave my station around 6ish. Then its an all day tour and we get back to the station around 730, and have to take the train home. Its going to be a long and tiring day, but hopefully a fun one! Thank goodness Monday is a holiday so I can relax and recover from Sundays activities. But dont you worry, every spare minute I have in the next few days will be spent reading New Moon :D

<3

Twilight

A while back one of my closest friends, Christina, recommened the book series Twilight to me. Apparently its a popular series back home that a lot of people are obsessed with and I had no idea about. Its even being made into a movie, coming out in theaters Nov 21. Anyways so since she had recommended it to me, I began looking for it at the NEX on base, and even at the library. Everytime I was at the NEX I found myself searching the book section, but could never find the book. Finally I added it to my birthday list my mom had asked for, in hopes that I would get it then. So yesterday Im at the NEX, and I decide to check out the book section to see if anything sounded interesting to me, and since I need something to keep me busy during my week off. Im slowly walking through the aisles, trying to see if anything sounded interesting enough to buy, and low and behold, there right in front of me was Twilight. I picked up the book and thumbed through it and noticed it was 500 pages. Perfect I thought, this will definitely keep me busy throughout the next week. Well, lets just say here I sit, less than 24 hours after starting the book and Im already 338 pages deep. I sat and read last night until 10 and decided it was time to go to bed. I had to call my mom though to share with her my excitment about the book (she loves to read). After hanging up with her, I crawled in to bed, and read for another hour! Then I forced myself to put the book down and close my eyes, but didnt fall asleep for about another hour because I wanted so badly to pick up the book and start reading some more! So today, I read the book on the train to work, while I was walking to work, during work (internet was down again so it gave me an excuse ;) ), and on the train home from work. So much for keeping me occupied during my time off. lets just say Ill probably be returing to the NEX tomorrow to buy the second book in the series. Im also excited because like I said, the movie comes out Nov 21 in the states (the day Justin comes home) so I am hoping that it will be playing in the theatre on base shortly after and we can go see it together! What perfect timing :) Justin promised to read the first chapter of the book, and I told him if he didnt like it then he didnt have to finish reading it. I, on the other hand, can not get enough of the book. Its so amazing!!

My little Mischief

So every once in a while my parents will show me Mischief on webcam. The first time they did it, I was talking to them over the computer, and we both had our cams going and Mischief was sleeping at my dads feet while he was laying on the couch. So my mom turned the computer so I could see her, and I started talking to her. I was just calling her name and stuff, and it was really funny because the second she heard me call her name, her head shot up and she began looking around. Her eyes got really big and she kind of looked freaked out. She got up from the couch and ran down the hall towards the front door. Its really funny because Mischief hates it whenever anyone comes through, or to the front door, but everynight when I used to come home from work, she would greet me at it. Had it been anyone else coming to the door, she would have been under the couch hiding. My parents always knew when I was home, even before they heard my car pull in the driveway because Mischief would let them know. I dont know how or at what point she would realize it was me coming to the door, but every night, without a doubt, never failed she was there waiting for me. Anyways so today I talked to Mischief on webcam again. Again, when she heard my voice she looked around for me, and her eyes got wide and I think she was a little freaked out that she could hear my voice but couldnt find me or didnt know where my voice was coming from. I would be freaked out too! Haha but I dont want her to forget me, or forget my voice because there are a select few people that Mischief actually likes in the world, and I would like to remain one of them! So Mischief came up to the computer and smelled it a few times, but I highly doubt she could see me on the webcam or comprehend what was happening, afterall her brain is the size of a pea. My parents said that after I was done talking to her, they found her in my closet. One thing you must know about Mischief is she NEVER goes in my room, except to eat and use her litter box. I dont know why but she has never liked my room much. I think she went in there to look for me. She is so funny, and so smart. I love her :) And I dont care what Justin says, he does too. They bonded when he was home and thankfully, he isnt on her shit list with the rest of the world :D ...oh my poor brother... Speaking of cats and Justin, when I told him I want to be the cat lady and carry treats in my purse, he called me disgusting. Haha all the more reason to do it now!! Jk babe.. ;)

Nothing fun or exciting going on with me. Today I have done absolutely nothing and have loved it. I figure I have all of next week to get my chores done, so why not just hang out and relax for a day?

less than 4 weeks till Justin comes home! Yay! :D

And the verdict is...

Full week off, paid, not being counted against my vacation days. Woohoo!!! I know that it will probably be a boring week, but hey, Id rather be bored at home and be able to do whatever I want, than be bored at work with nothing to do, stuck in front of a computer for 8 hours. At least this way, I dont have to wake up at 530, I can sleep in, lounge around, do as I please, and still get paid as if I were at work staring at the darn computer. Dont get me wrong, I love my job, when I have actual classes though, and students to meet with and people to talk to and stuff to do! So I will go to work on Monday, and shall not return until the following Tuesday. Maybe I will explore Oppama, or go to Yokohama for a day. One thing I do know I am doing is going shopping the day I get paid! Exciting!! Anyways, I didnt see my little friend today. Hes probably hiding under a car trying to stay dry. Its still raining, but I think it supposed to clear up over the weekend. I hope its not raining during my week off, that would suck! Alright well thats it with me, just wanted to share my exciting news! Yay! :D

Its raining cats and dogs

Well my days of abundant sunshine are offically over. Its pouring down rain outside. I just got home from Sanae's house and had to walk home in it. It wasnt too bad, but I think I left her house right as it started to come down hard. What perfect timing...

Anyways so next week I only have classes on Monday. Tuesday-Friday the students are testing, which means I will have no classes, and pretty much nothing to do except "lesson plan." Fun. So today, the teacher that makes my weekly schedule and emails it to the company I work for says to me "For Tuesday-Friday, do you want me to put down that you are lesson planning and you come to work? Or do you want me to leave it blank and you dont have to come to work?" Gee... let me think about that one. Go to work and doing absolutely nothing for 8 hours, or stay at home and still get paid for not going to work and have a full week off (because the following Monday is a holiday) and not have this counted as my vacation time because the school told me not to come. Tough decision. So I told him to leave it blank, but that I needed to call my company to tell them that my school was telling me not to come to work next week, and comfirm that that will be okay. Because I work for Interac, and not the school itself, everything has to be approved by them if I want to get paid. So I called and explained what was going on and the lady I spoke with said she just needed to call my school to verify that they dont need me next week. She also said that the Vice Prinicipal is the one that should tell me whether or not I need to come to work, and not one of my teachers, so she was going to call him and ask and then get back to me. She called me back about an hour later and said that she tried callng him, but he was not in his office at the time so she will try back tomorrow and let me know then. So by tomorrow it will either be approved or denied that I get a full weeks paid vacation. I just wish Justin were here so that we could go on a mini vacation or something. It sucks that I have had so many holidays and days off when hes not home, and watch the second he gets back there wont be any holidays, or irregular class schedules like this one that might give me a free week. Im not really sure what I would do with my time though. I dont really want to explore much of Japan because I want to wait and do that when Justin is here so we can do that together. Oh well, I have to wait and see if it gets approved first before I start thinking about that.

I dont know if Ive mentioned it before, but I always see a lot of stray cats on my walk home. If you know anything about me, you know that I love animals, especially cats. I have told my parents before that I want to bring all these cats I see back to my apartment, but they told me no. Haha. Most of the cats are afraid of me, like most stray animals are. Everytime I see one I just want to pet it, I miss petting Mischief... but when I kneel down, or put my hand out they get scared and run away. Maybe its because I dont talk to them in Japanese that they dont like me. After all, they are Japanese cats, so the must speak Japanese. Well there is this one cat, hes (just assuming its a boy) a tiny little thing, probably still a kitten and he is the cutest thing in the world. He is white and gray. Tonight as I was walking to the train station to go to Sanaes, I was just about to go down the stairs and this cat came up to me. He just ran right up to me like he knew who I was. So I knelt down and let him smell my hand, he didnt seem too impressed but he sat there and meowed at me. It took him a while to let me pet him, but I was so excited that I got to pet the cat!! He got bored of me after a few minutes, and ran back to all the other cats that were sitting there with their eyes glued on him almost as if to make sure I wasnt going to do anything bad to this cat, and if I did then they would attack me. Anyways, I have decided that I want to be "The cat person." You know how you see in the movies those bird people? The ones that sit in the parks and feed the birds? Well thats going to be me, only with cats. Ill be the cat lady. I will carry cat treats in my purse, and whenever I see a cat Ill feed it. In time I think they will begin to like me, or maybe they will just use me for my food, who knows. Anyways its late and Im rambling so I better go to bed. Have to get up at 530. Yuck!

Well I guess I better update this thing since the last time I posted was about the bad day that I had. Yesterday was better and today was good too. Ive still been enjoying the nice sunny weather, but I think the rain starts again tomorrow. Not looking forward to that. Justin will be home in less than a month and I absolutely can not wait. He pulls in to Guam on the 31st, so it will be really nice to be able to talk to him on webcam and stuff, and on a phone that I can actually hear him on rather than the stupid ships phone that has all that noise in the background. Then on the 2nd, Sanae and I are taking that bus tour so that should be fun, and before I know it Justin will be pulling in again. Im just trying to keep busy and time goes by faster. Sanae invited me over for dinner tomorrow night. She is going to make Japanese home made curry. It will be a new experience for me, and hopefully a good one! Everything at work is the same. My students are awesome, and have been very excited that I have been wearing my hair down this week. They all have to comment on it. Its really funny and kind of cute. David still gets on my nerves and doesnt really do much to help me lesson plan, except ask me 20 minutes before class starts if there is anything he can do, or if I need copies made. No thanks buddy Im good. The other day he said to me "Sorry I couldnt help you plan the lessons." I just looked at him and thought "couldnt?" Do you need to sit in on one of my classes because Im pretty sure the word could implies the abilitiy to do something, and you are perfectly capable of helping me plan a lesson. Wouldnt, or didnt is the word that he should have used. Anyways thats about all thats going on here. Talk to you all soon!

What the crappy day

Well I guess its about time one of those good ol' crappy days comes along. I guess you could say it started when I woke up this morning and saw that the Chargers lost. Its a damn good thing I didnt wake up at 2am to watch the game or Im sure Id be even more irked right now, seeing that its 7:30 and I just got home and am finally eating dinner.

So I get to work this morning and I sit down at my desk and try logging on to the internet. It wouldnt connect. So I left it alone for a little bit, even went to one of my classes, came back and it still wouldnt connect. Then the teacher sitting next to me says "The interent isnt working today, they are doing maintenence." Really people??? You have the fastest train in the world, and have train times so exact and down to the T, yet you havent figured out that shutting the flippen internet down for a day to do maintenence in the middle of a flippen work day is a little inconvenient?? Why couldnt the maintenence have been done after school hours, or on a Saturday, let alone on a Monday when school is in session. So I was stuck, without internet all day. Didnt get to talk to my parents on Gmail, didnt get to email Justin, couldnt get the number to PSD so I could try and get information about a Mac flight to Guam, couldnt print out important papers that needed to be faxed to Justin, nothing.

So I survived that, and got off work and headed to base. I had a list of things that needed to get done, for example exchange cash into yen, pay rent, pick up Justins uniforms, go to the library to print and fax Justin the paperwork (because I couldnt do it at school today), pay the Gas bill, go to the cell phone store... I mean the list just dragged on. I go to exchange the money so I could pay rent, exchange rate changed so I didnt have enough money to cover rent. Good thing its due in a few days otherwise I would have been screwed. But then that just tacked on another chore to my list, go to the ATM to take out more money, and now that just means Ill have to go back down there tomorrow when I get off of work to stop by Sanae's office to pay her. Whatever so Ill deal with that. Then I start on my looooong walk to the library, on the complete opposite side of base. Get everything done there. Then as Im walking off of base, I look down at my phone and what do ya know, 5 missed calls. 5!!!!! Justin had tried calling me 5 times and I didnt hear it because my stupid phone was in my pocket on silent. Ughhh!! What a great way to end a crappy day.

Hopefully tomorrow is better, Ill let you know.