Holdover Tenant

Dear Squirrel, One year ago today you were due to be born. Your lease was up and it was time to move out. December 8th, 2006 was the ending date of our original lease agreement between me, your landlord, and you, my tenant. However, on this day one year ago, you chose to continue to […]

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Visitors

Yesterday was a special day for our family–it was St. Nicholas Day! We woke up yesterday morning to find our shoes filled with goodies. I even had a surprise gift from St. Nick this year–a beautiful poinsettia, AND Fuji-san chose to make an appearance again! What a wonderful day. For the past few months we […]

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Patron Mountain Strikes Again!

Today was a Fuji Day. Do you remember what happened on my last Fuji Day? The appearance of my patron mountain always seems to lift my spirits, and today was no exception. Today I also found new benefits to the presence of Fuji-san. Not only does my patron mountain put me into a good mood, […]

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Holiday Card Exchange–Do you want to receive a rat by snail mail?

Ysolda, a fellow blogger, started a holiday card exchange with her blog readers last year, is doing it again this year, and is encouraging other bloggers to do the same. I think this sounds like such a fun idea, that I’m going to do my own. To give it my own little twist, I’m going […]

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Did ya miss me?

Ok, so I almost had to tie myself down to prevent myself from trying to type out a post last night at 11:00 pm. I had to keep telling myself, “It’s alright. Your blog will still be there tomorrow. You deserve a break. You deserve to go to bed right now. Your blog is sick […]

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THANK YOU!

Today marks 31 days of blogging EVERY SINGLE DAY! I did it! Thanks to NaBloPoMo for the fun challenge, but especially thank you to all of you. I loved hearing from all of you who “delurked”–thank you for your comments. For at least the rest of this month, I don’t think I will be posting […]

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"C’est facile comme bonjour."

We live in an area of Tokyo that has a lot of French influences. For starters, the Tokyo tower, which is a reddish orange version of the Eiffel Tower, is visible from our living room window. Our neighborhood is filled with French inspired cafés, bakeries, and restaurants. In fact, these places are all within 5-minute […]

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The perfect cold remedy, cream, and the holiday season.

Today was a cold day and Squirrel and I are both getting colds, so we stayed inside. Tonight I braved the cold to go to work, and was glad I did. We always start off our meetings with dinner and Mr. S, who was in charge of getting dinner tonight, had gone to the trouble […]

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Singing the blues.

You thought SP11 was over right? Ha! Wrong! I just got ANOTHER little package in the mail today from my wonderful spoiler! One more skein of that wonderful Knit Picks Wool of the Andes, a postcard, and a UNLV onesie for Squirrel! SO CUTE. Isn’t she the best? I know you’re jealous, but I’m sorry, […]

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Grey

Today was a grey dreary day outside. So it is very appropriate that today color is GREY! 1. Elevator buttons 2. Cobblestones 3. Boots 4. Car 5. Stone lantern 6. cement truck Despite today being dreary and grey, there were things that brought in the sunshine! For starters, I would like to personally thank IKEA […]

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