Entry for October 02, 2005

Well, it is the beginning of another week.  My how time flies.  I cannot believe it is already October.  What happen to summer?  Today is Sunday.  Dave is fixing breakfast.(see picture)  The menu is scrambled eggs, turkey bacon, and hash browns. He loves making breakfast.  Its his thing he does.

We get our third framer this week at work.  I am so excited.  We have a lot of huge orders that are due this month and we will need the extra help.  He has actually been working in our building but he was working in the graphics shop until one of the employees over there returned from leave.  It will be nice because now he will know how to work in both shops. 

I found out this week that I am getting a new position at work.  I was hired as a flex employee.  I am not guaranteed any hours.  My supervisor let me know this week that I will be a regular employee.  I get at least 20-30 hours a week and I get sick, vacation, and holiday pay.  I am glad.  I have been working more than thirty hours since I returned from leave.  It is nice but I hardly see Dave. 

I tried another offbase restaurant this week.  I don't know if it has a name.  Its just the place next to the crap store.  That's what we call it.   It was different.  I like the swan better.  They had soup but it had seaweed in it. yuck!  and they also had these very strange noodles. They were long and looked slimy.  they looked like long clear gummy worms.  They were crunchy and I don't think I like them.  But  it was very cheap. 

ta-ta for now 

Entry for September 26, 2005

Well, the week has started.   We had a nice weekend.  Although we didn't really do much.  We rearranged our living room yesterday.  The room looks a lot nicer.                                                       
The typhoon that was headed for us changed direction.  Thank goodness.  Watching everything that has happened in the south I am crossing my fingers we wont see any big typhoons.  Oh, remember when I was saying that it rains a ton here.  I looked it up and we get more than 7 inches of rain each month of the summer.  I was wondering how much Mich gets, so I looked it up.  Michigan gets 3 inches in the summer months.      HA!

Please if anyone is watching Desperate housewives please keep me updated in your blog if you can remember.  thanks.                                                                               

Crazy Day! September 24, 2005

What a crazy day we had.  We didn't do anything we had planned on doing today.  I went shopping this morning with a friend from work.  This may not seem like anything special but today I drove off base for the first time!!!!  I have been living in Japan for seven months and I have been so terrified of driving off base I have avoided it until today.  I am so glad I finally did it though.  I am so proud of myself.  David leaves in a few weeks and I wont be stuck on base looking for someone to drive me to the store.  It was very scary though!  I had one close call with a biker.  They are crazy darting into traffic like that.

Dave and I went to Swan a Chinese restaurant off base.  I had been there with my coworkers but it was Dave's first time.  He loved it.  I am so glad I love it there too.  We had a fun time getting freaked out in the tiny upstairs restaurant.  The room is tiny with four small tables.  We chose a table by the window overlooking the street.  While we were sitting there the room began to shake.  Dave and I both looked at each other like,  'oh, crap. an earthquake'   The place was really shaking.  It wasn't an earthquake though.  The shaking was from trucks driving by on the street below.  We were so scared.  I cannot imagine what  it would be like in there during a real earthquake.   I would probably pee my pants.

We didn't end up attending the Everclear concert.  We went to the bx before the concert and we ended up buying Dave a new toy he couldn't wait to get home and hook up.  He hasn't left the seat in front of the new 42 " Sony Vega LCD we bought.  He is in heaven.  I don't think he has even noticed me in the past three hours. 

Entry for September 22, 2005

The week is nearly over and we are looking forward to the base Octoberfest happening this weekend.  The band Everclear is preforming on Saturday.  Along with the food and beer we should have a fun time.  Hopefully the weather will co-operate.  It seems every time something is going on it rains.  After the Fourth of July fireworks were cancelled due to rain they were set to go off at the labor day beach bash.  It rained all day and let up only an hour before the fireworks began.  The airshow which took place three weeks ago also had rain as the main event which of course caused the show to end early.  It sure does rain a lot here.  I know 147 inches of snow is a lot of moisture but it lasts all year just in the form of rain.  I think I will look up the rain fall average.  Ill report back next time on my findings. 

We will update after the festivities.

Entry for September 21, 2005

Where does the time go?  It has been more than a week since we started this 360.  We have been busy working.  Although David has finally been working shorter shifts.  Ten hours on Monday and Tuesday.   Today he got out of work really early, we got to eat dinner together. 

It has really been cooling off here lately.  During the day its comfortable but by early evening the air is cool and crisp.  Fall is definitely coming soon.   We took Wendy for a walk this evening and I mentioned to Dave it feels like Michigan weather.  Then I realized it felt like an Arizona winter.  We are really enjoying the change of seasons.  Although shoveling the snow isn't something we are looking forward to.   

Hopefully this weekend Dave and I will finally get to go to Hatchinohe, which is a town about an hour away.  There is a large mall there and a lot of other things to do there.  Maybe we will stop at the mall and watch a movie.  Everyone has been telling us to try the movies off base.  They are nice and we can see more recently released movies. They have Japanese subtitles but that's okay.   When we see movies on base we have to wait a long time before they come here. Usually a month before they are released on DVD.   

Well, that's all for now. 

Our First Entry September 11, 2005

Hey all.  We were playing around and thought we would check out this 360 thing.  It seems like it will be a nice thing to try.  It can be hard to try to email all of you to keep in touch.  Hopefully this will be somewhere you can check in on us when you haven't heard from us in a while.

Things here have been a little hectic lately.  Since I got home last month we have been busy.  My work has been crazy.  We are short one framer.  Hopefully we will get someone soon.  Dave has been working 12 hours everyday.   He is on swing shift so we never see each other.  He goes to work in the afternoon while I am at work and he gets home after I am already asleep.  We have Sundays though.  Hopefully he will be able to switch soon.  One of his troops has been requesting to be moved to swings so Dave is planning to take his spot on days. 

It has been hot and humid here lately and there is no ac on base.  It makes things miserable.  When we go to the movies we get there early so we can get a spot in front of a fan.  I am sure it will be back to cold and dreary very soon though.  This past week we had typhoon warnings.  But nothing ever came of it just a little wind. 

We are really looking forward to Sandy and Sean's big move coming up in October.  We cant wait to have family in Asia!

Dave is leaving October 25th for his TDY in India.  He will be gone for a couple of weeks.   

Well, we will add-on soon.  Check next week for another entry.