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Sorry for the sudden disappearance and silence. After November, I really needed a break so I took a short one…except, I also realized I had a lot to do before our flight so I’ve been scrambling around trying to get as much done as possible these past few days. Unfortunately, I didn’t get too much done but oh well. E and I will be leaving for California tonight so hopefully once we have landed and have settled down a little, I’ll do some catching up as well as a little more posting. I’m not bringing a laptop with me this trip so I’m hoping myRead More →

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I tend to get really gratitude happy during this time of year. It’s mostly because of all the holidays and the idea of spending the last few weeks of the year with family and the people who mean most to you…it puts one in an appreciative mood. There’s a lot of big and little things I love about my life. The big things are are obviously Jason, E, my family and friends. But there are also a lot of little details and moments in my everyday life that makes me happy and grateful and I want to record all these little things I was inspiredRead More →

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There are… 3 days left before December starts. 27 days left until Christmas. 34 days of this year left to go. 9 days left before E and I fly back to California for the holidays. 9 days left before E and I see our family back home. 18 days left before Jason joins us there. 18 days left before Jason sees our family and us at home. 12 long hours we’ll be spending on the plane heading towards California. 13 long hours spent coming back to Tokyo. 10 more people I need to get gifts for Christmas. 2 height charts that need to be madeRead More →

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I suppose Black Friday has come and gone along with another year of Thanksgiving. I hope that those of you who went out to join in on the discounted shopping got the things you had your eyes on. For the rest of us who either shopped online for deals and discounts or those of us who decided to forgo the whole event, I hope you had good rest after your Thanksgiving meals. For me, I did a little online shopping but not too much. All the Black Friday hoopla with people camping out in front of stores in the wee hours before stores opened onRead More →

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I want to wish my family and all my friends in/from the US a Happy Thanksgiving. This is our 5th year of spending Thanksgiving overseas so there was no turkey or large family gatherings for us or even a Thanksgiving holiday. I do miss family during this time of the year but I am thankful that I will always have a home to return to whenever we go back. I am thankful for a lot of things big and small and I had wanted to write a list of every single thing I’m thankful for but that might take forever to complete. So instead, IRead More →

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I had an interesting dream last night. Technically, all my dreams are interesting and a bit strange but last nights dream was different. I had a dream about my grandfather, the one who passed away 10 years ago. It wasn’t a dream about him when he was still alive. No, it felt more like he was visiting me in my dream a decade after his death. I don’t remember a lot of the details about why he was there. All I can recall is that I was visiting my sister and she told me that my grandfather was there. He wanted us to do somethingRead More →

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I have really big feet for an Asian girl. I wear size 10 shoes, preferably wide since I my feet is quite wide at the front. It makes sense that I would have big feet since I am 5’9″, which makes me pretty tall for an Asian female (I’m technically taller than a lot of Asian males too). Being tall doesn’t bother me a lot since I can still find nice-looking clothes to wear but having big feet really annoys me. I find that a lot of the cute shoes that I like never come in my size which really sucks. My wide, size 10Read More →

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I am currently feeling very proud of my mom right now. Why? Because she freakin braved the Amazon rainforest and climbed all the steps to reach the top of Machu Picchu. And she did all of this without her family by her side. Why is this so amazing, you ask? Well, if you know my mom, you would know that she’s not an adventurer. She’s got the heart of a traveller but does not have a single adventurer’s bone in her body. That may sound harsh but it’s true and she would have agree that it was true too. My mom likes to travel butRead More →