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Happy New Year, everyone! We’ve just returned from our trip to California and have been adjusting back to life in Tokyo. I’ve been trying to catch up on unfinished projects when I realized I never got the chance to write a wrap up on 2013 for the blog. Well, I’m behind on a lot of things these days but it’s ok since I hope to have a fresh start this year and hopefully do some things differently. For now, here’s our holiday card for 2013! Hope everyone is having a good start to the new year!Read More →

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Wow, is it really December already? Did I really miss September, October and November? That’s a whole 3 months! Well, yes, I guess I did disappear suddenly… But things have been crazy these past few months. In fact, I’ve started several posts in the past months but never got a chance to finish them because there is always someone who needs me to do something or needs me to hold them or feed them or play with them. Then before you know it, I’ve completely forgotten that I was working on a post. Such is life, right? But this time, I’m really hoping I canRead More →

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Wow, 10 years. Today marks the 10th year I’ve been blogging. That’s a decade of my life. And to think, I started the whole blogging thing back in 2003 as a joke and to goof around. Never would I have ever thought that I’d still be doing it 10 years later. I’m not blogging as much as I did but that’s also because blogging takes up a lot of time, something I don’t have as much of now that Child is here. (FYI, we call E, “daughter” and Kay, “child”) Still, I like to get in a post every now and then just so friendsRead More →

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I just realized that today is my blog’s 9th anniversary… Happy bloggerversary, Hamster Central! Unlike previous years, this year’s anniversary will be a bit low key since I haven’t been feeling well lately. I haven’t been sleeping well at nights and have also been breaking out in hives for no apparent reason for a week and a half now. These two things have been adding up making it impossible for me to concentrate and do things without feeling tired during the day. I’m hoping a trip to the doctor’s office will shine some light as to what is wrong with me. I’m hoping everyone hasRead More →

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Do you know that feeling when you cross the finish line after a long marathon? No? Me either since I’ve never ran enough to be able to survive a marathon. Still, I feel like I just completed one in the blogging world. Today is November 30th and also the last day of NaBloPoMo! *cue happy dancing* It’s been one long month of blogging and though for the most part it wasn’t as painful as I had imagined, there were days when I had wanted to just quit. Except I didn’t and now I can pat myself on the back for a job well done 🙂Read More →

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Today’s been a long day. My head hurts and I’m tired so I’m just going to put up a pretty picture and call it a post. It’s not even a picture from today. It is however something I’m wishing I can have right at this moment Mmm, Gingerbread Latte with a Candle Rollcake. Hope you have a good Monday!Read More →

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Did you know that November is NaBloPoMo? No? It’s okay because I wasn’t aware of it until yesterday when a few of the blogs I read started mentioning how they were taking part in it. So what exactly is NaBloPoMo? Must be a weird Jen sound effect, right? Well, no, it stands for National Blog Posting Month. It’s the blog equivalent to NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Since I don’t foresee myself writing a novel anytime soon, I figure I can give the blog version a try. All I really need to do is write a blog post every day for the month of November.Read More →

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Wow, I reached 200 posts on hamster-central with this post! Technically, I’m at 471 posts overall if you count all the posts I’ve made in my previous blog too.  Still, that’s far more than I ever thought I’d write when I first decided to jump onto the bloggy bandwagon back in 2003 🙂 So to commemorate this day, I will share with you some Q&A’s. I was recently tagged by Paige over at Life is a Phoenix.  I love it when people ask me questions because it makes me think which in turn makes me want to write 🙂 So here goes! *WARNING:  Lots ofRead More →