toooooooooo hot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

okay, its May 24th and its 82 degrees F (28 degrees C) here,,,,, and HUMID!!!!! My body is not ready for this,,,,,,, my anti-persprant is not ready for this,,,,,, God the summer is going to sux

7-1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AH DAMMMMMMMMMMMMN IT!!!
Of all the games we get over here,,,,,, I have to sleep through a game were they WIN 7-1, and Dice-K goes all 9 innings,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Now I'm just mad,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

just thought i should share

I missed a game!!

Now, Ive been really good at seeing Red Sox games here,,, I normally don't see the beginning but always see at least an inning or two, but today, well Monday nights game (which was shown here at 8am, Tuesday morning, gotta love the time difference) I actually slept through!! We didn't have classes today (billy wanted to go see a festival or something in Kyoto) so I thought I could just sleep-in,,,, I got up around 10:30 and then took a shower and then got breakfast and looked over the newspaper (the English one), and there I saw it, Red Sox vs. Tigers, 8-11am,,,,,,,,,, I took one look at the wall clock and I missed the game by 20min. To say I was pissed would be an understatement. And now I find out that my sister, Lizzy, went to the game.... well I hope they won, I'm off now to check and see if I can see the game online yet.

I cant believe I missed a game!!!!!!!

wow, mom was right...

well, with a title like that, everyone who knows me is saying that she`s lost her mind,,,, and that maybe the case, but its true. I have living with my aunt miki and uncle billy for over a month now and miki has been saying how nice i am, how i do things around the house without her having to ask me to, how i help out and don't complain, and overall every easy going and goes with the flow, and (here's the kicker) how all that is because of how i was raised and my mom, even though she was strict, taught me well. . . . . . . yeah,,,,,,,,

So here i am, sitting at their computer, alone in the house, thinking either aunt miki is right, or i haven't shown my true colors yet. . . . i kinda want to say both,,,, but ummmmmmm yeah,,,,,

I mean, i even eat onions, peppers, and mushrooms here!!! and i cant tell if I'm eating them cause i like the taste or because i don't want to upset aunt miki,,,,,,

I think all this rambling is leading me to one thought,,,, i think its one most people have at some point,,,,, for as much as i complain / and will still continue to complain about my mom,,,, she did good,,,,,,,

oh great, mothers day is tomorrow, and I'm on the other side of the world,,,,,, sometimes i have the best timing.

which picture?

Okay, ,, I know, this is a shock, two posts in one day,,, well, I'm bored (can't you tell?)

I'm trying to figure out how/what picture to post on my profile, so here's three pictures, and let me know which one you like best,,,, if none, give me another picture!

I figured it out!

well, i finally figured out how to put pictures in my blog, , ,, well, first i found out how to change the language from Japanese to English, , , i know I'm trying to learn Japanese, but its just hard to figure out how to do things when you don't know the language ;-}

These are two pictures I took when waiting in line for 2 1/2 hours for spider-man the ride.

The first one is of part of the line. the line started upstairs and worked its way down to there and then inside into three different rooms, , , , , i'm no longer afraid of dying cause i know what purgatory is going to be like; an endless line weaving in and out with a crying/whining kid behind you and no place to go the bathroom.

the second picture is one i had to take; its one of the water fountain i wrote about last entry. just a picture to prove i didn't make it up!

strange things

so, i've lived in a forigen country for over a month now, i should be used to everything now,,, right? well, not so much, there's still things that just make my head turn sometimes, and i guess thats a good thing, cause if nothing surprized me, life would be boring.

now, take going for a long car ride with your friends in a mini-van. if you were sitting in the second row you would allways have to turn around to talk to the people behind you, right,,, well in the minivan i took to go to the cook-out, the middle bench seat (second row), had a handle, that when pushed, turned the bench as if it was on a lazy-susan so you could face the people in the back bench seat. it took me awhile to get use to it.

when we went to Universal Studios, me and uncle billy spent 2 and 1/2 hours waiting for the spider-man ride, and the beginning part of the line is outside. they had water bubblers every so many rows. thats nice of them,,,,, i think, cause what if you have to go to the bathroom?


then on saturday, i went to the movies with my uncle billy and his friend to see spider-man 3. Billy waited in line for the tickets. when he handed me mine, there looked like there was a seat number on it. he told me, thats where you're sitting in the theater. i looked at him strange, assigned seating at a movie theater?!?! its a good idea but i couldn't get my head around it.

Alex, the exchange student who lives a few floors below us said, "you'll get use to it all. everything here is about convience, i've stopped being amazed by it all and just go with it"
now, i know i'm a jaded arigant american, but sometimes its great to just have a "what the heck?!?!?!" moment,,,,,, it makes me smile =}

More pictures!!!

yea!! i put some more pictures up on my picasa site, (use the link below) to see them. I have pictures from a cook-out we went to and from Universal Studios Japan, in Osaka.

the cookout was at a little park area about a hour away, it was nice there.
usj was great, but wayyyyyyy toooooo many people. me and uncle billy spent 2 and 1/2 hours in line for the spider-man ride, , , , it was good, but i don't know about the wait.