Of course, I heard all about the crazy frog ringtones when all the frenzy was going on. But crazyfrog never caught on in Japan and if it ever played on the radio here, I still would have never heard about it. Japanese radio drives me crazy because most stations play half a song and then the hosts talk most of the way through it. So okay. I heard about it and couldn't care less. Today I happened to read a book where everyone's cell-phone had the crazy frog ring tone. So now I'm curious...

I saw this parrot one time when I was shopping at a department store. I think it was the pet section of Seibu in Shinjuku. Generally, I find department store pet shops quite depressing. But I really wanted an animal fix. I walked in looked at a few pups and kitties, looked at various and sundry rodents, as well. There was a special area for the birds and I walked in and was quite taken with a beautiful pink and grey parrot. I don't know the English name, it was called something like "...

TAKE WHAT YOU CAN! GIVE NOTHING BACK!!! -Jack Sparrow, Treasure Island I was at Karaoke last night (dang delayed action chu-hai--- an alcoholic drink) and suddenly roared this out. Not due to the chu-hi (that kicked in as I was on the train home), but just out of exuberence. Then it struck me how much I like that phrase and realized I was going to adopt it for a bit. Take it for a test spin on the road of life, if you will. Not that I have any desire to take other people's be...

I swear, try to do something nice... I am going to a wedding in Canada this summer. I want my husband to go as well but I KNOW that he has work and that he is leary about asking for time off. But when I went to buy my ticket today, I enquired about how much his ticket would be. We are not going at the same time. When I found out that there were 10 seats left of the plane around the time he can go and make it to the wedding, I booked a ticket for him to save him a seat and give hi...

I started another blog. I'm going to stay here because I like the forum style and I would miss lots of blogs here. My friend showed me her blog and she can embed video into it and so I joined it. Link This is more for my family because I can upload images straight from the computer. So if any of you were interested in seeing some of my photos, this is where you can find some of them.

I was flushing some toilet paper down the toilet after blowing my nose and my husband was getting ready to floss his teeth. In a grand flourish he began to pull the floss out of the case and finished the movement by losing his grip on the case and we both watched the case of dental floss arc through the air and plop into the toilet already in mid-flush. As it swirled around the bowl, a couple of thoughts floated to the surface of my mind. First, was it really going to go through the pi...

I burnt my toast. I haven't seen it, but I can smell it. Smells very burnt. Why am I not rushing to the kitchen to save it? Hubby was in the same room and he took care of it... after I smelled it burning from another room. I should really watch my toast once I start it. But to me, watching toast is like watching a pot until it boils. Nothing happens for a long time and then suddenly.... action! And though this is definitely not true, I always feels like a watched piece of bread never...

This weekend the sakura ,cherry blossoms, were man kai... in full bloom. And they really were stunning. The blossom laden branches always kind of remind me a bit of pale pink octopus legs waving in the wind. From a distance, the blossoms have that same kind of texture. I am apparantly the only one who has ever made this connection though. So maybe I am just weird. The usually stinky Tokyo air has been scented with the faintest hint of cinnamon sweetness that is the scent of cherry b...

So here I am scanning some slides and blogging while I'm waiting for them to be done. Really, I should be doing some math. I guess I will start that at 9. I will probably enjoy it once I get into it. I also have to make a spreadsheet tonight. Not a big deal, but I will have to pull out hubby's old laptop since my home version of XP doesn't have excel. What was I thinking when I bought this software bundle? Anyway, his OS is in Japanese. I think I remember where most of the buttons a...

Can't sleep. Would like to. got about 4 hours and then I just kept thinking about stuff. I'm giving a test tomorrow and I'm worried I made mistakes on it. Normally, no biggie. I deal with problems if they come up. Tonight I'm losing sleep over it. I'm also trying to have another shot at having a kid. Now I'm all freaked about some photography chemicals that got on my skin (what can happen!!!!!--- I washed my hands thoroughly after but I should be wearing gloves and have MAJOR gu...

Spent about 3 hours today in Yodobashi Camera looking at photograpy equipment, bags, film, paper. What fun! Of course, can't buy most of the stuff, but even trying to make decisions of what was essential was good fun. Bought: paper, film, cheap portfolio style book, book about clay animation scoped out: buying stuff to develop film at home looked at: photo bags, tripod carry bags, digital cameras, filters and step up rings

I suppose it is human nature to harp on stuff that really ticks us off. But, there is also something to be said for knowing when to stop and for being gracious when you get what you want. Case in point, a little... disagreement I had with this old Japanese man on the train. Ok, I had my headphones a little too loud. Sorry. No problem if one at least pretends to have some degree of civility. But no. This guy just starts in and bitches at me. Let me say this. I have a lot of resp...

My intuition is kicking on high gear but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be figuring out. I hate that. Then again, I'm not sure how reliable my intuition is at this time. I feel a bit stressed and so that often crosses my wires, and I tend not to be the most trusting woman on the block (yet I am sometimes so gullible... sheesh). And other times, I am spot on with my there's-something-going-on-o-meter. Achh... maybe I just need to get some more sleep.

Yesterday, I was all filled up with this fire to get moving and get things done. Big plans. Go grocery shopping in the morning, pick up a video to watch while folding clothes, vacuum the house, fold clothes, get to the gym, have a couple quality hours reading a book. I should have known I was in trouble when I got to the grocery store and started to look at the food in a daze. All things considered, I did pretty well not to load up on chips, chocolate and assorted junk food. I got...

It snowed! It's so pretty. Snow can really transform a drab scene into something pretty. I went out with hubby and got him to ask permission to take some photos of this really neat rock garden outside Yutenji station. Private property so you have to ask. THey were nice enough to allow photos, but the old guy shoveled the walk the whole time we did photos and he was sick. I only shot one roll, and he asked us if we'd just take one more shot then leave. No problem. The yard was fi...