It was nice and sunny I was on my way back from the post office when I noticed the mover’s van by the roadside. They were early! I said “Konnichiwa” and I guess they knew the stuff belonged to me somehow, cos one of the guys followed me with a pallet of boxes. They had [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Yay! Our Shipment arrived! Nov 30th
Posted in Uncategorized on November 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Saturday Nov 24th
Posted in Uncategorized on November 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Dave had to go to work! I wanted to go to step classes but I wasn’t feeling in the mood.
So I tried to open the washing machine door again – still will not open. I did some washing yesterday and after the dry cycle, it would not open. I pulled the plug out – nothing, let [...]
Sunny and Crisp Day Nov 23rd
Posted in Uncategorized on November 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We woke up to a lovely sunny day and snow covered mountains all around us. It was cold and crisp!
I called the courier service phone number, listened to alot of Japanese lingo recording – no idea what it wanted me to do but I remembered Saito-san saying “press1″ and a lady answered. “Moshi moshi” and I said [...]
Thanksgiving Day in Japan Nov 22
Posted in Uncategorized on November 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It snowed all day. The winds were so strong!
We went to a Vietnamese restaurant for dinner. No turkeys lurking around in the supermarket!
Our shipment will be here on Sunday so I needed to send some papers to the forwarding agent at Narita, so I asked the owner, Miri-san (in Japanese!) if she knew where the Takyubin [...]
Snow on them thar mountains! Nov19th
Posted in Uncategorized on November 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
No wonder it was so cold yesterday and rain off and on. This morning there’s a light dusting on the roofs of houses (we are on the 4th floor) and snow on top of the mountains close to us.
Yesterday, I drove for a little bit and parked the car on our parking platform with Dave’s [...]
We hiked today Nov 17th
Posted in Uncategorized on November 17, 2007 | 5 Comments »
The mountains to the north of us are covered in snow!! Must be all that rain we had here yesterday morning – snow for the mountains.
Lucy said Sapporo had two inches of snow and more on their mountains. She practised rugby in the snow. Yes, my baby is one of two girls in her rugby [...]
Dave’s Birthday Nov 16th
Posted in Uncategorized on November 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I spent the morning talking to my sister in law in England on yahoo. So great – she was going to bed and my day was just beginning. Years ago when Dave went to the US on a month long biz trip, I never heard from him the whole time he was away and the [...]
We have Internet! Nov 15th
Posted in Uncategorized on November 14, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I picked up my registerd mail from the post office yesterday and it was the English instructions for our new Internet Provider. Yay! bet my neighbor is happy now that we are not sponging on their band width.
The yarn stores were just making themselves known to me! It seemed that everywhere i go, one would [...]
Move Into Apartment Day Nov 12th
Posted in Uncategorized on November 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It rained all day, windy and freeeezing!! Sato – san the realtor picked meup from the hotel and she brought me to the mansion (that’s what they call apartment here) and Junko, the translator was there too, looking cold.
First we had to do the walk through – oh my, what a walk through. There’s the [...]
Back In Japan – Aizu Wakamatsu Nov 11th
Posted in Uncategorized on November 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Woke up at 4am – even after taking melatonin. Had japanese breakfast – rice, pickles, abit of everything plus green tea, at 8am.
Dull day and it rained alot later in the afternoon.
Went walkabout in town. Dave took lots of pictures with his new Olympus camera. I wished I had bought those cute wellies from Costco. [...]
