Peach Tree

My first meme

I stole this one from Skrilla (We both used the same photo for #6).

The rules:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker).

The questions:

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.

Oh Well

Well, I didn't get as much done as I'd hoped while my Mom was here. In fact, not one item on the list from my last post was accomplished!

I did get that massage though, which was heavenly. And my teeth are shiny, clean now :D

I'm just over 50% done knitting a few projects. Maybe the stars will align such that the girls will actually take their naps at the same time today and tomorrow so I can finish those up. Here's hoping...

7 days of sick

What sucks more than having a cold from hell?

Having a cold from hell while trying to take care of 2 very needy babies.

*ugh*

Changes

2007 is turning out to be a big year for our little family:

1) We're having another baby.

2) We're moving back to Canada.

3) We're buying a house and Mr. Whisper is looking for a new job.

Exciting!

Damn Japanese Election Campaigners!

It's that time of year again when those running for Japanese municipal elections drive around from dawn to dusk, day after day in vehicles equipped with giant megaphones BLARING their names and annoying the f*** out of every person in every neighborhood in Japan...ARGH! From what I can tell, their message goes something like this:

"MY NAME IS BLAH BLAH! GOOD MORNING! BLAH BLAH! MY NAME IS BLAH BLAH! BLAH BLAH! VOTE FOR ME! BLAH BLAH! MY NAME IS BLAH BLAH!"

Apparently, some campaigners are cluing in to the fact that this method of campaigning is a total nuisance, so instead have decided to stand on street corners yelling at people from their hand-held megaphones. How is this any different than doing the same thing from a moving vehicle??

While out for a short walk with The Peach yesterday, we were audibly accosted by no less than 5 of these buggers in their noise wagons.

Click here to watch a short video I took. Note another campaigner yelling out her own greeting in the background.

TATZ Part 1

Mr.Whisper had ol' Carpy extended onto his chest a few months ago. The artist that did the arm is Sabado from Eccentric Tattoos in Nagoya. The artist that did the extension was Horicho2 (www.horicho2.com), here in Tokyo. Horicho2 uses the traditional hand-held needle technique for the shading, and an electric gun for the outline. Mr.Whisper says there's really no difference painwise between the two.

My Birthday

Today is my birthday :)  It also happens to be a National Holiday here in Japan. That means no preschool for Momo-chan :(  This I forgot, so I trudged all the way there, realized my mistake, then wheeled my crying almost-two-year-old to the park for a little play session to cheer both of us up. I realized while we were on the swings that the colorway of my socks matches perfectly with Momo's outfit today (a gift from G.G.). Here are some pictures I took with my cellphone:

Unfortunately, I can't spend the day knitting and going to get a massage like I'd hoped, but there's plenty of chocolate in the house and tall can of beer in the fridge for later...it's all good.

Happy Birthday to me!

No Stranger to Pain

How's this for a Thursday morning?:

9:30 - Root Canal

Noon - Toe Surgery

(>_<) !

Falling Apart

I haven't posted in ages because I really haven't been up to it. It feels like I'm physically falling apart these days. I had a major tooth ache in one of my molars about 3 weeks ago, so I go to the dentist (Japanese) and am told I need a root canal done. Fine. So I look it up on the net and find out that it's not as painful a procedure as most people think, but that it might take "a couple of visits" to the dentist. Well, I've been in that chair getting my tooth drilled, scraped and temporarily filled for a total of TEN times in the past 3 weeks! I'm told this is normal for a Japanese dentist.

The good thing is, while I was getting my tooth's nerve pulled out, I managed to design a knitted vest with contrast colored ribbing and an intarsia band across the chest in my head! I call it the "Root Canal Vest", and I plan to buy the yarn for it and start knitting as soon as this darn tendinitis or whatever it is in my arm heals up. Yep, got it from knitting too much, or too hard. Been taking a break from knitting now for about 5 days - and am going insane without it! 

So I'm literally hurting from head to toe. One of the first posts I ever wrote on this blog (has since been deleted) was about my infected ingrown toenail on my left big toe. That was a year ago, and so far I've had the thing cut out by 2 different doctors (the first one doing so without completely freezing the thing!), and guess what? It's grown in again and is terribly infected - possibly needing to be cut out a 3rd time!

There's a whole slough of other problems wrong with this body of mine, but I won't get into them now. Ultimately, I know things could be a whole lot worse. I thank my lucky stars every day that I'm healthy enough to be able to provide the best care possible to my infant daughter, and really that's all that matters, right?

I'm done venting...

How I beat the heat

All you need:

1. - a cold, refreshing can of your favorite beer
2. - half a grapefruit
3. - a pre-chilled beer mug