Rambling

Alright I've been silent for a while...but I suppose I should go on and break that.

Since things have calmed down a bit and we filed for the greencard...my contentment level has gone up.  Usually I write only when I'm upset or ranting...as I'm sure all of you can tell.  My Muse doesn't work up great topics to write about unless my head feels like it's going to explode.

My dad...we're having some major issues...mainly with how he's handling money...and how he's handling it in regards to me.  Anyhow...It's caused me to really lose respect for him because I just think what he did all the way around is wrong.  I don't exactly understand it, but I know if it were right it would be easy to understand what he did and why.

He is trying to woo me to stay...and it's hard not to stay...at the same time...I think I can find something better...

SO that's depressing.

Other than that...Akira's family is doing alright...the rest of my family is doing alright.  My girls are constantly on the hunt for a husband and since I can't really join in the activities I find it a little boring to talk about this guy or that guy.  In fact...I'm finding most gossip pretty dull.

I'm dying for a camping trip.  I really wanted us to go to the desert hot springs...but since Akira and I don't have the same days off as Akira does...our trips are lacking.

Alaska is soon though...but again...it's more like a visit, not a trip where we go off exploring and hiking and hot springing it...

I'm at a freeze on my diet.  I can't seem to lose any more.  I'm going to have to start adding weights.  I was dreading this part.  At least I can get some strap weights and wear them at work since my pants are loose.

I'm going to dye my hair.  That's not exactly exciting but my 27 year old ass is greying...so I gotten fix that asap.  Just shows how stressed out I've been in my 20s.

Akira got another promotion.  I guess he's has seniority status now or something like that...I'm not sure how Japanese companies run...but he was head of junior and now he's mid senior.  So if anyone has any clue how to explain that to me that would be helpful because when people ask me what Akira does for a living I'm like...Well he works 120 hours a week and then sleeps the rest.  People just look at me strange, but I don't know how else to explain it.  He does everything, constantly, mulitasking, all the freaking time.

That's why I miss our trips where his emails couldn't reach him.

Even his off days he spends half of them answering emails and doing spread sheets.

Did you guys know that the Japanese salary people working themselves to death is the fault of this idealist American prick who went around Japan lecturing to companies on how they should run????

BAM!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming

So their entire over working and constant improving is post WWII...at least to this extent.  I think this model of company management works so well with the Japanese because of the constant submissiveness in the culture as well and the back and forth seasaw process of carrying out any kind of action with in a group.

I still think this whole thing is horrible and that the Japanese should really scrap this form of working their life away...but...it's probably me just being American and thinking there are more important things in life other then work.  Something that most Japanese would strongly disagree with me on...so what the hell do I know.

I just think it's interesting that the USA imposed so much on Japan, and instead of Japan kicking and screaming over it...they just went with the flow.  That's culture right there.