Breaking up.

Broke up with my two "best" friends.

More details later.

If I start singing...I'll be convinced I'm sucked inside a cartoon.

Today marks two events...

First...Akira and I have been married four months!  YAY!!!!

Second...20 days until Japan!

I have been plotting my return in order to redeem my first experince into a much more enjoyable second experince of our home away from home.  I have been studying my ass off, deiting, learning more Japanese cooking, changed my fashion to something a little less stuck up, and plotted various goals to do for each day spent in Japan.

I will avoid pink areas this time.  Save for a fun love hotel here and there.

I'm very much looking forward to spending more time in the Tokyo area...and I was hoping to go to Kyoto...but it looks like that might not be possible.  I will be going to see a bullfight in the village near Akira's house...so that'll be something...  (not bullfighters, like the bulls just butt horns and then it's over, no harm to them because they are idolized in that village for some reason.  There's a ton of shrines in that area as well.  Last time I scared a snake walking to a shrine and it rolled all the way down the stairs faster than I could reach the bottom screaming...lol.)

Speaking of creatures following me around at work now I have a wild squirral that literally follows me around.  The first few days I thought it was just because I had shiny shoes, but now it follows me from the parking lot to the center, from the center to the mailbox...  I'm sure it's quite a sight for all the businessmen that see me walking around in heels with a little squirral following me.  Akira said it's the cutest damn thing he's ever seen and that I look like a Disney princess with it following me. 

In all honesty, I'm worried for my furry friend and I've stopped two cars from running the poor little guy over.  Yesterday he let me pet him.  Naturally I feed him.  Usually a strawberry or something grainy. 

So yes...that's all that's exciting, married for four months, Japan in 20 days, and I have a wild squirral that follows me around at work. 

So my Japanese class is very small on Saturdays, in fact it's just another girl near my age taking the course.  Yesterday morning she informed me that she was dropping out of Saturday classes and instead going to the Monday night class.  She's not exactly very nice to me...I'm fact I don't think she likes me.   She's a part time accountant at a Japanese company that produces printers...and to be honest I'm not even sure if that part is true...

She's trying to win a trip to Japan...again for reasons I didn't quite understand...

Anyhow yesterday I gave her a gift to say thank you for reviewing some stuff with me, and I even sent her a text afterwards as well...and I got not response.

I don't get it.

Akira has been funky with me too.  We finally hit that silent part in our relationship.  The part where you sit in the car and have nothing to say...it unnerved me a little.

Maybe I'm weird :(.

*Bang bang bang* Is that the door? No..it's in my head.

I am so sleepy!  No more Izakayas for a while.  I've been hung over for two days straight.

Yesterday I was a zombie. Today I'm just tired.

I thought having a little bit more of the snake that bit me would help, but I was wrong.

I ended up doing a strip dance for Akira in the mist of my Izakaya haze.  I woke up not remembering much but I saw where I had ripped off my panties and tied it on Akira....sooooo...sex life is back up to par.

Studying a lot today.

Not retaining a lot.

Had soba yesterday, today will be curry.

I will be so happy when I feel normal again...oi.

you can't see it, but my forehead is actually twitching... 

Prepping

Alright, time to play caught up.

Alaska.

Alaska was beautiful and very very Republican.  We had our tiny misups...but Akira was fine since the entire state seemed to be filled of uniformed, bus riding, Japanese tourist.  And I'm not saying just a few...there were thousands.

It was entertaining for me to see so many super whites and then some many super Japanese, all avoiding each other.  It made me appreciate that I don't live in a place where race is so...black and white.  It's so mixed with such massive communities, I felt shocked to see so many white people in one place.  Akira did too. LOL.  We tried to blend in with the tourist, but since we had no uniforms...  Anyhow... it was a trip.

The hot springs were AMAZING!  It was a huge, boiling lake.  I literally felt myself melting away so I had to sit in the snow every 20 min or so.  I spent my time ease dropping on the Japanese tourist, but luck would have it that I understood nothing save for a "Oh I see" and "watch out the floor changes" and then something about a key.  I know I shouldn't be discouraged.  My Japanese teacher told Akira I'm very fast and that I'm too hard on myself when it comes to studying...but they don't get it.  I want to feel safe in a month when we go to Japan this time.  I want to be able to order my own food and figure out the train system.  And just after four lessons I'm at that point...but nothing else.  So I'm nervous about the wedding, but Akira told me that people stay pretty silent and listen to the speaker, and I can just down a few glasses of whatever has the highest chance of getting me drunk.  Anyhow, Alaska.

Akira's host family, as always, was extremely lovable and sweet.  And the visit over all was great.  We saw massive art sculptures (the hot springs's hotel has a building made of complete ice with a bar (made of ice, even the glasses where made of ice), a natural history museum of Alaska, saw the gold mine his host family is mining, the northern lights, and an arctic bbq with dog sled racing.  It was pretty epic. We also went to the north pole and a native village where we got stared down and Akira got confused as a native himself, looool.

So that was fun.

Other than that, life has gone back to normal.  Sunday night we went to the izakaya Honda-Ya (for those of you in the area, they have a number of locations http://www.izakayahondaya.com/)  and Akira got drunk and told me to start thinking about having children.  Between him and my father...I'm starting to get worried about being forced into being a house wife.

So....that lead to having a serious meeting with my stepmom about the company and how my brother and I still want to work here but my father has kind of lost his mind since his brother has died.  Which is 100% okay, but it's becoming an issue at work.  So...that's still in process..

Our sex life is hitting a bump...mainly because I can't get Akira to focus on anything other than work.  Even on our date at Honda-Yo he was texting and emailing and it took all I could to just not have his phone swim in the sake along with him.

Anyhow...  Saturday we finally have a day together (after my class)...so...here's hoping on getting lucky.

Still paranoid.