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.

Work?

My dad is losing it....

Other than that, I'm sorry I haven't posted anything yet.  I have some pics.  Gay rights supporter, kitkat lover, and in need of a tan pic.  I will post tomorrow hopefully...

A post about nothing

Sorry for being MIA.  I see that my last post didn't exactly post.

I wrote a whole entry about the victory sign vs the peace sign and how the japanese use that hand signal as much as New Yorkers use the finger...but I'm way to lazy to rewrite it.

So google it.

I'm sure someone out there has written about it.

Anyhow....

Alaska was amazing!  Cold, but amazing.  We stayed in a little cabin, went to a hot springs (which was so full of Japanese tourist that all the signs were also in Japanese...so that was interesting).  I went to an ice festival, a dog sled race, and saw the northern lights.

I have a lot to write about it, but I have a test tomorrow so I'll try to do a recap entry this weekend.  I have some plum wine so I'm sure I'll have a glass and write my ass off.

We're still going through green card crap.  Never ending.  Turns out we need to make our accounts a joint account and bills joint and ect....

So much paperwork that it's starting to annoy me now.

Akira's company has promoted him once more, he is now the fastest promoted employee in the company's history.  As a result, now that we moved all the way to the OC they are demanding him back in San Diego...so...I'm done moving.  Last year we moved three times.  I'd like to stay in one place for at least a year.  So I'm about to see Akira even less then I am now.  Not very happy about that considering that we don't even have weekends together either...

Happy he is doing so well though...

We go back to Japan in five weeks.  Golden week and a bit of time after.  So I'll be turning 28 in Japan.

Other then that...my class is going well...and I currently have a head ache.

How exciting.

Dream....dream dream dream....

So many cute babies around...sometimes I pretend that Akira is actually ready for a baby...but then reality hits....

It's okay...I can day dream...

One day, when everything is in line, my dream will become reality <3