メリークリスマス

merry christmas everyone!

i must apologise for my embarrassing mini melt down yesterday... i am slightly ashamed of it all.

and as promised, i am right as rain today...
thank you so much for all the kind comments and emails , i really needed it all last night and my group of blog friends really pulled through. i felt the love. thank you

plus i watched a million episodes of Chuck, ate a bunch of cake and listened to bad french pop. recipe for happiness

merry christmas everyone. i hope those of you who get to spend it with your loved ones and family appreciate them extra much this year, for me

xx

just a bit woeful

i was supposed to be home for christmas

i was supposed to be `helping` cook the turkey now

and pour brandy into the tipsy pudding

i havent been home for almost 2 years

but a slight encounter with bad luck means i am only going home on the 28th...

which isn`t bad... at least i am still going...

i just wish all my friends werent working tonight... or in

london / korea / thailand / amsterdam

I am not particularly happy this christmas eve...
i had a small weepy moment walking home in the blizzard after dropping celeste off at the airport... snow flakes stuck in my eyelashes

and promptly went to the alcohol vending machine in my lobby
and bought some canned cocktails



i will be over it tomorrow.
but for tonight... i am just a little bit sadly

see you next spring

extreme kotatsu love 炬燵大好き

if you need me i will be under here for the rest of winter

the delivery boy was tres beautiful :)

but i hate him

I also ordered a new book case. and he was like `oh hello. here are all your giant boxes. have fun with them. goodbye!` and I spent a few hours decoding the japanese instructions, using wood glue and running to the hardware to buy new screwdrivers (haha i now own screwdrivers) and yelping when splinters stuck in my fingers.

i am not all that DIY-ish (surprise!) I was bored of the project by the end, and had some parts left over, but i just shoved the shelves on anyway (and hid the extra bolts and screws in the cupboard so I didn`t have to look at them) . So it might fall apart at any time. But, I threw a pillow at it from the opposite end of the room as a test and it didnt budge, so I think I did pretty good. Won`t stand near it during an earthquake though.

waitin` waitin`

i ordered a 　炬燵　kotatsu from ニトリ　and i am waiting patiently for it to come. When I had to choose the delivery time, I picked the earliest one they had, I hate spending the whole day waiting for something. When I got home, I realised the time said from morning until 12 midday. What the heck does that mean? Morning as in 7? Morning as in 10? Being impeccably raised by my grandmother (`One should never have to say that one was immpecably raised, Sarah-Jane. It should be innately implied` Sorry grams.) , I am deathly afraid of having delivery men come to my apartment and waking me up unready. So I have been awake since 7 just in case. This, naturally, has very little to do with the fact that delivery men in Japan are usually extremely beautiful. That affects me in no way or form.

A 炬燵　is a Japanese heated table. Basically, there is a heater underneath this baby and you plug it in and sit under it, cover your legs with a blanket and stay there the whole winter. This week has seen me cower in the face of -10 celcius snow storms and the 炬燵 is undoubtedly going to be my saviour.

Anyway... so now I am waiting. And I was feeling very tra la la with my vanilla latte and the view of the snowy river from my window. But I looked at my clock and its only 8h45 and I feel like I have been awake for AGES and AGES.

So I have just made the decision that I am going to get back into bed fully clothed and all. And wait there.

Haha this post had like no point to it at all

snowy mornings...

... make it hard for me to wake up

you said you`d blog, sarah

Blah blah Yes.
But,
I caught swine flu. And it was a rather UN FUN experience, let me tell you.
I always knew it was only a matter of time before my body let me down and became infected. Apart from working in schools that continuously have whole classes shut down for 学級閉鎖　,I have a rather rebellious immune system. Having disease ridden kids around me aaaall day made my infection inevitable.

I was on Tamiflu for a week and I thought I was going nuts. Only when I came back to school this week and was speaking to my fellow swine flu survivors did I realise that craziness seems to be a symptom of Tamiflu. So if you , god forbid, get struck down and have to take the evil drug, don`t worry if your brain feels like slush and you are in a hitler-esque mood for a few days. It`s not you. It`s the chemicals.

But I`m all good now! Just catching up on the mountain of work I missed. Yay!