It happened one night..

light at the end of the tunnel

2007-01-16T22:52:00.000-08:00

Yay, tomorrow is the last day of this diet. (although day after tomorrow I can still only drink orange or grapefruit juice.)
Its been a tough 10 days. Especially the freedays. (1 freeday we went to the bowling alley, the girls got pizza for lunch. Next freeday we went out and the girls got some OISHI sushi. I was so lusting after the spicy fish egg kind.) But all in all I'm very happy I did this diet as I was really starting to add inches to my waist line and I wasn't enjoying the double chin I got when I would smile. The plan is to keep losing weight through not pigging out on everything I see and doing exercise. This diet is suppose to be like a jumpstart to a healthy(ish), moderate lifestyle.
And in other news :
I'll be going home Jan 31st.
I dyed my hair lighter brown but it didn't get as light as I wanted it so I'll probably redye it.
I'm bringing home some more nice clothes.
I want angel to bring a BIG pack of Marzbars and Hot Tamales when she comes.(I never said I would have a 100% heathy diet.)
sense coming here I've gotten 10 pairs of nice shoes for myself.
and...I gtg clean the kitchen.
See ya!

I WANNA EAT!..but i won't..

2007-01-11T01:41:00.000-08:00

As a new years resolution and as a present of a "better me" to Jesus, I started the MasterClense diet.

The MasterClense is a diet that cleans your whole system but specifically the insentines and colon. And in the process I'm supose to lose a good few kgs. The killer part is... I can't have ANY SOLIDS.None, Zip, Nada, Zero, Zilch, etc. What I can have is 12 cups of Lemonade (1 cp water, 2 tbsp lemon juice,1~2 tbsp real maple syrup and a dash of cayenne pepper), 1 lt. of salt water(2 tsps of salt, 1 lt. of water)in the A.M. and a Detox tea at night, and as much water as I can drink. The salt water sounds terrible doesn't it? Well, IT IS!! But its manditory, theres just no way around it. The salt water flushes through my system in the A.M and the lemonade and water is supose to keep me going the rest of the day.The maple syrup is the sugar thats supose to keep this dite from being an unheathy way of losing weight. I'm on day 3 and so far the lemonade and water haven't been keeping me full. In fact I've been REALLLY hungry. Esp sense the food that the rest of the home 's been eating for the past 3 days has been soo good.

Gabe and Honey are doing the Clense as well. Last time Honey did it she went for 20 days, lost 15 lbs and only gained back a few. It goes for 10 days(or more if you wish) then the next 3 days after that I'm just eating salads, soups and orange juice. then finally on day 14 I can being eating solids again. Oh what a day that will be!
But it looks like I'm slow on the draw and I've only lost 1 lb. in 3 days. Apparently though, honey didnt start noticing weight loss till about day 4 or 5. So there is yet hope for me.
Prayers that I drop pounds fast will, of course, be appreicated. Hehehe. I miss you, but I miss food even more

Akemashite Omedetogozaimasu

2006-12-31T22:10:00.000-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEARS Y'ALL!!!

I love you and hope that this year will be full of change, excitement, miracles, and pleasures you've never expierenced before.I pray you'll follow the Lord ever closer and that you'll really progress and put your all in what He asks of you.

Have an awesome new year and MAKE IT COUNT!

Post-Christmas push.

2006-12-27T18:52:00.000-08:00

Well now that the C-mas push is all over we are have a few 'relax' days. It started Tuesday and is going till Friday. HORRAY! We're also getting 'C-mas bonus okane'.
Yesterday was a good day, a very good day.( ne Hitomi?) There is so much beauty in this world... YUM, PTL. Also we had a double feature. "Sound of thunder" and "Suuuperman" were the movies of choice.Oh the weather here has been SO WONDERFUL. All blue skys, sunny, warm, t-shirt weather. Jesus is so good to me. (Incase you dont know, the weather affects me alot. If its sunny weather I become very happy. It works the other way if its rainy weather.)
Also I've had enough of my my hair being 3 diffrent colours so, I decided, I'm gonna dye all my hair one colour. If all goes well It'll be a happy light brown colour. If it screws up It'll probably be orange. (Prayers that the dyeing goes well will be appreciated.)
Anwyay I gotta go get ready.Today, as our homes united activity, we're gonna go shopping. Shopping for BLING.

My Jesus' birthday-Eve

2006-12-24T05:30:00.000-08:00

IT'S CHRISTMAS EVE, HORRAY!!! The season is almost over and a fun and fufilling one it has been.
This is the first Christmas I've been away from home.
It's the first C-mas I've done something other then dancing.
It's the first time I've been able to wear T-shirts w/out being cold in December.
It's the first time I've met hot guyjins going DTD.
It's the first C-mas I've turned into a blubbering heap of giggles when meeting hot men going DTD.
It's the first time I've sung Happy birthday for Hitomi in the middle of a busy main street at the top of my lungs.
It's the first time we've accidently stumbled into a big 'Redlight district' while trying to find a good place to witness.
This C-mas season has been the first time for alot of things...some a bit uncomforable, but mostly good. Heeheehee

We did a 'ChrisCringle' so that everyone would have at least 1 present to open tomorrow mornning. We only had the 23rd for shopping, we've been so busy, so there are still important ppl I haven't yet gotten presents for. (But fret not, I will get a good present for you cuz I like you and cuz you got a present for me:D. )
We each got 1000 yen to spend on our person and I'm so happy and thankfull that I found my person a good gift within that price range.
Besides the 'Cringle', each of us also have a stocking full of yummies to rot our teeth with. YAY.
Yes and I dont know what else to write about so ...MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
Have a good one,
I miss you,
I love you.

Patter-chan..

2006-12-20T20:11:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday To you..

You live in a zoo.

You look like a monkey..

and you act like one too!

Yay your a whole 17 years old...But its a nothing number so dont sweat it. I'm glad you liked the stuff in the box. ( ofcourse you did. I have good taste) Do something fun and exciting for yourself today.

I miss you too. Have a good one.

I'm so busy

2006-12-18T06:23:00.000-08:00

I've been too busy with the whole C-mas push to have time to post anything on this blog here but I'm home tonight so I'll tell you about my happnings.

We just deccorated our home and its finally looking all pretty and christmassy.
We've been doing something everynight for the past 2 weeks. Things like shows, festivals and DTD.
I finally sent that box of to my homies.
I've gained weight.
I'm borring.
I'm tired and need to go nene now.

Stop and ask yourself..

2006-12-06T02:12:00.000-08:00

What do you want out of life? Do you have a purpose or goal in life, and are you striving and doing all you can to reach that goal?

Here today and gone tomorrow

2006-11-28T03:50:00.000-08:00

WAAHHHH....my hair use to be so nice.. and we had such a nice bathroom:). But my hair!! It was so nice back then. I think I'll grow it out again.

Eeeyes!

2006-11-27T05:50:00.000-08:00

I GOT A NEW PAIR OF GLASSES!! Hallelujah, PTL. I am so happy. ILYJ!! I'll post pics soon enough.

AHHHHHHH

2006-11-25T21:34:00.000-08:00

MY GLASSES JUST BROKE!!! AHHHH!!! I can't see anything or anyone, IM BLIND AHHHHH!!

Wednesday, Thrusday...Friday...

2006-11-24T00:13:00.000-08:00

Wednesday night we all went bowlling. This was D's going away party and it was a blast. First Honey,Hitomi and me went by K's house, fellowshiped a bit, had some delicious eggnog then went to the bowlling alley. We 3 arrived there like 30 mins b4 the others. It wasn't that we were early. Nope, the others were late. nyahahaha. But as we were waiting, hitomi played this "bonk the mice" game. She looked so funny standing there pounding the mice with all her might. Strong woman. I was just standing next to her laughing my head off.
Anyway all the other ppl showed up, we got 3 pizzas and stared bowlling. I sucked sooo bad at first but after eatting some pizza, I got 2 strikes in a row!! wooohoo, I was all smiles. We did bowlling for 2 hrs and it was great fun but today my right forearm and left butt cheek hurt soo bad. I should excirsie more regularly I guess.
Thursday was a beautiful, sunny day and I was giving lots of thanks. For thanksgiving dinner, we went down to Reggie's restaurant.( This home's been going to Reggies almost every Thanksgiving) He was having some kind of open house dinner where everyone and anyone could just come in and eat to their hearts desire.
The food was so good. Shall I tell you what I ate? I ate : 2 kinds of turkey, mashed potatos with gravy sauce, pumpkin pie, carrot cake, cheese cake and veggies. I was so hungry when I got there. I hadn't eatten sence 11:30 that mornning.
When we got there guess who was waitting there to greet us? None other then... Mark. hahahahhaha, yes mark was there all spiffed up in a suit and wearing some iffy cap. The suit apparently was cause he had just gotten of work. And the cap was cause..he was Mark.
It was a nice evening 'cept I ate waay to much and was feeling kinna sick the whole day.

To day i've been sick with a nasty cold. Please pray it goes away right away cuz tomorrow, and day after, I have a ballooning job. TYSM. ILY. PTL. GBAKY.

Mornning EX.

2006-11-21T23:33:00.000-08:00

So you all know that we live RIGHT next to a base desho? Okay so this morning I woke up to some weird strange sounds and I was like.."what the hey is that".. and then I listened and it was all the marines jogging by our house (on the other side of the fence ofcourse) singing some happy army song. It was hilarious! Just like they do it in 'Band Of Brothers'. You know they all sing something then shout something like "HOOHA, GARBALAHBALAH" hahaha it was so funny. Unfortunately I couldnt see then from my room, I would've had to go outside to see it. But sense I was still half asleep that wasn't really what I was thinking of doing. :D

2006-11-19T00:47:00.000-08:00

Today we, Isamu, me and D, did a bazzar on base. The weather was a bit iffy and it sprinkled a bit but nothing really bad. We had a serious truck load of stuff and it took a good while to get it all out. But I loved it cuz we just spread it all on 2 big tarps, didnt have to do any hrs of folding and aranging the clothing to make it look nice. PTL. I spent a good 2 hrs looking through the clothes for nice things for me and my homies. And I found lots of nice bras and other clothing.... for my homies. I found almost nothing for myself. SOB.. you guys(homies in kobe) will be happy with the stuff...yes i think so:D.
Oh it was funny. So i was walking around looking at the other stalls there and D's friend sees me and says to D:

Friend: hey, she's cute. Who is she?

D: She's a missionary.

Friend: Oh gosh, im going to hell.

D: and do you know how old she is?

F: How old is she?

D: She's 18. 19 at the most

F: Now im definently going to hell.

Sam's restaurant

2006-11-17T04:57:00.000-08:00

Today M and Y came to stay and visit us for a few days and today is Y's B-day! Yay, so we all went out to eat at Sam's . Its a really good seafood restaurant. (although I dont like seafood) The setting was very nice. There was only candle light, the place had waiters and waitresses dressed as sailors and the decor was random sea life and old fashioned things. Very cool.
So we got there, ordered our drinks and a meal.(I got some yummy coconut drink and thankfully they didn't only have seafood there , I got a nice piece of stake.)
So the meal started with our drinks. Then we got some bread and indian curry with garlic croutons on top. Around now im starting to feel full and am wondering when out main course is gonna arrive. Apparently not yet, cuz next there was salad. Horray for salad but I'm getting really full now. Finally out comes my entree ; 350grm of delicious stake, a bit of corn, carrot broccoli, and a side of mashed potatoes.
I know what your thinking, your thinking that I just stuffed myself till all the food was gone. Nope, Ijust ate till I was full then I got to bring all the extra home in a doggy bag. YAY!
About 15 mins after the dinner icecream comes around. And I'm thinking 'maan, someone should've told me to leave space for icecream.' But it was good anyway. oh but I forgot to use the toilet b4 we left the restaurant so the ride home was not super comfortable cuz my bladder would almost explode everytime we would go over any bump. lol Im sure we've all expierenced that feeling...
Anyway...what else happned this week...we went tooling today...wasn't bad. Oh on wednesday we had a really good taco dinner. That was so yummy and its a weekly thing.:D Earlier this week I did a ballooning job. It wasn't bad and the food we got there was good too.
Yeah, I've forgotten alot of whats happned but these are just a few of the things I rememeber.

crazy Nov. weather

2006-11-11T19:18:00.000-08:00

I went out witnessing today with Isamu and Hitomi. We were out for about 4 hrs and by the time I got home I was...tanned.Hehehe I know how nice the weather's been for you guys up there on the mountian so I thought I would let you know about my weather down here. :d
I'm lovin' it!

2006-11-10T04:32:00.000-08:00

Here are the purikuras we took today.

Hitomi and Me

Hitomi is so beautifull!

11/10/2006

hahahaha, this one is the best. She's so gorgeous,I cant help but smile.

Freeday

2006-11-10T02:10:00.000-08:00

Horray freeday finally came around (I haven't had freeday since kobe.) not that I've been super worked or anything, but yes. Last night Hitomi made some really yummy coconut curry. I ate supa machi.Then for our movie we watched american pie.
Then today me and Hitomi went to Mihama where there's a big shopping center right next to the beach. We took some really funny puri's, bought some snot-icecream,(or turkish icecream, whatever ppl call it) and then hung out at starbucks cause outside was to hot. It was 27 degrees. Thats like swimming weather.Mecha atsukata...and this is November. It must be crazy hot here in the summer. Then after the heat of the day we went to the beach and waded in the gorgeous, clear water. There were some iffy gyjin guys that were walking back and forth in front of us trying to talk and get attention and stuff. So we decide it was chime tu moobing on. We got up and started walking but these guys started following us. hahahaha. We just stepped up our pace and I guess eventually they got the hint cuz after a while they stopped following us. Choto iffy data.
Oh, also today was 'Veterans day' so there was Military personnel all over the place.:d Yes ladies, be jealous. There are some very good-looking men here in Okinawa. And lots of then were staring and a few were whistling at the hot Hitomi who was walking beside me. But I can't blame them for doing that, she's such a hottie.(AMEN HOTIMI?!?!?!) hehehe.
Anyway i'll go make something for my dinner now. Hehehe, this is the first time I've actually been hungry sense I've been here.

Monday night's bible class

2006-11-06T06:09:00.000-08:00

Tonight we had a bible class here(all the YPs led it) and we did the "camel's nose" skit. Mikey, Isamu and I were the camels. Mikey got "the" camel part cuz of his glorious talent and nose. The bible class' was about depression and not letting in that little doubt, the camel's nose. The ppl really liked the class and they got a lot out of it.
Anyway today I went to look at the beach and its so nice. Mucho better then suma I'll tell you. But they actually close off the beaches and have ppl there to make sure you dont get in the water. Kinna iffy but yeah... I think I'm gonna have to go swimming here next year. I might have to stick it out till then. LOL, but I think I really do like it here.
Oh yesterday we went witnessing at a samba carnival.It was kind of exciting and it was like 50% gijins.(yes! there were hotties. but me being all shy and all made it a point to avoide direct, instense, long stares...what?)
Anywho, Im so tired so Im heading off to bed. night ya'll.

In Okinawa

2006-11-04T05:18:00.000-08:00

So this morning our really nice land Lord had the super idea of driving me to the airport in his SWEET ferarri car.(Richie came along to carry my stuff to Mr.landlord's house and when we got there Mr. LL offered that Richie come along with us to the airport) It was awesome. Every car we drove by looked at us. Some pretended not to notice so much,but there were some who actually starred at us mouth-agape. It was so funny. Me and Richie loved it. Then we met me da at the airport, had some yummy lunch then I was off, leaving on my jet plane.

It is as I thought it would be, nice and warm here. I met Mikey at the airport and he said he remembered me cuz when I was a JRteen i (apparently) asked him if a guys "size" really mattered. Or something like that. Lol, that doesn't sound like something I would ask...ehehehehe, then again...:D
Anyway last night I went to see Spring and Marie and they were wonderful. They made me and Seiko some great pasta and a nice toss-salad. Such a wonderful difference from what were use to eating.(all you in kobe know what I mean;)) Im wanna see them again when I go back up there....
Oh tonight we (the ppl) went to witness and hear Franklin Gram (son of Billy Gram) speak. His message was just about salvation and he used the parable of the prodigal son and stuff like that. Not super duper instresting but yes, he is famous so we listened.
Anyway, to all you who are in kobe and are gonna miss me, IM GONNA MISS YOU TOO!

p.s. yes I know this post is very barabara and not super in order. But hey, thats just me.

Science

2006-10-31T19:51:00.000-08:00

After you see this it really make you see how vast everything is. Why God would love humans like us is a mystery...a HUUGE mystery. But I am thankful he loves us none the less.

Pretty soon

2006-10-24T04:05:00.000-07:00

I'm going to Okinawa y'all~! Nice Tropical sunny(I hope) as-faar-down-as-I-can-go-yet-still-be-in-Japan Okinawa! Uh huh, Im gonna be there for the C-mas season and depending on how much I like it (and how much the ppl there like me) I just might permanently move there. I think I'm gonna like going to warmer weather. As nice as the weather up here in the mountian is, I prefer a healthy above -5 C. Oh and who knows, I may even meet "dublin" eh? Hehehe pray all goes happily well.

Mr.Richie-san

2006-10-22T19:38:00.000-07:00

I've been waking up at 6:30 jumping on a 2 hr long train ride(in which we (me and seiko) had to change lines 4 times) then ballooning till 5:00 for the last 3 days. But it was all worth it cause when I got home on the last day I had Milly, Richie and Lisa waiting for me!!! Well yea i would like to think they were waiting for ME but..yes I dont think they were...but they might've been happy to see me. I know I was happy to see them.
So yes, Richie has ARIVED and as come to live with us for at least 1 whole happy month!! HURRAY!

Oldies

2006-10-13T23:20:00.000-07:00

So here are some more "Oldies" for your viewing pleasure. Most all of these photos are from 2002, when I was a nice skinny 14 year old.

Me and Yum-cha at Maiko

Me, Yum, Pat, Aip and Ang in Totori.

Makoto, Aip, Pat, Ang, Yum and me at Totori beach. This place is AWESOME!!

On my 14th birthday.

Girls at 2002 JRteen camp.

Angel and Abner at dance night.

Me 14, Angel 17.

Comming back from the camp dead tired.

In Kanazawa for a C-mas photo-shoot.

In Kanazawa for a C-mas photo-shoot.

Thats all I got. It's depressing looking at these pics, seeing how much thinner I use to be...anyway hope you liked them. And if any of these photos offended anyone...well..to bad. Hehe.

Happy Memories

2006-10-12T04:11:00.000-07:00

As I look back on those times and those dreams we've left behind, I'll be glad cause I was blessed to get to have Mikage in my life...
I really miss my Mikage home right now..not for any particular reason, but I just really miss it. So here are a few pics of the diffrent places in our home and diffrent things that took place there.

HAPPY C-MAS!! Me looking way to happy after opening my presents. I'm trying to wear all my presents at the same time.(the thing on my head is a belt BTW) I know its not the usual thing to be wearing no sleaves for Cmas day but behind me are normal ppl wearing normal things like sweaters and stuff.

Ppl playing twister in our lovely yard.

So many memories just seeing the libing loom...

Memoires like such.:d

Our "pretty clean" carport.

Beautiful ppl in our beautiful yard.

Outside the prefab.

:(( its our kitchen!! Suddenly I can hear dad telling us to stop our "dancing".

Faithful Koj raking the yard.

ITS MY ROOM!! I LOVED MY ROOM, even though it wasn't always in its cleanest state..:p

And the Maturi right down the hill that we would go to at summer time.

I love you my mikage home, but we all must keep moving forward always forward...

Jesus loves me this I know, for the sky shows me so...

2006-10-11T02:12:00.000-07:00

Tonights sunset was just GORGEOUS!!
check it out. The sky started out golden.

Then it got even more beautiful!!

I think I can see Mt.Olympus in the far distance. ehehehe

There's no way you can convince me that Jesus doesn't love us. Just look! That sunset is FULL of love.

Gorgeous singing

2006-10-09T21:29:00.000-07:00

The Prayer is just so sooo nice.

Professionalism

2006-10-05T21:36:00.000-07:00

I've decided I want to become really good at something useful. So I am gonna try to become really good at...COOKING!! HORRAY! Cookbooks will now be my favorite thing to read (next to Gods word ofcourse :D.) and I'll be cooking many new weird, hopefully yummy, things, PTL.

Also in the next 15 months I want to: Become good at speaking Nihongo in depth, Become good at singing and find a good home to move to. :d yup uh huh, I sure do.

TABEHODAI supa yammie!!!

2006-10-02T22:56:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we went to tabehodai for mommy byebye party. We went to "Fishermans Market". They had some great pasta, pizza, deserts, icecream, salad bar, sushi and other yummy stuff. hehehe I'm gonna try to make some of the same pasta one day when we have all the ingrediences.
Anyway here are some of the pics from our happy day out.

the cutest little guy guy with marsh's in his mouth.

how big his tummy got

I want some!!

Seiko and me

disgusting mimi

happy family

Dedee, Mmi and Cathy.

Tabehodai

2006-10-02T21:07:00.000-07:00

Happy us.

excited to be alive

The choco-fountain

marshmelows in the choco-fountain.

DEKIAGARI!

you know what us yatches are thinking...

some of the fruits

sample of whats inside

Deserts

Pizza

Icecreams.

2006-10-01T20:56:00.000-07:00

hahaha. Check out my awesome shirt. hehehe, PTL.

A.I.P. highlites

2006-09-30T21:17:00.000-07:00

The camp was so diffrent then all the previous ones I've been to. like at this one I was part-time staff, i was working on the Jett pillar. I had enough responsibility to feel useful, but not too much to have no free time...I had quite a bit of free time ..:D.. but anyway it was all good.
Here are a few of the highlights:

.I met my foster brother who I never really thought exsisted..:)

.I got my palm read!! DUUUDE. The woman that read my hand told me so many cool things. Some that were
right on and other things that I still need to figure out the meanings to. But its all good.

.Moshed like a mad woman, for 2 1/2 hrs. w/out a break, at the concert with Sean and JR.(that was like the funnest part of the camp.)

.Got lots of love from lots of ppl.:D

.Saw all my friends!! They're all getting better looking by the day. Oh lord...what to do, What to do?

.Got on stage to dance to B.O.B.

And im sure there are many more exciting blogable things that happned but I dont remember them so much right now. So for now these are the highlites of the AIP.

Sucked into the matrix

2006-09-30T21:07:00.000-07:00

Its disgusting and I never wanted to make a blog but I love Seiko and she loves blogs.