I haven’t posted in nearly a year!! I am so ashamed. Sooo what is new? LOTS. Let’s see if we can re-cap what’s happened in the last year:

Shortly after I made that post I found out I was pregnant. The due date was 22 April, 2011. So my belly grew… and grew… and grew… and grew… I was huge! During that time I was walking to and from Vivien’s school to get her, and also working my cake job. I continued to work until the 19th of April, by then it was hard to work more than a few hours at a time, and also stand on my feet that long. So the 21st comes, and I went in to see the Doctor, still only dilated to 1cm, no progress. So we set a date for induction. The next day I had what I THOUGHT was fake contractions all day long, starting at about, 4 in the morning. lunch time came and both kids were home and they were being naughty and I was in screaming pain and told my husband he needed to come home, like NOW. hahaha, I had my baby that night. She’s definitely one of mine! Always punctual

Last month we made a road trip to TN to get his daughter, and make the obligatory trip to visit family. This was on the 15th. He got a call from his friend down in Florida that they wanted to hire him. Annnd they need him to move, asap, like 3 weeks. We flew down right after getting home from TN, and had two days to find a place to live and secure it. We did that… and so… we quit our jobs, packed up our stuff, rented a truck and drove… from south east Nebraska, to Florida. Suuuckkky. I think it took us a total of 4 days to get down here. We had to get rid of that kitty I posted about last, 紅葉-ちゃん。:cry: I couldn’t afford to have two cats, and she was peeing. So we’re here now!

Florida. ROCKS. Other than leaving my awesome house and my parents behind I love it here. The beach is awesome! And we have our own private pool right in our backyard! AND… the best part… NO FREAKING WINTER!! The coldest it gets is like 40, and that’s at night. Ha!!! So having taken the girls to the beach today (boy stayed home, he cut his foot, not so much for going into salt water) I’m worn out! my house is now FINALLY clean and completely put away! So now I can focus on things like my drawing skills, and 日本語! Although it w ill be better when the kiddies are in school, and only baby will be home

Sooo maybe I will actually -remember- to post more than once a year… I’ll write myself a sticky!

じゃね！

I was going to write this whole thing in Japanese… but… that would take a bit more time than I have So what’s new in my world? Not too much really, we moved into our house, and we have really begun to “Japanify” it. We have our short dining room table, and our floor cushions, and we even fly the Japanese flag outside ^.^ I have really started to get serious about my Japanese too. I’ve set here for hours poring over books or websites trying to cram as much information into my head as possible! Sometimes I have problems remembering though especially with new Kanji. I have two new online friends that I talk to who live in Japan! We will refer to them as T or K. T is male, K is female. I find it a little easier to talk to K since we have more in common, and she’s female and I find that I’m not as intimidated chatting with her. I am wanting to write letters to my friends in Japanese and send them! I think it would be fun! I love getting mail no one uses old mail anymore, makes me sad. Anywho… I STILL really miss Japan and I really would love to go back. We eat a lot of Japanese food here at the house too, I have learned to make a ton of recipes and I even have some of them memorized because I’ve made them so many times.

It’s been soooo long since I’ve posted… Let’s see… Last February I had to go to the hospital and have surgery to have my gall-bladder removed. That was an experience… now I’m having other health issues that I won’t go into the details about (it can be rather graphic) but there’s a slight possibility that I might have to have surgery again. Although I don’t think it would be AS serious of surgery as before, hard to say really.

So Todd keeps mentioning moving to Florida again. I am really actually very excited to move, it’s just we have a few things that HAVE to be taken care of here first before we can do that. Although having the kids here with us now and all I’m so worn out all the time I don’t have ANY spare energy to do even the simplest of things. I don’t even have the energy right now to get up and do laundry, even though it’s piling up on me a bit. I only have a couple of hours before I have to go get Viv from school anyways and that’s really only enough time to do maybe two loads… I need a holiday…. BADLY…

We got a kitten! Her name is 紅葉（もみじ）or Momiji in English. ^^ I “rescued” her from a friend of mine who lives out of town on a farm. I say “rescue” because almost all of her brothers and sisters have passed on. :( poor kittens… how sad! She is doing very well, the only issue she really has is she bites. She will see your toes from another room and just come out and full on attack them, or even just bite you anywhere for no reason in particular. Oh well maybe she’ll grow out of it… I can hope … right?

So Viv started first grade this week! She seems to really love it! I’m glad ^^ I went out the day before school started to get her a few school clothes and MAN… I have GOT to say… all the clothes they have for girls now are little hoochie mama whore outfits… I think LPS should go to FULL on uniforms. I hate the fact that so much focus is put on clothes and accessories and it takes away from the whole purpose of school in the first place. School is for learning, not for trying to one-up some other girl because her skirt is shorter and more frilly than yours. ¬.¬ Too many damn sequins and glitter and little mirrors or tassles or whatever… I do not approve. It’s okay to wear cute little frilly things around the house but school is not an appropriate setting for that. So I ended up buying her uniform clothes anyways… I could not stand those other outfits, and it’s far cheaper to just have one set of clothes you wear for school anyways. Then I don’t (or she doesn’t) have to think and worry about what she’s going to wear the next day, since her selection is limited. She hasn’t seemed to mind at all, and if she does, that’s too bad. She’s only 6 years old she can deal.

I’ve been spending my early mornings (from about 3a or 430a) at work and coming home and cleaning or doing laundry, or studying my Japanese. My schedule is pretty full, and I’m just worn out… like completely. speaking of chores I have about a million things I should be doing right now… and I have only 2 hours before I have to go get vivien… I REALLY need to remember to post more!!

じゃ〜ね！

I’m moving!! Yay!! …. yeah not so much… I mean, I’m happy to be moving into a house and all but… man, moving itself sucks. Esp in the dead of winter with several inches of snow on the ground, and FEET of snow piled up on both sides of all the driveways in town. >.< we -just- finished painting yesterday and we have started moving things in that we aren’t using at the moment. I don’t really have all that much more kitchen space to be honest, it SEEMS like there is more cupboard space but we have to put food in some of those also… and the ones that are going to have food are the ones that are above the sink, and even with a two step stool it’s almost impossible to reach it. (it’s ok, being vertically challenged has its disadvantages, I realize that but… I need to invest in a new stool that has more than 2 steps XD ) So that’s the main news on the homefront…

In other news, I still haven’t changed my name yet. I haven’t gotten the damn marriage certificate thing in the mail, and I can’t do ANYTHING without it. I can’t even prove I’m married without it… they really need to have a faster turn-around for stuff like that. I don’t think I’m going to really -feel- married until I change my last name… because life is more or less the same as it was before the wedding… /shrugs. So anyways…

I miss Japan. I miss Japan A LOT. I can’t wait to go back!! The pictures are in the album at the top of the page /points . ^_^ enjoy them!

What else… it’s been so long since I’ve posted anything, but not really much is going on mmmm…wedding cake. I have half the top layer in my fridge, and the other half in the freezer. :3

So other than being worried about a certain friend of mine who is too nice for his own good… /cough… u know who u are… I’m doing juuuust fine. ^.^; I have to remember to update this more often… so until next time!!

さようなら！

So I told myself i wouldn’t cry… and I totally did. lol… Todd was worried I’d choke up on the vows, but I didn’t ^^ I will definitely have pics of the wedding up in a separate gallery when I has them. :3 So I got to wear my wedding dress for like an hour 15, every one LOVED it of course! and I have to get ready for the party in an hour so I’m going to go take a nap fast. ^_~ Will post again later!

oh yeah… funny story about a warthog mask. i’ll tell u about it next post. XD Until next time!

さようなら！:twirl:

So I worked my ASS off today… we made over 100 pumpkin and apple bars… (it’s cake, pretty much, in an 8″x 8″ foil pan…) and then an ass ton of halloween cupcakes… and stuff. soooo tired… I was going to take a nap but, got home too late.

I took a niiiiiice looooonnnng bubble bath to calm myself down, it worked apparently I feel much better except I’m still about ready to fall asleep on the spot. My hands are SOOOOOOOO dry…. zomg. They are on the verge of being all bleedy… I had one crack today at work but, eh. I just put a butt ton of lotion on them though and they feel a little better for now, :3 can’t have bleedy hands before my wedding eh?

So tomorrow is my day off!!!!!! Woo! Except I get to spend it running around doing errands for wedding stuff and going to the doctor. BLAH. I don’t wanna goooo… but everyone will have peace of mind once I do, and I don’t want people to worry. /cough. but but but… needles… and stuff. I might try and be brave, we’ll see….. no promises.

So I think that’s pry it for now… tired… and in need of a sugary treat. Bye for now!

さようなら！

So someone brought back a mini cheese cake they found out on the sales floor today, that had been in our freezer case. It was still cold, and only slightly past the date and it was still good so I hate a piece. Annnnd I ended up eating like HALF of it. OMG I feel like such a fatass… haha… that’s like 840 calories alone, and HALF of that is saturated fat cals. BLAH I never watch how many I take in really but… that is just depressing lol. But it was so yummmmyyy…….. XD Ah well, it was still good.

Still no word from the doctor lady… I am not too enthused to go… as I’ve mentioned before… but if it’s going to be done I’d rather it be done and over w/, the longer it sets and waits the more anxiety I’m gonna have. blargh.

Week and a half left till the wedding… I’m not nervous at all except I know I’m forgetting something… meh. I’ll probably remember it RIGHT before the wedding, like minutes before. lol.

The weather today sucks. Chilly and cold and wet and rainy. Which normally I don’t really mind but, eh, I guess I’m just not in the mood for it today. Sounds like a good day to lie in bed and be a bum, at least for what I have left. On that note, I think I’ll end this here. until next time!

さようなら！

I got almost my whole list of stuff done at work today. Which was a TON of stuff to make. I had dessert cakes all done before 11. ^^ Which was a ton of cake… then my coworker came and we did alll the bar cakes in like an hour and a half. I left late, but whatever. Now all I have to worry about tomorrow is the case. :3

So the wedding is looming ever closer, which is fine. I have spent the last couple of days getting stuff done and details taken care of. I am sooo ready for it to just be over and done with… so we can go to japan ^^ lol. I’m getting sleepy again….  so I’ll keep it short today… Until next time!

さようなら！

Also that house we were going to get has some issues that absolutely have to be fixed before mom closes on it. So we’ll see on that too… I dont’ want to be disappointed but it happens.

Hmm… what else…. I’ve lost another 3 lbs, but I’m not too worried. I’m still over 100. I promised a couple friends of mine if it got below 90 I’d go get checked out. I blame the stress. I’m kind of worried about japan though in that respect b/c we’ll be walking around a whole lot and living on the cheapest food possible, so most likely convenient store foods lol. I’m sure it’ll be fine… hopefully.

getting sleepy though, so I think that’s it for now.. I’ll try to update more often… I’ve been distracted.

さようなら！

I had a weird ass dream while I took a nap today about going to some ocean.. and then getting married in some weird fun house, and my sister had this OUTRAGEOUS tan… like she wasn’t even completely tan it was like brown on top and white on the inside of her arms and thighs and stuff it was so weird. There was also a ride involved… that was scary as piss and seemed so real… lol. Oh and the ocean was black. …. yeaahh…. I don’t know what provoked that.

Other than that I’ve been sitting on my bottom all day either playing around on teh interwebz, or painting a good friend of mine a painting maybe if I can figure out how to put pix in the gallery I’ll put it in there ^.^ Until next time!!

さようなら！

In other news: I have just consumed half of one of these Rockstar : Juiced… and ZOMG I’m HYPEEERRRRR…. just wait till I drink the whole thing…. Bwahahahahahahaha!!!!!! At least no one will be in my house to see me act so crazy… I should have saved some though as later on tonight it will start to wear off and the crash I’m going to have will most likely be massive. //finishes off the last of the can. that’s 160 mg of caffeine…. 

Hmm… okay so, I’m gonna take a shower, and then take my neko-mimi pics… yay!! Neko mimi!!! =^..^= Look for them in the gallery!^_~ Until next time!!

さようなら！