It’s only Wednesday, but it feels like it’s been a long week.

I haven’t updated for a while, because… I guess, I don’t really have that much to say. Things at work are going well though, and I had a talk with my boss and he said the same. So, I was definitely relieved to hear that. I get paranoid that they won’t want me to stay, or that the students or parents will complain about me. I try my best to make classes fun, and to make sure the kids learn what they’re supposed to, but you know… what you think you’re doing, and what you’re actually doing don’t always end up being the same.

Oh! One of my three year olds made some origami and drew a picture for me! Haha. It’s super cute, and I was so touched. I also have another who always goes, “Adrienne先生, 見て見て！！” (LOOK AT ME!) and then she’ll twirl or something, haha. It kind of makes me think of Stuart from MadTV, except she’s like… super cute and Stuart (as awesome as he is) is kinda creepy.

Things at S-T are a bit crazy right now, but luckily we’re going to get all the wrinkles smoothed out. Let’s just say the site has greatly veered from the path it originally started on, and because of that we’ve been kind of in this weird limbo for a while. We’re fixing that up. There’s (hopefully) lots of changes coming up soon, so I hope that our readers will enjoy it! I love S-T and I think we all work really hard, so I hope we can make it live up to its potential. Mija and I have been working, I’ve been talking a lot to Inka and Shintomo about what we could do, and Hitomi and I have been working on stuff on this end. So, that’s something to look forward to.

This isn’t it, but FINALLY the weather isn’t trying to kill everyone living in Nagoya anymore (yay). It’s actually cool tonight! Well, cooler. This evening walking home from work I was actually kind of cold… and after wishing for coldness for so long, I kind of wish it wasn’t going to turn cold. Typical, right?

On a random note, my shoulder is peeling. O_O
Like, sunburn peeling.
No, for real. Because I know you’re doubting me right now, haha.

Oh, I also called Grammy tonight. She’s doing well, so that’s good to hear. My family never has much drama, so there’s never much to report, haha. It’s usually oh, the house looks good, the flowers are doing nicely, the dog ate a pound of butter… you know.

Where I don’t like answering the phone. I mean, my phone. If it’s a phone at work or something, that’s one thing. But my own person cell phone, I do not like answering.

I don’t know why.

I never have. As long as I’ve had a phone. Which really has only been about five years. Landlines, I’m okay with answering. But cell phones… I get really weird about. I don’t have any sort of odd paranoid thoughts about it, I just simply don’t like answering it.

SO. That brings me to today.

This morning, bright and early (at eight o’clock) my phone rings, waking me from sleep. I had to work at 9:30, so it’s not like it was the worst time to be awake. However, I didn’t recognize the number, so I didn’t answer. I do not want to talk to someone I don’t know at eight in the morning. It rang again. Different number, which seemed weird, but I didn’t answer.

It turns out, I have voicemail on my phone. WHO KNEW. BECAUSE I SURE DIDN’T. Not until I got some this morning.

From my mother.

Naturally, I called her back right away beacuse I thought maybe something was wrong. Why else would she call me at eight in the morning and on my cell phone no less, especially when I just talked to her on Tuesday.

Long story short, she just wanted to talk. Nothing was wrong, which is a relief. I also don’t know why it gave me actual numbers for the long distance call. O_O Like, it looked like a regular cell phone number… weird.

Cut to this evening after work. I get another call, but it’s “Blocked Number”. Again, I don’t answer it. It rings again… from the “Blocked Number”. So I figure, oh what the hell, I’ll answer it and see what happens. It ends up being Hideko, calling to make sure the number I gave her worked. Good thing I did answer it! It was really hard to hear her for some reason, because it was all muffled, but she’s on her way, so I’m excited.

I need to get over this not wanting to answer the phone thing though. I have no idea what it is. It’s not that I don’t like talking, I just really… hate answering. The same with things like Skype. I do not want to answer if people I’m not intending to call, call me.

Hm. This may come off sounding more crazy than I intended.

Another week of a vacation starts on Sunday! Well, I guess it really starts on Tuesday, because I always have Sunday and Monday off.

Anyways, as much as I love school and teaching, it’ll be nice to have a week off. Especially because braintwin is coming, and we can evolve into the highly anticipated Adriko. Ah yes, we will take the cities by storm. They will not know what hit them.

So what are our plans? Well, for starters three of my adult students offered to take us to Ise. So we’ll be going there. They’re so sweet, and a lot of fun so I’m looking forward to that. We’ll also be heading off to Kyoto with Eri and her sister. Then, it’s on to Tokyo where we’ll be hanging out with Mr. Kim himself and hitting up a few lives. I should also add that Kim is amazing and I owe him one. Big time.  Then back home for the final day and a half for some shopping and probably some much needed relaxation.

I want to buy socks.

And since I’m veering off course, here some random thoughts and things from the past week.
1. Seeing the ‘too drunk to fuck’ t-shirt or tights never fails to amuse me.
2. Three of my students are apparently Kamen Riders and would prefer to be called by their Kamen Rider names.
3. You can use white board markers on top of white nail polish. It will rub off. However, excessive colouring on the nail will make the marker stick forcing you to strip, and repaint.
4. A crisis may occur when you colour the moon in sky blue.
5. Sending mail in Japan can turn out to be quite the procedure. Especially for a small card, with a small thing inside of it.
6. Udon is good. Even cold.
7. I get songs stuck in my head really easily. I didn’t realize how easy until this week. I can’t decide whether I find this enjoyable or irritating.
8. Fruit flies must all die.
9. The fact that I change the colour of my nail polish every week does not go unnoticed by my students. They are now giving me suggestions on what to do next.

Why do I always get the lamest songs stuck in my head?
Well, lame isn’t probably the word I really want to use here… more like ridiculously obnoxious.

This is the song that for some reason I’ve been singing for the past hour or so.

… yeah.
Ten points if you know it.

Today I was sitting in the office… it’s just Nicole and me in the cubical area (Christina and Frank are in their offices) and she tells me about this really weird death. I was talking to Julie, so I passed it on and she found the article online.

I’m copying and pasting it, because it’s just… crazy. 

SAO PAULO, Brazil — Police say a woman has died on the way to a cemetery when a traffic accident hurled her husband’s coffin against the back of her neck.

Police say 67-year old Marciana Barcelos was in the front passenger seat of the hearse when the accident occurred Monday in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Barcelos died instantly.

Her 76-year-old husband Josi Coimbra died Sunday of a heart attack while dancing at a party.

The driver of hearse and Barcelos’ son suffered minor injuries.

I know it’s sad, so it’s not really appropriate to laugh… but how can you not?

My mum just read in the newspaper that the average Canadian goes to Timmies four times a week.

Well, I’m pretty close. I usually go five times. Twice on Monday (once on the way to work one and once on the way to work two… otherwise it’s one hell of a long day and night), once on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Then sometimes I might go an extra once or twice…

Ah, Timmies. I don’t drink coffee so I always get the same thing; a large earl grey tea with one cream and one sugar. Bag in. Haha.

Okay.

This is getting really irritating.

But I’ve had Jingle Bells and the Happy Days song stuck in my head all night long.

For no reason whatsoever.

Well, Jingle Bells because tomorrow (or today, in reality) marks the YAY WE’RE STARTING TO LEARN CHRISTMAS SONGS day in piano lessons. Although, I might hold out with Nicole and tell her we can’t do Christmas songs until she’s able to master the songs she’s supposed to know already.

Is that too mean?

It would only take her a good week or two of solid practice to actually catch up to where she should be with them, but it’s the ’solid practice’ part that isn’t really working out. I know she’s busy and I know that their family does a lot, but piano doesn’t magically get easier without practice. It only gets harder and harder and harder. Until you want to smash the keys to smithereens or break your fingers because they just won’t do what you want them to.

. . . this totally went in a different direction than I had originally planned.

I love this commercial.

And I wish life was a musical.
Injected with creative and inspiring interpretive dance.

I had a ridiculous freak out last night, because I’m a ridiculous, stupid girl. Hideko, thank you for listening to me being an idiot. ~_~ It’s always about two weeks after when I totally get paranoid, and freak out. I don’t know why it’s on schedule, but apparently it is. I also don’t know why I over think and over analyze every possible thing — especially when I know there are perfectly acceptable reasons (and they’re reasons, not excuses). It’s just that sometimes, I am a very stupid, over analytical girl who needs to relax.

There seems to be a chunk of skin missing from my back, and I have a no idea why. Okay, ‘chunk’ makes it sound much bigger than it really is, but it hurts.

I should be gettingready for work, but I can’t be bothered.

The muscle in my right arm (not that I have an overly large amount of muscle, haha) is twitching and that irritates me.

I really hate how I always like someone about ten million times more than they like me. Again, that’s an exaggeration but you get my point.

I don’t know if it’s warm or cold out and the weather has been so indecsive that I don’t know what to wear.

I got that face shit in my eye again and it stings like hell. Now I’ll likely be late for work because I do intend on stopping at Timmies. But on the plus side, I probably need gas and it’s down to 115.6 per litre.

Yesterday Melinda came over so that we could attempt to fix her computer which had decided to hate life. However, before that happened we headed out to Canadian Tire to look at air mattresses.

So, we were browsing around the store in search for some rubbing alcohol when we came across this:

Okay, so maybe it doesn’t seem so weird right off the bat, but look around it. For further clarification, this was the aisle it was in:

While I understand you can use Q-Tips to clean the ears of your beloved pet, would you really expect to find them stocked in the pet section? It wasn’t just one random box. It was like they apparently belonged there and had their own little tag and everything. O_O I just thought it was really… weird.

Anyways after our little shopping adventure, we tried to fix the computer which actually had some sort of ridiculous virus on it. Sometimes it would turn on and sometimes it would freeze up and decide to just load to a black screen. After hours we got avast! on it and it deleted the virus but it still left stuff messed up.

For example, it made the cursors rather… large. I tried to take a photo, but it turned out kind of blurry. I don’t know if you can tell that it’s actually stupidly big.

We got it to turn on enough so that at least Melinda can get her stuff off. I feel bad that I couldn’t make it all better, but at least she can get her photos and whatever she wants off and then we’re just going to wipe it clean and start all over.

I remember back in June when I had to do that to my computer and while it was a pain in the ass (especially getting some of the stuff I had back), it was kind of nice. It’s like a spring cleaning and you get rid of crap you never even knew you had.

In the midst of all this we watched the series premier of 90210 and played Mario Party.