Thursday, September 30th, 2010

  Hello everyone, I hope your last day of September has started well! My last day of September is ending well... This morning I dreamed that I had to get up at 2:00 am, and about two minutes later I did wake up at 6:30 am! It didn't exactly make me want to get up! I think what woke me up was me saying to myself (aloud) "...Sleep, beautiful sleep. I just want sleep." :) Why I woke myself up saying this I have no idea. I slept very well last night! It just so happened that I had a dream about waking up at an absurdly early hour... When I did wake up enough to look at my watch and realize that it wasn't 2:00 am I realized that the weather forecast had been correct....rain. It has rained all day; not a heavy rain, just a gentle...slow...wet... sort of rain. When I took Eastin to school this morning (which I love doing) I took Baby along too. He had not been happy most of the morning, so I decided that a nice stroller ride would do him good. Well, as soon as I stepped into the elevator I remembered that it was raining. I had taken one umbrella for me, and given one to Eastin. But I had neglected to attach the rain cover to the stroller. It simply slipped my mind! Thankfully it was barely raining at that point, so neither of us got very wet. After that I put Coen down for a nap and sent a few emails. Then Abi and I left for Sassoon Pro Ginza. That is the most reasonably priced hair salon in the surrounding area, and especially for Ginza. (I don't remember whether I've mentioned that Ginza is one of the top shopping areas in the world as far as prices and money transfer!) So getting a hair cut in Ginza is very impressive. =)  
We left around 9:30 and got back a little after 12:00 noon. After realizing that flip-flips weren't the best shoe choice for the day, sending a few more emails, and eating some lunch I started folding a load of clothes. Something interrupted my process, but I don't remember what it was... Oh yeah... The flip-flops... I realized after walking to the train station, riding the train, walking about a mile to the salon, sitting with wet shoes the entire time, and walking a mile back to the station (all in the rain) that I had made a poor choice of shoes to wear... Oh well! I don't think I'll die from having wet feet for a few hours. :)
  When Abi went to pick up Eastin,  I went to my room to lie down. I had intended to get up when she got back with Eastin so that we could do his English school. But we had an impromptu visit from two of his friends that ended up staying about an hour. So I slept for nearly that long. After that we did his English school and Aidan's. Then I made pizza!!! I used garbanzo bean flour and tapioca starch for the crust, and topped it with sliced pepperoni, olives, and mozzarella. They turned out really good, and I think that was the best pizza I've had in the last 5 months put together! The only thing it needed was some Tabasco sauce!  


 Now I will proceed to give you a run down of the day ahead of me... The first day of October!
 Tomorrow is another 'iasumi', or holiday/vacation. My English lesson with Hinako and Eastin is from 10:00 - 12:00. After that Eastin is going to Hinako's house for lunch. Aidan and Baby will be here at the house the entire time, most likely. Then at 3:30 Roger, Abi, Aidan, and Eastin are leaving. Eastin is going to a friend's house for a sleep over, Aidan is going to karate until 5:00, and Roger and Abi are going somewhere else. (I'm not sure where.) Aidan and Baby and I will have dinner here and spend a quiet (hopefully) evening by ourselves. Thankfully tomorrow only has a 20% chance of rain. Perhaps it won't rain and we can take the boys to the park for a while during the day. That would be fun!


Anyway. That's all for now... I probably won't have time to post anything tomorrow, but we'll see. I can't believe it's only 5 days now until I go home for my own iasumi! :) I haven't even packed. Honestly I can't really pack until at least Saturday. See, I kind of need my clothes to stay unpacked as long as I can... Thankfully I'm planning to travel pretty light. I plan to bring back some flours and other cooking things that can't be bought here. Well, I am pretty tired, even though it's only 8:30. I have downloaded The Cat of Bubastes as an MP3. Perhaps I will listen to a few chapters.


Good night...Or morning!


All my love,
Hannah


P.S. This is a picture I took yesterday when I went for my walk. It is one of my favorites! Enjoy!