The Champions!

It has been a couple of nervous weeks, first my husband’s team winning the semifinals and having to wait 10 days to play AISIN in the finals. It’s best of have games, so me, the kids and my mother in law have been cheering at Yoyogo stadium for a weeks it seems like.

And they did it! They guys played so hard and brought home the championship! AISIN really didn’t stand a chance at the end.

I’m so proud of my hubby! Playing so well and getting to be a champion again, at the age of 37. That’s his 8th championship win too, pretty awesome! So now we’re on total vacation mode. Season is over and we’re going home to Cali for a few months. I’m gonna start packing and running last-minute errands, Monday is our flight out of here! Sunny SoCal here we come!!

 

Petals falling all over Tokyo

YES!

We’re in the finals!!!

Happy Birthday!

Our little curly-haired princess turned 4 yesterday! Cake breakfast deluxe before papa had to hit the road…

I think I might have vacuumed up the devil…

We just had a holiday on February 3d, called “Setsubun”, it’s when you do a bit of “spring cleaning” spirit wise.  Evil spirits and bad luck from the past year is “driven” from your house to make room for good luck, kind of. The ritual to perform this day  is called “mamemaki” (throwing of beans) where you throw roasted soybeans out your windows or door and say Oni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi! (Demons out! Luck in!) and the demons are supposed to follow your beans out.

We’ve never actively participated in this tradition, but this year, the kids wanted to throw beans so I went and got them a bag and they got a “Oni” (demon/ogre) mask each from one of the ladies at the supermarket.

They both ran around the house in their masks screaming “boo” and thought it was great…then they threw the whole bag of roasted soybeans in the living room and started walking all over them, crushing them….aaaallll over the floor.

So after about 15 seconds of intense bean throwing fun, I had to bring out the vacuum….which at just this moment decides had to start fucking with me. It kept going on and off and if I held the cord with both hands the vacuum would work but then I couldn’t vacuum cuz my hands were tied. So I ended up sitting on the floor holding the cord together while my husband was vacuuming, with me being the “backseat vacuumer” yelling out orders of where to go.

And now the vacuum is stuffed in a trash bag in our kitchen, waiting to go on its last trip. What I also realized a few days later was that we didn’t actually throw any beans out the door or windows….so that means our deamons never left, we probably vacuumed them up….and now they’re also in that trash bag in the kitchen…right?! Just like Ghostbusters!

Survival kit

Last week when my kids were driving me crazy, I jokingly told my friend Alex that all I wanted for my birthday was earplugs and a Xanax. Last night she dropped off a bottle of wine and this fantastic little “mommy survival kit” from her hubby.

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And so I carve another tally mark on my wall. Had such a nice non eventful day today, flowers from hubby and just chillin’ with the kids while my husband was at work. Me and Hanna baked apple pie and she’s been singing and dancing for me. I’m pretty boring, I couldn’t think of anything I wanted for my birthday, nothing that I needed. I don’t want my hubby to buy me something just to buy me something.

We got our heaters professionally cleaned last week and I was so excite, because that’s something I’ve wanted to do for the longest time, being the mold/dust paranoid that I am,  so my husband said jokingly “happy birthday!” 

Hey, I’ll take that! Thank you! Seriously, the air is so much better now! I practical gifts!

And of course, the sweetest note on Facebook from my husband…

“Happy Birthday to my Lovely Anna Takahashi-Dorsey!! I feel truly blessed that it’s me who gets to truly experience and appreciate everything that is you!! You are the most BEAUTIFUL!! I’m so in LOVE with you!!!!!!!!”

oh how I love that man…

I’m also thinking of starting off my new year with a new hairdo..

Think I’m going short again, like this…

A million and one projects

I have been so lazy with my jewelry making lately. I have about 10 ongoing pieces but no energy to finish them. My thought is always to work on them after the kids go to bed at night, in reality that rarely happens.

But tomorrow, Nancy our friend and the kids babysitter is coming by. It was her birthday the other day so we’re gonna celebrate with  some cake and tea and I made a necklace for her…(my creative energy is coming back!!!)

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And I’m finally finishing up my latest black beaded rope necklace

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Shitty pictures, but I can’t find the charger to our camera, I have to use my phone…

Are we done or what?!

So, what’s your thought on the whole Dec 12th 2012 thing, is our time up or what?

My naturally anxious personality of course wants to start worrying that the earth is going to implode or the sun will fall down on just our street.

My rational side is not too worried, more intrigued maybe. I think the Dec 21st of 2012 as “the end” is fiction from more resent times. And there’s always money to be made on peoples fears….

If anything were to go down on this specific date, I’d like to have a more “New Age” approach to it and hope for “spiritual enlightenment”. That maybe we all can find the path for standing united, working together to take care of our beautiful generous but quickly wilting planet. Make greed illegal, cuz seriously, we can’t afford it. Religious acceptance. Reboot the ignorant. Let Matt marry Steve and Ann and Heather have their baby. Seriously, wake up people. If anything were to change on this date, make it a positive change. That’s my five cents on the subject…

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Good morning 2012!

How was your new year? Fun? Are paying for it today?

Last night I feel asleep in my daughter’s bed, watching Team Umizoomi with her. Woke up at 11.50pm only to relocate to my own bed, where i found my two guys snoring in synch. And then up at 7am. A new day and a new year, that I started off like I do any day, with a cup of coffee and some soy milk.

My husband who was off from work today, likes to “be funny” and made a comment,  hinting that I should get on with the cleaning…he thinks this is hilarious, as he himself is planted on the sofa with the computer on his chest. Stuff like that tics me off, cuz I do nothing but pick up everybody elses shit. Yeah you know, how many times have I said this before…

Anyway, I started angry cleaning, pretty effective actually. And I was almost about to get unpleasant, but as my couch potato put it. “Happy new year!”…I snapped out of it, and my daughter took over. Holy hell, she was in such a horrible mood all day! It made me look like a daisy in comparison..

And we had a 7.0 earthquake close to Tokyo. I didn’t feel a thing, I think I was vacuuming at the time. My friend and neighbor said her whole apartment was shaking and me and my husband was just looking at each other wondering how we could have missed it. I’m not complaining though…

What I’m wondering is, is this just a taste of what is to come? Please no…

We took the kids to the park for a bit and it just turned in to a cry and scream fest! If you have kids, you know when they start crying over everything, they don’t make any sense and it doesn’t matter what you say. That kind of mood. And it kept going till they went to bed. I’m sitting at the kitchen table over looking the living room…the house was clean for a minute, my better half is back in horizontal position on the sofa, snoring. Gosh I love that big lazy man of mine…

and yeah, I’m sitting here wondering how concerned I should be about the Mayan calendar only goes to 2012….