Chores

Nothing new, unless you didn't know that this is the way I do chores when I really don't feel like doing them.

花火 Hanabi

A day in Chiba watching the fireworks! Watch to the end for the beautiful fireworks--it's the best part ^_^

上を向いて歩こう I'll Look Up and Keep Walking

This is also known as "The Sukuyaki Song" in Western countries. I don't know why.

Anyway, here you are, I will post the lyrics later, I cut my hand very badly and can't type so well.

A Toast and Request

Not the perfect take, but I think you'll get the gist of the song. I wrote it February, 2004 and played it once publicly: as an opener for Jon Sunde (now the Daredevil Christopher Wright) at the Acoustic Cafe.

Lyrics:
long life, to you a toast for great love. I raise my glass
New stars will rise in the presence of your eyes.
New days will shine. You'll finish your goodbyes.
After this sudden snow there always is the sudden sun.
Green will be brightening, the skies quickly lightening;
I promise you'll befriend the freshest flowers.

You're bearing unwell and you're faring to sell.
Please don't pretend with me, please don't pretend to be
Faring well, faring well.

This time has it's place in line, a segment of me with pieces of you.
This time has it's place in line and I have saved a seat for you, I have saved a seat.

You're bearing unwell and you're faring to sell.
Please don't pretend with me, please don't pretend to be
'Cause I love your honesty, son't don't you dare pretend to be
Faring well, faring well. I fare thee well.


That's the general idea of it. The "faring to sell" odd line is kind of a pun on something else. So yeah, that's about it ^_^

やっぱり忍者になりたい Yappari Ninja ni naritai

Click *here* for a lesson in making a ninja hood from your standard black t-shirt.





I did this for a video for a video a YouTube member is creating. I'm guessing his video will be about Ninjas on YouTube.

The fru fru dance!

Two weeks ago I got TWO packages, both containing grand amounts of fruit roll ups. After eating quite of few of them. Ryan helped me make "the fru fru dance."



Now, I know I only thank Moms in this video, since I know that they were so kind to note my love of F.R.U. However, Dads! I love you too and without all your daily hard work this wouldn't have been possible either.

I love you all. I can't wait to hug everyone in November!

Congrulatoriness

Congratulations due to Megan and Brian and Jason and Shannon on their two and three years, respectively, together as of this fourth of July!

Yesterday in japan, today U.S., Ryan and I celebrated two goofy years which involved: oceans of prayer, a mountain-hiking honeymoon (3 days of which I was passed out, sick), moving to Japan, the usual petty newly-wed arguments, hospitilization and surgery, the creation of three family characters: Muzzle Bear, Pterodactyl (a baby one), and Rhododendron the wheezing dinosaur (whether he's a stego or a T-Rex we're not sure). Mostly there's been endless laughter, thanks to Ryan and his never-ending charm.

This pic is thanks to Jenna who took the time to photoshop the tent-pole perfectly out of the picture!

Jenna, Andy and Abigail bought and creatively created all the decorations as well as helping to set everything up--it was SO lovely! I will never forget that you guys.

How we Celebrate
Cheaply ^_^ Last year we went to Onjuku Beach for our anniversary, this year we did the same. The beach was fairly empty and the weather was breezy and cool in the shade.

Ryan shows me a message that a Mermaid Wrote! Or so he said.

Ryan is happy. Look at that crazy swirling fog in the background! It's like that most Onjuku mornings in summer I think.

Then we went home and showered and made the hour trip to Makuhari to check out the available movies. Sadly, X-Men and Pirates of the C. have yet to come out here, but Mission Impossible III wasn't bad at all and was basically our only option other than an anime, Disney's Cars, and Ivan the Iced Cod (the uncoded name--and you thought it was called the DaVinci Crap or something like that? Really, the movie is the code, it's not about what you think it is--the grail was a drunken Cod named Ivan who got Iced in the process of creating a portrait in the sand of his mother who had her head chomped off by a shark for sleeping with a racist cowboy who liked to whip Polar Bears. Think it unlikely? I got it from the same feminist-wicca library that Dan Brown used. And, as you all know, literature written with major (albeit run-of-the-mill) propaganda is always very truthful!

Poor Ivan, we will protect his memory from the whipped polar-bears and keep the truth in secret forever!