MOVING DAY

Friends of ours are moving back to the USA (BOO) but we are taking over their apartment (YAHOO)! We are all packed and waiting for the movers.  It's only a few blocks away but we have too much stuff to move ourselves and are a wee bit lazy (I am not carrying a double bed up 6 flights of stairs if it doesn't fit in the elevator..).
I will be internetless for a while but look forward to posting before/after photos of the new place once we redecorate.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

Nothing says 'I Love You' like pork packaged in the shape of a heart.. and deep fried heart shaped chicken and heart shaped potato cakes.  Supermarket shopping today was terribly romantic.
Come to think of it these gifts just don't seem right because on Valentines Day in Japan it is custom for only boys to give presents to girls.  White Day, exactly a month later has the guys on the receiving line. 

WHAT A DREAMY CHRISTMAS..

I know it's already February (how it is I'm not sure) but today was SO super cold in Hiroshima that the day left me dreaming of New Hampshire/Boston/New York.  B's parents are moving back to New Zealand this year so this was the perfect last USA winter holiday sendoff for the McKenzie clan.  Here are more pics from my snowy old holiday. 

 

  

COLD-Y

The last three nights I have taken a cold medicine before bed to help unclog my blocked nose.  The last three nights I have woken B with my sleep talking.  I am not a sleep talker.  The first night I rolled over in bed, patted B on the chest and said "Good boy", as if talking to baby O.  The second night I said "Shoes off", another phrase for O.  Last night I even woke myself up laughing hysterically, although I don't recall explaining that I was stuck in a kite.  Tonight I am ditching the medicine.  Night, night..