Andrea's Rambling Notes - once from Japan, now from Canada

::Andrea's Rambling Notes - once from Japan, now from Canada::

My notes and my memories: sometimes about a mom - sometimes about a wife - sometimes about a woman - sometimes about our life

::Author::

Name::Andrea
From::Small city/town, B.C., Canada
I am a short girl from the west cost of BC, Canada and I am a proud Canadian. I went to Japan in 2000 because my Dad told me I would regret it for the rest of my life if I didn't. He was right. I lived a good life found my husband from the other side of the world and have a beautiful daughter. Basically we lead a pretty normal life filled with normal ups and downs. We both come from different cultures: me Canadian, him Chinese. Living in Japan was a real eye opener about who I am and about the people I associate myself with. I lived and loved in Japan but the time to move on came upon us and in May of 2006 we left and moved to Canada: a huge move for us all. We are now trying to start up again, remodel our lives and create our future for our family. I now feel like a tourist in the country of my birth, my eyes see different and my life will be forever changed. This blog is my notes and observations of our life, our changes, our adventures and new beginnings. Welcome.
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::Recent Entries::

::Personal Links::

My Japanese Culture Teaching Notes

::My Family's Sites::

Alisha - a site set up by friends and family of my little sis

Phrax - my step-brother

Blue Mountain Stable

::Index::

An Index of past posts - the Japan Years

::Archives::

::Image Event Album::

My Image Event Photo Album

::My FlickR Photos::

www.flickr.com

::Tech Sites::

Tech2all

Blog Flak

::Extra Internet Info::

Canadian Atlas

National Geographic

Wikipedia

World TimesZones - please check this BEFORE calling me!

Currency Converter

eigoNavi - a pretty good language converter

The Samurai Appliance Repair Man - a funny repair site for N

::World News::

Generation Woman

Japan Times

Counter Punch

Japanese General Union - a must! read before working in Japan

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Wahoo – finally!!!!!!!

I finally have internet on my computer in the basement!! Yaa!!

No more fighting with hubby over the computer.

No more dealing with 90%of the computer being in Chinese. AUGH!

Brilliant!

I am now waiting for like – forever – for Norton Antivirus to download so I have that peace of mind.

Lets see – update

So far we are all healthy – knock on wood – I felt crappy this morning with quite a headache but I popped some Motrin and went to Booster Juice for a fruity drink and a shot of Matcha and I felt TONS better after lunch.

Hubby driving update – ugh – not good – he has failed 4 times now and the last two times he has failed for very crappy questionable reasons – eg: stopped too quickly at a yellow light.

UMMM you will fail him if he goes through the light!!!! AUGH.

Needless to say he is pretty pissy about it but we will keep trying. Sigh.

Lill' Miss is in the Strong Start program and she absolutely loves going to school. We are having her treat it really like school and she has to get her butt out of bed and go even if she is tired. She is learning some discipline that way. So many of the parents just show up when ever. I don't really like that. I know that not everyone can make it – it is extremely difficult to be there the whole time but we have made a commitment to it and we have found a way to work around it. We have noticed a difference in how she is socializing already. Even her teacher pointed it out the other day. It has been a very good experience for her.

We are plugging right along with our basement. We finished the drywall on the walls in the bedroom and I spent a long time very very carefully sanding and resnading and fine tune mudding and it looks pretty good. It is all primed. We need to get the drop ceiling done before we can build the closets that we have in mind. Then we can paint etc. We picked the wall paper we are going to use as a feature wall above the head board. It is very pretty. We have an idea for the paint but not totally set on it yet. Now we just need some money. Lol

Christmas is coming – augh!! Not ready at all for it. Haven't figured that out yet. I am going to try to blog more often now that I have internet on this computer.