- made delicious yuzu chicken noodle soup!

- have delicious yuzucha to drink!

- have a cold.

- called my parents and talked for a bit.

- dad thinks it sounds like i've torn something in my knee

- hit for BAD tickets!

- have two extra tickets that i want to trade for Veterans....

- one of my kids has a vocabulary of about five words: mama, papa, baby, bye-bye, and GARGLE.

- it is cold.

My arm is pinkish and kinda swollen right around where the flu shot went in yesterday, and it still hurts. Not nearly as much as a tetanus shot, though. But this morning I was in pain from my shoulder joint all the way down to the joints in my fingers. Wheefun!

Also today a doctory-type person came to our school because apparently the clinic or whatever that did the health check at our company meeting forgot to do part of it. So I had to leave my class - in the middle of teaching - to go into another room and lift up my shirt (I swear last year they were able to do this with my shirt still down) so he could check my breathing/heartbeat. And tell me that I'm fat.

Don't matter that he looked 90 years old, I felt like kicking him in the teeth.

- got my flu shot

- my partner and i had the exact same temperature when the clinic people made us take it before getting the shot - 35.5. apparently this means we are naka ii.

- now my arm is all pinchy and ouchy. i hope i can move it tomorrow.

- sent in ballots for kanjuni shows.

- it was rather vitally important that i get it done today, before the 13th.

- why? because years of playing baseball/fastpitch left me randomly superstitious.

- seriously. to this day i cannot touch the white lines on a ball field. and i avoid touching the lines when i walk across a gym, too.

- my arm really hurts.

- paid a bunch of my bills.

- being an adult is hard.

- had the worst non-migraine headache today

- got to see vanessa and bryan again before they head home

- THEY CAUGHT THE GUY WHO KILLED THAT NOVA TEACHER TWO YEARS AGO

- AND HE WAS LIVING IN IBARAKI-SHI WTF

- so did not give it permission to rain today

- only eight kids in my class

- went to an awesome concert last night, for free (well, 500 yen for a drink)

- the older kids at work LOVE "here come the lions!!!"

- somewhere in the last couple of weeks i kinda stopped sleeping and eating much

- bought myself a harvest moon ds game from bookoff

- felt fairly articulate at my lesson today

- nearly puked twice walking to work this morning

- the bloc party concert that had been rescheduled (from May) to next week is now completely canceled

YOU GUYS, I HAVE A NEW LIFE PLAN.

Are you sitting, 'cause this is going to be something of a shock for those of you who've known me for a while.

Ready?

Ready?


I AM GOING TO MARRY NINO.


No, wait, hear me out. This is going to be perfect.


If I marry Nino, my boys who are obsessed with him will always be hanging around.

And Nino will be obsessed with playing his video games, so he won't notice me having an uwaki in the other room.

Also, as long as he got to buy new video games he wouldn't care what I bought.

IT IS A CUNNING PLAN.

A PLAN MORE CUNNING THAN THE ONE TO KIDNAP GO AND HAVE A NABE PARTY WITH TONISEN.

A CUNNING PLAN FULL OF... CUNNING.

Just got an email from Juniors with dates for KanJuni in the Shochikuza!

But the BOYS concerts are after I leave for the states! (T_T)

I am emo. So is Dots.


And why is there a Yuma w/7West set of concerts?

Finished:

Fluffy thing
T-shirt
Boots
Hat
Gloves
3/4 of the jumpsuit mods

Given up on:
1/4 of the jumpsuit mods (my fingers are tired of sewing! I'll finish them another time.)
Mask

I now have ALL the supplies needed to finish the costume. And then some.

Things that are completely finished as of right now:

- fluffy thing
- I FOUND BOOTS
- hat
- gloves

Things that I am in the middle of:
- t-shirt modifications

Things to do before going out tonight:
- finish the t-shirt
- all of the jumpsuit mods


I only really started working on assembling the stuff last night - I'd done some supply runs previously, but hadn't had the time to sit down and start working. Yesterday after work I looked through one last set of shoe stores and found boots in Namba Walk for about 2000yen, so that felt like a pretty big accomplishment.

Then I made the mistake of deciding to NOT get dinner on the way home. Instead I was going to fix something with the stuff I have AFTER I got some work done on the fluffy thing.

And we all know how well I do with keeping myself fed when I'm in the middle of a project.

So yeah, I um, missed dinner last night (and basically lunch, too, 'cause I only ate some of the Halloween Party leftovers at work). BUT I got the fluffy thing completely finished AND about 50% of the shirt done.

Then I hit a wall and realized that I didn't really have the proper tools to finish the t-shirt.

So I scheduled a new supply run for today and went to bed. Of course, then my schedule was completely fucked over by my period starting, so I had to make room for a couple hours of puking my guts out (or as much as possible considering I hadn't eaten in too long). But I'm all better now! And I even made sure to get some food on my way back home after picking up the last of the stuff I need! And now I'm going to finish that t-shirt!

[edit 15:36: T-SHIRT IS FINISHED! Amazing how much easier it was with the right equipment!]

Things I have:

pink jumpsuit
hat
most of the material needed to modify the jumpsuit
half-gloves

Things I need:

white long-sleeve shirt
giant fuzzy thing
mask

Things I want but aren't necessary:

red ankle boots

I woke up this morning thinking it was Saturday. I have two different alarms set for weekdays (関ジャニ∞ － ∞o'clock) and weekends (Daichi saying もう、はよ寝ーや) specifically so I don't get confused about what day it is. Yet recently mornings have been confusing. Guess I should switch my weekday one to something new....

And then today was one of the worst/scariest days at work I've had in a while.

So, I'm a nursery teacher. This means that, especially during the fall/winter, I have a permanent cold. There are just too many runny noses that I have to deal with, too many germs going around, and no matter how many times I wash my hands or spray them with the alcohol spray, I'm going to get sick. Right now I've got a runny/stuffy nose so breathing is hard. We're wearing the stupid masks during daycare and anytime we go outside, which makes breathing hard. Combined with my cold.... not cool. One of the moms today asked me if I liked wearing the mask, and I kind of hesitated before answering. She just laughed at me and answered "no" for me, and admitted it's silly but everyone in Japan does it, so.... I like that mom.

Anyway. We took my class outside this morning to run around on the playground, so when we came back in, as part of our oh-so-sensible piggy flu precautions, everyone has to gargle. Yes, everyone. Including my nursery kids. Including the one who only has TWO TEETH. This makes lots of sense. My partner and I have a bit of a routine for this now, where first everyone takes their turn at the sink to wash their hands, and then go sit down against the wall behind us. Once everyone has washed hands, they get called up one-by-one so we can help them with the whole gargling thing. This usually consists of us giving them their cup of water and saying "Drink... ok, now PEH! No, don't swallow it! PEH! PEH! Spit it out!" Meanwhile the kids are happily drinking the water from their cups, and we just sigh and let them, then move on to the next one in line.

But today, while we were helping a couple of the kids, one of the girls waiting her turn against the wall started to cry. She's been crying a lot recently (new baby brother) over just about anything, so I when I looked over at her I was prepared for something like a sharing problem, or that she wanted to sit where there wasn't any space. I was not prepared to look over and see blood running down her face from her eye.


SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT


1. A kid in my class got hurt.
2. I have a SERIOUS eye squick.
3. I'd had my head turned away for the second it took for her to go from fine to blood running down her face.


Once I'd reassured myself that here eye was not missing or obviously cut (once I got close to her I could see a tiny cut on her lower eyelid) I felt less like puking. But DAMN that was scary. My partner took her and cleaned up the blood, then went to the clinic across the street to get it checked out.

She came back about an hour later - everything was fine, there were two tiny little scratches on the girl's eyelid that were probably made by a fingernail, and they'd been given some eyedrops to use over the next couple of days. Could have been much worse, and everyone spent the rest of the day talking about how scary it was.

(In afternoon daycare, she wasn't allowed to play outside, to keep dirt from getting into the scratches. So for half the time she sat in the office reading books and getting petted and babied by the managers. The second half of the time she helped me vacuum our classroom.)

On top of all of this, I had exactly 30 minutes of prep today. In which I had to vacuum the classroom, tidy up the staffroom, and empty the bathroom garbage can. No time to actually do any prep for the crafts I'm supposed to be planning for next week. (>_<;)



After work I rushed home, by way of the combini (I needed to pick up a blank tape and some Weaver concert tickets we'd ordered... we have numbers 9, 10, and 11 (O_o)), to sit in front of the tv watching Arashi for the last four hours.

Yay for Arashi.