After talking to mom about new hairstyles..I decided it would be fun to play with my hair. I usually leave it curly, so for a change I straightened and styled it. Here’s the result!
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Monthly Archives: February 2007
Sushi and Plastic Food
Shara and I went out the other night to run some errands. We went to the Livin (a big home store with groceries and furniture) and I was finally able to get a full length mirror. There is no way I would be able to fit it into the Mini and her car is so much bigger than mine. So I got my full length mirror and a garbage can that holds four different bags (they’re totally crazy about recycling here) and afterwards we got sushi from a conveyor belt place. They had some pretty good stuff…we tried a bunch of new kinds of sushi and then we decided to get dessert. There was an ice cream cone on the belt and Shara informed me that the guys in the kitchen kept replacing it with a new one so it didn’t melt. I just nodded and encouraged her to take it. She picked it up off of the conveyor belt and took a lick OF PLASTIC FOOD. She immediately dropped it on the counter and we both busted up. I think the Japanese thought we were insane. I made her put the plastic food back on the belt and the waitress, who had obviously seen what had just happened, came rushing over asking if we wanted ice cream. We both got some and let me tell you…my guess is that the real thing tasted much better.
The Mini
Two months ago we bought a 1992 Mini Rover from a guy who was PCS’ing out of here. It’s the smallest car I’ve ever been in. It’s an extremely rough ride. If you hit the smallest of bumps you bounce like there’s no tomorrow. But, seeing as how this is Japan, it’s excellent for parking. So, she’s been burning oil for the past week or so and I had planned to take it to the shop on Friday morning. I had gotten the directions and all the old service records in order and Thursday night as I was driving home…she died. Not that much fun. I was sitting in traffic for awhile when she started to overheat. She started smoking like crazy and then all was quiet. So…stranded, a guy from the base was passing by and stopped to help me. Thank God for him. I didn’t even get his name. He helped push me out of the middle of the street and called Base Security. They sent a tow truck and $250 later the car was parked at the Auto Port. Of course by now it’s 7:30pm and I’ve got to take the train home. I called the Auto Port on Friday and they basically said that they couldn’t help me so on Saturday I walked to the base and talked to the guys in the Auto Hobby Shop. They basically said that there are three things wrong with the car and all fairly easy fixes. So…now I wait for parts. And today is a Japanese holiday so I probably won’t have the car back until Wednesday or Thursday. But…at least we can save it. That’s more than I can say for the three cars we junked in Spain. Now THAT was a bad experience!
Creap
Mmmmmm….creap coffee. Sounds appetizing, huh?
Sumo!
Yesterday I got together with Shara and three of her friends to go watch Sumo wrestling in Tokyo. It was awesome. There were several good matches and although I didn’t get those on film, I did get some good shots and video. It was actually very relaxing. I liked going up and just hanging out and watching the sport. So from the beginning…
I got up somewhere around 6:40am. That’s pretty normal for me so it’s not as though I got up super early. I jumped in the shower, had some breakfast and left the house around 8:20am to be in Yokosuka by 9:30am. The JR train lines don’t run as frequently as the Keikyu so I wanted to make sure that I got on a train to be on time. When someone tells me to be somewhere by a particular time…I make sure that I am. So, I arrived around 9:20 and had a few minutes to spare which was good because climbing down the mountain gave me blisters on the backs of my heels and I popped into a Kombini (convenience store) and got some bandaids. At 9:40, I called Shara to find out where they all were and she informed me that they were parking and were on their way. 
Meanwhile I ran into Terry (a guy on their ship who was coming with us and he had been there since 9:30am…our meeting time, as well.) So they finally showed up around 9:55am and we bought Suica cards (train ticket cards that you can just put money on, instead of buying an individual ticket each time you need to get on the train. Then we got on the 10:17 train and by 10:30 we were passing the train station I got on an hour and a half before! Anyway, so we made it into Tokyo and took a couple of wrong trains… and made it to Sumo at 12:15 or so (it started at 11:00am. But, it was an all day event so we saw plenty. 
It ended at 5:30pm. It was kind of amusing because the two other girls (Maria and Laura) weren’t feeling well and Laura starts talking about Reiki and telling Maria that she needs to find someone to do Reiki…yada yada yada. And I’m all ‘did someone say Reiki?’ So, I informed her that I do Reiki. So…there we are in the middle of a Sumo match doing Reiki. I thought that was pretty funny. Then we left around 5:00pm to make our way to dinner. We ate at a Brazilian restaurant called Barbacoa and that was amazing. It was an all you can eat place and they had this enormous salad bar with a ton of different salads and things to choose from. Plus different guys walked around all night offering pieces of BBQ’d meat and fruit and veggies. My favorite had to be the pineapple, but it was all really good. I’ll definitely have to take DJ back. He’ll LOVE it!
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