Kate’s Quests

I wanted to leave Japan with some unique Japanese furniture and last Thursday the opportunity presented itself at a Bazaar.  We bought a jewelry box, a tonsu and a bar.  The woman selling the furniture told us that the brass on the bar is over 100 years old, a lotus and promotes peace and harmony.  [...]

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I took my Japanese friends on base the other day. It was very exciting for them. They couldn’t get over how cheap everything was. I’m just not a base kinda girl. Overseas and especially stateside, I would like to stay as far away from the base as possible. It’s [...]

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Shara stays over at our house quite frequently and when she does she often has two kitties jumping on her.  They use other methods to wake D.J. and I, but when you’re sleeping in the guest room, there is no escaping it.  They use the ladder to get into the loft and then they leap [...]

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We got a new channel the other day on JCom.  They did away with the Reality TV (we never watched it since they usually only played episodes of Cheaters and court room dramas..yikes).  So we got the SciFi channel, which would thrill my dad and my father in law if they were here.  And since [...]

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You can get these free soft drinks for only 150yen.  You can also get free salad for 200yen.  I think they mean free refills, but it still caused me to ponder.

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It says, “We’ll advise you about your ’stickiness’ about your daily life.”

Doesn’t everyone take their advice from a tea towel?

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Friday night I got a call from D.J.  They were in port, but weren’t allowed to leave the ship because they were finishing up the exercise.  Shara got home that day as well and came to meet Michelle and I for dinner at the Daiei.  She stayed at our house that night and I had [...]

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I don’t have any classes at school this week, so I’ve had a bit of extra free time. In that time I decided to do a bit of cooking. I’ve made a couple of recipes from Renee Loux’s book and they have been yummy. But, I also decided to make a big [...]

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