If there's anyone out there who still reads my live journal (I hardly ever post at all - sorry!) STOP reading my live journal and check out mine and Cory's WEBSITE (a la Doug - thanks, man!!)!!! The website is www.theholmers.com. Both Cory and I are writing journals about our lives in Japan. We write as often as we find time to, and most of the ( Read more... )

Just as the clean up is really starting for Katrina, I've been warned numerous times today alone about the typhoon (actually a Japanese word - taifuu which means BIG WIND) heading straight for our area. I guess last year or the year before, a typhoon that hit our locale was so bad that it totalled a car owned by one of the teachers at my school ( Read more... )

Actually, I'm not sure that I have all that much to post, but I'm just going to let my thoughts (jumbled as they probably are) to flow through my fingers ( Read more... )

Heatherina - did you know that I now live in a world taken over by Cicadas? Yes, that loud, alien-sounding (in fact, did you ever notice that it indeed sounds a LOT like the alien in "Independence Day" right after he has a strangle-hold on the geeky doctor?) high-pitched buzzing(?) is ALL OVER the place in Japan. I think it's the humidity that ( Read more... )

Um, H-dog, I hear you! Seriously, Cory, Eiji and I had a slumber party in our 4.5 tatami living room here in BFJ (can be replaced with E if you don't understand what I'm saying) Muraoka. The living room is the only place in our entire apartment with an "ay-ah-kon" (translate: air-conditioner) so we were crammed together. Not to mention the UTTER ( Read more... )

So, Cory and I just found out that we will be "stationed" (oh God, does that sound like we're in the military or what?) in Hyogo prefecture in Japan. This is quite honestly, TOTALLY AWESOME (like the little neighbor kid in the Incredibles says) for three reasons ( Read more... )

So, I've been both too busy and too lazy to update this, so it's been... hmmm... just over a year since I last posted? Yes - way too long ( Read more... )

Yeah, only if you're in a Disney movie (even though it was weirdly scary for their first full-lenth animated movie - hello Walt, was it not directed towards kids?) Of course, what's even scarier is that our cable company wants to initiate a corporate takeover of Disney. NO!!! It will be like our dearly departed (and now very slowly resurecting) ( Read more... )

You can imagine my surprise when I got up with Cory this morning before he had to go to work to absolutely NO SNOW!!! We were both IRATE as we were virtually promised a crap-load of snow by the weather-people (although, as has been learned many times in the past, what do they REALLY know ( Read more... )

I finally succumbed to the LIVE JOURNAL... Amazing, isn't it?