Okay, so the Japanese class I'm taking?  Full of teenagers.  There are ten people in the class and half are 15 or under.  Mostly under.  The other adults are me, a woman's who's moving to Japan next week (her husband is being stationed there), a woman who's just interested in Japan and some random G.I. and a half-Japanese kid who's barely out of ( Read more... )

So my Quater-of-a-Century birthday was on Sunday and, to my surprise, my world didn't splinter and fall apart.  Guess 25 isn't that old after all.  Anyway, on Saturday night, a bunch of friends and I went out dancing.  There were several highlights that evening:

1.) One of the karaoke performers dressed up like Tina Turner and damn, did that boy ( Read more... )

Okay, can anyone explain to me how Kenny G playing a traditional Chinese wedding song is honoring world-famous sushi chef Nobu Matsuhira?  Anyone?  Anyone at all?  Didn't think so ( Read more... )

So today my family and I went to pick up my grandmother to take her to the airport...and found that her apartment complex had just been hit by a tornado ( Read more... )

So here's what's been going on lately:

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  I moved this weekend and just got my internet hooked up today.  Word of advice to anyone moving in Texas:  DO NOT USE ADVANCED APARTMENT MOVERS!  They were supposed to show up between 10 and 12, Saturday morning.  Instead, I got a call at 12:30 saying that they were delayed at a job in Austin and wouldn't be ( Read more... )

Got a bonus at work today.  Apparently there was some money left over in the budget, so the VP told each supervisor that they could give a bonus to someone in their department and my supervisor chose me, 1) Because I didn't get a raise this year since I had only been there a month when raises were given out and 2) Because I've been doing an awesome ( Read more... )

OMG!  OMG!  OMG!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18134623/?GT1=9246

I searched the internet, but I couldn't find any pics.  Does anyone know where to find them?

I just did the arms and abs section of the bellydancing workout DVD that I "borrowed" from my old job, and oh, does it ever hurt.  I feel good now, but when I was doing the workout, I actually had to pause the DVD at one point because pain was shooting up through my upper arms.  And you know how usually when you pull something, you know how to ( Read more... )

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