The livejournal homepage informs me it has been 29 weeks since I wrote anything here. Oops.

A while ago, I created a new blog because I needed to have a blog that mission supporters could read...I figured I would have my nice "politically correct" blog on blogspot, and my blog where I could rant all I wanted on lj. However, I am actually horrible at ( Read more... )

So, I am leading a 24/7 prayer week in three days. This has been exciting...it came up pretty last minute. I was thinking I would have a while to prepare and get people ready, and about two weeks ago I realized I really needed to lead 24/7 prayer right now. All explanations aside for now, tonight I got a phone call from England from the 24/7 Prayer ( Read more... )

I would just like to say, taxes were always annoying, but at least I could figure out how to do them before I left the country. However, it does allow for very interesting situations ( Read more... )

I dropped my parents back off at the train station early this afternoon. It was a strange mix of emotions. I cried and, once they had gone, welcomed back the slight ache that I feel every time I open my apartment door and know that I am the only one living there. But I also walked around Ueno just feeling and enjoying the freedom that I usually ( Read more... )

Yesterday my parents came to Tokyo! I actually must confess that, up until Wednesday, I was feeling pretty apprehensive about it. I need about one day a week without people the way my lifestyle in Tokyo goes right now, and imagining the next three weeks with my apartment no longer my own and traveling and showing people things and a packed schedule ( Read more... )

It is easy to assume that a Jack Pine Tree and a Black Pine Tree should be treated the same way when both of them just look like a little green pom-pom attached to the top of a twig. Unfortunately, this isn't true. My poor little black pine has been moved into intensive care, if not hospice. Probably hospice ( Read more... )

Last week when I left class on Wednesday, on of the beginner students let me know: "Next week...juice party. Please bring fruit or vegetable." She claimed absolutely anything was okay, except for bananas, which aren't juicy enough for her machine, so I went out and bought an eggplant from the convenience store early Wednesday morning. :P It turned ( Read more... )

*twirly happy dance*

There are big snowflakes falling outside my window!!!!!! *moved almost to tears* (Okay...I'm a lier...I'm crying with happiness) I haven't seen snow in almost two years! Since whenever it snowed last at Olaf in 2006! YAY!!!!!!!

Hmm...my long distance communication is either dead or in the 'Critical Care' unit of the hospital right now. This is at least kind of a good thing...my Tokyo relationships have been really great these past couple months, and it is nice to have that stability. My supervisor and I can joke around a lot now...he frequently threatens to leave the ( Read more... )

The cockroach wars were brief and (mostly) harmless. I felt a little vindicated that every single one of my friends in Tokyo (or at least all the ones I talked to) also had cockroach sightings that week. Apparently the cooling down outside drives them inside. I scrubbed my kitchen down, got all my flour / sugar / etc. in air-tight containers, and ( Read more... )