I made it safely to Japan on Tuesday!

I will still update here, but if you want to follow what I am doing in Japan, you can check out my other journal here: http://lo-in-japan.livejournal.com/

Kayla and I escorted a small army of Japanese women to Costco this afternoon.

It started like this: Yuko put out some chocolate for us to eat when we went over to her house for cookie decorating. Yuko's neighbor Megumi got all excited and told us that the chocolate was just like what they sell in Japan (nama choco) and was surprised to hear that ( Read more... )

Okay, everyone often hears that a group of rhinos is called a crash. But did you know ( Read more... )

Kayla just put up some sweet pictures of us at the aquarium. I am totally rocking out my Bird Whispering skills... yeah, right before it tried to poop on me. Little shit!


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This is the Christmas cookie decorating week ( Read more... )

Mom and I baked up a storm. We have a cookie exchange on Sunday so we are going to exchange 2 dozen of 2 types of cookies. Mom made her thumbprint apricot cookies and I made my favorite chocolate marshmallow cookies. I got the recipe from a cookie cookbook that Emily gave me about 2 or 3 years ago. I LOVE that cookbook ( Read more... )

The White Death hath cometh again ( Read more... )

Today was Christmas Cookie Decorating Day with Kayla, Yuko, Yuko's neighbor. I busted out all the Christmas cookies cutters, icing, sprinkles and cookie recipes that I could find which, unsurprisingly to me, my mom has in hordes of in the house. I planned this day for us because knew it was going to be a lot of fun decorating the cookies with the ( Read more... )

PEOPLE ARE CRAZY!

Biochemist found guilty of killing husband with acidLOS ANGELES - A biochemist who killed her husband by knocking him out and pouring hydrochloric acid on him was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder ( Read more... )

My mom got a phone call from one of the women she works together with in charity who has season tickets to the Bengals. Since her grandchild was in town for the weekend, she couldn't make it to the Sunday game. Mom never lets a chance to go to the football game pass her so we scored some sweet tickets. And since Jacqueline has never been to a ( Read more... )