rainy days

i HATE rainy days when i have to go to work. even on a sunny day its hard carrying princess p, her stuff, and my teaching stuff, but add in a big-arse umbrella, p's boots falling off every few minutes and going back to retrieve lovey who somehow dropped into a puddle 50metres back without me noticing,and well,it was a crap walk to the station. then putting up with the constant, endless requests for chocolate from p on the train made for a crap train ride. holding a wriggling, and still demanding chocolate princess p in the taxi was also crap. and to end things on another crap note, p had the biggest crying-clingy-mummy-don't-go-to-work-and-leave-me-here tantrum she's ever had.even offering the previously demanded chocolate did nothing to stop the crying and grabbing onto mummy. usually she gives me a kiss and is off running a muck through the inlaws house.but the past 2 weeks she's been
all tears and `mummy mummy!` i hope this phase ends quickly.even though i know the tears will end and she'll be chomping down chocolate before i'm even down the road, the crying is heart-wrenching.
have a good day everyone,despite the rain.
mwah
sassymoo

owwwwww

i'm now in day 4 of a pinched nerve in my neck and let me tell you, its still frikin hurts like day 1! it all came about from the princess sleeping in our bed with us while we had house guests. i half woke up at 3am with p sleeping across the top of the bed and me being twisted around her. i should have straightened us out but i guess i just went back to sleep....and woke up with a sore neck. its been a busy few days but i finally went to see my doctor yesterday...and the clinic was closed! it should have been open so i'm guessing the doc got swine flu. today i have 2 big (late) halloween parties and i don't think i could be feeling any less enthusiastic. today is the class with the mothers that piss me off. the constant throbbing pain has made me become rather short with people so they had better just shut up and enjoy the damn party. will report back later and let you know how it goes.
time for another round of pain pills and fingers crossed they kick in fast.
mwah
sassymoo

tired

just a quick blog to tell you that i'm really tired. stayed up late getting things ready for a halloween craft lesson i did with my 4 classes today. didn't get a break the entire day and i'm non-stop yawning on the train heading to the inlaws to get princess p. another 3 hours or so until the princess sleeps...come on bedtime! mummy neees an early night!
mwah.
sassymoo

New blog

For those of you who are interested in the 9 Month Challenge, I`ve statred a new blog about it so please check it out!
http://9monthchallenge.blogspot.com/
Mwah.
Sassymoo.

The 9 month challenge

I've been thinking for a while now that I need to lose the weight I put on when I was pregnant, ahem, 2 years ago. I've never been skinny, but I did try hard to get healthy in order to get pregnant. I put on 17kgs during my pregnancy, and about another 3kgs on the trip home, which is when I got pregnant. Damn those meat pies, sausages, and fish &chips! After returning to Japan with a 2 month old, the stress of being a new parent, and life in general, led to alot of me `eating my feelings` and I have yet to lose any of the weight I put on. Its time to get back to healthy and I'm inviting my fellow mummy bloggers to join me. Welcome to the 9 months challenge! Putting it on over the 9 months of pregnancy was a snap, but can we get it off in 9 months? Its worth a try!!!! My motivation easily wanes when I try to get healthy by myself so I'm hoping some of you will join with me so I don't fall on my face and have to stop blogging from the shame of it all! I know a few bloggers who are trying to get healthy, you know who you are. Put down that vino and join me. Here's the basic plan...
1. Start with the weight you put on during your pregnancy.
2. Divide it by 9 to get your monthly goal. (Not exceeding 5kgs/month, to keep things healthy)
3. Do whatever works best for you to lose weight.
4. Support fellow `9 month` challengers` on their blogs.
5. Update your progress on your blog (if you feel comfortable doing so).

So, I`m going to be brave and write my stats....
1. 20kgs
2. 2.2kgs
3. I`m going to start walking in the morning before King N goes to work. I`m going to aim for an hour 3-4 times a week. I`ll also give the WII fit another try, especially on days I don`t walk.
On the food front, I`m going to cut back on the sweets and limit my carbohydrate intake. I think I`ll try adding a piece of fruit to dinner so that I fill up with dinner and fruit, hopefully helping curb my dessert cravings. I`msuch a night eater.
4. Please join me in this challenge!!!!!!
5. I`m starting on Monday(26/10/2009) and will aim to update bi-monthly on Sunday nights.

For those of you who don`t need this challenge, or who aren`t in th right frame of mind for joining right now, pretty please send me an occasional encouraging comment so that I can`t wimp out! I`m nervous but excited about taking on this challenge!!!
Mwah.
Sassymoo

Re: My list

My lovely sister, Crafty_bron has pointed out that she witnessed a `vommiting on public transport`incident from me, which means that I have in fact done it more than twice....how seriously embarrassing is that! The 2 I recall were done back in my drunken days as a teacher in Tokushima, my first time working in Japan.
The first and by far the worst occured after going out to dinner with some friends and our Japanese boss. It was just a casual dinner at an izakaya with a few drinks. I only had 2 lime chuhai`s, I swear, but I guess that stuff went straight to my head (stomach?) and soon I was the drunk friend that gets carried to the taxi. All was fine until the buzz quickly wore off and was replaced by a sudden and immediate need to vommit...which I did...in the back of the taxi...on the seat...but mostly into my friend Josh`s shoes. Feeling hugely embarrassed and more than a bit scared of what the taxi driver was going to do, as soon as the taxi stopped, I bolted and went and hid in a bush. (Lots of bushes in Tokushima, luckily). My friends came looking for me, but I was cleverly hidden in the bush, where I stayed for a good 15mins. One of them called and managed to talk me back to the taxi where I sepent the rest of the ride home sitting on a towel covering my vommit and appologising profusely in my crap Japanese to the taxi driver, who fortunately found the whole incident quite funny. Josh, however, wasn`t too impressed with his ruined shoes. When we arrived at home, I gave the driver (more like threw at the driver) all the notes in my wallet and ran to my room. For the next 6 months I couldn`t look my boss in the eye. He just laughed at me.
I can honestly say I`ve never been more horrofied with myself. And it was such a sudden, unexpected thing to happen because I seriously didn`t have more than 2 chuuhai`s. If I`d been falling down drunk on a bottle of whiskeyI could understand, but 2 freakin chuhai`s?!?!?! Oh the shame....
The 2nd time was also alcohol related, indirectly. The morning after a big night out, Josh invited me to go to lunch in town and since I wanted to do some shopping, I got up, took 2 headache pills for my hangover and went and got on the bus with him. Up unitl that day, I`d never really been concerned with taking medicine on an empty stomach. We were halfway to town when the feelings of nausea set in and I was trying to breath through them, hoping to get to town quickly. We were almost there, just 2mins away. The road in front of the station was turmoil, double lanes, lots of cars and taxis and there just wasn`t anywhere for the bus to stop....right when I REALLY needed the bus to stop.....BLAHHH, all over the seat next to me. Fortunately nobody but Josh saw me. Just a little water and 2 little undigested pills.... but still totally humiliating. I had no idea what to do. After discussing it with Josh, and with the smell beginning to waft, again, I did a runner. Josh couldn`t stop laughing at me and while I was in the bathroom changing into the new shirt I had to buy myself, he called all our friends to tell them about it. Again, this was hard to live down. But that was the last time I barfed on public transport...thatI can remember.... Stay tuned for a comment from my sister telling me the vommiting incident she remembers.....
Have any of you vommited on public transport, alcohol iduced or otherwise, and how did you handle it???? Did you hide in a bush too?
Mwah.
Sassymoo, reminissing on the good old days.....

PS.Bronnie, this post if for you.

100th post

I can`t believe I`ve managed to keep blogging and make it to my100th post. When I first started blogging I was fairly sure that I`d give it up in a few months due to lack of interest from others or my own. Fortunately a few people actually read my blog occasionally and their kind comments have encourged me to keep blogging. Being that this is my 100th post, I thought I`d tell you more about myself as noone really knows me. I might even aim for 100 points unless I get bored and give up on the way....
1.I am very lonely living in Japan.
2.I hate being a house wife and would much rather work full-time if it meant I didn`t have to clean the house.
3.I`m a bit phone phobic and rarely talk on the phone if I can avoid it. Texting me gets the fastest results, just so you know.
4.Cooking everyday bores me to tears, but I occasionally enjoy baking.
5.I`m lazy by nature (maybe even nurture) and often lack motivation to do things.
6.I haven`t chewed my nails since I was a child, but when I`m nervous or upset I bite the cuticles.
7.I get jealous easily.
8.I`m not a forgiving person.
9.I get really grumpy when I`m tired.
10.I`m a light sleeper and get woken up by even the softest sounds.
11.I`m shite at riding a bicycle so I now ride an adult sized tricycle.
12.I never learnt to drive. I`m not sure I ever want to.
13.I want to learn scrap-booking but am not sure where to start.
14.I spend far too much time on facebook.
15.I always feel like I`m waiting for something, but am not sure what I`m waiting for.
16.If I were skinnier, I woud spend much more money on clothes. My husband should consider himself lucky....
17.I don`t care about brand names, except for shoes.
18.I sleep on my tummy.
19.The left side of the bed is mine and I have trouble sleeping on the right.
20.Wine gives me a headache.
21.I love going out for dinner.
22.I`m not a morning person, which makes motherhood a drag with its early mornings.
23.I wish my husband didn`t work so late.
24.I`m not fond of seafood in general, but love fish & chips, and sushi.
25.I don`t like the taste of toothpaste.
26.I wash my left armpit first in the shower.
27.I am queen of the remote control.
28.I am a triplet.
29.Being triplet growing up wasn`t always fun, but now I am really close to my sisters and love them to bits.
30.I think my oldest sister is an awesome person who I have a lot of respect for.
31.I always knew I would end up living in Japan.
32.I can`t resist a bargain and often come home with things I don`t really need...
33.I can be really gulible sometimes.
34.When friends hurt my feelings I distance myself rather than confronting them.
35.I often wish I had more self-confidence.
36.I get nervous before going to work, even after doing the job for a long time.
37.I love wearing jeans and tshirts.
38. I find cleaning is easier if I crank my music up really loud.
39. I love my clothes dryer.
40. I remember chewing the tops off all my pencils when I was in grade 3. I can`t remember why though.
41.I often have dreams that leave me wondering `huh?`
42.I sometimes miss my pre-child life, especially going drinking and dancing with friends.
43. I often forget to buy toilet paper and have a day of using tissues....
44. I`m terribly scared of spiders.
45.Nothing makes my day/cheers me up more than a care package from home.
46. I love throwing parties and am looking forwrd to having the space to do it in the new house.
47. I don`t want another child.
48. I was an ugly, socially awkward child.
49. I love taking photos.
50. I often crave Aussie sausages.
51. I`ve been married 4 and a half years and am still very much in love with my husband.
52. I feel uncomfortable listening to people I don`t know well talking about their feelings.
53. I`m not as happy as I shoud be.
54. I`m allergic to wasps.
55. I rarely remember people`s names.
56. I`m much more sociable than my husband.
57. I also swim faster than my husband despite him being much skinnier than me.
58. I can`t stand rude, inconsiderate people.
59. I prefer reading magazines to books. If I find a good book I can`t put it down and nothing gets done.
60. My best subject at school was Japanese.
61. I have 5 or 6 granny hairs under my chin that I have to pluck regularly or they drive me nuts.
62. I`ve never worn fake eyelashes.
63. I like getting bath products and big fluffy towels as gifts.
64. I`ve been to disneyland 3 times.
65. I wish my friends lived closer.
66. I watch the disney chanel a LOT, and not always with princess p.....
67. I`m thinking of cutting my hair short and going blonde again....but am wondering if I have the confidence to pull it off now that I`m over 30....
68.I love toast made with Japanese bread...Aussie bread for sandwiches.
69. I know when my husband wants sex because he goes and cuts his fingernails...tell-tail sign.
70.I can`t read music.
71. I wish I could play the guitar.
72. I get waspy when other people make me late.
73. I have a half-brother and 2 half-sisters that I have never met.
74. I am always covered in bruises thanks to princess p`s monkey tendencies.
75. I always wear my hair up.
76. I`m allergic to silver so I can`t wear my wedding or engagement ring. Wish I knew about the allergy a bit earlier...
77. I haven`t studied Japanese since I got pregnant.
78.I occasionly snort when I laugh.
79. I like karaoke but only sing well if I`m drunk...or so `I` think.
80. I get lucky at playing pool when I`m drunk....or maybe people just let me win..
81. I can`t remember what movie I went and saw last, but I remember it was raining.
82. I can`t touch type.
83. I understand a lot of Japanese but tend to waffle when I speak it.
84. I want Princess P to have it easier growing up than I did.
85. I am addicted to icecream, even in Winter.
86. I often put my shoes on inside....don`t tell my husband.
87. I let Princess P watch a lot of TV.
88. Friday is my cleaning day and my house is usually trashed on all other days.
89. I have vommited on public transport twice in my life.
90. I hate crying in front of people.
91. I like to eat scrammbled eggs on toast when I`m sick.
92. I would get plastic surgery if someone else paid for it.
93. I always pretend I can`t speak Japanese when mormans or JW`s come to my door. (I`m quite happy to talk to them if we meet on the street, but hate them invading my personal space).
94.I own a lot of shoes.
95. I hate trying clothes on in the store.
96. My students think I`m quite funny, as does princess p. Occasionally funny with adults too.
97. I sometimes find myself counting my steps as I walk.
98. I prefer bread to rice.
99. I can`t remember my natural hair color.
100. I love getting comments on my blog...HINT HINT.

So there we have it, 100 random things abut me. Thank god this wasn`t my 200th post!
Thanks to all of you who keep reading!
Mwah.
Sassymoo.