My accomplishments today:(1) Finished watching all of Grey’s Anatomy 6th season DVD – despite my DVD player broken down along the way.(2) Finished a blue sweater which I had been working on for more than a year.(3) My apartment is becoming less of a mess. I only have to do something about the books now. 今日やりとげたこと(1) Grey’s Anatomyをシーズン６まで見終わったこと。途中でDVDプレーヤーが壊れたけど、なんとか頑張った。でもImport DVDがもうコンピューターでしか見られないのがショック。(2) １年以上前から編んでいた青いセーターを編み終わった(3) 部屋が段々片付いてきて、あとは本をなんとかするだけになった。友達に「図書館に寄付したら」と薦められる。良いかもしれない。図書館から本を何冊も貰ったから、恩返しをいつかしなきゃ。 風邪を引いてしまって、体調が下り坂です。でも今週もあと２日。頑張ります。これ以上悪くはならないぞ。I am catching cold, my condition is sliding down, my hands are cold, my back and neck hurts. But I’ve got to hang in there, 2 more days to go this week, and I have to be better before next Saturday so that I can go watch a movie with my friend. My decision today:(1) I need to start writing more. And I…
knitting and slow life in Kyoto
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Japanese Follows. 日本語は下に。 I found this book on Kelly’s blog (her suggested reading list), bought it, and later found out that Retta’s book club selected it for November. This book is my November, I am going to read one chapter per day. The author lost her father in law for cancer, only after 37 days of diagnosis. That’s when she thought about how to live each day more consciously, fully, and more memorably. Chapter 1 was about “Write to Remember”. The chapter writes:” We are all only one step away from losing the stories of our lives. I write to remember. …. It is also a strategy for learning. And for determining who and what we are — and who and what we yearn…
I realized today was the Halloween after I put a pumpkin pie in the oven. And I also realized that I forgot to put a cup of heavy cream in the filling… Ta da! A pumpkin pie from the scratch. オーブンに入れてから、今日がハローウィンだと気がついた。オーブンに入れてから生クリームを入れ忘れたことに気づいた。。。でも我ながらホッペが落ちる美味しさ！ お菓子作りの記憶と高校の記憶は同じところに格納されていて、片一方が刺激されて蘇ってきたらもう一方も蘇ってきた感じがします。とはいえ、土台もフィリングも混ぜて焼くだけなので、なんのテクニックも要らないのですが。強いて言えば、固いカボチャの皮を剥く根気？ こういう重いタルトは冷やしたほうが美味しい。冷蔵庫に保管して今週は楽しめます。レシピはクックパッドで見つけました。 I think my memories of high school years and my knowledge and experience in baking were stored in the same area in my brain. Meeting a roomful of high school classmates brought me back “baking” too. Today I bought a bouquet of flowers in the neighborhood (my favorite florist!) to celebrate the end of October. I won’t have to blog every day from tomorrow. And I stayed very healthy. Looking back, I got hospitalized twice in October, got sick in October…
I love this new collection from Celine. The photo is from Sartorialist blog, but I could not find a link to this particular post, so I slurped the picture from his site. Please go back a page or two to see his other photos from the Celine collection. (c) Sartorialist blog
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Today I am thankful for my Kindle. I didn’t really use it today, but anyway. I have been showing it off around all month, so I am also thankful for people who displayed excitements for me even when they couldn’t care less. But honestly, I am quite fascinated by it. I haven’t named it yet, though. You know, my computer has a name. I always choose black color for all my gadgets, so the names are usually male names. This time, my Kindle is white, but why do you want to call your Kindle “Jane”? It’s got to be men’s name. Copernicus, maybe? I have a tendency to feel incredibly attached to my things, like mobile phone. It is always hard to let an…
A bunch of us went out for a new burger shop in Kagurazaka called Martini Burger. They have martini and burgers, NY style. (and cheese cake, and all that.) The burger was really really good. We all ate in like one breath. I also had this chocolate soda, which is, according to the menu, a NY specialty. It’s kind of sour and chocolate, hard to say which. It’s not too bad, but not so great either. I’ve been to NY many times but not once I have seen this. A friend of my colleague was wearing this cool T-shirt. I love it and I really want one for myself! She kindly let me take a picture :) Today I am thankful for the wonderful…
I skipped a day. I feel defeated. Yesterday, I heard on a radio (KCRW-music) Paul McCartney talking about the song “blackbird”. He said it was not about just anyone, but he meant it to be for black people. (I don’t even know what is the politically correct term now… I personally think black is cool, much cooler than yellow.) Then he played the song in the studio. The whole thing was from their 2002 archive.Thank you, it was great. The day started out weird.An old man on the train told me to turn off my mobile because “they say so on stickers on the wall.” I looked up, there, on the wall behind the priority seats, there are stickers saying “turn off your mobile…
今日は比較的近くに住んでいる高校時代のクラスメートが私の職場まで来てくれて、一緒にランチを食べました。とても楽しかった！もう殆ど忘れていた記憶が、最近色々と蘇ってきて、なんだか自分の抜け落ちていた部分が修復されているような、そんな感覚です。クリーニングから冬物がど〜んと戻ってきて、クローゼットが満杯になりました。持っていたことを忘れた服ばかり、似たような服を持っていることを忘れてまたスカートを買ってしまいました。 Today, one of my old high school classmates came by to my office’s neighborhood, and we had a great lunch together. I have been seeing a lot of friends from high school these days, and the long-lost memories started to submerge from somewhere. It’s kind of like restoring an old painting – my memories and my self have been restored and I am seeing a clearer picture now. For this, I am grateful today. My winter clothes all came back from a dry cleaner in a bulk, and my closet is completely packed now. The other day I bought another skirt, for I had forgotten about the other similar-looking one. Above is a desert for lunch, matcha ice cream with red bean curd, …
Today I am thankful for:(1) Malcolm Gladwell – Outlier is awesome!(2) My job – there is always something new. I love learning and trying new things.(3) My friend with whom I had dinner – it is fun talking to someone of your age, who has similar job issues and perspectives.(4) That Amazon delivered me Grey’s Anatomy season 5, and I just found out that Kevin McKidd is in it!!
Today I am thankful for a day off. I’ve had a terrible headache yesterday and this morning, and I took a sick leave. I just stayed home and watched Grey’s Anatomy, season 4, which I bought a year ago but haven’t watched. I am also thankful for the series, that watching it makes my life look a lot better, less of a mess. (It also helps me get used to the natural speaking speed at the same time. Kills two birds with one shot. I also have to add that Meredith and Derek came together at the end of the season 4, so I can sleep happily tonight.) Photos from yesterday. Look at the alan sweater dress! I can totally knit this. Lovely.…
Sparkles*United 