1470 Yen

Yep, that is what I spent at the good beer store for 4 beers. Sounds ridiculous, but $15 dollars for the comfort of a little good beer and the feeling of home is worth it.

The funny thing is when I got home I didn't even have a beer, I was too tired. To be quite honest, I bought them a week ago and have only drank the brown ale so far. They are sitting in my frig, like untouched treasures. Amazing what living overseas does, even to your beer choices.

And I got to use my Pope-ener, Get it Pope opener, Allison brought it back for me from Italy and it was really blessed by the Pope. Whoot Whoot!



"A fine beer may be judges with only one sip, but it's better to be thoroughly sure"
~Czech Proverb

A good sweat

So, as I said in my last entry I have started to run again. Those of you who know me well, know that I work out 6 days a week. I love Fridays because it is my day off the gym and it is also the day I can eat a little junk food. I see it as a reward for making it through the week.

More running equals sore Julia. To combat the soreness I have started to go in the sauna and the stream room at the gym. I am very fortune that our gym has both and just as the gym they are free to use.

Every time I go in the Sauna I think of my mom, she loves saunas and likes them as hot as possible. Yesterday, while I was in there sweating my brains out all I could think was dang it is hot in here, but I didn't want to leave because it felt good.

So, this entry is for my wonderful loving mama, who I wish was here to join me for some relaxing time in the sauna.

Miss you and Love you Mama.

"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power."
-- Maya Angelou

Steaks as Big as Your Head

I have started running again. I gave it up for a while and replaced it with crossfit. Now for some reason I feel like running again. Tonight when I was done at the gym I wanted a steak. This post is a tribute to my dad and his "steaks as big as your head".
My dinner about a 1/4 of the steak

When I was staying with Dad and Kim before moving here to Japan almost nightly we would have steaks. I was always baffled with the size of the steaks, they were SO good, but most of the time I could only eat like a 1/4 of a steak. The remainder of the steak on the George Foreman (A bit gross looking)

Despite the fact my steak was not nearly as good as dad's, I still managed to eat about a 1/4 of it. I have lunch and dinner tomorrow made. :) Now all I really need is a Trager (smoker bbq), like dad's. Tonight's dinner brought back a little feeling of home, which was nice.


Miss you and Love you Dad!

"Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad"
~Proverb

Failed

This sign says it all. The sign was on zero Saturday morning. Boo!! No day off.What happened too "work more harder" People?

"You tried your best and failed miserably. The lesson is 'never" try."
~Dan Castellaneta

33 more days!

Those of you who were recipients of my old emails will know that I talked about the DUI laws and being breathalyzed a bunch.

This sign represents how many days we have gone with out a DUI. 67!! Hooray! Remember the legal limit is .03. In the last 2 days, I have been breathalyzed 4 times. I just hope we (the base) can make it 33 more days. If we make it to 100 we get a free day off. Come on people work more harder. (yes I know it is not grammatically correct) :)


"I can't die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver"
~Phil Harris

Quick update

I haven't been on for a while, so here is a quick run down of what is new in my little world.

Short funny community living tale, funny I say only now, I was not so amused when it happened. A little preface... I try not to complain about where I live because alas, it is free, but I will say you get what you pay for. :) I live in a Bachelor Officers Quarters room, funny thing is all the officers live off base, which just means I live with a bunch of enlisted guys. I have no problem with that, the loud music, video games and Japanese girls wandering down the hall are just the perks of everyday living. Community laundry on the other hand drives me crazy, but again it is free, you get what you pay for. Yesterday, I woke up early and started a load of wash. Transferred it to the dryer etc. When I went in to get it, my laundry was in a huge moist pile on top of the washer. Not a happy camper, so I looked into the dryer, my plan was to remove the persons clothes and continue drying mine. Well, that did not happen... drum roll please... there was one pair of wet whitey tighties rolling around in there... I don't want to know the story behind them... I grabbed my semi-dry clothes and hung them the rest of the way dry in my room.

Work... My favorite four letter word, is getting better. I have an assistant director, she is doing okay. Her story is long and complicated, she came to me from another area within, because she could not get along with her manger there... so, whats the solution, give her to Julia.

Her acclamation period so far has been a bit rough, it is going to take her a while to see that bossing me around is not a good thing, but we will make it though. It is very nice to have an extra set of hands to delegate too.

This weekend, my friends Jeanette and Dave went to a Japanese wedding in the Kyoto area. So, I am currently making sure their three teenage boys stay out of trouble. I forget how funny teenagers are, we are having fun. Last night, we had a wii mario cart marathon (as Scott and Allison can attest, wii is not my strong suit), but last night I was doing well, as a result, we had a victorious Miss Julia and Devin had a semi-smashed ego.

That's about all for here right now.

Please know that my door is always open for visitors, if you are interested in a visit just let me know when and I will be ready.

J

"Do what you can with what you've got wherever you are."~ Theodore Roosevelt ~