Me and my friends

Andrea and I are waiting in line with 2000 of our closest friends for a Do As Ifinity concert. Good thing we showed up 3 hours early.

Baking eludes me...

I tried to make cookies yesterday. They were far from perfect. We have guests coming over, but I'll update tomorrow with how they turned out.

Fast times at Yoshi High

Trying to get back into the swing of things. It hasn't really gone that well haha. We have some friends coming over this weekend, but of course our apartment still is in disarray since we haven't really completely unpacked and put everything away. I'm working on getting all the laundry caught up and getting all of Andrea's new clothes put away. She had too much for the drawers before she bought a bunch of new outfits, and now I have no idea what to do with it all. I'll figure it out.

Alison and Gina are talking about visiting us in the spring some time. It would be a nice mid-year break to see friends and family before we move back to the 'states. (Plus we'd be able to send some of our stuff back early, ie: winter clothes >.>) I don't know what we'd do with them, since we don't have gobs of money but I'm sure Andrea will have some vacation to take so we'll manage to go somewhere I'm sure. We'll see how that develops.

There's a former typhoon, as in it's now a tropical storm, named Sinlaku headed our direction. I'm not sure what direction it is taking yet, though the tracks on it have it going straight over us. It has been so erratic lately that I just can't be sure of the forecasts. Even if it does hit us, it's nothing more than a windy thunderstorm at this point. Even being over open water for 3 days hasn't given it any strength. I don't suspect it will do more than rattle the windows a little.

Back in the USS...A?

So I’m back in Fuji after a last minute trip to the US. I kept it a secret mostly because I really didn’t have much time to tell anyone about it. I found out 30 hours before I took off. I packed up and grabbed a train early the next morning.

I managed to hang out with a large range of my friends while I was home, while eating a lot of food and driving far more than I should have. It would seem that being in Japan has caused me to become less inclined to eat fast food. Every time we ate something that was not very good for us, I felt sick. I suppose that’s a good thing.

My grandparents came down to visit, only because I was there. It was nice to see them, and the taffy they brought wasn’t bad either. I got to see my niece and nephews and watch some football. What else could you ask for? More time at home I guess.

For everybody’s benefit, I’m typing this while on the plane. I’ve finished Iron Man and am working on Indian Jones. Iron man is an awesome movie, but I doubt you’d find a guy who didn’t agree. Jones seems to be alright, but I remember hearing some complaints about it. My impression is that it is more like the old movies than any of the current ones. It’s a little campy, but I like it for just that reason. I don’t know about the main storyline, but for the campiness alone, it’s worth watching(I’m pretty sure he just said “libary” by the way) .

I still have about ten and a half hours to go, so I’ll probably settle in and watch this before watching some of the tv I missed, maybe taking a nap. I’m glad Delta has AC plugs in the front half of this plane.