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The picture really isn't much to look at, and lots of people I know wouldn't consider it much snow, but it made me very very happy. Last night it started snowing as I was heading home - big fat white slushy flakes. I figured it wouldn't stick, melting when it landed. So finding a world covered in a (thin) layer of white when I emerged from the train station thrilled me to no end. I sat watching

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- electric blanket in our unheated bedroom- making plans for the coming year- feeling needed- homemade gooey chocolate cake- hearing my coworker talk about becoming a father- knitting baby gifts!

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Once again I sent a post to myself and then forgot to actually post it... Oops!A while back I saw this poster. I tend not to get overly excited by "English" signs here anymore but this one had me giggling.

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I thought I posted this on Wednesday, but turns out I didn't... Oops!Chocolate shortbread cookies - sinfully good and they didn't crumble away to nothingness when I took them off the cookie sheet!

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Last night we had openface hot turkey sandwiches and today I tried to put a Japanese twist on turkey leftovers - turkey stirfry (with the brussel sprouts I found at the grocery store today!) and sweet potato korokke with the leftover maple mashed sweet potatoes. And of course white rice.

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The turkey (two drumsticks and a kilo plus-sized breast) with gravy, stove-top stuffing, roast onions and potatoes, carrots, broccoli with almonds, and mashed maple sweet potatoes went over well yesterday evening. The chocolate mocha yule log was pronounced delicious (and not overly sweet!). The breakfast bubbly and orange juice and breadmaker version of cinnamon buns were devoured (the whole

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My little oven is certainly getting a work-out.I started yesterday with a half-batch of shortbread cookies (without the jam) in white, red, and green; and a half batch of what turned out to be hazelnut brownie bites. Today (after loading up with butter and flour and sugar) I made a batch of florentines that ended up sticking to the baking sheet and falling apart so they got a chocolate cookie

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I should really call this post "I am an idiot" because I am. How many times have I flown from Vancouver to Japan? Too many to count. I've flown direct, I've flown through Seattle, LA, and San Francisco. I've flown by Air Canada, Northwest Airlines, JAL... One thing that never changes is that I cross the dateline. I arrive in Japan The day AFTER I leave Vancouver. And that is the point. The very

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We finally bought our tree (210 cms! It barely fits in the livingroom!!) and lights (the first string we bought wasn't anywhere near long enough so we had to go back for the longest in the store!) and decorated! We bought decorations from Ikea and Tokyu Hands and made some and it doesn't look sad or empty like I worried it might!

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It seems as though Lulu and others have given up on "Somedays ate Tuesdays" posts, but I never was very good at keeping up with the popular kids, so here goes...Somedays I am frustrated and bored with work and despair of improving or ever having a "career" as opposed just doing a job. But most days recently I have been loving work. I've been editing the proofs for the book (a Japanese translation

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Yesterday I pulled out the box of decorations and got out the Christmas stuff. I started decorating and when U came home from work we went Christmas tree shopping. We quickly discovered it was both easier and more difficult than we had expected. Easier in that there were more stores selling trees than U had thought and more difficult because more choice made the actual choosing more difficult as

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Suddenly November is ending and December is almost here. The year-end parties start next week and my dad will be arriving in Japan not long after! This fall has gone by far too quickly, even though the fact that it was warmer longer than usual.Reason 1, of course is the translation I finally finished it off and sent the last bits from Haneda Airport as I waited to check in to my flight to

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Between work being crazy busy and going away I've been neglecting my poor blog. So here goes a TILT post...- Belgian (and British!!) chocolates filling the fridge and cupboard- starting on a new project at work and being given the freedom to plan it from the start (sure I'll have to get my boss's okay before I actually do anything, but being given the freedom to plan it out on my own is exciting

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I was holding off posting this as I was going to link to Lulu, but she doesn't appear to be doing a Somedays... Post today so...Most days for the past two months have been all about work - either the major project nearing completion at my day job or the largesse gallery translation contract I've been working on in my "off" hours. Since I sent off the last major section on Saturday (actually a

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I've been terribly lax at keeping up with my knitting posts. Mostly because I'm currently stuck on a large project that seems to be a knitting black hole, but I keep forgetting I have other finished projects that haven't yet been blogged...Like this baby blanket - backed and edged with a soft cotton flannel so it will keep its shape even after being tossed into the washing machine. Sewn up as I

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Living in a foreign country can be incredibly lonely. Life is foreign and family and friends feel so far away.This past week, however, I have been treated to an amazing lesson in community and just how not-lonely it can be being a foreigner in Japan. It was an amazing experience to watch a wonderful group of women come together in an outpouring of love to support one of "their own." I was

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Since I thought yesterday was Tuesday that must make today Wednesday, so here's a photo...Of a cake, a cake I was given in the lunchroom by one of the curators. Apparently it is an eggplant.When offered it, however, I started laughing so hard I started to choke. Please tell me I'm not the only one who saw... something else!? (one of the other curators, the only guy in the room, turned red, and

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- freshly made and still warm cheese fondue korokke- Mow cappuccino ice cream- falling fast fast asleep on my morning commute... and waking up the stop before I need to get off- hearing from family members I don't hear from often- people listening to and then even adopting my suggestions despite being the youngest and least experienced person in the room

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Sent the first part of the mega translation off on Monday night and began to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Or so I thought...Then U came home last night and demanded I edit his paper (his boss knows about me and, in a completely unrelated decision said there wasn't enough in the budget to cover sending the article to a professional scientific editor).And then I got an email from the art

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U pulls the car over to the curb and I crawl out, pulling myself and my bag out through the narrow amount I'm able to open the door. As I close the door U suddenly yells:"Pull your skirt down, you're showing your underwear!!"Because U was being conscientious and had pulled the car alllllll the way to the curb, I'm standing waist deep in bushes with about an inch between me and the car, but I

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- my dad buying a ticket to come to Japan for nearly a month over Christmas- planning a fall get-away to meet my dad in Brussels! (raspberry beer, chocolate, raspberry beer, yummy food... RASPBERRY BEER!)- international festivals in Yoyogi koen (just in September there are Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Nepal, and India!!)- busy work days and knowing I'm needed!- papico (coffee and chocolate ice cream)

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Now here's a story I can get behind! mmmmm! http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/1221258968/ID=2110679204

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Home baked potato chips... Yuuuuuummm!

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