More snow

This is what I saw when I opened my door this morning. Don't worry, it had mostly melted except some random ice and big piles of snow where people had dumped it by the time I went home.


The tree in front of my apartment looked kind of neat.


The roads were pretty much just giant mud puddles I had to leap through when crossing the street and avoid spray streams from cars. I only had to walk halfway to work though in the morning because someone I work with saw me when they were pulling out of a parking lot and gave me a ride the rest of the way since it was snowing.


I bought some special candy at the store that they made for the Hina-Matsuri, it's all very pretty and in three colors. My next poster will be themed with that too which I will hopefully finish tomorrow. Of course I can't eat it because I am trying to avoid sweets for lent but since it's just sugar hopefully it will still be good in a month. The little three colored cakes were really pretty too. Naturally this is a festival I have a particular fondness for because it is a DOLL festival, and a day for little girls. They have dolls which represent the imperial court and which are unique and lovely in their own right.

Window Display

I cleaned my room a little during the weekend but it still looks horrible. More will be done next weekend perhaps before it starts getting warmer. Today in the window of a store on the way home from work I really liked the window display so I took a picture. There are several stores that always seem to have fantastic displays. There is also a western wedding dress store that usually has some beautiful and interesting dresses. I will start taking some pictures so I can borrow their design ideas to make cute things for my dolls.

Naughty Children

Things children have done in my class in the past year they should not have:

Bitten me hard enough to leave a mark,
peed on me,
peed on the floor,
drawn on my cards/the wall,
ripped my props,
laid on top of the cards so I can't get them,
stuck marbles and other small things in their mouths,
hidden things in their clothes,
pulled things off the wall,
leaped off of chairs or tables,
tried to pull things with heavy things on top,
tried to convince me to give them my props,
called me kuso baba,
called me a narcissist,
called me a rabbitpigdragon (aka an aardvark),
played video games in class,
read comics in class,
stood on their chairs,
suggested Hugh Jackman is my lover after sneaking into my bag and pulling out his picture which was on the top of a stack of celebrity photos I was using for another class,
finding some way to make a perverted comment about every card I have,
stood on the tables,
smacked me on the butt (four-five year old girls seem to think this is amusing),
pulled out my hair,
jumped onto my shoulders and not gotten off for the entire lesson,
hidden under the table for the entire lesson,
stole my markers and used them to draw pictures of rabbits instead of doing their lesson,
spit on their fingers and rubbed it into my pants,
picked their nose and rubbed it onto my pants,
licked or bitten my props,
spent the entire class crying,
thrown things at me,
hit me repeatedly with a toy hammer,
made me wipe their butts because "I don't want to because it's stinky."
Thrown my things around the room while yelling "HAPPY BIRTHDAY."
Called me a pervert when I followed them to the bathroom to make sure they didn't need help because they forgot to shut the door to the stall,
and many more I'm not thinking of at the moment.

But today was special, my naughtiest five/six year old boy decided to pull down his pants and wave his thing at me and the two little girls in the class.

Don't get me wrong, they do cute things sometimes too.

Going to try to give up chocolate for lent. Tried balsamic vinegar Pringles today. Not bad.

Nothing Special

Nothing special happened today. I found out that if I bend leon's arm the right way it'll hit this little thing that lets you pose it against his chest. It scared me since it made a snapping sound. I left the door open while I turned on the shower and it was getting hot and the steam pouring out of the door set off the fire alarm. It made me feel pretty stupid. I'm tired. It's ash Wednesday now since it just hit midnight here so I will try to properly reflect on things tonight.

Pizza

We ordered pizza from pizza hut. The one on the bottom is mine, it's mushroom. Ducky got 1/2 of a sort of combination supreme pizza and the other half is Korean barbecue. With long thin pieces of hot pepper and a mayonnaise sauce rather than a tomato sauce. The sauce packet that came with it was green chili sauce and made me think of eating Mexican food.



Leon is visiting his friends.

Monster Hunter keychain

This monster hunter key chain came with my apple juice I got yesterday. Cute.

I've been living in Japan for one year now.

Hug me

Have you gotten a hug today? It's an important part of a balanced diet.