Do not adjust your news feed! That’s right everybody, I’m back and updating my blog!!
It’s been over a year already (yikes!!) since I last updated, and a LOT has happened since then… if you know me in person/are friends with me on Facebook, you probably know what I’ve been up to. Actually, I kept coming back here every once in a while, always in an attempt to bang out a post. But each time I always lost interest; perhaps I figured updating after such a long time would upset the balance of the universe, or maybe I saw something shiny and got distracted. Or, the most likely reason: I’ve just been so busy livin’ life and lovin’ it. Blogging pretty much fell to the bottom of my priority list. That’s because, in the last approximately 13 months, I have:
+ Started working a full time job (as well as Tatsuya), and both worked on adjusting ourselves to a post-college, financially independent lifestyle. Workin’ 9 to 5! Or in my case, 10 to 6. And in Tatsuya’s case, 9 to 8 because this is Japan :P I’m also a part-time housewife on top of that! Busyyyy.
- Lived through the biggest natural disaster in modern Japanese history and an overall difficult year for the country
+ Moved! We now live in Kawasaki, Kanagawa and have been here since last May. I think for the most part, we have decided to settle down here for good!
+ Began to indulge in some new hobbies: in particular, concerts! I think Tatsuya and I have been to 5-6 concerts in the last three months, and at the moment we have tickets at least three more big gigs through May
+ Took my first trip back to the US in nearly two years for the holidays. Had a great couple of weeks spending Christmas and New Years with my American family!
+ Lost some friends, but met many more new ones. There are many special people who make me love my life in Tokyo more than ever!
I am updating today not because any of these things have changed and now I’m living in a cardboard box with all the time in the world to blog. Ohoho, no. I’m still pretty busy and my blogging mojo is still fragile enough that this could still be my last entry for the next 918369103416 years (though I hope not!) I just thought now would be a good time to dive back in, because I feel like this year will be a particularly auspicious one in my life. It is the year of the Dragon, which is MY year and bound to be lucky in some way, lol.
Moreover though, the real big news is… that Tatsuya and I are finally getting ready for our OFFICIAL WEDDING CEREMONY! We’ve been saving up money for months like mad people, And just the other day, we finally booked a date and paid the deposit at a georgeous shikijo near Tokyo Midtown; the big day is September 8th. This also means many of my friends and family all over the US and world, including my mother, will be coming to visit ME! I’m SO excited about it, it’ll be the first time to Japan for a lot of them. It’s still a little over 6 months away and we have A LOT to get done in that time, but I know it’ll be a whirlwind and will all be over before I know it. So that’s why I wanted to try my best to set aside an hour or so once or twice a week to keep track of everything I’ll be doing and what’s going on around me. Doesn’t hurt to try, right? Aaaaaand if not, at least we’ll come out the other side with some nice pictures :P
Anyway, it’s nice to be back. Let’s see what tomorrow brings!
A desert we received from a prospective shikijo ♥ So yummy… too bad we didn’t go with them, LOL
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