Friday, December 9, 2005

A Very Long Post to Cover a Very Long Time
*sigh* I wrote a post out but just as I submitted it the network blinked out so it was lost. Damn. Here's the basic jist of it, anyway. (Only the first two paragraphs, because the rest happened more recently.)

We had to put Chaucer down on Wednesday because she had a tumnor on her liver that started bleeding. I'm not too sad about it, mostly because I was expecting something like this to happen for quite a while. She was old and had cancer, so I'm just happy that she got so much extra time (from June or May when we found out she had the first tumor), and that it was an easy decision to make under the circumstances. There was no caught-in-the-middle situation. It was either put her down or have her suffer and die the next day.

So we're looking at new dogs. There are two in particular: a shiba inu we visited the other day and who is very active and social, and a sheltie/corgi mix we have yet to meet. Either would be fine, but I really like the shiba. Unfortunately we're the second applicants so we may not get him.

It snowed last night, just enough to get us out of school without immobilizing us for the whole day; how lucky! Sadly, there were two major incidences caused by the "snowstorm". A plane's front landing gear collapsed and it slid off the runway onto a nearby highway and crushed a car or two. Also, later a tractor trailer driver was stunned by the glare off the snow and cuased a huge pile-up. So I guess it was this traffic that caused the day off more than the snow and ice. Snow is pretty, but dangerous to drive in. ;_;

And I just got an email from my mom from Hide, her Japanese friend from work (he works at Genji Sushi, who just started making the sushi for Whole Foods). Here are some highlights from it. ^_^
"I have one big news I'd like you to know in advance. I and my wife decided to go back to Japan by the end of January 2006! Worst thing is that we won't be able to cooperate any more. But the best thing is that you will have pen pal to exchange mails or friend to visit in Japan, and your daughter (if she decides to be an exchange student) will have someone to rely on and ask for any help (if she would need) while her stay.
Then as I already wrote, Tory is always welcome to visit us in Tokyo, if she decides to come over. All of my Japanese friend who joined exchange student program and came over to US said that was really good experience and gave them a big influence for their way of think.
My family also had an exchange student from New Zealand for two weeks, and it was really precious experience for me to know something from outside of my small world.
Jane-san, if you have a chance to come over the ocean, off course you and your husband are always welcome, too. Now I know much about the differences between America and Japan, so that I can show you many of strange and interesting things in Japan."

I hope we do get to go visit him. Tokyo would be my first choice of cities, mostly because there's soooo much STUFF there! Kyoto would be second because it's so scenic and historic. I'm not interested in anything in Hokkaido, though. Too cold! I can only take the cold in small, season-long doses. ^_^U

And I had a weird dream last night... It was a bizarre blend of obvious dream-things and details from real life. For instance, though I was staying in a room at some dormitory (with a nice big bed!), all the clothes I had with me were things I really own. And then later I went shopping and couldn't remember whether I needed pajama pants or not, because I kept "remembering" wearing a pair before I left the room--the pair I had worn before i went to bed (I just wear an oversized T-shirt to sleep). Very weird. Then it just went nuts and turned into a video game I kept losing because there was a war between animals, most of which happened to be Yugioh-related creatures and the rest of which were actually household items like candles O_o, and humanoid things like elves, which came from something I read before I went to sleep. Dreams are so fun though, when you can remember them and start figuring out which things came from the previous day and which things were just made up. Yay!
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