Girl Japan has Moved to a new address!!!!
Hey there Fab darlings! I’ve moved to a new address with my own domain so I can control more of the sites widgets, and design. Hope you’ll re-bookmark me, and update your URL’s. I also moved to an new house address too, exciting! Please bare with me while the new site goes through some graphical changes.
I am doing my best to finish unpacking before we head to our summer retreat where I can sip Cosmo’s and get my feet rubbed by my husband and I’l scratch his back!
p.s. This is my 5000th Post! So if you are visiting here past July 4th, come see me at the new digs!
We won!!!! ~And finally we are MOVING YEA!~ 10 Things about me! ~ Vacation Days How many? ~ Fur Babies ~ Washer/Dryer
Guess what? We won the lottery, not much but enough to buy an island! I think I’ll get a private tutor for my Japanese study as I would like to practise law in Japan, and that is what my background is in college for, IT, Business and Law. Okay I kept you all in suspense for long enough! It was about $12,000 dollars and I used $9000 of it to pay off some graduate school debt, the other $1000 I spent on nonessentials, and I gave some to charity, and the rest I handed over to my husband to buy whatever vintage jacket, jeans he wanted.
My friend Kelly just let me know that I won a fab Sephora give away! This day is getting better and better!
AND…. the house is FINALLY done!
I have a few contracts coming in for work so I am going to get busy again, I’d also like to finalize the business and stop wavering back and forth on it.
I will be switching domain names soon, I promise to send an an e-mail on the new blog address. I am posting this at 2:00 am, we sat up watching some movies tonight, had fun, went out to dinner. We watched Love and Disasters with Brittany Murphy. I am always up for chick flicks.
What kind of vacation days do you have?
My husband for example, gets 40 personal days a year, plus holidays (18 I think, I’ll have to double check) and summer vacation (7 days for summer vacation which is mandatory and he has to use them up before September) , he can carry over only 20 days, so if we use 40 days in a year, he still has 10 personal days but he can’t carry over the summer vacation. I luv that he gets so many days off, so when I am having a bad period, or bad day and my Girls are working or busy he can cuddle with me, or those days we need to renew my licenses, and make essential errands. I think if I was not in Japan and in a Western country where I feel a bit more comfortable (language handicap- hopefully that won’t be too much longer) I would not feel that those DAYS are a must, know what I mean?
My vacation days when I was working for company B, sucked I got 10 days a year, that’s it, why I went independent. ERR
p.s. Feel free to e-mail me I password protected those two posts as I don’t want that SHIT clogging up my blog. Strawberryloveschocolate (AT) yahoo dot com. We got it all out in the open and I found out the truth, that is all I wanted and I am satisfied.
My 10 Things about me
1. I argue with my husband sometimes, he thinks I am yelling and I think I am being passionate, but he is a keeper.
2. I had six miscarriages before I got married to my now husband of ten years!
3. One of those miscarriages was from my ex-husband beating me to the point I lost the baby, too scared and bruised to go to the hospital I just bled in my office, he was a business tycoon with a nice public persona but nasty behind the scenes.
4. I don’t “FEEL” anything about those miscarriages, perhaps it was someone above looking out for me, after all I would have that man in my life forever.
5. My parents have a wonderful, almost near perfect marriage so it was hard finding the right guy, always comparing him to my dad!
6. We are having our wedding next year, it was postponed for various reasons twice, my husband was transfered, my dad had a spell and I put it off for so long but I really ,deeply want that special day and I want to share it with close friends and family, plus it is really an excuse to buy some fabulous dresses and have my hair done.
7. I was born in NYC but grew up in the Bay Area, lived over 8 years in Hollywood, went to boarding school in England and changed my citizen ship! Can you take a guess?
8. My real name is April Marie Claire my last name is Yamaguchi, I finally changed it today, which took oh, only about an hour, I still have to update my visa.
9. I have a love for Channel bags and Jimmy C. shoes, I can’t help collecting them, it is my bad habit.
10. I have a TOXIC brother who stole my wedding ring (I lied and said I lost it at the hotel and I am sorry for lying about that but I did not want anyone to know I had such a shit brother), he still lives off my mother and father, he has gone through five cars, been arrested, almost died in a car accident, the car blew up and he is still at home mooching. The ring, thankfully was insured.
The truth about DOGS!
1. In Japan, we have been paying 10000yen to take her to the salon each month, um, is this the norm in the US, the U.K.? I feel like it is over priced, hell when I was living in Hollywood, even Rodeo Drive did not have prices like that!!!!
2. I love them like my children.
Outside on the Verandah
She is getting BIG
Happy Birthday ~ Okinawan Cake ~ Bling ~ Shopping ~ Favorite Vintage Jeans ~ Manju
Update: Family, friends, MOM, the packages have been mailed! Woot Woot!
A little late posting but I wanted to get something special for the Mr. and had this ring hand crafted out of 18k gold and engraved, I wanted to give him something that he could keep forever, I thought about clothes, gadgets but those break eventually and clothes wear out, I surprised him with a birthday banner, you know I scoured to find a chic B-day banner, I scoured and scoured and finally had it made.
Okinawan Cake is very dense but similar to Manju.
Manjū (饅頭) is a popular traditional Japanese confection. There are many varieties of manjū, but most have an outside made from flour, rice powder and buckwheat and a filling of an (red bean paste), made from boiled azuki beans and sugar. They are boiled together again and kneaded. There are several varieties of bean paste used including koshian, tsubuan, and tsubushian.
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