The best cat food ever!!!

CJ's mom has an allergy to cats, but somehow she has two cats.


That is not the whole story. CJ's sister owns these cats and when she moved out of her mother's house she left the cats:-(




Anyhow, She is also feeding wild cats!! It's natural that more cats will come if you feed them, you know.

Since we came to Boston, every morning like half of the cat food was yanked out and next day it was completely gone!!!! It's quite big cat feeder but EVERY time...
What kind of animal can do that?!

Surely, it's not a cat or doggies as they would make a big mess but it seems like they are using scoop to take it out.

CJ's mom thought that a bird or cat did that, but CJ thought that was done by a raccoon!!
Since they can use their hands like us:-)

Because we had jet lag, so we often woke up like three or four o'clock in the morning.
Most of the animals are nocturnal, you know☆＝
so we could see some animals whenever we checked the cat feeder though the window during the night.

One evening, about six o'clock we just wanted to check the feeder, so we went to outside.
There was some animal eating cat food...

Can you guess what kind animal we saw at that time?!




We saw a SKUNK X-( !!!



CJ went outside first, and as soon as he saw skunk he said "SKUUUUUNK!!!!!" and no one likes to get sprayed, right?;-D
He pushed me back into the house to avoid getting sprayed BUT I never saw a skunk so I wanted to see it☆ so I pushed him to go back to outside and once I saw a skunk we ran to the house.

Oh, thank you!! We were safe♪♪

BTW, if you get sprayed do you know what to do??
You have to take a tomato juice bath.If you were too close to the skunk when it sprays....it's gonna hurts!!!!!
So if you see a skunk...


Run as fast as you can!!!!!
You better not push your boyfriend;-P

Oh, one night, CJ saw a raccoon so he came back to our room and woke me up, but when I get there the raccoon was gone...so I couldn't see it:-(


Also, in the day time some birds were eating the cat food, even though we bought a bird feeder..

These are "blue jays"
I don't like birds so much but I like these bird♪♪They are kinda crazy:-D Jumping around the cat food.


And of course cats.
I saw at least five including some kittens.

Never Let Anybody Underestimate You.

Last Saturday CJ and I went to see the movie 'Monsters vs Aliens', after we went to the water park. It started in Japan on that day!!
We made a small mistake so we didn't have so much time. When we got to the ticket counter the woman said "The movie has just started, is that OK?"so I said it's OK then we bought a popcorn and went to the theater. There were only 20 to 30 people watching the movie and we got there when Susan became huge in the church. I hope we didn't miss so much=)
The movie was OK kind like Clone Wars at some parts;-) I like Bob, he's cute but I don't like Insectosaurus. I can't understand why they choose those eyes!!!!!! It looks like the yellow guy from 'Horton'. Anyhow, I thought that movie was supposed to be in 3D but they didn't give us a 3D glasses. Sometimes the seats shook a little bit but it wasn't 3D!!!! So, we went to the counter after the movie and asked them about that. they said 'Well, we also have 3D version but theater is different and time schedule is different.'


.......Don't you think they should tell us when we bought the tickets?! Like "The movie has just started and it's not in 3D, is that OK?"then maybe I would've thought about it. I didn't know they have regular version.

I told you!!

Last Saturday, CJ and I went to the water park near our house. We both want to get a suntan and I know what to do but last summer he didn't listen, so he had really bad sunburn. But this year I wouldn't let him do that;-P As soon as we got changed, I put suncream on his back especially on his shoulder. And he put it on mine. I love cold water so I had no problem getting in the pool but he said it's too cold so it took while him to get in;)
It was the first day of this year and we went there before lunch time so not so many people were swimming. I felt like a mermaid♪ The whether was beautiful, nice breeze...perfect day for swimming.

After we swam little bit, we decided to go sunbathing. I asked him to put more suncream on my back and of course I said "You should put more suncream or you'll get sunburn." but he said "I put it on before swimming and it's water proof so I'll be fine." then he fell asleep.
For a while his back looked OK, not red and not hot but when we got changed I could see his arms were little bit red...and when we came back to our house his shoulder was pretty red and hot so I put 'after suncream' well, it was actually gel. I put it on him twice a day for few days so his sunburn seemed to be gone now=)

I'm sure he'll listen to me from next time;-D

After going to the water park, we went to see a movie.

In one week.

On July 23rd, CJ and I will go to the U.S. for three weeks.
Thank you!! I can run away from Japanese summer for a while!!!! It's super duper hot and humid 8-(
Last summer we went for about one month.(I'm gonna write on my blog about these trip soon♪ I hope!!）
This time, we'll stay in Boston for most of our trip and he'll take me to the city:> CJ's from Boston and last time we didn't have so much time so we couldn't do so many things in Boston.

We will also go to New York for couple of days.

I'm sure there will be some sweet surprise=)
Maybe I'm gonna write about it when we come back;-)

He always thinking about Amidala...how sweet

CJ and I like to do puzzles and some other stuff. He bought a puzzle a long time ago but he didn't have time to do it. Because we are living together so he can do more things after he comes home from work=)
About two weeks ago we decided to do that puzzle. First, you have to make all 120 small puzzles.(That took such a long time- like 6 hours!!!) the box said 'every layer is a movie image jigsaw!'... but It's NOT!!!!!
(Some of the pictures were cartoon versions of the character, or stylized logos or just words like 'Hero', 'Justice' or such - C.J. )
Anyhow, each puzzle has unusual shape, so I couldn't guess what part will it be:-P
Then we put the small puzzles on top of each other in order. I had never done a puzzle like that, but it was fun♪♪ Some pictures were nice but they are using same picture few times and most of them were from episode 1,2 and 3... I can understand because it's Darth Vader...but I think they could put old one also, you know:-)


We also have another puzzle.
It's a 3D earth and cities will glow in a dark!! Sounds nice, doesn't it? That will be our next project☆

Amazing summer☆2008 part1

Since I met him, my life changed a lot. In a good way♪ We always do things together, help and encourage each other, sleep together, we can have fun, I can't write everything!! It would take forever!!

Anyhow, I never went to America before I met him. I have gone to Singapore, Australia and Guam. From Japan these country don't have such a great time difference, maxim is 1 hour so I never had jet lag, of course.

We took a short trip on March 07, we watched "Blue Man Group"(That was really interesting and unusual.) and went to Tokyo Disney Land and Disney Sea!! I went to TDL so many times but had never gone to Disney Sea...


I LOVE it!!! Because my 2 favorite Disney movies are "Aladdin" and " The Little Mermaid"♪♪ That was just amazing!!
I'm sure he enjoyed a lot but he had allergy for the first time in his life so he had quite hard time I guess:(

BTW, he kept asking me about going to the U.S. for a month. Well, of course I would have loved to go but I didn't have so much money so I couldn't say clearly. In his mind he already decided that we are going to the U.S. together.

That trip was really crazy!!
Osaka→Tokyo→San Francisco→Las Vegas→
Los Angels→Boston→Orlando→Boston→Tokyo→Osaka

July 21, 2008 Tokyo
We went to see
the first Star Wars Convention held in Japan!!(Makuhari-messe)
We had only 4 hours before the next flight...That was really tight and it took much longer to get to the convention so we had to see it quickly. There were so many people wearing costumes and of course R2-D2 was so cute.




-----back to the airport-----

We didn't have time to eat lunch, so when we get to the airport we went to SUBWAY:)
I can remember so well, I'm sure that was the first time went to SUBWAY together. Of course I had no idea what he is going to order but we ordered same sub♪ We are always synced:)

Narita to San Francisco 04:05PM--09:18AM
That flight was the longest I ever had!!
When I woke up I felt so sick and had really bad headache and felt dizzy!! Oh, That's not good.
We were almost in San Francisco...So CJ asked the crew to bring me some medicine, and I took it but it takes while:(
When we got to San Francisco, CJ went to the citizen line, and I was supposed to go to visitors line and wait for a long time...but I didn't:)
While I was waiting in the line wasn't moving at all so I was looking at CJ,.. because I still felt sick and that time was really hard for me to stand so I called to him. Then one of the officers came to me and he said 'Are you with him?' so I said 'yes.' and I could move to citizen line also I could hear that officer saying to some other officer that I'm his(CJ's) wife!! I was just happy to hear that at that time, but now I know about visa little bit, so when I think about it that was quite risky. Because that time I didn't have any visa and CJ was holding my return ticket!!

The immigration officer asked me so many questions, I thought he was really friendly but now I think he was kind suspicious of me...I was talking to him ‘for about 5 minutes and he took my finger prints then finally, I could enter the U.S.!! Thank you!!

Well, it wasn't finished yet. Our flight was delayed for about 30 minutes and we had to get the connecting flight to Las Vegas scheduled for departure at 10:45AM. That meant we had less than one hour. It wasn't too bad but I was so tired and REALLY sleepy(jet lag!!!!you know, in Japan it was like 3 o'clock in the morning and I couldn't sleep well on the plane.) So I just wanted to go to the hotel and sleep. We walked to gate 75... and you know what?!


The flight was delayed for about 2 hours!!
I don't drink coffee and usually the smell doesn't bother me but while we were waiting everyone was drinking coffee...and I wasn't feeling so good so that coffee smell made me feel sick. I wasn't sure if I was too hungry or what. I didn't eat so much so I must have been hungry but I didn't feel like eating at all!! But CJ was hungry and I thought if I saw food maybe I could eat something but I really have to get away from that smell!! so we went to "Lori's diner"...


to be continued...

Lolo in Wonderland.

I'm not big fan of art but I like M.C. Escher=) His world is really interesting! How could he get that kind inspiration...

←This, I think everyone must seen it at least once "Waterfall".
Isn't this amazing?!








This, "Relativity" is one of my favorite...→

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　


I found "Relativity" LEGO version. If I know how to make this,I'd love to do that!!

Did you hear a Who??

Last night, we watched "Horton hears a who". We had already seen "Grinch" staring Jim Carrey, but we didn't like it so much however Horton was pretty good actually :) Horton looks the same as in the book, and some other characters too♪ The Who village is just like the Seuss Landing in Islands of Adventure (part of Universal Studios Orlando). I didn't like Jojo though, too dark and he doesn't look happy... well I can understand if I have 96 sisters and I am the only boy!! That will be ...you know.

One thing I can't understand is small yellow fluffy guy. In this picture he looks cute but in the movie he is certainty not!! I don't know what he is doing and supposed to be. What kind of animal is that?! Does anybody know??

I wish Horton and the Whos could meet each other.

save R2-D2!!!!

Do you know the game "Pop up Pirate"?? It's a game originally from Japan under the name "Kurohige Kiki Ippatsu"(黒ひげ危機一髪）.
To play, first place the Pirate on top of the barrel and turn it.
Then put plastic swords into slots, one of the slots will cause the Pirate to pop up. The person who causes the pirate to pop up loses.

What I mean is CJ won a auction and got a "Pop up R2-D2". I don't know what to call it in English.
It was much bigger then I expected about 30cm tall and looks so nice♪

Also it's in perfect condition. The pop up part is Luke's lightsaber, and the game play is actually fixing R2-D2. Every time you put in a tool he makes a sound, once the lightsaber pops up that person wins the game.
Though, we made our own rule that person who catches the lightsaber win:)
You know, because I don't want artoo to get damaged!!

The Amazing Race -Season 9- TTOW

As you probably already know, I like "The Amazing Race".
I didn't know about it at all until like six months ago. My boyfriend's mom told us that they came to Osaka,Japan!(You know my boyfriend and I are currently living in Osaka.)
He knew of the show, but both of us had never watched it. So after we watched that episode and I really wanted to watch every episode, so I asked him and I got it!! That episode that we watched was in season 12 so I wanted to watch from season 1:) That's kind crazy, isn't it?
Right now, we are watching season 10☆*゜Please no spoilers. We are so far behind !!

Anyhow, we were watching season 9. That was the best race ever!! I think there were good ones but I forgot completely;) OMG, BJ and Tyler,,,I love them(*>ω<）. How can they be so good??They are just amazing!!
If I could meet them even for one second that will be so nice♪♪♪





P.S. A note from my boyfriend:

BTW, There have been several rumors floating around the net about the meaning of BJ and Tyler's catch phrase TTOW. Just to let you know, it CERTAINLY NOT a Japanese word meaning good times, as erroneously reported on sites like the Urban dictionary. It was just some letters the two of them saw on a T-shirt in China which has no meaning. Often in Asia meaningless English is used for it's coolness factor as adorments for clothing and signs.

Beauty, eh?

I didn't know about them until this year.

One night, my boyfriend showed me some
"Bob & Doug McKenzie's"video.
It was okay... but I wasn't so impressed, and we didn't watch for a while. Then few months later, we watched Disney's "Brother Bear".(We are trying to watch all movies from Disney, Dream works and Pixar:-D well, all animated movies!Lol)
You know what?? They were playing the Moose!! (The Moose are so loose!!)Then I realized that they are so funny. I really like it♪ So, he bought a DVD for us:) Well, he would've bought it anyways.

Peek a boo!!

←When I open the package.

I got it from Internet.→
This golden retriever puppy is so cute♪

Live long and prosper.

Yesterday, my boyfriend and I went to see a movie"STAR TREK".
Well, that was the first time for me to watch Star Trek movie... I watched TV show little bit.
I wasn't so interested in Star Trek but...because I didn't know so much so while we were watching, he explain a lot !! like red shirt always die,they love the word 'logic' and some other things. Now I know little bit so I want to know more!!We gotta watch all Star Trek movie and TV show☆My boy friend said R2-D2 is somewhere in the Star Trek movie. I couldn't find it,actually I forgot about that!! I remembered after the movie... but he found it!!

We love popcorn so we bought before the movie starts
(without popcorn it's not a movie experience:-Ｄ)
but doesn't last long!!!! eating too fast.
That was so good though♪　half of it was butter and other half was caramel!!!yummy♪

Most Japanese know STAR WARS but not so many know Star Trek.
Because of that, we thought we were in the U.S. It seems like everyone was speaking English.
Not so many Japanese talk when they watch a movie or,,,everywhere!!
When we finish watching it was like 8:30 so many foreigner was standing in front of the ticket counter and buying tickets for Star Trek. I didn't see any Japanese!!

After that, we went to SUBWAY and had Turkey breast subs.