Good morning, my Sunshine♪

My beloved Husband, my Sunshine,

The longest ever weekend in a long time is finished and a new week begins for you.

How was the Walk outing?

How are the girls?

Did you have fun?

Did you remember to finger feed me pancakes somewhere in your mind?

Did you sleep well during the night?

How are we feeling today?

How are we feeling this week?

Did I tell you that you are the absolute love of my life?

I love you so much, Baby.

I love you so very much!

Have a fabulous week, my sweet Love.

I have been a busy girl and finally finished my presentation for this Thursday's seminar. It's 57 slides and full of fun! For me, that is. I combined postal logistics with fashion. Only I can do that and sound convincing.

I hope you didn't mind my connecting you to the recruiter. He contacted me out of the blue. I don't know how these guys do it but they do manage to find odd people in odd ways. You never know what might come of it. You may already have recruiters calling you off the hook and it may be a nuisance, but I had to give it a go. You can always say No and there's no love lost. You know that.

Cooking dinner now.
I'm afraid I don't have much of an appetite.
I'm sleeping ok, though.
I think I'm programmed to sleep solidly from 22:00 to 4:00ish.
4:00 to 5:30 is pretty much my prime writing time so I like to be up and writing.

Our little lady told me this morning that she missed me in the dark and asked why I worked in the dark. I told her it is one of Mama's routines now and I need to work. She was not too convinced about it but was ok.

I've begun to do some serious cleaning up this morning thanks to the cat peeing on the floor of the entrance. Is it old age or is she trying to send a message? It got all under the coat rack so I had to move lots of things and cleaned out some junk in the process!

I also put up two pictures the kids did at nursery art class in the dining room. They love it. I wish I had pictures by the girls to put up, too.

I love you so much, Baby!

I love you.

Have a fabulous day, Love of my Life! And a fantastic week.

I am _ALWAYS_ thinking about you.

I love you!

Xoxoxo§§§

I am wondering...

My Dearest Darling, My Husband,

I cannot but help wondering if you are happy or sad.

I know you are happy inside - deep inside - you have our love; you feel our love; and our love is growing.

I know that there is a place in your heart that you can reach into where you can find our perfect peace and nirvana.

But what my heart calls out for is whether you are over the "trauma" of the current challenge, or whether the longing to communicate is taking a toll on you.

Because I want you to be happy.

Because I love you.

Because your happiness means everything to me.

Oh, Baby, I love you so much!!!

Yesterday at the park, we were surrounded by the fragrance of sweet osmanthus.

They are growing all over the place, right around the park!!! (Nanami broke a little bit off for Daddy. She wanted to show you.)

It is a staple autumn fragrance here and surprisingly, a very popular toilet freshner fragrance...

And as its smell was surrounding me, I felt that our love was surrounding me, too.

I was wrapped in your love, so maybe it makes it easier for me to feel this way?

I was wearing the "notorious" knit shirt or polo yesterday - all day.

Soon, you will have your own "Linus's blanket" of our love.

Unfortunately, there is no scanning event update on this yet - either on the USPS site or the JPPO site. The latest information is still that it departed from the Osaka Office of Exchange on 15 Oct at 6:42. But It _has_ to be on your side of the pond by now!!! ARGH! How frustrating!

It was strange in that we were on our own - the kids, my mother, and I - all day yesterday. We were joined briefly for lunch and then dinner; and though he was on lunch duty, he slept till midday, and by then, I had finished preparing lunch. And there were no offers to swap duties for dinner, so I just went ahead and made it.

The kids had a RUNNING day. In particular, Oozora ran A LOT.

First, he ran around and around and around the balcony as I put the washing out and then joined him.

Nanami watched "Cleopatra". (yes, the Elizabeth Taylor classic! It is one of her absolute favorites and she actually does sit through that very long epic drama! I am thrilled, because Julius Caesar has always been one of my heroes and the romance between him and Cleopatra and then her and Mark Anthony was somthing I dreamed about often as a young girl. It fascinated me... and I loved the fact that she was highly educated and captivated both men with not just her physical beauty but also her confidence, intelligence, and political savvy.)

We went down briefly for lunch, then Nanami wanted to watch a DVD about airplanes. So he joined, too.

Afterwards, it was "Let's go to the park! Let's go to the park!!!"

So, off we went.

And there, they ran and ran and ran and ran - right around the park, at least 20 times, giggling all the way.

Who needs toys? All they want to do is run and laugh as they run.

I remember when life seemed so simple.

Surrounded by the love and protection of parents and family, one could simply be happy to be out in the open and run.

The highlight of the park part of the day that lasted about 3 hours was the fire engine. A fire engine stopped in front of the park to do some inspections on a couple of spouts.

The little man took some photos of his own with my camera, but both kids got very excited running up and down the sidewalk next to it. So much fun!!!

When they started getting cranky, I knew they were tired (they had not had a nap), and hungry. I had brought some drinks with us but no snacks. In fact, they had not snacked much all day. (I am proud of that)

So we started walking home.

Once home, I saw that no one had brought the washing in, so the kids and I went up to the balcony to bring the washing in. The little lady was so helpful by folding everyone's jocks (OK, it was more like making complicated origami figures out of them) and carrying the folded garments from where I was to where her apu surfaced, sitting on the entrance ledge.

The little man just ran around again.

When all the washing was folded and inside, we resumed running. They wanted to be chased. I joined them until I got dizzy.

When I pretended to collapse of exhaustion, they both came rushing to me and showered me with kisses in hopes of reviving me a la Sleeping Beauty and her love's first kiss.

Love's first kiss... how we long for that, my Love.

How sweet our love's first kiss will be.

Or will it be salty from all the warm, happy tears we will be shedding?

Will it be electrified or magnetic?

Or will it just be warm?

Are your lips dry or wet?

Will the kiss be dry or wet?

Will it be light at first and then very deep?

Or will we attack each other ravenously?

Oh, Baby... if we could just have one kiss now... just one...

The longing is very tangible and strong. The pull so powerful.

Not even this communication black out can deter it, slow it down, or weaken it.

Rather, it feels stronger.

Because of this, the need for our coming together becomes stronger.

We need it.

It has to happen.

Soon.

Oh, if we only knew how soon.

Oh, Baby, I love you so much!!!

My love for you is growing. My love for you is stronger.

Because of these testing times, I am becoming stronger. For us.

Please smile for me today, my Love.

Please sing one of our happy songs with me, my Love.

And have a wonderful Sunday evening and a bright Monday morning.

The start of the new week is not the same as last week. It is indeed a new week.

You have the parcel to look forward to, and you have our love surrounding you, stronger than ever before.

We did say that even if we could not communicate for a year, our love would never stop growing. We would pick up after the year or whenever and be deeper in love than ever before.

This love cannot die no matter what is put in between us - the physical distance, the communication blackout, the time constraints until the event happens - none of these things are either strong enough or difficult enough to have us give up and throw the towel in.

Oh, Baby, I am so happy you have showered me with gifts of our love so generously to date. I have so many photos, so many videos, so many wonderful things to refer back to when I need to take a short trip to you.

I am sure I would have worn down a very beaten path to your FB entries without them, and they would have still carried me through, but the gifts - the special things you made for me and only me are precious and priceless and their beauty is timeless. Thank you.

Just hearing you say, "Hi, Baby..." as if you are on the other end of the phone line is magic.

It makes my day.

It makes me smile.

It makes me tingle.

It makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

It makes me feel so complete as a woman.

You complete me.

You make me such a woman.

You are my Soul Mate, my one and only.

Our love is my safe haven, where I can be just me. No shields, no fronts, no walls, no smoke and mirrors, no ice queens or warriors. Just little old me.

I love you, Baby.

I love you so much.

You are mine and I am yours.

Forever and always - eternally.

Our eternal braid is getting thicker and more entangled as we walk down this path.

The bend has brought us to a rather isolated place now, but we will manage. We know the other is also on this path and nothing will stop the other from getting to the part where we come together. So we can keep on going.

I love you, Honey. I love you.

I must go now - time for my training.

I need to build my physical strength as well so that I am in perfect shape to carry our babies and deliver them safely and in good health to us.

I am so in love with you, Baby.

IT stuff

My sexy IT Guru...
(Now that I know I'm the only one who gets away with calling you this, I might as well enjoy it, right?)

You were so happy when you wrote to me about this and it was as if you were suddenly clearing a back log of topics with me... (^o^)


Have we cleared all the tickets yet? Oh! You've just raised one on what I said about Tokyo vs Ashiya. Did I address it yet? I think so.

As for the Mac, I'm glad I got your seal of approval. I need to look into it but Windows has a language pack that enables me to type Japanese on an English key board. I type by using the romanized input system anyway, so it's not a major challenge, I'm sure. A Japanes OS runs any English only program. It's just that you won't be able to use the Japanese machine unless you learn to read real fast as all the commands will be in Japanese and though the short cut keys are the same, it can be frustrating, I'm sure.


I've been on a high spec laptop for over 15 years at home. You can imagine that moving from country to country does this to me. At work as well. I think the last desk top I had was back in 1997 or something and it was an iMAC. I had one at home then, too.

Ever since, I've been on high spec Toshiba laptops at home. Work often had me using clanky IBM machines or worse... Dell or Compac or HP! I type so much that cheap Dell machines have the letters painted or stickered on their keyboards wiped clean on key characters. I think the one time I was on a clanky Dell, people complained to me on the flight that my ferocious typing kept them awake. I prefer a real mouse to the little rubber things that come off inevitably. And while I can live with the larger touch pads, I like rolling the ball on the mouse. I've had set ups in the office where I run two screens... One off the laptop and an extra one. Key board I'm ok my either a laptop or a real key board. My fingers are smaller. But I get frustrated on those really small pocket book size laptops. Too small for even me!

I'm sure we'll have lots of fun setting up our IT network at home. I'm counting on you!

Must go now. Dinner needs to be served.

I made chips, burgers, chicken nuggets and chicken and tofu balls for the carnivors plus a soup of okra and sea weed. A big tofu and greens salad features tiny fish and lots of soya bean sprouts, too. We have beautiful pear, grapes, and oranges for dessert.

I always imagine I'm cooking for you and the girls as well. I love cooking in this way.

I love you all so much!〓

Have a wonderful Sunday. I think you're going for your Have a Chance Walk or whatever it was called this week? I'm there with you. I love you!

I love you so much, Husband.
I just love you!

§§§xoxoxo