tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280456572024-03-08T09:36:50.749+09:00Etc.,Etc.,Etc.dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.comBlogger583125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-79403649032235704892020-01-19T00:27:00.000+09:002020-01-19T00:27:02.882+09:00The one where Debbie dusted off her blog....and it felt pretty good
Today, as I was driving from my morning class to an event in the afternoon,
at a stoplight I noticed a plastic bag....just floating about.
plastic bag, floating
in the breeze above the cars
where are you going?
And now, here I am....in a place I haven't been in a very long time.
and I'm feeling a bit like that plastic bag....
not sure where I'm going with this, but....
thinking that dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-71362362734384283212013-03-05T09:00:00.001+09:002013-03-05T09:00:07.185+09:00a favor....of the energy kind
in japanese we say onegai , or favor....as in
"i have a small onegai...."
this time tomorrow
and the next
please take a few seconds to send some positive energy this way.
issei...and our friends kayla and saori are all taking the
public high school exams (on the 6th and 7th).
though at different schools...
they, along with a gazillion (or maybe it just seems like that many) dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-21231052792384910032013-02-28T00:30:00.000+09:002013-02-28T00:30:45.111+09:00...because i need to vent some frustration....
the act of "holding one's shit together" is something i do pretty well...
usually.
but, for the next 7 days...and then until March 18...
i'll be lucky to get out of the house with my sox matching.
long story short....my oldest will take the high school entrance exam next wednesday and thursday.
this particular test is for one public school.
and he gets one chance.
that's it.
dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-76573612913307370392013-01-31T23:55:00.000+09:002013-02-01T00:07:00.332+09:00the 'non-resolution' postthe idea of making new year's resolutions is not only for people of the western world. people here sometimes make them....and as with most of us in the western world, they also are pretty much done with them very quickly.
(i'm thinking that my 'record' would have to be about 2 weeks....i know...awesome, right?)
in one of my classes, we were talking about resolutions and how no one even dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-34817142076148672312013-01-10T13:11:00.001+09:002013-01-10T13:11:13.354+09:00ahem....hi. my name is debbie and i haven't posted here in 6 months..
i have no excuses.
no grand reports of world travels
or secret liasons that kept me from
updating since...when? july?
i'm not even sure if i'm on anyone's "radar" anymore.
and that? is okay.
when i started this blog in may of 2006 (586 posts ago),
it was before i wasn't going to be able to go to the states for the summer and, to be honest, i was a little depressed about that. dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-57195943335878579192012-07-10T22:07:00.001+09:002012-07-10T22:07:14.670+09:00enjoying the sun while we can......
i've mentioned it a gazillion times before that it's the rainy season, right?
seriously....we had rain for, oh i duno....8 days....18...24 days....straight.
(after awhile, it all just starts to mesh into one huge rainy day so it's hard to keep track)
rain.
light rain.
hard rain.
showers. downpours.
enough to cause flooding...mudslides...accidents
here in nagasaki citydkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-38536341544776965862012-06-22T14:33:00.002+09:002012-06-22T14:38:54.487+09:00sporadic....hmmmm....i can live with that
so, really...did anyone notice the change in header but...yeah...
no new post for quite awhile? (hi karen!) if you did...thank you for saying nothing. (ahem.) (^-^)
if you didn't? well....hmmmm...hey, there!! how are you? glad you're here.
so...according to that dictionary of the urban kind:
sporadic:
1. Inconsistent; difficult to predict.
2. To dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-79921880789486860332012-05-28T11:18:00.000+09:002012-05-28T11:22:31.424+09:00it's not saturday, but....work with me, okay? okay.
over the however many years i have escaped into devoted to the blogging world, i have taken part in quite a few weekly events or assignments...from the friday night "fill in the sentences" memes...
to a "here are some questions--what are YOUR answers?" kind of thing....
a few times, i tried that "here's just a photo" (but, seriously, i have a hard time saying nothing!!)..dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-30216139818828025002012-05-13T01:22:00.000+09:002012-05-13T01:22:03.231+09:00the random-themed blogpost typed up in 7-8 minute intervals....
tomorrow is issei's undokai (sports day) at school and tonight, as i was doing dishes, he asked if i could make some cookies for dessert.
"for tomorrow?"
"well....yeah."
....
.....
(picture me, giving him a "really??" kind of look)
......
.......
"okie, dokie, then....."
and once again, i will prove to my son that i can pull the proverbial rabbit out of a hat....or....
cookies out of dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-42319923039655383362012-04-24T23:30:00.000+09:002012-04-25T00:49:06.501+09:00my first ramble of a new decade....
*being 50 fifty, is a bit easier to handle when i'm here in japan*
while we were in the states, i was surrounded by oh so many friends and family and it was wonderful, but.....though i absolutely loved being there and wouldn't trade a second of that time,
it was also a constant reminder as to how old i really am.
no....i'm not living in a state of denial, my friends, but,
a state of dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com10Japan, Nagasaki Prefecture, Nagasaki, 32.805744732906881 129.8364257812531.09598123290688 127.30957028125 34.515508232906882 132.36328128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-83414341351810644092012-04-17T09:48:00.000+09:002012-04-17T09:48:20.483+09:00some thoughts on being a "soon to be screeching into the station" RAFer*RAF.....rapidly approaching fifty*(and yes, if you write the word for that number and not the actual number itself, it does seem a bit easier to take/handle/not throw up.
the pink color and italics seem to help, too)
i have a birthday coming up.i'm not really sure how i feel about it.some days, i'm like "oh, yeah...whatever...it's all just a number..look at all my beautiful friends dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-85612421766884123492012-04-16T09:14:00.002+09:002012-04-16T09:36:51.539+09:00oh...yeah...by the way...i'm back...you know...in Japan.....so, it's been brought to my attention that i sort of came back to japan a little over a week ago and i seem to have neglected telling you about this/letting you know what we did/sharing the fun we had.yeah.sorry about that.after the last post, the boys and i were going great guns and our schedule got wicked busy.(but, wicked in a really great way!)
we went back to denver...met friends and family dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com6East Asia32.583849533673522 129.7924820937499814.803162533673522 91.981708093749972 50.364536533673522 167.60325609375tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-8712126664306553102012-03-22T23:29:00.000+09:002012-03-23T15:34:55.330+09:00a vacation that was definitely needed......you know, when there comes a time in your life, when you know....you just know...in your heart of hearts....that if something really good doesn't happen soon....things might get ugly?
well....for awhile, i was feeling the stirrings of this thought.....i wasn't even sure what it was i needed and.....i wasn't 100% sure that a trip to the States was that something but...you know what?it was.
the dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com8Baca, CO, USA37.409437373583373 -102.6123050625000137.083733373583371 -103.13550456250002 37.735141373583375 -102.08910556250001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-29343319271052312952012-03-12T01:03:00.000+09:002012-03-12T01:03:31.625+09:00i'm jumping on a rambling train of thought...woooooowooooooo!!!.it's march.
no, really. it is!
where the heck did february go? i remember valentine's day...and issei's birthday...and it might have snowed a couple of days...but....
whaaaaaaaa?
i spend a lot of time in my car, everyday, driving from this lesson to that lesson.
while i'm driving or sitting in traffic....i got thoughts.
lots of 'em.
and since i'm not blogging as much as i used to, those dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-84235886543767906372012-01-31T23:12:00.003+09:002012-02-02T16:55:13.146+09:00it doesn't happen very often, but yeah.....the words in my heart, just wouldn't come out....(i have worked on this post for over a week and i know that it might seem a bit 'not put together right', but...hang in there, please....and God bless if you make it to the end....for my thoughts were incredibly jumbled!)
i can usually say what's on my mind....on pretty much any topic with almost anyone.but, when it comes to matters of the heart, i'm a little wimpy.
no. that's a lie.
i'm a lot dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-62153183331630323272012-01-24T22:56:00.001+09:002012-01-24T22:58:40.166+09:00the one where debbie just stopped by to make sure things were going okay...........and to holy moly, i know it's late wish you all a very happy new year.
2012 is the year of the dragon...
and since we are almost at the end of well into the month of january, it can be safe to say thatthe dragon is treating us pretty good....so far.
the purchase of a not really new but used as a test drive car right before the holidays has already proven to be a really good dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-79517342067638307912011-12-26T23:55:00.000+09:002011-12-26T23:55:10.246+09:00the one where debbie just let you know she WAS alive....december 26, 2011lifeand a Christmas party with my studentsangsting 13-year-old9 year-old brother doing what big brother is doingold car about to go down for the countstudent, who was also a very good friend, passing awaypta crap..seriously...total crap, dealing with overbearing mothersand a lot of piddly little things that make me wanna bang my head on the table.(and that really hurts)
there hasdkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-28488752677202795622011-11-22T00:28:00.002+09:002011-11-24T11:06:55.380+09:00from beginning to end....PILIALOHApilialoha: Close friendship, beloved companionship, beloved relative;loving association; to have a loving or tender relationship, to be in a bond of love, romance.
on sunday.....some members of one of the hula groups i belong to and i got on a train
and went to a city about an hour and a half away
for a hula show that included some teachers and teachers-in-training (mainly oldER dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-31637220424028072602011-10-20T14:39:00.001+09:002011-10-20T14:40:16.192+09:00over the past few days~~~the weather has turned absolutely beautiful. i used to say that the spring was what i enjoyed the most, but, i'm thinking that i was wrong. fall is quickly moving into the top position.the cool, dry air.the flowers.(which have caused some incredible sneezing fits, but...
c'est la vie)weekend fashion for us:light sweatshirt or long sleeved shirtshortssandals.it works.
a haiku, by me, dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-28947766403793920522011-10-11T00:49:00.000+09:002011-10-11T00:49:06.370+09:00hello? hellooooOOOoo?? is anyone still there???
just in case you were wondering......
and.....in case you were curious...
meh.it's also for when it's notfunny enough or sad enough or crazy enough or urgent enough to blog about.
that's the way it has been around here lately....a lot of little stuff that i can't really get too excited to actually sit down here at my computer and spend the time putting it together.
it's also not that i don't dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-29100309675597960952011-09-06T18:07:00.000+09:002011-09-06T18:07:08.024+09:00the one where i tell you about a really great dream i had....i don't really remember dreams very often. oh, i'll have flashes of bits and pieces but very rarely do i remember most of one.the other morning, i woke up and the dream i had had was so vivid in my mind....while the coffee was brewing i wrote it down on a piece of paper....it was that good.the best thing about this dream....is that it has gotten me to thinking about the future and whatdkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-20772673903575943772011-08-21T22:30:00.005+09:002011-08-22T01:13:54.092+09:00"taken to the mat" by the thought of ice cream.........and not just any ice cream....homemade ice cream.
tonight after dinner, the k-man reminded me about a place here in nagasaki that i have yet to visit. it's a restaurant that has milk shakes as one of its specialties.and no, these are not milk shakes in the traditional sense of the american milk shake that you can get at your favorite hamburger joint or drive-in.no. the nagasaki milk dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-5092180391589548932011-07-27T22:50:00.001+09:002011-07-27T23:32:02.538+09:00a blogpost by numbers........number of men i counted today, while shopping, who seemed to be wearingtheir wives' slippers/mules.
.....phone numbers in my cell phone address book.
....of those numbers belong to foreigners.
...the number of hours that i pretty much sleep a night...any more/any less and i do not function well.really.i don't.
....the number of years i have lived in nagasaki.(this week is my "anniversary"!!!dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-77089810621143885312011-07-24T22:51:00.000+09:002011-07-24T22:51:31.230+09:00obviously...random worked....let's do it again, shall we?the hula festival is over.despite the nervousness, (really! i do get more than slightly nervous!! butterflies? nope. try bats...they're that big!!)and that first little bit, where i'm standing there, on the front row and i'm like,"wait. do you hear music? was i supposed to start dancing now??", it was all fine.actually....it was more than fine. it was great!!!i don't think we made anydkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28045657.post-24084587869620321612011-07-23T08:21:00.001+09:002011-07-23T08:27:42.461+09:00oh....well....sure....but it's gonna be kind of random....okay? okay.today is the annual hula festival here in nagasaki city. the new group that i joined a few months ago will be performing this afternoon...there are 60-some groups doing their "thing" today...and probably just as many tomorrow.from nagasaki city.that's a lot of hula, my friends.so....let's see.....i have the dress......i have the lei...i have the flowers for my hair...it's all dkuroiwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14702013452096435136noreply@blogger.com3