I started feeling sinus infention-ish, which I don’t like the most in terms of my health weakness. Of course, I have been doing netti pot (my mom thought I brought back my “favorite” water pitcher), but I picked a freash ginger root from my dad’s farm today and ate it just as raw. It was very tender and yummy! and helped decongest my sinus. I love ginger and I didn’t know my dad was making it. I helped planting echarlottes (spell? you know a little onion family root vegetable), which will be ready next Spring. My favorite from his farm beside ginger is sweet potato’s stems. It is like a skinny? green bean and tastes slightly sweet potato. yummy…
Tomorrow, I am going to have acupuncture with my mon and go get my eye lash permed with my friend. I know it sounds crazy, but it is pretty common here in Japan. I have been using a heated curler,but it got broken, so when my friend told me about the place (she liked their job—it’s important to know), I asked her to make a reservation for me. no more curler for me at least for a month.
I felt like I should move on as soon as possible, but I should recharge my energy and complete my thesis, which is not hard at all at this point (one more approval). So if people ask me what I am doing, I should say that I am taking a little break in my life. How does it sound?
I miss living in Chicago with my old (oh..) roommates and hanging out my friends in Chicago…
Of course, I love my friends here, but I want both…some day!
I have been very caffeinated since I moved back to Japan. A cup of green tea every meal and one or two cups of coffee everyday. I don’t know anyone who tries not to drink too much caffeine here, well I guess I know a few peope, but in general, I haven’t seen decaf coffee at any place yet. I haven’t been to Star Bucks yet. They have soy milk though.
Many people are health conscious and whatever the food tv shows introduced for health benefits instantly becomes popular. People drink vineger for health benefit (healthy blood stream and more), and special cooking oil which supposedly doesn’t turn into body fat too much is very popular, and many tv programs about health including diet are popular too. People try to loose weight in a healthy way, and family restaurant menu always indicates calories of each dish. Detox, raw food, fasting are popular too. I enjoy the tv shows about health, but loosing weight stuff doesn’t make me happy at all. I love eating and eating is fun! I care my health, but I won’t sacrifice my enjoyment of food. I want to be healthy, which is true, so I can be conscious about my body, but not too much.
Okay, I am getting sleepy….My parents eat out for lunch every Wed as my mom’s hardwork for taking care of my grandma who has Alzheimer’s disease. I am going to join them…exciting! Oops, see I can’t be on diet…
sweet dreams.
1 response so far ↓
R // June 4, 2006 at 4:46 pm
Hi Hiromi!
I know this is a pretty old entry that you made, but I read about the eyelash perm and wanted to comment! I had no idea that was possible! I want to try it!
Where in Tokyo did you go? Can you recomend any good place for me? I will go to Tokyo for three months and I always use an eyelash curler… I hate it because it takes time even though the one that I use is a heated one. I’m so tired of it…. T_T