A fun example of how hearing something wrong leads to a fun story idea over lunch.

Hubby: Hey, you know where the cucumber slicer is?
Julian: I thought you said cucumber sniper.
Dawn: Would a cucumber sniper be a sniper that kills cucumbers, or made from one?
Julian: A cucumber who is a sniper.
Dawn: The Revenge of the CucumbersJulian: the /cu/ ( Read more... )

49 years.  From a little kid wishing I could have black hair like the other children around me, to a high school student with serious self image issues, to a young adult with growing confidence, to a mother and teacher - not the best I'm sure, but with the strengths I can be proud of. What is in store for the future, I don't know, but the important ( Read more... )

Yesterday was loooong day of classes.  Online classes make my throat sore.  But today is a holiday!! So yay.

Audrey made a chocolate tart.  It was yummy.


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It's Monday for me, but a national holiday and I actually have a holiday too!
So I'm combining all the stuff we did this weekend.( Read the rest )

I woke up at 6 today to make Julian's lunch since he had to go to a basketball game.  Then I went back to bed and slept until 11 to sleep off my wine headache.( Read the rest )

Yesterday we found out that Alex passed the second level of a public English exam called the Eiken with flying colors.  I was a bit worried about the interview, but he only got one point deducted, possibly for reading a word wrong in the text.  We are pretty excited about this.  The test is supposed to get harder from this April, with actual ( Read more... )

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In Japan, Valentines is mostly a girl-gives-to-boy kind of holiday.  The boys give back candies on March 14, which is called White Day.  Alex and Julian used to make chocolates with Audrey when they were younger, but I guess they have been influenced otherwise by their school mates.  I was a  bit surprised that Alex didn't go out with his ( Read more... )

So as you know I've been out at the new classroom (branch) all day. There is no wi-fi so I did some painstaking work on the review on my cellphone while also taking a break to do a nice little meme which still is available if there are any questions that peak your interest. I came back home to find that Alex still needed my computer to do some ( Read more... )

I'm popping in to finally post the result of Alex's dried persimmon experiment.( Read the rest )