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A friend of mine teaches at a disability school here in Japan, and one of the children she works with suffers from this condition. He’s not even out of middle school yet and he’s wheelchair bound; even the slightest bumps and bruises cause bone growth. It’s so sad and frightening. My heart really goes out to the people who are affected by this disorder.
I was lucky enough to get one, but… if someone should happen to end up with one they don’t want and don’t intend to trade but would like to sell for cash, I may be up to grab it, depending on the price 🙂 Just to put it out there.
Man. So excited though.
When I was a kid we lost our family dog to cancer. We’d had her since before I was born, so I was raised with her around, and she was more or less one of my best friends (albeit a four-legged one) growing up. I don’t think I even had a chance to say goodbye to her; one day she started bleeding very heavily out of her nose and my parents had to rush her to the vet where they put her down so she wouldn’t continue to suffer. It was really difficult to understand and process; I must have been about somewhere between 8 and 11 years old at the time…? I just remember vividly destroying a cassette tape of mine because it was the OST for Pocahontas, and every time I heard the lyrics about the wolves howling at the blue-corn moon it made me think of her and I couldn’t handle the sad and angry feelings. I’m really sorry for your loss, and hopefully everybody will understand the kind you’re going through and your need for time and peoples’ patience. Just remember Ein loved you both and wouldn’t want his people to be sad: he had a good life with you all and was well-loved up until the very end, which I think is probably the most anyone in this world can hope for.
For once my timing was perfect!! I already have one in my cart. Just gotta check out. I’m so super excited about this. It was really disappointing when I found out about the koirins too late, and I’d been waiting and waiting for the standing kirins for… a year? More? But now I’m going to have one, and honestly, I think these in general might suit me better. I love bright, beautiful, colorful pieces. HERE’S HOPING FOR SOMETHING EXCITING AND LOVELY to add to my growing kirin collection, though I doubt based on the class photos I could ever be disappointed. It’s too bad there aren’t enough for a second one / they’ll probably sell out too fast for the 1-per-customer limit to be lifted.
I am SO SUPER EXCITED FOR THESE!! I really hope that they don’t run out too fast for me to get one. I love the naturals and the teals and… I don’t know, literally almost all of them. I just got paid too so I AM READY!!! I just need to press for a notification for the restock.
I woke up to an email this morning from my mother, saying what she thought was my dragon prize had arrived at the house finally. I was so excited, I still haven’t even gotten dressed yet, but of course I had to check it out first…
I am so shocked and blessed and stunned, I really don’t even know what to say. It is so stunning. The colors remind me of these wisteria gardens I went to in Kitakyushu a few years back, ranging from green to purple. (http://www.tourismontheedge.com/places/asia/a-colorful-walk-wisteria-tunnel-at-kawachi-fuji-gardens-japan.html is the gardens, they’re world-famous.) I really hope that there wasn’t any kind of mistake and that I have to send Fuji here back / on to someone else! This is my first mother dragon. The images really don’t even do her justice.Mine arrived at my permanent home address, but my mother… I’ll ask her to take a photo for me, and she’ll do it, but either she finds it a hassle or she doesn’t have an eye for photos? Or maybe she’s using a bad camera. Either way, the photo(s) turned out washed out and/or fuzzy. 😐 I’m going to ask her to do it again, but…. we’ll see. XD; I seem to have gotten one with a lot of black on him similar to Prairivixen’s, but I can’t tell how deep the browns/reds on him are due to the poor photo quality.
Well, if you ever make it to fox village…consider offering some fried tofu at one of the fox shrines! 🙂
If you can, go to the Fushimi Inari shrine. It’s the most famous of the Inari shrines (Inari being the fox-god, or a Shinto god that is associated with foxes) and it’s really breath-taking in person.
http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/location/spot/shritemp/fushimiinaritaisha.html
They have lots of kitchy little fox keepsakes…. I bought a fox coin purse when I was there as a souvenir.If someone can remind me to do this when I’m home in July / August and my whole collection is together, I’d be happy to make my grab bag foxes and poads a part of this project. 🙂
Lasohaney, sorry to hear about you being sick and everything else. Have you tried peroxide in the ears? A lot of colds are started with the virus entering the ear canals and going into the throat so if you just tilt your head and pour a little hydrogen peroxide in one ear and let it set and bubble for a minute and then wipe it out and then do the other ear each day when you feel you are getting sick or are sick, it will help kill any virus or bacteria in the ear canals and help treat and prevent colds.
You can also rinse your mouth with hydrogen peroxide mixed with a little warm water or rinse with salt water to help kill anything in the mouth and throat. Also get a small bottle of oil of oregano and swish and swallow about 20 drops of it a day when you feel you are getting sick and it will stop any throat infections or colds. If you are already sick it can help kill the bacteria and virus to make you better faster. Of course also takes lots of vitamin C and D and Echinacea is really good too.
Oooh I hadn’t heard of the hydrogen peroxide trick! I’ll have to try that. I honestly didn’t know that the virus often comes through the ears; I thought it was more likely to be nose or maybe mouth. But it makes sense, it IS another opening. Funnily, last night I wore my ear muffs to bed… I felt silly and it was mildly uncomfortable for my neck BUT I did notice that my inner ears seemed to feel better for it in the morning.
I’m a bit ashamed to admit I haven’t been trying the salt water for my mouth/throat even though I know it works. In years past when I got a cold, I would even try flushing my nose with a saline drip with a netti style method. Since it’s not as bad as many of the colds I’ve had in past years, I’ve mostly been trying to drink as much water and tea as possible to try to keep the mucus thin and easy to cough out, as well as taking an expectorant and meds to help control the amount of mucus / inflammation. I think it’s working okay, colds are just one of those things you have to kind of soldier through… A couple things that have been really helpful to me to alleviating the throat pain, though, have been peppermint tea and some tea made specifically for colds and sore throats by David’s (which include peppermint as one of the ingredients)as well as some throat drops by Burts Bees with honey, eucalyptus and menthol. I have to say they taste pretty bad, but oh my goodness do they work ever so much better than the Vicks drops do!!
Loki – I feel depressed/moody when the sky is gray for only 2 or more days, and snow is my worst enemy, so I can only imagine how you must be feeling. 🙁 I hope you have a full pantry, your situation sounds so very intense.
Ahhh I hate mouse traps. 🙁 Of course I understand that it’s necessary, you can’t have them in your home, but…. I was always the unlucky one to find the dead mice caught in the traps, or worse, one time I found the mouse caught/crushed but still squeaking. Honestly, it haunts me; it wasn’t like *I* set the traps, but somehow I feel guilty, like it was my fault, even after all the time. Also, the humane traps — we used to use those for squirrels since we had a very bad squirrel problem. But then an old squirrel died of (we think) a heart attack in the trap, and after that none of the other squirrels would touch the thing. Rodents are smarter than we give them credit for…
Things that are annoying me right now? I caught a cold and it is really doing its best to make my life difficult. Super tired, the tubes to my ears hurt, can’t stop coughing, have lost my voice–that last one is especially not so great when you’re supposed to be teaching. I actually took off two days this week so I could have a mini staycation, but it seems I’m going to be spending it recuperating.
Also, a different situation: back in August, I lost my iPod at a two-day concert in Tokyo. I did my best to try to find it / get it back, but eventually I thought it lost for good and bought a new one. Well, come to find out in November somebody found it and tried to contact me about it on FaceBook, but because they were a stranger FaceBook filed their message into the “others” folder and I didn’t see it for months! I managed to talk to the guy, and he still had it, but he was in the middle of a move (from Tokyo to CA) and so I had to wait a week while his stuff was being taken through the port… but then a week turned into a MONTH because of the worker’s strike and various holidays…. In early/mid January he said he posted it through UPS but that they (the workers) said there would be no tracking number.
It’s now about mid February and still no sign of it. I want to think that since he contacted me in the first place, he probably did post it, and hasn’t lied, but then that also means that maybe it has become lost in the mail or was maybe even stolen by an unscrupulous worker (seriously, how can there be no tracking??? it sounded fishy to me then and it sounds more so now…). I messaged him the other day, but he hasn’t responded to me. :/ I guess I probably shouldn’t be too upset, I did buy a new one and I had considered it lost and gone forever back in August after all, but I was kind of hoping that I could sell it second-hand to help with my own moving expenses. I almost wish I had never seen the message in my Others folder in the first place, at least then I wouldn’t have gotten my hopes up…
Ferlin, yours is stunning! I’d love one like that, or the one that was almost solidly black/gray. Fingers crossed; I just got a notice today they’re shipping out 😀
You know, I don’t think I’ve ever had a nightstand. In my house in Texas, I have this kind of caddie that hangs from between the mattress and the frame of my bed for putting books, the tv remote, that kind of thing inside, as well as a very big bookshelf, and on top of that I keep oversized artbooks and a small collection of water globes. Here in Japan, I have to put my futon (my bed) away in the closet every day because there’s not enough room for it to stay out everyday (plus it will get moldy if I do that). I guess my couch acts as my nightstand, but it holds all my work-stuff and clothes I’ve thrown on top of it as well as stuff I’m trying to sell / the boxes I’m gradually packing.
It’s actually on the list of places I’d like to go to before I leave, but I don’t think I’m going to be able to make it. Too far and not enough money or time between now and when I move.
