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2005年03月の記事
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ダイエットするぞぉ～（苦笑）
筑波に引っ越してきてからというものの...身体が軽くなったような気がします。確かに筑波にきてからというもの、どこへ行くのも愛車のチャリでだし、卓球やテニスなどといった運動も習慣的に始めるようになったからなのかも知れない。身体が軽くなったことをいいことに...久々に体重計におそるおそる乗ってみました。すると...身体が軽くなっているわりに2キロしか体重が減っていない！たった2キロはかなりショックでした。もしかして筋肉がつき始めてるんだろうか？！（汗）体重が減ったことに気分をよくした私はついにダイエットをすることに決めました。目標はあと２，３ｋｇ体重を減らすこと。どのくらいで減量に成功するかわからないけれど、がんばるぞー！！After we moved to Tsukuba, ny body feels very light. It's true that after we moved to Tsukuba, I go everywhere on my bike and I have started playing sports such as tabletennis and tennis once every week. Since my body feels so light, I decided to see how much I weigh. As I slowly got on the scale, to my surprise I only lost 2kg! My body feels lighter than 2 kg! It was a shock! Am I getting some muscle on my body?! Anyways since I feel good about losing my weight, I decided to go on a diet.I will lose 2-3kg. We'll see how long that will take but I'll try my best!
2005.03.31
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二人の馴れ初め
楽天友達しゃちょ～さんのリクエストに応えて、今日は私達のなれそめをお話しします。以前にもここに書いた通り、私達は同じ職場に同じ時期に転職をして知り合いました。私は関西にある某大学の理工学部研究室の秘書、そしてhiroroはその研究室のポスドク研究員でした。私はその研究室に転職するまでは派遣会社を通じて大阪でOLをしていました。hiroroは東京にある企業で働いていたそうです。私が転職をした理由はその大学が地元で家から近く、給料のわりに仕事が楽で残業がなかったから。hiroroはとにかく企業から大学の研究室に戻りたかったそうです。私達は仕事を通じて、徐々に仲良くなっていきました。どうやって恋愛に発展したのかは未だに定かではなく、謎の部分も多いです。（苦笑）ただ、私はhiroroと知り合う3年前に学生時代から7年間交際をしていた人と別れて以降はまったくの恋愛休止状態でした。男友達とかもいたし、交際して欲しいとも言われたこともその間まったくなかった訳ではなかったのですが...なんかどうしても一歩踏み込んだ関係にはなれず、そのまま気づいたら3年が過ぎていました。hiroroも同じように5年付き合った彼女と別れて1年ほどだったらしく、彼も恋愛休止状態でした。そんな状況下で私達は出会いました。職場で毎日顔を合わすうちに、お互いに年齢も近いということもあったのですが、仕事のことのみならずお互いに自然と色々な話しをするようになっていて、よく一緒に遊びに行くようにもなっていました。「結婚なんてタイミングだよ！」とよく言われていてまったく信じていなかったけれど、実際自分達が経験してみて本当にそうだと思います。だって、出会って半年で結婚を決めるなんて...7年付き合った人とは真剣に結婚を考え過ぎたゆえにダメになってしまったのに！自分でもなんの躊躇もなく決められたことは今でも少し不思議です。そして、もうすぐ初めて出会って3度目の春がやってきます。今年はどんな春になるんでしょうね？！To answer the request of our Rakuten friend, Shacho～san, today I will tell you our story about how we met. As I wrote here before that we met at the same lab where we were working. I used to be a secretary of a lab at university's science department in Kansai and hiroro was a post doctoral researcher at our lab. Until I started working as a secretary, I was working in Osaka with a job given by the staff recruiting service. hiroro worked in Tokyo before he came to the lab in Kansai. Why did I change my job? It was because it was near my house( the university was in my hometown), the salary was good for the demanding working hours and no overworking hours. hiroro just wanted to go back to university lab to work instead of a company. We still don't know how we fell in love, so some parts are still mystery. 3 years before I met hiroro, I ended a steady relationship of 7 years. After that I had no interest in steady relationships. I had many boyfriends ( friends who are just guys) and I had few guys ask me out,too. But I was just not ready for any serious relationships and 3 years passed by quickly. It was the same with hiroro,too. He had ended a steady relationship of 5 years and he too was not into serious relationships. It was in this situation that we had met. We saw eachother at the lab and we were close in age also. We talked about work but soon we started talking to eachother about different things naturally. Then we soon started to go to places together for fun. Many says,"Marriage is all about timing". At first I didn't believe this at all, but since I had experienced it myself, now I believe so! 6 months after we met, we decided to get married. What is that!? I seriously thought about getting married with a guy I went out for 7 years and because we thought too seriously, we didn't work out. And with hiroro, it was without really thinking seriously. This decision that I made still surprises me! It'll be the 3rd spring since we first met. I wonder what will happen this spring?!
2005.03.31
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夜更かし
年度末ということで仕事が超多忙らしく、今夜もhiroroは遅くまで残業です。なので、hiroroが帰宅するまで夜更かしをすることにしました。だって、明日から仕事が始めるとしばらく夜更かしはできないもん。今日はhiroroが帰宅するまで大好きなU2を聴きながらPCと読書です。どのくらい読めるかな？？途中までしか読めなかったら、昼間読もうっと！Since it's the end of the year, hiroro is very busy with his work and he is overworking again tonight. So since I have nothing to do, I decided to stay up until hiroro came home. Why? Because I won't be able to stay up very late from tommorow since I'll be working from tomorrow. Until hiroro comes home, I'm going to do PC and read while I listen to U2, the band I love the best. I wonder how much I can read. If I can't finish then I'll finish reading it during daytime tomorrow.
2005.03.31
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ショッピング in 筑波
2週間程前につくばセンター前に大型ショッピングモールができました。先日、私用の帰りにつくばセンターを通りかかったので、ちょっと寄り道してみたけれど...人！人！人！でした。筑波ってこんなに人口がいるのかよ！？っていうくらいの大混雑！人混みが苦手な私は結局、何も見ないままその日は帰りました。そして、今日スターバックスにコーヒーメーカー用のコーヒーと卓球のラケットを買いに行きがてら、先日見れなかった大型ショッピングモールにも行ってみました。けっこうグルメから雑貨から洋服から書籍まで色々なお店が入っていて、新たな発見も多くなかなか楽しかった。しかも地元、神戸や大阪界隈でお馴染みの私のお気入りのお店も多数入っていて。ちょっとハッピー～♪あとで茨城では初めてお目見えする店が多数オープンした為に人が異常に多かったとのこと。ウィンドウショッピングするには楽しいし最適なので、今後、私の出没スポットひとつと化すことでしょう。（笑）A big shopping mall opened 2 weeks ago at Tsukuba Center. I was out and since I was passing by the new shopping center, I dropped by the other day. But there were people everywhere! There were so many people that I said to myself, "Are they all from Tsukuba?!" Since I hate the crowd, I went home without looking that. Today I went to buy Starbucks Coffee to buy some coffee for our coffee maker and our tabletennis rackets. And since I was passing near by I went to the new shopping center. There were many stores of foods, general goods,clothes, books and etc. And I also found many new discoveries,too and it was fun window shopping. I found many stores that I have known in my hometown area Kobe and Osaka area and they were all my favorite stores. That made me little happy! I later heard that it was very crowded because there were many shops that opened in Ibaragi prefecture for the first time. Anyways, I think this will be one of the places I'll be hanging out in Tsukuba since the shopping center is just right to go window shopping for fun.
2005.03.30
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寝ぼけてて...（苦笑）
ご存知の通り、私は朝起きるのがとっても苦手です。朝起きるとたいてい寝ぼけているか、ご機嫌ナナメかの二通りです。今朝は完全に寝ぼけていました。私の唯一自慢できるのはサラサラヘアー。このサラサラヘアーを保つ為、そしてちゃんと目覚める為にも毎朝の朝シャンは欠かせません。でも、今朝は思い切り寝ぼけていたようです。（悲）髪を洗い出した直後は気づかなかったのですが...しばらくすると泡立ちも悪いし、なんかいつものシャンプーの匂いと違うことに気づきました。あわててポンプ型の容器を見てみると...やってしまったぁ～（涙）寝ぼけていてボディーソープで髪を洗ってしまっていました。本当に朝からボケボケです。頑張って早起きできても、違う意味でNG！やん。もうすぐ仕事が始まります。本当にこんなんで毎朝パニッくってないだろうか？！ちょっと、いやかなり不安になってきました。（悲）As you know, I'm very bad at getting up early in the morning. When I get up in the morning, I'm either still asleep in my head or I'm grouchy. Either way it is. This morning I was completely asleep in my head. What I can boast about is about my smooth hair. To maintain my smooth hair and to get me awake in the morning, I can't do without washing my hair every morning. But this morning, I was asleep in my head still. When I was washing my hair, I didn't notice at all. After a while I notice that it wasn't soapy enough and that it smelled differently. So I quickly looked at the pump style container and said to myself, "Oh-oh!". I was washing my hair with body soap. I was really out of it this morning! Even if I tried hard to get up early in the morning, this kind of mistake ruins the start of the day. I'll be starting work in few days. Won't I be in panic every morning if I'm like this. I'm a bit freaking out about this.
2005.03.30
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友の引越し
今日、仲良くしていた友達が岩手から三重に転勤で引越します。その子とは数年前に彼が岩手から姫路に転勤で来ていて、私が神戸に住んでいた頃に音楽を通じて友達になりました。以来、彼とは遊び友達兼ライブ友達。もちろんhiroroも彼を知っています。hiroroに彼を私のいい友達として紹介して以来、3人は気の合う遊び友達です。彼は私達が結婚する前に地元岩手に転勤で戻り、私達は結婚して韓国へ。やっと岩手に近い県に引越してきて、また3人で遊べるな！と楽しみにしていた矢先に...今度は彼が転勤で三重に引っ越すことになりました。入れ違いで残念！でも、5月の連休に関西で3人で遊ぼう！という話しも持ち上がっているので、今はそれを楽しみしています。Today one of my good friend is moving from Iwate pref. to Mie pref. due to his transfer.We had been friends for few years when he lived in Himeji and I lived in Kobe. He was transferred from Iwate pref. to Hyogo pref. at that time. We became friends through same taste in music. Ever since we became friends, we hang out with eachother and go to see live concerts together. Ofcourse, hiroro knows him. I introduced him to hiroro as my good friend.Ever since I introduced hiroro to my friend, the 3 of us hang out together. He went back to Iwate pref. due to his tansfer before we got married and left for Korea. We finally came back to Japan and started to live in the near by prefecture. We were looking forward to the 3 of us hanging out again. Then he got transferred to Mie pref.. It's too bad that it's come and go. But we are talking about getting together in Kansai area during the holidays in May. We are looking forward to getting together again.Kちゃんへ三重での新生活＆仕事、頑張ってくださーい。またうちらも近くまで遊びに行きますね。東京遠征ライブの際はぜひお誘いを！！hiroroからのライブ鑑賞許可は出ております。関西＆東海地区のライブレポもよろしく！楽しみにしています～♪長期休みや年末年始は関西の実家におるので、またみんなで食い倒れましょう。（笑）Dear K-chan,Good luck with your new life and job in Mie prefecture! We'll visit you, too. If you're going to a concert in Tokyo area,let me know! hiroro has already given me a permission to go to concerts. I'm looking forward to your concert reports in Kansai and Tokai area. We'll be back at my family home in Kansai during long vacations and NewYear's holidays. Let's go out to eat!
2005.03.30
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竹島問題について
最近連日のように報道されている竹島問題。連日の報道をテレビで見ていると日韓双方共に主張を譲る気はなさそうです。そして、さっきテレビをつけたらまた竹島問題の報道が流れていました。ついつい雑用の手を止めて、テレビを見入っていると「韓国人観光客が竹島に上陸した」という報道が。なんとも複雑な気持ちで見てしまいました。おそらく私が韓国生活をしたことがなければ、迷いもなく日本側の意見についたことだろう。しかし、私は短期間ではあるものの韓国という国や韓国人の民族意識などに少なからず直に触れてきました。だから、この時事問題の報道が過熱し激しい論争が巻き起こるほどにどんどん複雑な気持ちになります。私には今でも韓国にいた時に友人付き合いのあった韓国人の友人達とメールでのやり取りを続けています。幸い、彼らもいい人たちでこの両国の間にこの問題が勃発した後も普通にやり取りをしてくれています。うまくは言えないけれど、両国同士の時事問題で、多くの日本人も韓国人も複雑な気持ちを抱えて両国の解決策を見守っていることは事実です。私もその一人でもあります。私は日本人なので、日本側の主張まったく支持していないわけではありません。だからといって、私は今まで通りに韓国人や在韓日本人の友人達と付き合って行こうという気持ちも変わりません。今後1日も早く、両国が納得いく友好的な解決策を見出してくれたらと心から願います。Everyday I hear the news about "Takeshima" on TV. When I watch the news about "Takeshima" on TV everyday, it seems like both countries won't give up in their says. When I turned on TV few minutes ago, "Takeshima problem" was on the news so I stopped what I was doing and watched it. On the news, it showed Korean tourists going to Takeshima. I watched it with a complicated feelings. If I never had any experience living in Korea, I would without doubt agree with what the Japanese government. Although it was a short term living in Korea, I was able to learn and understand Korea and Koreans directly. So more the mass media makes this "Takeshima problem" bigger, I watch it with a very complicated feelings. I have many Korean friends whom I still continue to keep in touch by e-mails. Fortunately, they are very nice people and they write e-mails to me as if nothing is going on between the 2 countries. I don't know how to explain it in words but there are many people both in Korea and in Japan who has complicated feelings concerning this big problem between the 2 countries.And I'm one of them,too. Since I'm Japanese, I admit that I agree with the Japanese government. But that doesn't stop me from being friends with Koreans or Japanese living in Korea either. What I hope deeply is that these 2 countries find a friendly and agreeable answers to this problem soon!
2005.03.29
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結婚生活のコツがつかめてきた今日この頃
私達は結婚してもうすぐ1年経ちます。もうすぐ初めての結婚記念日ということで、その日はどうしようかという話しを昨夜寝る前にしていました。「結婚してよかったか？」と聞かれたので「完璧ではないけれど、おおむね良かったと思うよ。結婚してよかった？」答えると、「よかったと思うよ。最近一人でいると寂しいと思うようになったし、それに結婚生活のコツがつかめてきたよ」という返答が返ってきました。結局結婚記念日に何をするか決まらないまま、話しはそれて最後は「やっぱ韓国で新婚生活をしたのがかなりしんどかったんだね。新婚生活が筑波で始まっていたら、韓国生活後半に大きな危機を迎えずに平穏に暮らしてたかも知れないね。」という二人の結論に至りました。「結婚生活のコツがつかめてきた」このhiroroの一言に私も大いに同感です。まだ二人で生活すること自体が慣れていなかった以前ならば、まともに受け取るところも、今ではどこでやり過ごせばいいのか、どこが肝心な時なのか、お互いによく理解しながら対処しているような気がします。とにかくよく何でも話しをする。これはとても大事！だということが結婚してからさらによくわかりました。こうやってどんどん、どこの夫婦も自分達の形を作っていくんだろうなぁ～と改めて思いました。さて、来年の今頃はどんな夫婦のコツを学習してるかな？！（笑）We will be married for a year soon. Since our first anniversary is coming up soon, we were talking about what we were going to do for our first anniversary before going to bed last night. hiroro asked me "Are you happy being married?" So I replied, "It's not perfect but I'm very glad I got married. How about you?" "I'm glad I got married,too. Now I feel lonely by myself and I think I've got the hang of getting married.", hiroro said.Our conversation went a bit off the track and we were unable to decide what to do on our first anniverasary. And our conversation ended with our result that it was difficult for both of us to start a married life in Korea, right after we got married. If we had started our married life in Tsukuba instead, then we probably had no crisis between us like we actually did in Korea. We would probably be living in peace! As hiroro said, "getting hang of the married life" is something I agree alot. When we were not used to living together under one roof, we took in everything one had said or done. But now we are both alot wiser than before. We know where to just do away and where we must take a say. And we also learned that talking to eachother is extremely important! even so after we got married. I think many married couples go through what we're going through now,too to make their original style of married life. I wonder if we'll both be wiser by the same time next year?! We'll just see.
2005.03.29
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ポテチの賜物
昨日hiroroは東京日帰り出張で、帰りにおいしいケーキを買って帰ってきてくれました。せっかく買ってきてくれたのだから、「食べようよ」と言うと、「今、おなかいっぱいだから明日食べる」という返事。そこでピン！ときた私ははすかさず聞いてみた。「今日は向こうで何食べて帰ってきたん?」「出張先の最寄の駅前で牛丼」「それだけで、おなか空かなかったの？」「ちょっと空いたかな」「ポテチの買い食いしたでしょう？？」私は瞬間的にhiroroの目が泳いだを見逃さなかった。「ポテチ食べたでしょ？？で、筒型ポテチそれとも袋のポテチ？？」「ポテチ一袋食べた。おいしかったよ」「！？・・・」「この出たお腹を見てごらん！ポテチの賜物がこのお腹でしょう！！」とお腹をポン！と叩いてやりました。（苦笑）実はhiroroはポテチ大好き人間です。しかし、私が知り合う以前からの長年のコンビニ弁当とポテチ買い食い生活、不規則で運動不足な生活がたたり...ガリガリだった彼は太ってしまいました。最高78キロあったのですが、私と交際が始まってからなんとか8キロ近く体重を落とすことができたのですが...個人的に私は適度にやせている男性が好みなので。（笑）内緒で買い食いしたら意味ないじゃん！！（怒）３０代半ばになると成人病予備軍にもなりかねないからね。ポテチは塩分が高く、高カロリーだからね。食べ出したら止まらないってカンジは大いにわかるけれど、たまに適量ならばいいけれど、一袋は今後絶対に控えて頂きたいと思うのでした。Yesterday hiroro went to Tokyo for business. On his way home, he brought home a delicious cake for us. Since he brought it back, I said to him, "Let's eat!" but he replied back, "I'm not hungry so let's eat tommorrow." So I had a hunch in my head and asked him right away, "What did you eat for dinner today?" "I had Gyudon near the station where I had to go today." "Just Gyudon?! Aren't you hungry?" "Maybe a little." "Did you have potatochips on your way home??" Then his eyes swam in the air but I didn't miss it. "You had potatochips, didn't you?? Was it a box or a bag??" "I had a bag of potato chips but it was really good!" "!?・・・""Lokk at your stomache! It's sticking out! All the potatochips that you ate became this!!" and spanked his stomache.hiroro loves eating potatochips. Years before I met him, because he was eating convinience store lunchboxes and potatochips, along with his irregular lifestyle without any excercise at all, once skinny guy became fat! He weighed 78kg at one time, but after we started to going out, he was able to lose 8 kg. Personally, I like guys in well fit in shape. But if he buys and eats secretly than it has no means!! When you turn into your mid 30's, one must be aware of diseases. Potatochips are no good because it has too much salt and too much calories. I know the feeling of once you start eating, you can't stop,too. It's ok to eat every once in a while for a reasonable amout. But a bag?! No way!!
2005.03.29
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おばあちゃんからの手紙
さっき郵便物を取りにポストを覗いたらその他の郵便物と共に、私の87歳になる祖母からの手紙が舞い込んでいました。父方の祖父は私が生まれるずっと前に他界し、父方の祖母は2年前に他界、母方の祖父も6年前に他界しました。hiroroの方は父方も母方の祖父母もすでに他界しています。だから私達夫婦にとっても私の母方の祖母がただ一人まだ生きている祖母なのです。以前日記にも書いた通り、この祖母は去年私達の住む韓国にも遊びに来るくらいのチャキチャキ元気印のばあちゃんです。そんなおばあちゃんが珍しく手紙をくれました。その中にはおばあちゃんの暮らしの様子や地元の様子、養子になった我が家のカメ、アスターの様子、私達が日本に帰ってきてホッ！としたことなどが綴られていました。ちょっと心がほのぼのした手紙でうれしかったです。最近祖母との連絡はもっぱら早くて楽な電話が多い今日この頃。若い私でも手紙をもらってうれしいのだから、年老いたおばあちゃんもたまには手紙がきたらきっとうれしいだろう！そこで、私も暇に任せて返事を書きました。韓国にいる時は一方通行（私から出しても、国際郵便の出し方を祖母はがわからないので）の手紙のやり取りも今後はちゃんと両側通行になりそうです。ちょっとうれしいなぁ～When I went to get our mail from the mailbox today, I received a letter from my 87 years old grandma among with other letters. My grandpa from my dad's family was already dead when I was born, my grandma from my dad's family passed away 2 years ago. My grandpa from my mom's family passed away 6 years ago, too. hiroro's grandparents from both his father and mother's families passed away already. So my grandma from my mom's family is the only existing grandma for both of us. As I wrote in my diaries before, my grandma is very energetic woman who visited us in Korea last year. That grandma wrote me a letter. In her letter, she wrote to me about how she is doing these days, about my hometown, about our ex-turtle,Aster who was adopted by my grandma and how glad she is about us being back in Japan. It was a heart warming letter and it made me happy! These days, I often talk to my grandma on the phone because it's faster and easier. Even I'm happy when I receive a letter so I thought to myself, it must make grandma very happy to receive a letter from me. Since I'm not busy at all today, I wrote back to her right away. When I was living in Korea, I wrote to her but it was a one way communication, since grandma didn't know how to send international mail. But now that we both live in Japan, it will be a both way communication for sure. I'm happy about that!
2005.03.28
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のんびりまったり月曜日
今日は早起きできませんでした。月曜の朝からいきなり「早起きできなくてごめんなさい」と反省です。（悲）昨日、数年ぶりにプレーしたテニスが祟ったようで、今朝、全身筋肉痛で起き上がるのが辛かった。テニスのおかげで肩が少し軽くなった気もしないでもないですが、着実に年齢と共に体力の衰えが身に染みてわかったような気がして、ちょっと寂しかったりもします。例えば、お酒の飲みっぷりもそう！20代前半、私は「酒豪」でした。でも、20代後半になった途端、それまで二日酔い知らずだったのが二日酔いになるわ、記憶は飛ばすわ...あの時は正直言って初めて年老いたような気がしてとてもショックでした。ショックのあまり2年ほどマジメに禁酒しちゃいました。（苦笑）そして、あることをきっかけにまた飲むようになったのですが...禁酒のおかげで体質改善されたのか？！「酒豪」と言われたのがウソのようにそれ以降、人並み程度にしか飲めなくなってしまいました。子供の頃はあんなに早く大人になりたかったのに...今では若くなりたいと思ってしまう自分が滑稽です。先週後半から多忙だったのですが、今日は久々に何もなくのんびり～♪おまけにさっきhiroroから携帯に「今日の夕飯はいらないよ」メールが！ラッキー！今日は家でのんびり、まったり身体を休めます。だって来週の今頃は働いてるんだもんね。残りわずかな休みを満喫しなくてわ！I was unable to get up early this morning. Monday morning started out as I reflected upon my sleepyness and said to myself,"I'm sorry! I couldn't get up this morning". The tennis I played yesterday really got me and I had muscle pains all over my body which made me even harder to get up. But after I played tennis, I feel that my shoulders felt lighter than before.But I notice that as I age every year, so does my body,too. And it felt a bit sad. For example, it can be said the same about drinking alcohol,too.When I was in my early 20's, I was a well known heavy drinker among my friends. When I was in my late 20's, I experienced my first hangover and my first black out. This was a shocking experience for me because I felt I was aging fast. I was so shocked that I stooped drinking alcohol for 2 years. But then, I started to drink again. But because I had not been drinking for 2 years, my body conditions seem to change alot. Believe it or not!, once a well known heavy drinker can now only drink to a certain amount. When I was a little girl, I always wanted to be an adult but now it's the opposite! I wish I was younger nowadays. I know I sounds like a nonsense!, because I feel this way. But I can't help it.Anyways, I had been busy from the middle of last week, but today I have nothing so I can stay home, rest and relax! Just few minutes ago, hiroro gave me an e-mail on my mobile saying, "Don't need dinner tonight!".Wow! Lucky me! I'll just stay home and rest all day today. By this time next week, I'll be working. So I may as well enjoy the rest of my holidayswhile I can!
2005.03.28
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PCゲーマーhiroroのひそかな野望
hiroroはPCゲームが大好きです。彼が独身時代からハマっているPCゲームは「ウルティマオンライン」という米国のPCゲーム。私は正反対でPCゲームは嫌い！PCゲームって黙々と一人でやるのでつまらない！と思うのは私だけでしょうか？！だからファミコンやプレステにはまったことがありません。我が家のルールはPCゲームはやってもいいけれど、最大2時間まで！そこでhiroroは考えたようです。私にも同じゲームをやらせたら、遊ぶ時間が延びるのではないかと！？そこで、早速私を隣りに座らせて遊び方やゲームルールを一生懸命説明してくれたんですが...やっぱりダメでした。あまりにもつまらなかったのと途中で訳がわからなくなったので、私の方からギブアップ宣言！以来、私はPCゲームはしていませんが、hiroroはことごとく「一緒にゲームしたらおもしろいかもよ」と誘ってきます。そして、私をPCゲーマーにさせようとするhiroroのひそかな野望は毎晩続くのでありました。hiroro loves to play PC online games. He had been playing a American PC online game called, "Ultima Online" since he was single. And me?! I'm the opposite! I hate PC games. I think playing PC games are boring because you play on your own. Is it only me who feels this way?? That's why I never really played with Play Station or Nintendos. One of the rules in our house is "Are not allowed to play PC games for more than 2 hours". So hiroro thought things over and came up with a plan. It was to make me play the same PC game so that I will allow him to play longer. So he made me sit by the PC next to him and explained to me how to play and the rules of the game. But it just didn't work! I declared "I give up playing the game", because it was too boring and I got confused playing it. After this incident, I haven't been playing PC games but hiroro constantly says," If we play the PC game together, you might actually enjoy it!" and asks me if I would come and play. And he is secretly trying to make me become a PC game player every night.
2005.03.27
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姉御と若様
実際の私達をよく知っている人ならこのタイトルを見て、「そんな二人だ！」と思うはずですが、私達はまさに「姉御と若様」キャラ。私は昔から母親譲りのお人好しで面倒見が良く、チャキチャキの行動派。それゆえに学生時代から友人達から別名「姉さん」と呼ばれていました。まるで対照的なのがhiroro。彼は昔から気の優しいところがあり、のんびり、おっとりマイペース。外見の雰囲気も含めて、まさにイメージは「二代目若旦那」。そして彼はいつしかうちの家族から「若旦那」と呼ばれるようになり、今では「若旦那」が省略され「若様」と呼ばれるようになりました。その話しを友人達にしたところ、今ではすっかり「若様」が定着し、いつしか私達は「姉さん、若様夫婦」と呼ばれるようになりました。そして気になる二人の微妙な関係ですが...きっと、みんなは姉さんの方が強いに決まってるやろ～と何かと思われがちなのですが...実は一見そう見えますが、肝心なところは若様の方がとても強いのです。（苦笑）ウソ！？と思うかも知れませんが、本当なんです！若様は案外頑固者です。でも、この微妙な「姉御と若様」関係のおかげで私達はうまくやっていけているのかもしれないなぁ～と思う今日この頃であります。From reading today's diary title, those who actually knows us very well might agree and understand about our charcters of "big sister and young sir". I think It's inherited from my mom's blood that my character is a friendly,very active, and good care taker. That was the reason why my other name from my school years was "big sister" among my friends. And hiroro is just the opposite! His character is gentle, slow taking and always goes along with his pace. From his looks as well, his image is like a "young master who took after his father". And as time passed by, my family started to call him, "young master", which later changed into "young sir" for short. When I told this to our friends, everyone started to call him, "young sir" and now we're know as "big sister and young sir couple" among our friends. And I'm sure everyone wonders about our subtle relationship, right?! Many thinks I'm the stronger one at home, but this is really all not true! It may seem so, but when it comes to important matters, "young sir" plays the strong role. He is very stubborn, too. But because of our subtle relationship of "big sister and young sir",but I recently think this holds an important key to why we get along so well.
2005.03.27
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久々にテニス
いやぁ～、今日は思い切り朝寝坊をして気分爽快！おかげで睡眠不足解消！です（笑）今日は午後から夫婦そろって新しく入ったサークルの人たちとテニスです。テニスは中学生の頃からやっていますが、ラケットを手にするのはもう何年ぶりだろう？？学生時代、サークルでテニスをお遊び半分でやっていた頃以来です。随分と下手になってるんだろうなぁ～あんまりホームランボールを打たないようにしなくっちゃ！（苦笑）I slept in late this morning but I feel refreshed! And because I slept and slept, no more sleepyness! This afternoon, we're going to play tennis with the members of the new club that we've joined recently. I've been playing tennis since junior highschool but it's been many years since I hold my tennis racket. When I was in college, I was in a tennis club and played tennis just for fun. But it's been since then that I actually play tennis. It's been quite a few years so I must be bad at it by now. I better not hit many homerun balls today.
2005.03.27
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お見舞い
今日は義理の実家に日帰りしてきます。 4月に入ると二人とも仕事が始まり、多忙になるので、できることは今のうちにさっさと片付けよう！ということになりました。hiroroが実家の家の片付けの手伝っている間、私は義父の入院している病院で付き添いです。実家の片付けは私も住んでいないのでわからないし、力仕事らしいのでそちらはhiroroに任せて、私は少しでも義父のそばでついていてあげることにしました。病院は病気じゃなくても行くのは抵抗があるけれど、仕方ない！今日は義父との静かな時間を楽しんできます。Today we're going back to our in-laws home. We will both start working from April and will be busier thannow for sure. So we decided to finish doing what we can now! While hiroro helps his family clean the house, I'll be at the hospital to take care of my father-in-law. I wouldn't know what to do since I have never lived with my in-laws and besides it's labor with strength, so I leave this to hiroro and I will stay by my father-in-law's bedside. Although I hate going to the hospital especially when I'm not sick, but no choice! I'll go and enjoy my quiet time with my father-in-law.
2005.03.26
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最近いいカンジ！？
引っ越してきて3週間弱。新しい街や環境にも少しづつ慣れてきました。と、同時に最近お互いに精神的な余裕が出てきたのか？！最近は韓国生活をしていた頃ほど、あまり喧嘩もしなくなりました。それは案外ささいな言動だったりするんですが...最近はお互いに思いやり合っているなぁとよく思うことがあります。最近なかなかいいカンジ！？（笑）フッとカレンダーを見たら、来週から4月。私達を実際知ってる人達にはよく「結婚3年目よね？」とか「奥さんの方が年上でしょ？」とかよく言われるけれど...でも実は来月でやっとこ結婚1年目を迎えるし、実は私の方が2歳年下だったりします。確かに私も「自分達って結婚3年目のような夫婦だな」って時々思いますが...この調子で来月の結婚1周年記念を迎えたらいいなぁ～☆ってひそかに思うのでした。It has been almost 3 weeks since we moved. We are slowly getting used to our new city and new living environment. At the same time, maybe it's because we both have a room in our hearts now, we don't fight as often as we did, when we were living in Korea. They are small attitudes. But from these small attitudes, I feel often nowadays that we care alot about each other. I think we have a pretty good relationship with eachother nowadays.When I looked at the calender, I realized that April starts from next week. Many people who actually knows us often says, "You must be married for 3 years." or "Is Mrs. older?". But actually, we will have our first anniversary next month and I'm 2 years younger than hiroro. I must admit that I sometimes feel like we have been married for about 3 years already.Anyways, I secretly hope that we can continue our pretty good relationship and have our happy first anniversary.
2005.03.25
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新しい主婦友とランチ
今日は筑波にきてから、できたばかりの主婦友達たちとランチを一緒に食べました。同世代で私のように転勤で筑波に引っ越してきた友人達。主婦が数人集まると、話しがなかなか尽きません（笑）とても楽しい一時を過ごすことができました。これからも少しづつ、いろんな友達の輪を広げていきたいなぁ～（笑）Today I went out for lunch with my new housewives friends. They are housewives who came to Tsukuba because of their husbands' transfers, just like me! I had a great time today! IWhen few housewives get together, thae talking goes on and on and on. hope I can befriend others little by little.
2005.03.25
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筋肉痛（＞＜）
昨夜は卓球の練習でした。今までお遊び半分でしか卓球をしたことのなかった私は甘かった！卓球は案外ハードなスポーツです。2時間卓球してヘトヘトでした。でもみなさんとても親切で、初心者の私に色々と卓球のフォームを教えてくれたり、最後はダブルスのゲームをしたり、なかなか楽しかったです。学生時代、卓球部だったhiroroも昔のカンが戻ってきたらしく、2時間はあっーという間だったと珍しいことを言っていました。それに年配の方が多く、60過ぎても二人で続けられるスポーツに出会えてよかったです。しかし、ずっとテニスをしてきた私にとって、なかなかテニスの癖が抜けず、大変でした。筋はいいらしいけど、思い切り振れていないそうです。卓球は難しい～！普段は使わない筋肉を久々に使ったせいか？！今日は筋肉痛です。痛いよぉ～（涙）でも、翌日に筋肉痛になったっていうことはまだまだ若いという証拠かしら？！（苦笑）Last night was our tabletennis practice. My tabletennis experience was just playing for fun. I thought it was going to be easy going excercise. But I was wrong! Tabletennis is a pretty tough sports to play. We played for 2 hours and I was tired out by the time it ended. Everyone in the club was kind enough to teach me hitting forms of tabletennis and by the end of 2 hours, I was able to play a doubles game. It was fun! hiroro belonged to tabletennis club when he was a student. He was able to get his instinct back. He said 2 hours went by real fast, which was something you don't hear from him too often. Most members were much older than us and we were lucky to find a sports that we can both enjoy even after we're both in our 60's. I'm more of a tennis player so I have the ability to be better at playing tabletennis but I'm not swinging my racket fully. Tabletennis is really hard!! Because I used the muscle that I normally don't use, I have a muscle pain today.Ouch! But since I got a muscle pain the following day, does it mean that I'm still young?!
2005.03.25
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ねむいよぉ～ あと５分だけ～！！
昨日、「明日こそは６時起き！」と自信なさげにいってましたが...今朝は目覚ましが２つ鳴っていたことに気づかないまま、（相変わらず目覚ましを止めたことすら謎...のまま）気づくと昨日よりも起きたのが１５分も遅かった。（涙）７時前に起きれたとはいえ....研究職はフレックスタイムなので、朝１０時勤務からの爆睡中のhiroroをうらやましそうに横目で見つめながら、「これじゃ、ダメじゃん！！このままだと遅刻常習犯になってしまっちゃうよぉ～（涙）」と内心心で叫びながら、昨日よりも１５分も起きるのが遅かったことに、朝からコーヒーを飲みながら反省するのでした。でも、これは今からマジメに習慣づけないと今後の生活に支障をきたすことになります。我が家はhiroroの帰りが遅いので、夫婦の会話が夜の１０時や１１時以降にどうしてもなってしまいます。そして気づいたら寝るのが深夜零時や１時。しかし、これが唯一色々なことが一気にまともに話せる夫婦のコミュニケーションタイムなので、これを省くことはできません。仕方ない！こうなったら最終兵器投入です。目覚まし代わりのステレオ音量作戦に明日から出るしかないかな？！「今までこれで何度遅刻せずに間に合ったことか！」と内心思いながら、「効果絶大！明日からばっちり！」とひそかに期待を寄せるのでした。一気に慣れないづくしで慣れるまでしんどいですが、頑張ります～☆見事失敗したら...笑ってやってくださいましー。In yesterday's diary, I said, "I'll try to get up at 6AM tommorrow" without any confidence.And this morning, I didn't even notice that my 2 alarm clocks were even ringing. I don't remember how I even turned them off! When I jumped out of bed, I got up 15 minutes later than yesterday morning.Although it was before 7AM...Since hiroro is a researcher, he is able to work on flexible time and his work starts at 10AM. As I watched him sleep, I said to myself,"This is really no good!! I'll be late for work everyday if I continue on like this!!"I reflect upon myself about this morning's incidence over a cup of coffee.But I seriously must do something or it will effect my daily life from now on.Since hiroro comes home late, our communication time is after 10PM every night and continues on until very late at night. So we sleep around midnight or even past 1AM every night. But this is our only decent communication time to discuss about many matters so I can't take this time away for my sleeping hours.Well, no choice but I guess I'll try the ultimate way to get myself up every morning from tommorrow. I'll set my stereo as a alarm clock. The volume is loud enough to help me wake up every morning. I said to myself, "I don't know how many times it helped me not to be late for work/school!!" I secretly hope that this will really help me get up everyday from now on! There's so much things that are new that I must learn to get used to and I'll keep on trying. But if this stereo alarm cant't wake me up, then you may laugh! Haha!
2005.03.24
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新しい職場
４月から始まる職場は、縁あってなのか？！またまた大学の理系の事務職。色々な求人に応募して、その結果、求人採用の合格通知をいくつか頂いたのですが、hiroroとも話し合って総合的に判断した結果、大学の理系の事務の仕事で１年ぶりの仕事復帰をすることになりました。最終的に決めるにあたって様々な理由があります。・毎日の通勤が便利・土日祝日が休み・給料・勤務時間が安定している(残業が少ない）・結婚前の仕事と業務がほとんど同じなので慣れている・語学能力や行動力も買ってもらっている・活気があり、感じのいい職場であるとはいうものの...久々の職場復帰でいささか緊張気味かも！？心機一転！新しい職場での仕事を通して、また心身共に一歩成長できたらいいなぁ～と思います。Where I'm going to work from April, by coincidence or not, it's once again working at university's office of the Science department. I've applied to many job interviews and I was lucky to get few other jobs. But after talking things over with hiroro, I decided to start working once again at university's office of the Science department. I chose this for many reasons. ・Convinient to commute everyday ・Weekends and national holidays are off from work ・Salary・Constant working hours(Hardly no overwork time) ・Almost the same job that I had before I got married ・My boss thinks highly of my language skills and my active character ・Lively and friendly working atmosphere.But I'm a bit nervous about going back to work.With a fresh new start! I hope I can grow more mentally and physically into a bigger person through my new job working in the new office.
2005.03.23
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今日から早起きの練習
４月１日から１年ぶりの職場復帰が決まっていて、来週後半から早起きをしなくてはいけない。結婚してからの１年間、我が家の起床時間は午前８時でした。でも仕事開始時間も今後は午前８時半だし、仕事に出かける前にできる家事は済ませたいし、ということで起床時間を午前６時に変更せざるえなくなってしまいました。だけど、私は元々目覚め最悪（寝起きは凶暴かも？！）人間で夜はどんなに遅くても平気なのだが、早起きだけは大の苦手！しかし、仕事が始まればそんなこともいってられなくなる！ヤバイ！ということで、昨夜目覚ましを２つもセットしてスヤスヤ夢の中へ...朝６時いっせいに目覚ましが鳴ったけど...どうやって止めたか謎のまま...慌てて飛び起きたら午前６時４０分過ぎでした。（苦笑）「まだ仕事が始まるまで１週間ある」と内心開き直り、「明日こそは６時に起きるぞ！」と心に誓うのでした。（苦笑）しかし、果たして本当に起きれるのだろうか？？ちょっと自信ないなぁ～I'll start working from April 1st. It's been a year since I'm back to working full time. I must start getting up from the end of next week. After my marriage, our wake up time was 8A.M.. Since where I'm working starts at 8:30A.M. and I want to get some housework done before I go to work, I had to change my wake up time to 6A.M.. But I'm a very bad at waking up in the mornings.(Maybe I'm a bit violent when I wake up in the morning?!) I can stay up all night but waking up early is something I'm very bad at. But I must get up early from next week because I start working. Oh-oh! So I set my 2 alarm clocks to 6A.M. lastnight and went to bed. And this morning at 6A.M., the alarm clocks went on but somehow I had turned them off. And when I jumped out of bed this morning, it was already past 6:40A.M.. I said to myself,"Well, I got a week before I start working"and I also said to myself,"Starting tommorow, I will get up at 6A.M.!" Will I be able to get up at 6A.M. tommorow morning?? I have no confidence in this, so I'll just say maybe! for now.
2005.03.23
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夫婦でも一人でも楽しまなきゃ損な新生活～♪
卓球サークルに引き続き、もう一つ夫婦で市内のサークル活動に入会することになりました。このサークルはアットホームな雰囲気で、同じ街に住む同世代がテニスやＢＢＱ、ドライブや飲み会を週末に楽しむサークルです。そして私が単独参加するのが主婦サークル。平日昼間に主婦が集まり、ランチやお得な情報交換をしたり、主婦友達の輪を広げる目的のサークルです。基盤がゼロの新生活はやっぱり自分達で動かないと何も始まらない！特に主婦の転勤族の場合はまさにそう！旦那は引っ越しても職場という自分の世界がすでに存在し、そこにいけば仕事上の肩書きもあり、自然と知り合いもできます。でも、主婦は悲しいけど、自分でアピールしない限り、肩書きや存在感がありません。ささいなことでもどんどん積極的に参加することで、新生活を楽しく快適にするのは自分達次第でどうにでもなる！そして、来月からは仕事も始まる。さっそく今週から多忙になるぞぉ～（笑）「ONモードの時は大いに働き、OFFモードの時はは大いに遊ぶ！」自分達のライフスタイルモットーを実行しつつ、ここでも新しい世界や多くの友人達に恵まれるといいなぁ～☆Along with joining the tabletennis club, we're joining another club in Tsukuba. This club has a very homy atmosphere. It's a club mainly operated by our generation living in Tsukuba area, who gather together on weekends to enjoy Outdoor sports,BBQs,road trips, parties and etc. I'm also joining a housewives club by myself,too. This is a club for housewives who live in Tsukuba area, and we get together on weekdays daytime for lunch, shopping, exchanging useful informations and befriending other housewives. One must move on one's own when one starts a new life with zero background of the new life one will start. This is especially true to housewives who are married to husband who must transfer often due to his job. Husbands have their job wherever he gets transferred to. He is Mr.Somebody at his new office and he will get to know others through his job. But housewives like me are different. When I start living in a new town, it's sad but true that I'm Mrs. Nobody to start with. One must try and make herself into Mrs. Somebody. To join a club might be a small reason to start, but it's a good start to make our new life enjoyable and comfortable. This all depends on ourselves! I'll start working from next months,too. I think I'll start being busy from this week. When we're on mode, we'll work very hard and when we're off mode we'll play hard, too. We want to live this way as our way of life and we hope we discover other new worlds and make alots of new friends here.
2005.03.22
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今週から市内の卓球サークルに夫婦揃って入会することになりました。平日の夜に週1回、近所の市民体育館で2時間ピンポン球を追いかけることになります。きっかけはhiroroの一言、「卓球したいな。得意だし、やっていて楽しいしね。」その後話し合って、今後、夫婦揃って共通で楽しめる一生のスポーツになればいい（私はスポーツはなんでもＯＫなのですが、hiroroはスポーツがあまり好きではないので本人が自発的にやりたいというスポーツを実は探していたのです。）、ついでに運動不足解消と新しい街で卓球という趣味を通しての友人作りのきっかけとしても始めることにしました。早速普段の運動不足がたたって、筋肉痛になってたりして...（苦笑）Starting today, we're joining a table tennis club in Tsukuba. We are going to run after table tennis balls once every week on weekday nights for 2 hours at a nearby city gym. It all started when hiroro said, "I want to play tabletennis because I'm good at it and I enjoy it alot." We talked over and decided to join this club for few reasons. It can be a common sports to enjoy as a couple for the rest of our lives. hiroro doesn't like sports at all, so I was looking for a sports that we can both enjoy. It's also good for our diet and a good way to befriend others through a common sports,too. Since we are a bit out of shape these days, we fear we'll get muscle pains this week.
2005.03.22
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連休最終日
楽しかった連休もあっーという間に終わり、今日は最終日。今日はのんびり朝寝坊！午前中は二人でパンクしたhiroroの自転車を修理。午後から近所のショッピングセンターまで二人でサイクリングを兼ねた買出しへ。このサイクリング、なかなかいいダイエットでもあり、よき運動不足解消にもなります。これはここに住む間に身につけたい習慣の一つかも！？さぁ、明日からまた1日短い1週間、がんばろう～☆Fun time flies fast and today is the last day of the 3 days holidays. We slept in late this morning. We repaired the flat tires of hiroro's bicycle in the morning. Then we went to a nearby supermarket for groceries by our bikes to burn our calories. These bicycle trips are a great way to lose our weights and keeps us in shape! It's one of the daily life routines that I want us to continue while we live in Tsukuba. That was it for today. Let's turn on our engines for a one less new coming week!
2005.03.21
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急遽、目的地変更！
本当は鎌倉に行くはずだったのですが...高速道路で渋滞にはまり、途中で高速を降りてしまい、都内の下道へ。私は学生時代から8年程都内在住だったので、都内の道はよく知っています。我が家の愛車、パジェロミニくんにはカーナビがついていません。だから、まさに私こそがしゃべるカーナビ！時々ラジオから流れる曲と一緒に熱唱するおまけ付きです。（笑）そんなことはさておき、横浜方面に走行中にたまたま通りがかったのが品川水族館でした。ご存知の通り、hiroroは大のカメ好き！水族館でウミガメが見たいと言い出して、どう考えても鎌倉に着くのは午後3時を回るということで、急遽目的地を品川水族館へ変更しました。私は学生時代に大森に住んでいたのですが、当時は近すぎて実は今まで品川水族館には行ったことがありませんでした。水族館は連休の中日ということでファミリーが多かったです。きれいな魚やおいしそうな魚、おもしろい魚やかわいいペンギンやラッコ、イルカにもちろんウミガメも見れて、なかなか楽しかったです。そして、帰りは車では秋葉原に行ったことがないというhiroroのリクエストに応えて、秋葉原にも寄り道をして帰ってきました。今回は本来の目的地、鎌倉には辿りつけなかったけど、都内の道をhiroroに教えることができたのでよかったです。道を覚えてくれたので、これで、次回は車で難なく都内のいろんな所に車で来れるようになりました。鎌倉は次回のリベンジドライブまでおあずけです。We were supposed to visit Kamakura today. But we got caught in a heavy traffic jam so we got off the highway and took the local roads of Tokyo. I know the local roads of Tokyo very well since I've lived in Tokyo for 8 years during my college years. Our car, Pajero Mini has no car navigation system. So I'm the speaking car navigation system. Sometimes this car navigation system sings along to the tunes from the car radio,too. Anyways, when we were driving toward Yokohama, we drove by Shinagawa Aquarium. As you know, hiroro loves turtles and tortoises. He said he wanted to see sea turtles at the aquarium and since the time of arrival in Kamakura was going to be around 3PM, we decided to change our destination to Shinagawa Aquarium. As a college student, I lived in Oomori, which is right by the Shinagawa Aquarium. But since I lived so close by then, I never had a chance to visit the aquarium. Since today was the middle of the 3 days holidays, there were many families visiting the Shinagawa Aquarium. We saw beautiful fishes, delicious looking fishes, funny looking fishes, cute penguins and dolphins and ofcourse the sea turtles,too. It was fun! We also went to Akihabara,too because hiroro said he has never been to Akihabara by car. Although we couldn't visit Kamakura today, it was a good drive because I was able to teach hiroro the local roads of Tokyo. From next time, we're able to go anywhere in Tokyo since we both know the local roads now. Kamakura is saved for our revenge road trip next time.
2005.03.20
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久々の遠出～♪
連休中日！今日は今まで引越しやその他もろもろを頑張ったご褒美として、久々に二人でドライブ兼ねて遠出です。目的地は鎌倉！私は昔から鎌倉という街が国内でも大好きです。山の緑に囲まれながら海も近くて、歴史もあり、魚介類もおいしいし。久々に二人で楽しい時間を満喫できるといいなぁ～♪ワクワク～♪Today is the middle day of the 3 days holidays. Since we had been working hard for the past few months, we decided to go out on a little road trip. Where are we going? We're going to Kamakura. Kamakura is one of my favorite places in Japan. It's a city surrounded by beautiful green mountains, it's very close to the seasides, it's a city full of Japanese histories and the seafood is great! I hope we'll be able to have a great time today!
2005.03.19
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フラミンゴと一緒に...
今日は帰りにhiroroのリクエストに応えて、彼の地元にあるお店で夕飯を食べました。店の名前は「メヒコフラミンゴ館」店の名前からしてエスニックな料理を連想していたのですが、行ってみるとシーフドレストランでした。しかもここの名物は蟹ピラフ！hiroroは子供の頃からこの店の蟹ピラフが大好物だったそうです。そんでもって、何故フラミンゴ？！理由はわかりませんが、ガラス越しにフラミンゴを見ながら蟹ピラフを食べました。このメヒコ、関東近郊のチェーン店らしく、フラミンゴ館の他にもモンキー館や水族館もあるそうです。次回は話しのネタにモンキー館に行ってみたいなと思いました。(笑)On the way home from our in-laws, from hiroro's request, we ate dinner at a restaurant in Iwaki. The name of the restaurant was "Mehiko, House of Flamingos". From the restaurant's name, I thought we were going to eat ethnic foods for dinner. But where we ate was a seafood restaurant, well known for Crab Pilaf Rice. hiroro's favorite food from his childhood was this restaurant's Crab Pilaf Rice. And what's with the Flamingos?! I don't know why but you can eat while you watch the Flamingos flock around on the other side of the huge glass cage. This restaurant,"Mehiko" is a franchised restaurant in Kanto area. There are also house of monkeyes and aqauriums besides flamingos. I hope we go to the house of monkeyes next time we go out to eat, just for a fun story.
2005.03.19
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連休初日
今日は帰国後初めての三連休！今回の連休は天気もよさそうで、なんかうれしいな！これが給料日後の連休だったら...もっとうれしかったかも！？（苦笑）今日は車検を出していた我が家の車を取りにこれからhiroroの実家に行ってきます。ついでに入院している義父のお見舞も！筑波に引っ越してからまだ行けていなかったので、これで気になっていたことが全部済みそうで、一安心！Today is a start of our first 3 days holidays since we came back from Korea. It's great to hear that weather will be just fine for the next 3 days. It would made us alot more happier if this 3 days holidays came right after pay day!? Anyways, today we're going to hiroro's family home to pick up our car that had gone for a car inspection. And we're also going to visit my father-in-law at the hospital. It's our first visit to the hospital since we moved to Tsukuba. I'm glad that we're able to finish all the things that had been in the back of my mind.
2005.03.19
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気が引き締まる瞬間
結婚して、仕事をやめてからはほとんどスーツを着る機会が日常的になくなっていた私。久々に仕事関連の用事で出かけることになり、今日は久々にスーツに袖を通しました。やっぱりスーツを着ると、心なしか気が引き締まるような気がするのは気のせいでしょうか？！...っということで、気持ちも引き締めたまま、おでかけしてきます。After marriage, I quit working so I hardly had any chance to weara suit in my daily life.Today I have to go out on a bussiness matters so I'm wearing a suittoday.Is it just me?! But when I wear a suit, I feel a bit nervous.Feeling a bit nervous, I'm off!
2005.03.18
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大慌て！あわや結婚指輪紛失！？
昨夜はhiroroが車検のある車を実家に持ち帰り、そのまま実家でお泊り。一人、気楽にお留守番をしていたのだが...それはお風呂に入った直後に起こってしまった。私はお風呂に入る時には必ず結婚指輪を外します。そして、お風呂からあがるとまたはめる習慣があるのですが、時々指輪のことを無意識に忘れてしまいます。昨夜もたまたま無意識にしばらくの間忘れてしまい、あろうことか、そのままどこに置いたかすら忘れてしまいました。いつもは脱衣所にある洗面台の上に置くのですが、昨夜はそこに置かなかったようでした。でも、いつものところに置いてあると思っていただけにそこになかった時はさすがに大慌て！だって、結婚指輪を失くしたらしゃれにならないでしょう！？もう焦りまくり、マジで新居中を探しまくること1時間弱！結婚指輪は洗面台と洗濯機の間の微妙な見えにくい隙間に落ちていました。マジで焦ったよぉ～（涙）今度からは失くさないようにもっと注意しなくちゃね！Last night, hiroro took our car to his family home for car inspection. Since he decided to stay overnight at his family home, I was home alone by myself last night. But it all happend right after I took a bath. When I take a bath, I always take off my marriage ring. I put it back on after I get out of bath. But sometimes, I forget to put my marriage ring back on unconciously. And last night, I forgot to put it back on unconciously and for a while I forgot all about it. I even forgot where I had left it. I usually put the ring on the washing table but it seemed like I didn't last night. When I couldn't find it where I usually put it, I was in panic! It wouldn't be funny to lose your marriage ring, right? I freaked out and looked eveywhere in the house for almost an hour. Then I found it between a little unrecognizable space of the washing table and the washing machine. I really freaked out! I must really be more careful not to lose it from now on!
2005.03.18
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韓国語に再チャレンジ！
hiroroの転勤で韓国に短期間住んでいた私達。住んでいた期間が短すぎて、生活に必要な片言の韓国語ならば少しはできるけれど、韓国語の読み書きはあまりできません。引越しも無事終わり、仕事が始まるまでの暇な時間どうやって過ごそう？？と考えた時、真っ先に思いついたのがもう一度韓国語に再チャレンジしてみようということ。正直言って、「韓国」という国に対して興味を持ったのは、転勤で韓国に住むということ決まってからでした。いまだに「冬のソナタ」も見ていなくて、韓国語を勉強しようと思うのも私くらいじゃないかな？！と思うくらいです。（苦笑）そして、独学の教材として引っ張り出してきたのがこの1冊の韓国語の本。この本は、「日韓合同の会in 大邱」のみんなが送別会を開いてくれた時にプレゼントしてくれた物。この本は日本と韓国の文化や習慣の違いをコミカルに日本語と韓国語で書かれた物です。日本語を読んでいると、実際に韓国生活をしていたら一度は遭遇すると思われる、思わず「あっー、そうそう」とうなずけるエピソードばかり。日本語の部分は4コマ漫画でしか書かれていないので、どうしても細かい部分が書かれている韓国語をどうしても読みたい！と思い、韓国語に再チャレンジすることに！独学方法はいたってシンプル！ノートに本の文章を写し、わからない単語はひたすら辞書でひき、ひいた単語を文章に置き換えて、本を読み進んでいくというもの。文法は日本語も韓国語も同じだし、そうはいっても基本文字は知っているのでわりと楽！こんなことは暇な時でないとできないし、これならばお金もかからないでしょ！それに暇な時間も有効利用できるしね。4月になったら大邱に住む韓国人の友達が日本に遊びに来るという楽しみもあるし、それまでにもう少し韓国語の勉強をしようとひそかに考えています。帰国しても韓国語を忘れたわけじゃないぞ！って驚かせるぞぉ～☆We lived in Korea for a short time because of hiroro's transfer.Because we lived in Korea for a short time, I can speak and understand little Korean that is useful for living in Korea. But I didn't have enough time to learn to read and write Korean.When we finished moving and I have some time to kill before I start working, I quickly thought about studying Korean by myself again.To tell you the truth, I had no interest at all about Korea, until hiroro's transfer was decided. I think I'm probably a strange one who decided to study Korean without watching the famous Korean drama, "Winter Sonata"yet.I decided to use this book for my Korean text to study by myself.This book was a farewell present given to us from our friends of Japanese-Korean getogether of Daegu.This book tells the differences of cultures and customs between Japan and Korea comically. It's written in both Japanese and Korean.When I'm reading this book in Japanese, every page makes you nod because it's full of stories that you would encounter, if you had been living in Korea. Since written Japanese is only in a 4 stories comics, it made me want to read the details written in Korean. And that was the reason why I wanted to study Korean once again.The style to study by myself is very simple. I copy and write Korean in the book on a notebook. I underline and look up all the vocabularies that I don't know. After that, I translate and rewrite in into Japanese. The grmmars of 2 languages are basically the same and it's a bit easy for me because I know the Korean alphabets already.I can only study Korean when I have time and it's also free.It's a great way to kill time,too.My Korean friend from Daegu is visiting us in April and I hope to keep up my Korean by the time she visits.I'm looking forward to surprising her that I have not yet forgotten my Korean yet.
2005.03.17
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お気楽主婦三昧～♪
今日と明日はお気楽主婦三昧～♪今日はhiroroが車検の車を仕事帰りに彼の実家に持ち帰り、そのまま実家に泊まる為、私は新居でお留守番。明日は実家から職場へ直行するらしい。そして明日の夜は職場の歓迎会の為、帰りが遅いらしい。旦那がいないと食事も簡単に済ませられるので、たまにはうれしい。これで近所に友達がいればなぁ～次回のお気楽主婦三昧までには近所で友達ができているといいなぁ～Today and tommorrow,I will have a care free housewife time by myself.After work today, hiroro is bringing our car back to his family home forcar inspection. He'll stay over at his family home tonight and go straight to work tommorow morning.Tommorow night, he has a welcome party at work to attend to, so he'll comehome late.When hiroro doesn't eat dinner at home, I'm a bit happy that I can cook an easy dinner just for myself.It would be just perfect!, if I just I had some friends in my new neighborhood.By next time, I hope I'll have some new friends.
2005.03.17
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春うらら
運動不足解消に！ということで、昨日見つけた小さな近所の公園までのんびりお散歩。日差しも心地よく、いい散歩日和！これで桜が咲けば、本当に春だねぇ～♪I took a nice walk to a small park that I found near my houseyesterday. It was just a beautiful sunny day. It was just right for taking awalk.If only the cherry blossoms will bloom, the real spring willfinally come.
2005.03.16
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暇の有効利用思案中～☆
仕事が４月にならないと始まらないので、完全に暇をもてあましています。引越し荷物も片付いちゃったしなぁ～まだ新しい町には友人、知人いないしなぁ～チャリで散策も限度があるしなぁ～あと、半月！暇をどう有効に使おうか？！現在何気に思案中～☆あなたなら暇な時間をどう過ごしますか？？My part time job won't start until April.I have almost 3weeks to kill.I'm done with all our moving.I don't have any friends nor aquaintances in Tsukuba yet.There's limit to my bicycle trips around my neighborhood.For the next 3weeks! How will I spend my spare time?!I'm still thinking about it.If you were me, how will you spend your spare time??
2005.03.15
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ご近所散策
今日は愛車のチャリで一人ご近所散策にでかけました。近所のスーパー、銀行、本屋、コンビニなどなどの場所なんかもチェックできて、なかなか成果のある散策でした。私が思っていた以上にけっこう便利な町内に住んでいるということもわかってよかったです。やはり自分の足で場所を確認することによって、小さな発見もたくさんできますよね。新居からの近道も発見できたり、穴場の花がきれいな公園や小さなお店を見つけたり...一番うれしかったのは...近所にシネコンがあったこと。映画大好きな私の映画館通いとゴアーズ（仲間で作っている映画を語る会）としての活動が今年は復活しそうな気配です。帰国を機に、どんどん自分の世界を開拓していくぞ！Today I went out for a little trip around my neighborhood on my bike.It was a very fruitful trip because I was able to check allthe nearbylocations of supermarkets, banks, bookstores, convinience stores andetc. I was very glad to find out that we live in a relatively convinient part of the town.You can find many new and small discoveries of the neighborhood just bywalking around on your own.I was lucky to find some shortcut routes, park with beautiful flowers,and some small shops, too.What made me happy the most?? I was able to find a cineplex near myhouse. I'm a well known movie lover. I will be able to go out and seemovies often and I can once again become a goer.(Movie-goer is a name of a club that my friends and I made. We talk about movies.)Since I'm back in Japan, I'll open all doors to a new world around me.
2005.03.15
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思わぬホワイトデーのプレゼント
今日は3月14日、ホワイトデーです。普段からイベントごとや記念日にはまったく無頓着なhiroro。でも、今日は珍しく花を持って帰ってきました。「これ、どうしたの？？」「ホワイトデーだから奥さんにと思って買ってきたの」「きれいだね。ありがとう。早速飾っておこうね。」..っということで、早速新居のダイニングテーブルの上に飾ってあります。そして、花についていたカードを見てちょっと感動。そこにはこう書かれていました。「一緒に筑波に来てくれて、ありがとう。これからも仲良くしていきたいな」しょっちゅう喧嘩もするけれど、これからも二人で楽しく仲良く歩んでいこうねってしみじみ思うのでありました。Today is March 14th, it's white day!hiroro doesn't care much about events and anniversaries.But today, he came home with some flowers."What's with the flowers??" "I bought it for my wife because it's white day.""They're beautiful! Thankyou! Let's put it here."And I put the flowers on our new dining table.When I read the card between the flowers, it really touched my heart.It said,"Thankyou for coming to Tsukuba with me. I hope we can continue to stayvery close"We have our ups and downs and we fight alot, too. But I hope we can continue to enjoy and stay close to each other,too.
2005.03.14
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調味料の力量
今日、晩御飯を食べながらフッと思ったこと。それは醤油が違うと、こんなに味も違うものか！？ということ。韓国在住の時も日本食を作って食べていたのですが、その時いつも直面していたのが、微妙な日韓間の調味料の味の違い。韓国の醤油や味噌の味が日本の物とは味が微妙に違うので、うまく料理ができなくて、よく困ったものでした。帰国したことで、そんなささいな悩みは簡単に解消されたけど...その分、料理が下手だという言い訳もひとつ減ってしまったな...（苦笑）When I was eating dinner, I thought to myself,"The food tastes so different, just by using a different soy sauce."When we were living in Korea, I used to cook Japanese food everyday.But when I was cooking Japanese food, I always faced difficultieswith the small taste differences of Japanese and Korean seasonings. Since the tastes of Korean soy sauce and miso is different, it was hard to make Japanese food.Now that I'm back in Japan, my problem is solved.But now, there is one less reason for me to be a good cook.
2005.03.14
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のんびりスタート～♪
今日から本格的に新生活がスタートなのですが...「ここは日本だ！」という安心感からなのか？！気分的にすっかりのんびりしてしまって、いまいち筑波での新生活に対する緊張感が欠けています（苦笑）少し暖かくなったことだし、明日から愛車の自転車で少し町内の冒険にでも出てみようっと。Today is suppose to be the real start of our new life in a newtown. But thinking "This is Japan!" and feeling safe, I'm a bit lackof some nervousness toward our new life in Tsukuba.It has been quite warm for the past few days. Maybe I will get on my bike and ride out for a little adventure aroundmy new neighborhood tommorow.
2005.03.14
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ネット生活復活～♪
引越し先の新居はADSL。さすが早い！そんなことはさておき...今日からまたネット生活復活！です。みなさん、今日からまたよろしくね～☆Our new home's internet is ADSL.It's really fast.Anyways, we're once again back to our internet life.We hope to befriend you all, once again!
2005.03.13
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引越し完了！
無事に筑波の新居への引越しが完了しました。実は...引越しの荷物は1日で片付いたのですが...片付いた日の夜に高熱でぶっ倒れて、筑波に来て早々、病院へ。B型インフルエンザと診断され、引越し早々、新居で1週間寝込んでいました。そして、HP更新と共に私も健康体に復活です。We have finished moving to Tsukuba.Actually, we finished moving in a day.But on the night when we finished moving, I had a very high feverand was rushed to the hospital.I was told that I had a Type B Influenza.I was sick in bed at our new home for a week.But with the renewal of our homepage, I'm back feeling much better.
2005.03.13
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サイドビジネスに向けて始動
本帰国して引越しの件が一段落つくかつかないかの頃、ひょんなことからロンドン、NYCと大阪、東京を拠点としたサイドビジネスの話しがアメリカ人の友達から舞い込んできました。一緒に組むのは私の妹、姉妹共通のロンドン在住のイギリス人の友達とNY在住のアメリカ人の友達。只今、事業内容の概要や事業アプローチをメールのやり取りをしながら4人で協議中。なのではっきりは明かせませんが、3ヶ月以内に事業のHPが完成予定！形にする最初は困難でも、軌道にのってうまくいけば、妊娠しても自宅でできる仕事が確保できるということで私としては意欲満々！他の3人も大学院生やサラリーマンなんで、こづかい稼ぎにはなると意気込んでいます。一番気楽な点は信頼のおける仲間と組む事と高いリスクを背負わない事業内容だということ。4人ともある程度の失敗もありうることも覚悟はしていますが...。吉に出るか、凶に出るかわからないけど、きっといろんな意味でいい経験であり、チャンスともなることでしょう。When my moving arrangements were just about to be finished, our American friend came up with a talk about a side business that can be possible in London,NYC,Osaka and Tokyo. Who are my partners?? My partners are my sister, our English friend who lives in London and another of our American friend who lives in NYC. We are now discussing about our side business project and its approaches through e-mails. So it isn't possible to tell you what we're actually going to do as a business yet. But we're going to make our side business homepage in the next 3 months. Although it's hard to first start a business, but once it can get going it will make it possible for me to work at home even is I'm pregnant. So I'm looking forward to it. And as for the rest of my partners, they , too are eager to earn some extra money since they are graduate school students and businessmen. What's so easy going is that we are teaming up with a reliable friends and our side business project is without any high risks.All of us have our minds set up to a certain degree of mistakes,too. We don't know if this will be successful or not, but we all know that it'll be a great experience and oppurtunity for all of us.
2005.03.01
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HP管理機能にとまどい...
なんかいつの間にか、HPの管理機能が新しくて使いやすくなってるし...引越しに伴い、HP更新が不定期になってから少し浦島かも！？I don't know since when but it's obvious that homepage maintenance page has new and easy functions.Because of moving, I haven't been able to renew our homepage too often,now.And I feel like I'm a bit out of time.
2005.03.01
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いよいよ荷出し！
いよいよ明日の午後、筑波に向けての荷物が神戸を出ます。今回、荷物は明日の午後出るのだけど、実際着くのは来週半ば。なぜなら、引越し業者の同方面行きの搭載便を利用するのと引越し費用を頑張って値切って、8万円に押さえてたから。安い分、日時指定はできないけどそれは仕方ない！今後は髪を昔のようにロングヘアに戻す為、髪を一度伸ばしやすいように切ってきました。1年後、肩くらいまで伸びていたらいいなぁ～と思っています。そして、帰りに本屋で筑波市が載っている観光本を買ってきました。単にわかりやすいつくば市内の地図目当てだったのですが...パラパラと見る限り、けっこういろんな観光地や店が載っていて、少しは親しみも沸いてきたようです。来週はいよいよ筑波だぁ～（涙）あともう数日間、実家でのんびりさせてもらいます。All our things will be shipped off tommorrow afternoon to our new home in Tsukuba. Our things will be shipped off tommorow but it daoesn't get there until the middle of next week. Why? Because the mover's truck is a truck that is half used by another customer going on to the same direction and I have talked the movers into a big discount. Our moving fee is only \80,000. So because of the big discount, we have no say in when our things will arrive. But that's alright.Today I went to cut my hair, so that I can grow my hair long like I used to do. I hope my hair will be grown till my shoulders by next spring.After I cut my hair, I went to a bookstore. There I bought a traveler's guide around Tsukuba area. All I really wanted at first was a decent map of the Tsukuba. But as I turn the pages, I find some interesting places and shops around Tsukuba and I'm kind of getting to know the area already.Next week, I'll be off to Tsukuba. For the next few more days, I will just relax and think and think nothing in my family home.
2005.03.01
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