Tokyo Life 

KARAOKE!

Now some of you folks living out here already know that Karaoke is a thing that we kinda do from time to time and have alot of fun in the process.For those of you not of JApan,man you gotta know how much fun it is!!! Its so popular here that you find Karaoke on every street corner(not an exaggeration) even in the quietest of towns youll find one.Its a national pass time. Get together ,invariably drink too much ,sing too loudly AND badly and stumble home.Its a wonderful way too vent your day rather than picking on the fella next to you in the bar!
I really cant imagine alot of the people I know back home being comfortable with singing in front of their mates on a saturday night,especially when it comes to the slushie renditions.Theres alot we can learn from the youth and innocence of Japan!
If you can let go of the fact that you dont always hit the note and dont always follow the rhythm and just allow yourself to be as a child again...its magic!!!
Last night spent a wonderful night with some friends singing away in a bali style karaoke room! Heaps of great songs and alot of fun! Thank you guys!

Madness...............Its everywhere!

Okay I had to share this. Purely because there are times when one feels down and we share it ,blog it and talk to our friends about it.There are also times when we are happy.
Today I find myself walking around the house singing love songs and squealing at the top of my voice.This is in part a warm up for Karaoke tommorow but also a deep desire to go forth and express.The funny thing though is, I found myself doing chicken impressions during my vocal vomit..........I realised that for the first time in a couple of weeks I feel peaceful and extememly happy..........a revelation from the chicken god!Thank you.

That Hamlet moment 

One man,5 women!

There are moments in life that you just want to capture.This was one of them.A man amongst 5 women having a hamlet moment.He looked so pensive and wise that I felt I could profess all my sins and beg him for forgiveness and then spill my life story in his lap..........Hmmmmmmm..........thats a little dramatic but all the same you get my drift.All the while us girls were fighting for talking time, boosting each others esteems, playing with our make-up,talking about love,life and the universe and he just sat there listening pensively.Apparently he enjoyed his night out.He said he enjoyed the window he got to look through.........we also enjoyed having him! Thanks Chris! You are Fab!

Enjoy the ride???

It was a 5.2 at 4.46 this morning! I was petrified!!! It was about 45km from Tokyo.Apparently Ibaragi............
I think thats the biggest I have felt here so far and I hope (ha ha) the last! Had me fantasing about places far far away! We had several damages but we are all okay! Well apart from an erratic heart beat now!

Valentines Day

At the risk of sounding cynical,I am kinda over it.
My problem is that I love "events" .Birthdays ,weddings ,Christmas.........I love them all.Especially if they involve the giving of presents or the anticipation of suprise. It brings out the little girl in me.I get excited.I squeal,I jump up and down,I giggle.
There is a downside to all of this,The expectation.I have huge expectation when it comes to these events.I tell people 2 months in advance that its my birthday just in case they forget .I tell jonathan every day for a week that its valentines day.I make lists for christmas so that I wont be disappointed.The problem with this as with all expectation is that it never happens the way you want it too.I am a hopeless romantic.Hopeless.I live in a fairytale world and I am princess of the copper kettle (literally my name translated) I am waiting for my knight in Shining armour to whisk me away to a far away kingdom where I never have to pay the bills,deal with having to contemplate what to have for dinner , or clean the toilet.
Today is valentines day........I'm over it.
Is that sad?
I am getting old.......or am I just getting cynical?

Do not pass Go,Do not collect 200

Yes, Yes Life is a monopoly,Love is a monopoly,Making snap decisions and going with them is a monopoly.........there are so many monopolies that we run in our lives that it sometimes gets overwhelming.
For Christmas I asked for Monopoly.Its the Lord of the Rings version and so has no real geographic relevance. On playing it for the first time with Jonathan he proudly said "This was invented in the U.S" to which I replied .........."Get outta here ,this is a british game,move over american and let me breathe" That was that .I felt sure that it was a british game.
Yesterday I invited friends over to play monopoly and one of my friends said"This is a french game" again the voice of knowledge boomed from my corner..........."I dont think so,its british" Again that was that.
On having a little peruse on the cyber highway this morning I found out that in fact Monopoly is an American game invented in Pennsiylvania or was it Virginia.
Even here there are some grey areas where apparently The parker brothers may or may not have stolen the idea from a woman in the late 1920's.Its original name possibly being "The landlord game"
Anyways history aside I now know that Jonathan was right ,although I am certain he didnt know for sure ,I just think its one of those things where everyone claims it as thier own, as its something that we hold so dearly to our upbringing and therefore must be from our home.
Anyways I won. It didnt feel as good to win as it did 20 years ago mind you. But a heap of fun to see the ways in which we tacticly play!!!
I am a "mine its all mine kinda girl" who realises after she has it all that its not so fun to have everyone around the board shooting very sharp daggers at you! Hmmmmm.I guess its just a game!

Talk to meeeeeeee!!!!

Oh I just love these!!
I think my vocab has just increased by 20 new and spiffing words!!Tell me..which is your fave??? I love arachnoleptic fit,as I have had many of these in my time and although its an amusing site its often quite petrifying!!


1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with

2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly

3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops
bright ideas from penetrating. The bozo n e layer, unfortunately, shows
little sign of breaking down in the near future.

4. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of
getting laid.

5. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the
subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

6. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the
person who doesn't get it.

8. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

9. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these
really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's
like, a serious bummer.

12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day
consuming only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido: All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when
they come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after
you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into
your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in
the fruit you're eating.

And the pick of the literature;
18. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole .

TEETH!!! 

DENTISTS........AGHHHHHH...

Talking with a friend this morning we got to talking about dentists.It seems she has the same kind of fear as me.
It would be minimalistic to say that I am petrified of them.It would be minimalistic to say that I would rather swim through ariver of Pirhanas than go to the dentist...........
The problem here is that I have to.I know that Japanese dentists are terrible.I know that you have to return 5 times just to get one cavity done.I know that in japan you have to grin and bear the pain.I know that in japan NOVACAINE is a word that doesnt get used often let alone the drug.I know that I will cry like a baby in the reception area and completely embarass myself Like only Sarah can do.I know that it will be an agonising few days before I even get there. But I have to go.......Damn and blast I just gotta go.
Hypnosis may work but the only hypnotherapist I know lives a way away and costs a fortune. Valium may definately work .Knocking me out with a big hammer would definately work but kinda defeats the purpose.
The problem is that the fear just get s worse............I dont know where it came from,although there is some philosophising in my family that it could be from the fact that when I was 7 the dentist threatened to break my jaw and re-set it if I didnt stop sucking my thumb.Maybe it could also be the fact that when i was 8 my grandmother had fixed dentures and didnt stop bleeding for 3 days and all I remember is my ususually genki granny deflated with a mouth full of congealed blood...........christ if that isnt enough I dont know what is! Its massacre......
Dont get me wrong.I fully appreciate the wonder of a good set of teeth.They are marvelous inventions.How would we ever be able to consume such delicasies as caramel corn,gorgeous bread with wonderful crusty outsides,Spring rolls,.......I mean come on crunch crunch crunch.I dont want to spend my later years supping away on soup with those little inverted gummy lips..No No,that just wouldnt do,but somehow the two just dont fit.......the Fear,The reality.Like I said Pirhanas !
I usually take a loved one with me to the dentist,someone to faint on,throw up on or to cry on.Its pathetic it really is............but the time is looming near when I will have to choose
Pirhanas or dentist.

Sushi on the barber shop floor

Neil was a friend , admittedly he never let me get that close but he was loved all the same.We shared some tears,some laughter and mostly a wonderful journey together for an all too short a time.
Neil commited suicide 3 weeks ago.
I can only hope that he is in peace now,rather I should say (which is what I feel) HE IS IN PEACE NOW.

Neil,you will be missed.Its so sad you had to say goodbye................. 

Thought for the day!!

I keep a little basket of angel cards next to my work station here..........periodically I dip my hand in and yank out a card for a little inspiration.Today mine was passion.............( for those not in the know they are 2cm by 1cm cards with a one word reminder) .
So here I am wondering to myself about what I need to be passionate about...........Any inspirations from the depths?? I could figure on a few I guess

My blog
My sex life
My job
Boarding
My weight loss
My quitting smoking
blah blah blah..........Oh the list is endless,but a good way to get the old brain tinkering.......I guess you could always make your own up and get yourself inspired!

Oh and by the way to all you cook freaks out there,I tried to get passsionate with my New Moosewood cookbook and made lentil burgers.........I think I was a little too passionate and toaaaaaaaaaaaaaasted them..........i think they were yummy(hard to tell when all your orifices are blocked with snot!

The ozzy ball! 

You will go to the ball.......

On my trip to Oz on the many shopping trips I took I happened (just by accident,the money never left my pocket and found its way on to the counter,it just kinda fell out.just in the same way that the dress happened to just fall onto my body in the shop..oh you kow how it is.. ) to purchase a ball gown........actually I managed to aqquire two(one a gift).
I was a tad worried on my return that I might not have the opportuntiy to wear them while my tan was still fresh and the excitemnet was abound.
Thanks to my darl of a friend I did go to the ball.
I went to the Ozzy ball..........oh and it was ozzy in all its glory with cheezles and twisties and as much champers as you could hold!
Here we are a little sloshed and haveing a fantastic time!