Almost sliced of my finger when I was slicing a carrot today. I used a slicer with a ceramic knife and slipped. It cut off a quarter of my right hand’s index finger. Surprisingly it did not hurt much, though it was quite bloody.
Long time since I did any updates to the blog. The main reason is that I have been too busy to update it. There are a few activities that have and will take up my time for a while:
I’ll try to catch up with my blog backlog so if you are reading this please be patient. Here are some teasers of what will come:
Quite an eventful day today. We changed the cover of the sofa from Christmas red back to the normal grey and white striped cover. It felt good to be back to “normal” again 🙂
In the morning it had started to snow. SO after changing the sofa cover it was a real event to go to the gym in the snow. Taking my bike was out of the question as it only has slicks on – totally blank rubber on the wheels. Slicks is perfect most of the time in Tokyo but when it snows it sucks 😉
While walking home from the gym I took some backstreets so I could enjoy the snow to the full. Suddenly I found a house with the whole wall painted with a Sumo guy on it. Turned out it was a restaurant, but I did not have time to check what kind it was so for now it is the Naka-Meguro Sumo restaurant.
I think I forgot to mention that it was a national holiday today. And that besides changing the sofa cover and going to the gym we had time to install a new shopping list tracking system. A stripe of metal glued to the inside of a cupboard door and white magnets “stickies.” The idea is that the most common food like pasta, tomato cans etc. will have a white “sticky” and is placed to the metal stripe when in stock. When we use the last, let’s say, tomato can then we move the “tomato can sticky” to the refrigerator, and when its time to shop you check the fridge for a list of base things to buy. Once restocked you just move the “stickies” back from the fridge to the metal stripe in the cupboard. Let’s see how it works, I try to remember to report on it in a month or so.
We started the morning by watching my “Japanese mom” on Shop Channel. Sachi-san, who is the leader of the private volunteer group we joined, is a designer and is selling her designs through Shop Channel a few times a year. She calls herself Johan’s “Japanese mom” because she is the same age my “Swedish mom” is, around 45 or so 😉
We usually don’t watch Shop Channel but we make an exception when Sachi-san is on. It is quite interesting to watch and a bit shocking of how fast her designs are sold out – every 2-5 minutes there is a ping and a “Sold Out” sign, and someone saying e.g. “the grey one-piece in L size is sold out.”
Once all the things were sold out Chie and I got to work. Today was cleaning day and we made a through cleaning of the whole apartment. We also changed dress for the sofa, from casual grey year-around dress to stylish red Christmas dress. Some other Christmas decoration were also brought from storage along with a Santa that I bought on my last business trip to Sweden. Our home is now ready for Christmas 🙂
It was the longest 30 minutes of my life, taxing and taking off. Why? There was a kid about 4 years old screaming her lungs out. I thought all the glass in the whole plane would crack because of the high pitch and volume. She could probably work as a car alarm or a tsunami alarm or something like that.
Eventually she got quiet and I could start to relax. Then I was home 🙂