this cracks me up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngRq82c8Baw

on the road again

thats right! im back to running, after my 4 days off, i picked up and did an easy 9 mile run today. it was nice cool weather and i felt great. a little tightness in the achilles but not too bad, ill have to keep and eye on it! it was so great to run. while ive enjoyed the time off, i missed running!

well off to stretch class and lifting at the gym! its thursday! the weekend is coming!

an open letter #2

to whom it may concern,

i know that things need done. i know roads need construction, but there are 24 hours in a day, only about 7 of which i sleep. Why oh why do you decide to do major (noisy) road construction at midnight, outside my window? and why oh why do only 2 people work and 8 people guide the cars around the big machine? honestly. Please do construction during the day.or at least not between the hours of 12 and 8am.

thank you in advance.

jen


today my students explained what the names f the different fingers are. heres what i got out of that explaination.

thumb= parent finger
pointer= the finger that points at people finger
middle=middle finger
ring= ughhh blah blah i dont know
pinky=small finger


today i went to a friends house (from my gym) and had a nice time. we ate and chatted. i ate okonomiyaki. oishikatta! tomorrow ill meet kanako for a nice time at the park!

if anyone (who is living in japan) has softbank and wants to be my love flat, please tell me!

ikebana show

dinner with the grandparents

an open letter

dear noisy motorcycle guys who rev your engines at the light outside my window at midnight or 3 am,

please know that just because you have a loud motorcycle, it doesnt make you are cool. it just means you are noisy. no one likes the noisy kid. please get a scooter. or a bicycle. or walk.

thanks for your understanding,

Jen

goodbye running

hello painful achilles tendon. so im warming the bench this week. this past week ive had a sore ankle. i didnt know why and thought i could run through it. i tried. i put forth a good effort. but i lost. this morning, i got up and was out the door at 5. i ran about 100 meters, and turned around... my ankle was not going to run 13 miles. crying, i headed home. i didnt know what to do. going to a dr. isnt that easy for me, and i didnt want him to tell me not to run. but as i walked home, i knew i needed to get it checked out just in case. i admited defeat.

i went to the doctors office, and found out my achilles tendon is stiff and inflamed. no running for a few days. ugh. hopefully by wenesday ill be back to normal and back to running on thrsday! i hope i hope i hope.

dance festival in nagoya

green things

with friends- a "rex"ellent time

nagoya port with tomoko