a long awaited blog. maybe.

so i am back. its just been busy since we came back from the US. working, running, hanging out, trying to read more, watching the office, and somtimes trying to clean my room.

work is going well. its crazy to think that our school year ends in about 2 months! it will be sad to see some students go. but we are really hoping to get lots of new ones. its been good.

running is taking up lots of time. im in the middle of my tokyo marathon training. about 5 weeks to go. or a little less! my long runs probably wont top 18 or 19, however my weekly mileage is above average, so thats good! i just did my 14 miler this morning. (I have had to do my long runs on tuesdays before work becasue i am taking a french class on saturday mornings) but it feels good to get it out of the way and done with for the week!

ive been trying to read more. i have already read 2 and a half books this month ( i started on of them last year and just finished it up)

im addicted to the office. i cant stop watching it! good thing episodes are only 21 minutes!

i got my results back from the 10km race i ran a few weeks back. i had a PR of 47 minutes, making me 25th our of 170 something women! yay!

another goal i have made for this year is to not buy anything until i use up the stuff i already have or get rid of 3 things for every 1 thing i buy. (exceptions- food things, gifts, etc) i am trying to downsize and get rid of things. i wish there was a big salvation army i could drop all kinds of stuff off at. instead i have overflowing bags of stuff that i want to get rid of but dont really know how to. its a waste to throw it all away!

last night i got to finally talk to cara! it was good! i miss her! hopefully ill get to see her sometime this year.

well i am off to get some stuff done around the house, get groceries and get to work.

hopefully i get back into the swing of things with blogging!

im back

so i am finally back from my trip to the US. it was a great great time. ill tell about it little by little over the next few postings.

hiro and i got on the plane to tokyo. only to find out our plane to NYC was cancelled. so with a random group of others we ended up getting free vouchers for all our meals and a free night in a hotel. while it wasnt the best option (would have much rather gotten to the US earlier) it wasnt completely a waste! it ended up being a nice mini vacation before the real one. finall the 20th we got on a plane and got to NYC at 8am.

hiros dad picked us up. we were pretty sleepy. i fell asleep in the car. we relaxed a bit and showered then we went to church. it was a neat experience going to a vietnamese church. afterwards, there was a lot of food. so i enjoyed trying some good food!
i fell asleep again on the way back to the house that evening and was really happy to sleep.

ill tell you all about monday in the next post. it involves jimmy fallon!