A Perfectly Pregnant Day

I kept riding after finishing taking footage at the jinja and now Im a fair way down the Edogawa River toward Tokyo Bay.

Suddenly this scene captured me and my mind lept to a very unusual thought:

What a perfect day to be pregnant and sitting out on the riverbank with your husband!

Woah! Now that was unexpected.

And
now I shall continue to ride.

Hatsumode LineUp

Even out here on the fringe of Tokyo, the far ends, the suburbs, the lines are LONG to greet the gods on January first for first prayers or "hatsymode".

I don't see the flames burning up last year's omamori yet so maybe they'll be doing that tomorrow or on the third.

There are a ton of young families with their goopy-nosed kids along for the ride.

Why the heck am I lined up? I did my prayers on Christmas Eve.

Ahhh they are burning!

Japanuary First

It's Japanuary 1st, 2011.
I'm listening to Sundance Reflections while burning all of my candles.
The apartment is 15C and outside it is 7C.
The sky is very blue and the humidity is low.
There is no snow.

But...

There is my triple espresso coffee.

Happy New Year!

I love you.
Cam

2011... See You There!

 So, 2011 is upon us. What are YOU going to do this year? Got your New Year's Resolutions all figured out?

Here's a suggestion from The Universe. It's one that I'll be following because it makes a lot more sense than doing it the "traditional way". After all, how many resolutions have we seen fall to the wayside in our life, eh?

1. Give thanks that life is... just as it is (and that it's been... just as it's been). Because of it, you're now "READY."

2. Define what you want in terms of the end result. Don't worry about the hows, or even the course. KNOW that what you want is ALREADY yours in spirit, by divine LAW, just focus on the certainty of this ownership, understand it, claim it, and "it will be on earth, as it is in heaven (spirit)."

3. LET THE UNIVERSE show you the way via your impulses and instincts that appear as you take inspired action. Don't worry that your first steps seem silly or futile. And if you don't know what to do, do anything! Go! Get busy! Do not insist on intermediary successes, only upon the end result.

4. Know that 2011 already IS your year.

Are you ready?
Let's Jump!

I'll be there to hold your hand if you need it, OK?

I love you!
Happy New Year.
Cam

 

I went into town wearing the kilt today. Picked up a few things I didn't get myself for Christmas, but wanted. It got a lot of looks, too; the kilt, not the things I picked up. Every time I shifted on the train home, the woman (in her 50s) across from me kept trying to look up the kilt. That made me smile. Wonder what she would have done if she had caught sight of the lipstick?*wink* Happy Nude Year!

Och! Me suits arrived! Verra verra nice. (Sorry, I can't help it. The book I'm reading has my brain trying to say everything with a Scottish accent since that's how they talk in the book, it taking place in the Scottish Highlands, some 250 years ago and all) I know... I know... "pictures! pictures!!" (in the daylight, rest at ease. You know me, Mr. (atrophying) Narcissus...

A Ginormous Prescription!

I left work an hour early today to use up a bit of my overtime, as I didn't have that much to do. When I got home I took a detour to the drugstore in my neighbourhood and asked them if they could fill the prescription I got from the doctor the other day for the pain in my lower back.

Little did I realize it would be this huge!

As the pharmacist gave it to me I burst out laughing, and promised her I would blog this baby.

I have to say, I have never, in my life, received a prescription this Ginormous.

And I thought I would share these "shippu" or plasters, with you.

*laughing*

I love you!
Cam