Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Life can drop kick you....just because it felt like it!

Life...everyone has one...unless you're dead or haven't existed....anyways...

Life isn't like a box of chocolate like Forrest Gump put it. Well unless that box of chocolates round kicks you in the gut and pile drives into your back when you go to the ground.

It's like all the bad things want to happen at the SAME or around the same time! First you find out your family goes and betrays you. Then the next day you get accused for something you didn't do. And it piles on all the other $#^t that you have to deal with. errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

On Saturday I was shocked to find out that someone else has decided to "unquit" from the Nakayama Minyo Kai. (lol, unquit isn't a word according to spell check) Even though they only share the same last name as me, she was still family. Plus we did talk after quitting Nakayama. She mentioned how she didn't understand how it all happened and why. Now I KNOW all the things we talked about will come to bite me in the @$$!

How can you quit something and then go back? 1--You said that you cannot get along with the person that is kinda running the classes now. 2--You made the excuse that your husband didn't want you dancing anymore. 3--You didn't want to be 名取 and want the responsibilities of 名取 but blamed your husband for encouraging you to get it. 4--You don't really want to perform.....or was all this just LIES! I still cannot believe people can turn like that. When you have doubts about your decision, it means you really didn't want to do it in the first place.

Then there's my other family member that keeps hounding me things. She says she's okay waiting for me to finish trying to get her pictures onto her computer, but once a week she's been asking if I have time to meet her and do it. How can you tell me you understand that I am busy and that it doesn't have to be anytime soon?! I mean majority of your pictures of pictures with your EX-husband. Why dwell on the past? You say that you are hurt and you are over it....but why hound me about the pictures. I know there are other pictures in the bunch, but what's so important about them (unless you were going to try and get a job as a floral arranger?). I mean if you TELL me the importance of wanting something done, then I will try and free up some space in my schedule to do it!

Wow, I didn't know how I wanted to rant this much in this blog....Wait, there's more!!!

I thought my stress would be a little less with the tax season being done....never assume anything. Once you do, that's when all hell breaks loose! I did mess up at work but to be accused for something I didn't do...now that's messed up! I HATE when people assume things about me! Don't assume, just ask! So I got a call from Scott asking if he should take vacation since his boss was offering. At the same time, I guess my coworker was talking to someone else on the other line. While I was talking on the phone with Scott, my boss came to hand me my mail and assumed I was talking to my coworker (I NEVER talk to my coworker over the intercom....we always talk face-to-face). Soon enough, my other boss comes in (and I'm still talking to Scott) and waits until I get off the phone. Then I get a lecture about how I me and my coworker have to stop talking so much. At first I didn't think too much into it since we did talk a lot last week. So I thought they were referring to last week. But when I got lectured by both of them, I kinda put 2 and 2 together. I got upset...but what can I do. My boss was already irritated and I didn't want to add to that so I bit my tongue. But it really gets to me that they would assume something like that.

Part of me wants me to tell Scott that he got me in trouble...but the moment has passed.

Only missed a day. Monday was too draining to write this rant. I guess my blog is still somewhat daily....for now!

Monday, April 16, 2012

Fail!....More Like Uber Fail!

Somewhat daily report, huh?!?!

I was waiting for someone to make that comment. Of course it would have to be someone who was actually following my blog...which is like only 3 people!

For about 2 months I have been on hiatus from this blog. Every time I try to free up time for going on to the computer....I fall asleep or my brain is too tired to function!

I can't remember the last blog I wrote. I don't even know when the last time I even posted. I am pretty sure it was before going Japan. Life just got so hectic in February!

Japan....oh how I miss thee. Maybe I should find a place to live in Japan! If I could manage that.......life would be perfect! In the past 5 years, I have gone to Japan 7 times!!!! That's at least once a year. For the past 2 years I have been going twice. Last year I went an extra time for personal reasons. I really had to get out of the state. This year it was to go to the Tokyo Marathon and in 4 months I will be going for Obon festival (I want to see the mountains be lit on fire!).

Tokyo Marathon is an experience that I will remember the rest of my life! 1--It was super cold. 2--I got my first injury from running! 3--I made friends with total strangers going to the starting line. 4--I got to see Japanese celebrities that participated in the marathon. 5--The energy from the people cannot be describe (to be close....AMAZING!). 6--I got an awesome medal and towel for completing the marathon in the allotted time! 7--Got to witness the kindness of others when someone hurled on the sidewalk after the marathon. 8--Got to cut through the coned off area so I didn't have to walk all the way around to get to my hotel (the shortest distance between 2 points is a straight line!).

I learned a few things from the Tokyo Marathon. 1--Wear warmer clothes cause I know I would've had less bathroom breaks if I was a little warmer. 2--Amino Value goes through your system faster than sports drinks in America (hence the many bathroom breaks). 3--Don't go climbing 1,000+ steps the day after the marathon!

After coming back from Japan, I experience the same reverse culture shock each year. Every year, it gets more and more intense. This time, I think I am still in it. Sometimes it hits me with depression....sometimes it hits me with frustration (a first for me to experience this year). Life seems strange to go from a metropolitan pace back to a country pace. Maybe if I go to Japan a few more times, Maui may be too small a place for me....nah I always get back to "normal" from my trips.

Before going to Japan, tax season started for me. It's a good way for me to make some extra $$$ (gotta pay for my trips somehow). Once I came back from Japan, I went straight to work. Craziness! After travelling for over 12 hours and only having 4 hours of sleep, I went to work! What a dumb idea!!! In the end, I left early because my brain shut down on me.

Today was the last day for me for this tax season. Time flies so fast! It doesn't seem like it's been 2 months. Maybe it's because I had so many returns to do this year. I know I should start studying for the CPA test so I can be more accredited to do tax returns....but I just can't find the time and the $$$. Of course I could sacrifice my Japan trips.....I don't think so...not yet!

What's next in my hectic schedule for this year....Obon season. May is the start with the Maui Matsuri. *sigh* I still have to finish sewing my club uniform! Plus, I would have to keep my other blog updated when the season starts. I also can pick up my running training now that tax season is done. I decided to participate in the Maui Marathon Warrior Challenge. I would have to run a 10K and 1 mile dash the day before running the full marathon. Before the marathon I have my other trip to Japan...which means I have to start planning my trip from now. Another thing that I should be planning is my wedding! After being engaged for over a year (?!?!) I finally figured out when I want to get married....November 1, 2014. What's the significance to me...it's Hello Kitty's birthday....meaning Hello Kitty theme wedding. I wonder if my cousin would destroy the reception decor....

Sometimes I want to take a sabbatical from life when I think of the things I have to do....but is there such a thing. I've posed this question before and I have come to the conclusion that you could and it wouldn't be death....it would be a drug-induced coma.

Gosh it takes me forever to write out a blog. It doesn't help I am multitasking while blogging. I am finishing up something I promised to my mom I would have done....LAST WEEK! Plus I am watching We TV to get some wedding inspiration. Sunday is "Wedding Sunday" on the TV station. Maybe with my kitschy theme, David Tutera would come to Hawaii and change the wedding.....a girl can dream!

We'll see if things change for this blog....I'm not making any bets....