Spring time

First off, Happy New Year everyone! The next year in the zodiac is the Ox (my brother is an Ox). So happy Ox year too (The Chinese new year starts January, 26Th).

I know, I know it just became winter a little while ago but I already can't wait for spring! Spring is my favorite season, the weather is nice and a bunch of delicious fruits grow in spring (such as strawberry's, my favorite!). On a different note I'm using the laptop again but this time it's upstairs! O_O Woah! I see this coming in handy a lot during the spring semester!

Lately my spelling and grammar have been pretty bad. I hardly even write English outside of my blog and e-mails. Blah :p. I guess I should probably work on them more...

Did you know that it's good luck to eat Buckwheat (Soba) noodles on New Year's Eve? It's also very traditional to eat mochi on New Year's Day. So yesterday I made Soba and Miso soup and today we'll have green tea ice cream mochi (we couldn't find the regular kind... I don't think Trader Joe's caries the kind with red bean (Azuki bean) inside... Oh well, this kind is still made by pounding dough in a wooden mortar type of thing with large mallets! I would love to make mochi sometime. I think Little Tokyo in Los angles had a festival like that but, I'm pretty sure I missed it. Oh well, maybe I can go next year.

I was around a bunch of guitar playing yesterday and became somewhat inspired to play the guitar everyday. It's very difficult though because my dad sleeps in until very late in the day and by the time he leaves it's already dark so it's more difficult to see the guitar strings. But he is getting a new schedule soon that will let me play the guitar in the actually day! I can tell, this year is going to be awesome! We already have a bunch of stuff planned. Getting into JA2, moving into a nice house by the beach, making bento boxes for mom, getting guitar lessons... The list goes on.

It's weird, every time I select a thumbnail size for the little picture when I'm posting a update it comes out it's regular size... I should probably mess with the HTML a little next time...

Toshiba

Yesterday the family (Dad, Mom, Bro and I) went to Best Buy and got a Toshiba Laptop/Notebook (whatever people call them), and then today we got a wireless router so right now I'm typing this on the dining room table! I'm geeking out! Hehehe.

Besides the recent update in our tech nothing's really been going on here. I've been sleeping in instead of watching anime. I've just been so tired lately.... But, I have been translating everything that I've heard into Japanese (as well as possible at least).

Oh! Tonight I'm going to a New Year's Eve party at one of my friend's house. I don't know how long I'll be able to last though. It probably didn't help that I was listening to The Beatles a lot today. I was going to make Glazed Meatballs from Bento Boxes:Japanese Meals On The Go by Naomi Kijima. But, I forgot to get an onion and i don't know how it would turn out without it... So NOW I have to try and find something to get/make that only takes 30 minutes or less! Speaking of bento boxes, I ordered egg molds from J-list.com and they couldn't get here soon enough!!! Since my mom will start a new job as a Relater I'll be the one to take care of the house mostly and make her a bento box everyday! I don't mind either though. I like hard work, which is why I just don't understand it when kids say "No! I don't want to do the dishes!" or something like that.

Here's another update, I got a new skateboard the other day! I don't know where my other one went. It's not like me to loose things (That's my brother's job)... So my new deck is an Enjoi (Haha that ISN'T a type-o, it's actually spelt that way) with a black and white panda on it, argyle trucks and black skull and crossbones wheels. It looks so awesome! I've almost learned how to do an Ollie! Breaking with the tail end of the board is still a bit difficult though... :p Anyways I should be heading out on the ol' dusty trail... Sayonara!