ヽ(≧∀≦)ﾉ Amazing April!!

Wow, it's April already.. a belated post. I have been on/off with my blogging lately, I'm sorry!
We had bad weather over the weekend, which is probably where I will start this long-ass blog and work backwards from it. Sunday we had 'typhoon' like winds, which were really strong, but it seemed the news over exaggerated  nonetheless I resisted going out, nursing a slight hang over and a really bad injury, self inflicted but it will be explained later.

   So skipping back two days now; my Boyfriend came home from work a little earlier than usual. Finally he announced he had 'big news' and explained he bumped into an old Friend. For personal reasons I can't go into details, but they hadn't spoken in over a year now and had a rather big spit. Anyway, long story short, they have made amends and decided to go drinking and he would introduce me to his Friend, Saturday night.
Saturday rolled around and we headed out to meet near the Game cen', oh yeah -- it was raining, like crazy. I hate rain, my hair was instant CURLS so, uggh. We met with another Friend, this one I know so I was okay. But everything was really well; Koko-chan (appropriately named by myself) is really amusing; his English is good too. He was shocked to hear about our relationship, but it was all later confirmed how it happened so we had more of an understanding. I unfortunately ended up drinking too much, again. This is my second time in my WHOLE lifetime that I have made myself sick from drinking. So now I've been demoted to soft drinks..
   We ended up on the subject of piercings and tattoos, Ko has a micro dermal and I'm touchy when I'm drunk so I wanted to look. He wasn't wearing the gem, so he presented it me from his wallet --- only then my Boyfriend dumped it into Ko's drink which caused me to freak out and whine at him. Weh, I understand there is some tension left so I'm allowing my Boyfriend to vent it out. WHICH is how I ended up with my injuries.
   Once I had stopped running back and forth from the bathroom, we ventured out into the RAIN and the COLD, we took shelter inside this little area to decide what to do next; but Ko was wearing a beanie hat which I thought would be smart to take it and wear it myself. I'm not even sure HOW I ended up on the floor, but the tiles were soaked and slippery and my boots aren't ideal since they too are slippery. So yeah, it was only the 'thud' of my head that made them notice I was on the floor, but BOY does my arm hurt. I've got a hefty bruise too. Fun. HAH so drunken antics over, we took purikura and went to do karaoke.
   My Boyfriend and Ko did multiple duets, it was sweet LOLGAY. The purikura is amusingly dumb too, I want more and I REALLY need to start learning to use my camera more, I have like, five photos on it! But I had a lot of fun; eventually I explained to my Boyfriend that I wanted to meet everyone again, and that Ko wasn't really that bad afterall -indepthmeaningfulconversation- and finally the puzzle pieces were put together.

   So, thats the last two days which I can 'recall'. Today is Monday and we are eating yesterdays curry. My Boyfriend literally made like, 10 people worth of curry, we had two dishes yesterday EACH, and one dish today each. We still have half a pan left; I'm just SO glad it's not pork, UGGH.

Well, despite now being in Japan, I am still doing my 10 monthly goals, even though I forget most of them..

April Goals:
♥ Take more photos!!
♥ Grab more Friends eMails etc etc..
♥ Take videos, I might take a couple.
♥ Manage a stable conversation in Japanese with Friends.
♥ Take a walk longer than usual; seriously, this area is so scenic.
♥ Get the courage to sit in a Cafe to study.
♥ Enjoy my time here; I already am but I am letting others ruin it.
♥ MAYBE: Finish flash cards for my Boyfriend..
♥ Enjoy April: Live Live Live!!
♥ Finally cook something 'British'

   Well, that's it. For the past few days I've been really motivated by my Friends here (yet again). My Boyfriend told Ko that he wants to go to England, since I have been here twice now. I guess once he goes to  England it will make everything all the more official, ya'know?
Sorry for the lengthy post and no pictures to show for it.

(｢･ω･)｢March Madness~☆

 

We are 3 days into March, and 3 months into the year! Scary. I have a lot planned for March, but it's doing the things I planned which becomes the problem. I've also been looking into 'Life Insurance' once I get a steady-able job away from agency work. Because the amount I travel.. however I may just take that money and set it aside as my own 'insurance'. I mean I could be paying £30 a month and NEVER ever in my life time actually use it?! It would be interesting to see it build up and it'll always be accessible for emergency!

February is over and already this year has been horribly eventful, so I am glad to see the back of February. After one of our cats passing away and various other personal issues, yeah - the month of 'Love' was not so loving after all.
March is always a good month for me, last year was amazing since I spent a couple weeks in Japan and so many good things happened. So lets hope this year, March treats me even better!! My Friend Sako is visiting in the next two weeks (I hope!) and we will be going shopping before she goes to Korea. I'm a little envious, however we have a pact that together we will go to Korea and Japan! I can't wait.

My ten march goals:

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☆ Last on my list -- find a reliable insurance company?

I really cannot think of ANYTHING right now that is not a repeat of February goals? I kinda did well and poorly at some. Kanji is a JOKE right now because of what is going on I can't focus clearly. I did pick up on a couple because of my Boyfriend teaching me however reading the kanji -- no no. I don't really get much support at home. So I try to study when everyone is away. I have ordered a book, which isn't anything to do with studying... but once I receive it and have read it I will probably write a small 'review' depending on how useful or up to date and reliable it is to people!

(。・ω・。) FABruary

I got this blog idea from Sarah; who got the idea from someone else, anyone else see a pattern? Hopefully my post will inspire someone else? Who knows! Anyway; basically this post is looking back on January, as well as making goals for February.

If I am honest, I am glad that January is over with, I did very little in January, and nothing amazingly big that I can look back on and think 'Wow! Go me!' I did however meet Toni in town. Which is maybe the best and only good thing to happen in January. Seriously I can not even remember a single thing I did in January. Apart from it snowing, lots and lots - which everyone complained about, but I loved it. I love snow. It also snowed in Japan, so I had a couple videos sent from my Boyfriend. We also had a 'Snowman building competition' which, his were just two snowballs stacked on top of one another.

My ten February goals will mainly be Japanese focused, so maybe to you they are pointless.

☆ Learn one or more kanji a day: tricky but not impossible.
☆ Learn one or more 'daily words': sounds pointless, but really useful.
☆ Learn one or more useful phrases a week.
☆ Keep up with my studying.
☆ Save for my next trip! Difficult, I'm in a total slump and hate everything.
☆ Clean my room and rearrange certain things until I am happy.
☆ Fix my wardrobe: stupid flat pack wardrobes! The back fell off. 
☆ Help/Pester my Father to tidy the attic to gather jumble to sell.
☆ Skype at least ONCE with my Boyfriend and Friends.
☆ Stay happy with myself.

I think one must have this month is getting to sleep earlier and waking up earlier. But it's so tempting to sit around waiting for my Boyfriend to say 'GOOD MORNING!' before I say 'GOOD NIGHT!' (ﾉ∀＼ )
Catching each other online the past few weeks has been very limited; and sometimes I wish we exchanged mail instead of Line messages because a whole paragraph in mail seems bigger; although we do talk a lot more via Line. But he is very busy with work and I need to understand that. Just one of the woes with having an LDR; my only complaint.

Recently I've been watching a Vlogger; and she is really becoming inspirational to me. Though I cannot explain how or why I like her videos either, because it's incredibly -- strange. Only a couple people know who I am talking about.
I also really wish Youtube allowed users to change their URL name.. I don't want to create a new channel, but I do want to start a vlog, perhaps. I feel full of motivation, but it's just not coming out as I want it to. Now I am so tired so; good night!