English Diary Futile Daydream

• 2007/07/31 alternate hope and fear
• 2007/07/30 duty of mowing
• 2007/07/28 beef cutlet
• 2007/07/27 Do you know the name?
• 2007/07/26 lose weight and keep it off
• 2007/07/25 saute
• 2007/07/23 This is not food blog
• 2007/07/21 delicious
• 2007/07/20 I'm busy
• 2007/07/19 Roast pork noodles
• 2007/07/18 rainy season
• 2007/07/17 stir-fries
• 2007/07/15 the gifts
• 2007/07/14 insect molting
• 2007/07/13 silver line noodle
• 2007/07/12 "as the gray"
• 2007/07/12 Raw noodles
• 2007/07/11 fine gold
• 2007/07/10 Fried rice of curry flavor
• 2007/07/09 dining out
• 2007/07/07 griddle cake
• 2007/07/06 Gardening
• 2007/07/05 kalanchoe
• 2007/07/04 In Beijing Airport
• 2007/07/03 costly feast?
• 2007/07/02 din-din
• 2007/07/01 Fresh vegetables

Monday
My weight : 58.80kg
The distance I ran : 6.2km / 20min
Sit-ups : 180times
Body fat percentage : 26.1%
BMI ： 21

Wow!  I gained some weight. Why?

Is the reason because I drank beer too much? or did I go to "the bread all-you-can-eat restaurant"? 

Of course I ate bread more than ten. But it is natural, the bread is small. It was the treat of a person, and I had to eat, besides.

Do you want to see a photograph of bread and the lunch?  Sorry you cannot see it. Because I was very busy then by eating chattering and bread.

I show only a photograph of the last tea.

It was hot and humid this weekend. 

I do not like weeding, but had to do it from morning on Saturday.  I couldn't pick up all, so did it after the lunch again.

I weeded on Sunday over again. The place that I dislike most, it is the backyard of my house. Various insects such as hairy caterpillars or green caterpillars inhabit there.

Long time ago, I had found a snake's cast there. Therefore I want to always clean the place though am afraid of going into there. It is very hard duty.

When I weeded, I found a cicada which had just finished shedding. The color of the wings were still pale and did not seem to dry yet. It must have hated to be taken a photograph.

I cooked beef cutlet.
Because meat was on bargain sale for steak , I bought it.

The Beef cutlet which I made busily between work and work was delicious, but .......

I had no time, so I fried it with being big. It was failure. I was not able to bite it off with a mouth.

I decided to took a knife and a fork to cut it unwillingly,  but deep fry batter peeled at a time. It was not fried food anymore, already became just the piece of meat. I regretted that I did not cut it small.

The photograph, it was cut?  I'm sorry, I can not show you it. Because it is too unsightly.

Friday
My weight : 58.10kg
The distance I ran : 6.1km / 20min
Sit-ups : 160times
Body fat percentage : 25.5%
BMI ： 21

A tree bloomed in my garden.

But I cannot remember the name.

I cut the branch under the tree, but could not cut the top either.
Therefore there are flower only on the top.

My husband knows all the names of the plants in the garden, but it does not belong to me.

Though I think the flower is surely beautiful, I always think that some hairy caterpillars will fall from there. Pretty scary.

"Are not you ashamed to write your weight in this blog? "  I am sometimes asked by someone.

But I realized I could work out a lot when I wrote this. I can get challenging from writing.

 Wednesday
My weight : 57.05kg
The distance I ran : 6.4km / 20min
Sit-ups : 180times
Body fat percentage : 25.6%
BMI ： 20

Recently my weight decreased.
Because I  am a small eater, everyone knows it, I think it to be have decreased.

By the way, this beer is delicious and is easy to drink, though I want to drink the "Kirin-rugger" if possible.
I can drink anything other than basically strong liquor.

When quantity of the liquor decreases, my weight seems to be down. I cannot drink the liquor very much not only I eat lightly. It is very healthy. 

Tuesday
My weight : 57.50kg
The distance I ran : 7.2km / 20min (maybe,it's my best)
Sit-ups : 200times
Body fat percentage : 25.8%
BMI ： 20

How ordinary dish it is!

There were no meats in my refrigerator.
But only frozen cod was waiting for me.

I covered it with flour and sauteed it with butter.
Because I didn't like the way, I added curry powder from the top of it last.

The outside was crispy and good. Every time the curry powder makes me hungry.

Is this a gourmet blog?
No, it is not, it is an English blog.

My husband said to me when I cooked. "Do you take a photograph?  Why don't you write Blog about it?". 

I answered. "It seems to be totally food blog, but I don't think so."

He thinks this blog is a food blog.  I just can't take it!  but I took a photograph he told. After all it must be a food blog.

This is supper of the weekend.
I went shopping and bought a helping of various kinds of the sashimi. 
It was easy, I just opened the cover.

I set various plates, the hot salad of the pumpkin / clam with butter / the tofu served cold / fried long green pepper / Nemacystus decipiens (mozuku?)

Yes, of course. They were so delicious, and I was so full I didn't have room for sweets.

I got assorted fruit as a midyear gift and am glad

You can see, it is not oil nor detergent.
I have ever got the apple and the mandarin orange, but it may be the first time that I have been given grape and peach set.

The grape was very sweet. Because I already did the tasting, I know how delicious it was! 
But I do not yet eat the peach.
I put the peach in a refrigerator to cool, and am looking forward to eating.

It's so exciting!
I intend to eat it when I finish work!  peach! peach!

Huh?  Don't you know?  I am a scrooge, I have not bought such expensive peach,  skinflint!   awful miser ! Which words will be fit to me?

I was very busy yesterday.
I worked from morning to night.
My stomach rumbled zzzz then.

I know overeating becomes a cause of my body weight gain. But I could not help eating.

A starving woman ate 2 servings of cold noodle in no time. It was very nice. Particularly thick noodles were rare and were delicious.

At night, I prepared the supper which served ”a la carte" in a plate for my family.

Bcause, clearing away the dirty dishes becomes easy, though I use a automatic washing-up.

What a busy woman I am!  But there seems to be time to write English blog.

I went out for trivial routine duties from morning yesterday.

There is a family restaurant called S*****k close to the place where I go.  And I went there about 1 month ago.

I ordered a lunch set for 500 yen at the restaurant. I was surprised at excessive cheapness and bad, and was not able to eat all.

The deep-fried food was hard, too fatty and much quantity. I had not been to the restaurant for over several years. I ate it a mouthful and thought I have failed. My stomach was had until night.

As I became a little smart, ate ramen yesterday.  My stomach was good until night!

But, in fact, I wanted to eat takoyaki.......a lots.

It is difficult for me to write something in English.

I participated in ranking, and two weeks passed. And I was able to belong under best 10 that I did not think about. I feel really glad.

Having been to participate in ranking is good for me. I used the English that seemed to be doubtful as ever, but feelings to want to use the right English increased somehow.

By the way, the rainy season is not yet over. The big typhoon came, too.
I found the raspberry which turned violet when I weeded of my garden in an interval of the rain.

I left weeding to my husband so far, but do it by myself, there can be the sometimes good.

This is a fry-up of brown alga (hijiki) with tofu.

It is not eaten at the parents' house of my husband. I guess, they are the people of the mountain, so don't eat it.

I have never been said to be delicious by my husband's family.

I know it is not good look, but delicious. I am interested in how the other people eat this.

Tuesday
My weight : 57.65kg
The distance I ran : 7.1km / 20min
Sit-ups : 170times
Body fat percentage : 26.2%
BMI ： 21

A thing of my husband is my thing.
And of course, my thing is my thing.

I am glad to get a midyear gift sent to him.

I get presents more than my husband, but most of them are detergent and cooking oils.

Appetizing beer and many kinds of delicacies have been always sent to him.

But I do not mind it.
Because, all of the gifts sent to him are mine.

I met with a insect molting last night.

I actually wanted to eat only thin noodles.

"But I thought physical strength keep(s?) as I had eaten vegetables, an egg and bacon."........MEN WORKING....... forever and ever...

Ha-ha. How is it?  I tried to use "as". Is it correct?

Recently the frying pan which I used became old. An omelet on the plate looks squishiness, but it is not my fault. The frying pan is getting bad and an egg is stuck.

Though it does not matter, the noodle of the photograph is "Ibo-no-ito". Because my husband likes it, my whole family likes it too. But I love the "Handa soumen" of my country of birth.

I intended to buy it by direct marketing on NET last year and looked for. However, my favorite thin noodles were not sold.

Does not somebody send it to me as a midyear gift?

"They were dreaming of golden beaches as the gray, cold spring of New York vanished behind them."

How?  How should I translate this English sentence?

Does "as the gray" modify "New York"?  Are there any person understanding this?  Teach it to me.......   tooooo difficult.....

It is very hot in July,  but is slightly cool only by rain for these few days.

I made the ramen which had been sent from my family home. Sweat flowed!. I ate it using an electric fan.

This seems to be famous ramen in Tokyo ; It was written so on the package. But I do not remember the name as always. At any rate, the photographs of the ramen which I made look same all.

It was delicious even if the looking was bad, it was good and I could be happy.

A ring of pure gold.

Because my husband paid with Chinese money, I cannot remember it clearly how much on earth this was.

I think it was a price of the starting salary of the university graduate or higher then that in China.

I have not bought purely gold accessories in Japan because it is expensive. These prices are different by a design in Japan. But abroad, a price is fixed by the weight. I like the way.

Above all, I am glad that the jewelry which is more beautiful than being expensive was available.

Of course I pay heartfelt thanks and respects to my husband who bought this. 

Lunch to eat alone.

I made fried rice because I found that rice was left in an electronic thermos.

As I realized Chinese soup stock was run out then,  made it curry taste.
I fried cut cooking ingredients and rice over a high heat as usual.

The seasonings which I used are curry powder / oyster source / salt and pepper / and Worcester sauce.

Though it was very delicious, the completed fried rice had very much quantity （It is a usual thing for me）.   I was not able to eat all these because of  " I eat like a bird .".

My stomach was full until supper time on that day.

I went to eat barbecued chicken.
All of you can see only dishes, though.

It was weeding of my garden from noon yesterday.
And today, I went out for the park cleaning as a  volunteer,  from 8:00AM.

After return, I intended to do cleaning of my garden again, but I had a pain in a thumb and a forefinger of both hands and was not able to do it.

I did not cook by the reason of it.

Come to think of it, I had not had any barbecued chickens for a long time.
The cool draft beer after having walked was really delicious.

A delicious pancake was done.

As there was milk that it was past the expiration date a little in a refrigerator, I decided to bake a pancake with it.

Because quantity of milk was a little too much to bake a pancake, I decided to bake it with more eggs.

I expected its taste might become bland, and added sugar and vanilla essence.

I was surprised. Because it was soft and fluffy, and a wet extremely completely delicious pancake.

Yummy, yummy!

Cleaning of my garden between rain and rain.

I found a nest of the Paper wasp accidently then.

They working for the making of nest busily seems to be totally me.

I felt a sense of closeness for them, but have atomized a large quantity of insecticides towards them while thinking that I am sorry.

By the way, a rosemary tree of my garden lets some flower bloom year in and year out.

Long time ago, only once I used it for meat as a herb when I cooked.

Thereafter I have not used this then. The reason is because my family said it was a little stinky.

I have heard that people of the West countries plant rosemary to delete bad smell of a graveyard. Whenever my clothes touch this tree, it is fragrant.

It is form of string strawberry.
All most of petals are disappeared, and some green fruit grew big.

But this is not edible.

Friday
My weight : 58.65kg
The distance I ran : 6.5km / 20min
Sit-ups : 190times
Body fat percentage : 26%
BMI ： 21

I was growing up a few potted kalanchoe for a long time by a window, but already gave it up.

When indoor, at all time I left them no water. The color was bad and few leaves.

Even if summer came, it did not bloom. I decided to gather them to a big flowerpot of one because of that.

There are both sunlight and water enough now. Therefore this flower can let beautiful green leaves and beautiful flower blooms.

The sun and rain are grand. I am not used greatly.

My husband wanted to eat Japanese udon.
But I wanted to eat Chinese food more. 
He took me to a place such as fast food-town of Sinicism.

After all I wanted to eat noodles, because I love noodles.
I sat down to secure a place for my family.

My husband paid the shop money, and the shopstaff carried ramen afterwards.

I tasted in everything which he ordered.
The noodles such as a won ton noodles were the frightful volume.

There was the fried rice a lot so as to seem to overflow a plate, but I am surprised at nothing anymore.

However, I was not able to eat all these. I felt it slightly regrettable.

Wednesday
My weight : 57.90kg 
The distance I ran : 5.9km / 20min
Sit-ups : 180times
Body fat percentage : 26%
BMI ： 21

Is there any person who want to eat this?

Do you see they live?

Does poison disappear if it is baked?

This is a feast which my family found in the last morning in China.

If there is a person who wants to eat grilled sea horses and scorpions, I recommend him (or ker) to go to Beijing by all means.

How about you?
   Do you want to g.........?

Me?   no!  never, I won't go...... Because I am full now.

Tuesday
My weight  :  57.95kg 
The distance I ran ： 6.9km / 20min
Sit-ups : 160times
BMI ： 21

It is routine work of my weekend that prepare meals deliciously.

I found fresh Kawatsu lobster today in a supermarket near my house.

And I covered these with wheat flour thinly and fried them, and sprinkled salt lightly from the top.
They were extremely delicious.

I bought sashimi of sea bass and sea bream too, and in addition, I cooked a lot.

A lot of vegetables have been sent from my country though I cannot remember when it was.

Anyway I eat the cabbage which changed seasoning almost every day now.

I made fresh salad with cheese, sesame vinegared cabbage, and some squash seasoned in salted rice-bran paste.

Of course the wine of this day was white.