English Diary Futile Daydream

• 2007/10/31 Self-admiration
• 2007/10/30 Passport
• 2007/10/28 Festive red rice
• 2007/10/27 Drinking Game
• 2007/10/26 Saffron crocus
• 2007/10/25 Zen Zai
• 2007/10/24 Gyoza
• 2007/10/23 Country cooking
• 2007/10/22 Exam
• 2007/10/19 Monomania
• 2007/10/18 Rootless
• 2007/10/16 The leftovers
• 2007/10/15 Hello
• 2007/10/14 Cooking
• 2007/10/12 Baked Goods
• 2007/10/11 Fig
• 2007/10/10 Mimic coloring
• 2007/10/09 Sweltering
• 2007/10/08 That's how it is,
• 2007/10/07 Trivial matter
• 2007/10/06 Red leaves
• 2007/10/05 Visitation
• 2007/10/04 Cluster-amaryllis
• 2007/10/03 Potatoes
• 2007/10/02 My mug
• 2007/10/01 Great Amberjack

In next spring, my passport is to be expired. It means ten years are going to pass since I began to go on overseas travel. For ten years, I turned around to see many countries.

The countries which I have ever visited are as follows. Belgian, Spain, Turkey, Greece,  Netherland, Italy, Austria, German, Hungary, Korea, Czech, Hawaii (US), AUS, Taiwan, and China. I went to Italy twice, and went to China three times in those. And I planned going to France and Singapore, but canceled them by some reasons.

When I am absent from home, my family makes a hullabaloo. But, as it is my holiday, I leave them at home. Now all of my family are not surprised at the souvenirs. Even if it is Greek liquor or Hangarian foie gras. In fact, japanese foods and sake are the best for us. 

Well I must take the passport next year if I can go somewhere. I made lunch for my family while thinking about such a thing.

They say the poor lunch is better than nothing. So I put any foods on their lunch boxes everyday. That's how is it.

Tuesday
My weight : 57.90kg
Body fat percentage : 27.3%
The distance I ran : 4.9km / 16min
Sit-ups : 190times
Stretch training : 20min

The other day, Sushi and Sekihan of the autumn festival have been sent me from my mother-in-law.

I like steamed rice with red beans since being a small child. And she can cook it well, I'm so happy.

That is cooked with home-grown chestnut, glutinous rice and beans. It is more delicious than the marketing product.

But I cannot eat this mackerel sushi.

The Sushi is made of salted mackerel. Salt is removed with vinegar, and the fish is put on the rice of the size of a bomb.

Though my husband eat it which has begun to melt away, I can't!

It is called " Sushi fermanted with fish and vegetables(nare-suhsi)",isn't it?  I want to eat Sekihan, but I don't need it!

Asahi Suntory Kirin.

Recently there are a lot of new brands. But I do not know which is more delicious. Then I bought 3 cans and drank Suntory at a night.

I intended to drink those all, but was full and was not able to drink. When I finished work the next day and looked in a refrigerator, Kirin was drunk up by someone.  Today, I will go shopping and get something new.

The saffron smells good. I bought.

Mold grows if I soak it in water early. Therefore I left them in darkness, under the shoe cupboard. A bud appears when I look incidentally.

The last bulb produced a bud without permission, too, and a flower appeared without permission. Because it did not give a root, I put it on soil.

It is natural, but the bulb lives regardless of my intention without permission. I do not know it, but a dried-up spider is overturned at the bottom of the pot without the water and is dead. It is annoying.

Friday
My weight : 58.25kg
Body fat percentage : 26.2%
Body fat : 15.2kg
BMI ：21

The distance I ran : 6.0km / 20min
Sit-ups : 160times
Stretch training : 20min

I cooked "Red bean soup with pieces of rice cake". What a long name it is! Because culture is different, the people speaking English don't eat it and don't have word to express this.

However there are a lot of frozen rice cakes in the freezer of my house, because my mother-in-law sends a large quantity of rice cakes. It is full of a rice cake and rice year in and year out.

Of course I dump a heaping teaspoons of sugar into it. It was tooooo delicious!

Last weekend, I cooked Gyoza. Of course I have not cooked it for several years.

Anyway, when I make sushi, gyoza or the other elaborate cookings, my family get near to me. And they sometimes help me with cooking and eat secretly.

I intended to make boiled gyoza at the start. But the wheat dough for it which I bought in a supermarket is thin and can break it immediately.

So I changed my plan, and made Yaki-Gyoza. I cannot cook like a pro, but was content with that. Wrapped Ginger, garlic, meat and leek  were very delicious.

Though my hands have been getting rough, cooking is fun.

Wednesday
My weight : 57.45kg
Body fat percentage : 26.3%
Body fat : 15.1kg
BMI ：21

The distance I ran : 6.1km / 20min
Sit-ups : 180times
Stretch training : 20min

I cooked cuttlefish and potato.

There was a master of a small restaurant, he was a friend of my hubby. Cooked small potato and cuttlefish by him was very delicious.

I sometimes imitate him and cook such a Nimono.

I can also cook rolled egg well. I like the smell. It has appetizing smell. And its taste is same as the omelet which my mother made.

The pickle is a side dish which is always set up on the table in my home. Though it does not have good color, I like one too pickled a little.

I sprinkle juice of the Citrus sudachi on them and eat. I relish autumn. Autumn Eating, what kind of delicious foods do you eat?

I was hungry.

Yesterday was a day of Eiken. I went out for an examination of quasi-second grade from morning. And I took the second grade from after noon.

In the morning, I got off a station. There were neither any restaurants nor convenience stores. Reluctantly I bought bread and tea in a bakery, and ate in the interval of the tests. How poor the meal was!

I cannot think anything without eating. Therefore, after lunch I ate this which I brought from my home.

The tests were over at past 3:00pm. Despite I ate chocolate and did best, my brain did not work well.  And I was hungry so badly. Surely my heart must starve because lunch was poor.

I got home past 4:00pm. A cup of instant noodle greet me in a good-natured way then.

Today sure was a long day.

Monday
My weight : 58.70kg
Body fat percentage : 26.3%
Body fat : 15.4kg
BMI ：21

The distance I ran : 6.1km / 20min
Sit-ups : 180times
Stretch training : 20min

I get into things 

A bookshelf is fitted up a wall, all over of a corridor in front of a restroom. Because I didn't want to fill a living room with many books, I asked my husband to make this.

When I came to look for a certain book, these books stood out. I liked a writer, Ms.Nagai Michiko. Can you see?  there are a lot of books written by her more than a bookstore.

It came into bloom. But I cannot smell a flower. I think this flower doesn't have many fragrances.

This is not obedient, besides. Despite I soaked it in water, this does not throw out roots.

This lets the flower bloom only with the nourishment of the bulb without roots.

I wanted to enjoy both the flower and the root. Because there are not roots, growing for pleasure is cut by half.

How do you think of such a way of life?  Do you think such a rootless lifestyle can get life well?

I cook by using the leftovers.

Leftover rice, leftover Kimuchi, leftover vegetables, leftover Shark's fin soup.

If there is beer of the autumn limitation that I found at a supermarket, the leftovers menu is good too.

Hello everyone. It seems to have become autumn. And it is a little cold only wearing a T-shirt.

I am a pretty rabbit. The reason why my face shines slipperily is that I am made by crepe.

When I am cold, I will be wrapped up in futon. But, I am not merely wrapped up in green futon.

By the way, do not you think that I resemble something? Please guess my name.

I cooked Chinese sweet potato. I have not  cooked this for years.

I fry it and make it sweeten up with starch syrup. I know how to cook. But I made Japanese-style syrup with corse sugar without using starch syrup. The sweetness is natural and very delicious.

This is the fried-up brown alga.

Because I am not always go shopping, I have little number of the cooking ingredients on that day.

So I fried it with deep-fried tofe and ate. Familiar taste is good. But.....what quite common dishes they are! 

My husband was given this by a co-worker of the company. 　

It says "The baked confectionery".  I thought it was a kind of batter cake or sponge cake.

But it was different than most other cakes. It was kneaded caramel with fragment of the walnut. The sweet caramel melted in my mouth, and I thought it dissolved my all of teeth. It was too sweet!

I was told that this was a noted cake in Kamakura, was it true?

Friday
My weight : 58.25kg
Body fat percentage : 26.4%
Body fat : 15.3kg
BMI ：21

The distance I ran : 5.5km / 20min
Sit-ups : 170times
Stretch training : 20min

I always do stretch after working out.
I have love handles spare tire, and when I do stretch, it is obstructive.
An elderly man who met at the gym said to me,
" A plump woman like you is prettier than skinny one."
I will think carefully about that whether to be pleased or not.

I like fig. I found a pack with three when I went shopping.

I thought that I could eat alone. My family does not like fig. I let it always remain if I bought a pack with five ~ six. The fruit which has begun to go bad is not delicious.

It was shipped by suburban farmhouse. Perhaps I think they were harvested after having become ripe. I was satisfied with a delicious sweet, fresh fig very much. My stomach was full again.

 The grasshopper intends to hide. Even if I approach, it does not move. Surely it is the same as leaves, and it might think that invisible.

 I pecked a grasshopper with my finger. Then it took a step backward in surprise.  Moreover it set out its tactoreceptor and squared off.

 That's funny, it is still fancy oneself as the leaves. Though the grasshopper is a harmful insect absorbing the juice of the leaf, I forgave it, because it was too cute.

Wednesday
My weight : 58.15kg
Body fat percentage : 26.3%
Body fat : 15.2kg
BMI ：21

The distance I ran : 6.3km / 20min
Sit-ups : 190times
Stretch training : 20min

Tuesday
My weight : 58.35kg
Body fat percentage : 26.3%
Body fat : 15.3kg
BMI ：21

The distance I ran : 6.5km / 20min
Sit-ups : 190times
Stretch training : 20min

I was not able to go to the gym for one week because of busy. So I got sweat a lot at the gym. However, my weight is unchanged even if I eat roasted meat. Good!

I went to eat Yakiniku by car with my hubby. I drank draft beer, and he drank oolong tea. It is the right rule in my home.

I ate choiced beef and he ordered some organ meat. As I cannot eat Hormone, I cannot remember what he ordered. Probably I paid for them about six thousand yen.

By the way, my hubby seems to attend his health recently. It was the first time that I saw he ordered such a vegetable salad at a Yakiniku restaurant. He wanted to eat a lots of vegetable.....maybe.

It's a Bibimbap. He ordered it too. And he wanted to teach me how to eat it....maybe. But I have had it twice,  in HAWAII and in KOREA. So I know how to eat it well.

But even if I know how to do it,  He always grills and serves meat into my plate one by one, and scoops me Bibimbap. I let him have his own way, it's a right rule too.

Therefore I eat the meat while drinking beer. I grow up more and more in this way. I do not know whether he is full, but I am full. That's how it is.

One of the movies, I have watched it many times, Matrix. Today, I've finally got the story.

Come to think of it, I don't have the time to watch any movies because of my job. I always watch movies living on TV halfway.

I do not mind it very much, but a movie of TV is only an information like a scrap in my head.

I have been said by a friend. "You move so much."  When I watch TV, I serve tea or dessert for my family and me, and it is cleared up soon after having tea. So there is no time to feel relaxed.

By the way, I had thought the meaning of Matrix was the Determinant of matrix that I learned at a university. Now, I'm wondering. There are some meanings, Mother's body or Determinant.

In this case which meaning matches? Does this want to suggest it from programming?  How do you think of it?

There are three dogwoods in my garden. The leaves turn red before other trees turn red.

As I asked gardeners to trim the trees to make it look better, I cannot find red nuts on the trees though the flower was bloomed in early summer. Is it right?

The blueberry has been eaten by birds. Was the fruit of the American dogwood eaten, too?  I eat like a bird, but real bird is pig out. Accoding to the theory, I become a pig???

The way is crowded. A big supermarket nearby closes of remodeling. A patisserie nearby is bankrupted. I must put gas in my car.

It takes two hours for moving and shopping. When should I have lunch?

"Let's meet at half past 1"  I was said. I cannot but go out. I ate ramen restless.  The ramen of the trasport cafe of the highway was delicious unexpectedly. Fresh noodle was good and fried rice was good too. It was the same taste as a Chinese restaurant.

But serving of the meals was too late! though there were few customers. Do aunty make them late against the highway?

I found a lot of cluster amaryllises around the rice field and at the riverside when I drove down a road.

The cosmoses were in full bloom, too. Because it is still hot, I wear clothes of the summer, but it must be autumn if cosmos and cluster amaryllis bloom.

I put sliced potato in to brown with butter. The outside is crispy; and the butter taste is good.

I always cut it into pieces like a cake radially on the table and eat it with my family.

As various in kind of dishes are set,  we divide them into each plates. It seems to be a small party.

I don't think I'm a good cook, but to cook delicious dishes makes pleasant chat.

On a long autumn night, I took long time for supper and enjoyed it.

My favorit mug.  This is just my size.  Huh?  What is just or good?

Can you see a thing which stuck on yellow flower piece?  

Now, the world population seemd to have surpassed 6,600,000,000. Famine comes over in the world. The time is not far off.  

So day-and-night, I work hard to store excess fat for forthcoming famine before long in this way.  

 It is the just size for me to eat Mug Noodles.

Tuesday
My weight : 58.70kg
Body fat percentage : 26.6%
Body fat : 15.6kg
BMI ：21

The distance I ran : 6.0km / 20min
Sit-ups : 200
Stretch training : 20min