English Diary Futile Daydream

• 2007/12/28 Been busy
• 2007/12/27 Self-service style noodle shop
• 2007/12/26 Sweet potato
• 2007/12/24 Cute moss ball
• 2007/12/22 Western meal
• 2007/12/19 Roasted meat
• 2007/12/18 Pork medallion
• 2007/12/17 My bag
• 2007/12/14 Citrus fruit
• 2007/12/13 Shifted the scene
• 2007/12/12 In Hanamaki airport
• 2007/12/09 On the final day
• 2007/12/07 Motsuji Temple
• 2007/12/06 Hideous price
• 2007/12/05 Saffron
• 2007/12/04 Chuson-ji, Konjiki-dou
• 2007/12/03 Gee whiz
• 2007/12/02 Sea urchin bowl set
• 2007/12/01 Humidifier

Friday
My weight : 59.25kg
Body fat percentage : 25.80%
The distance I ran : 6.2km / 20min
Sit-ups : 160times
Stretch training : 20min 

I work until tomorrow within this year.

These last days, I work busily from morning to evening everyday. But today, I took a time out from my busy schedule to go to the gym.　I think that there were few housewives. I make a bet on it that they have been busy like me, and don't have time to come.

Wednesday
My weight : 58.45kg
Body fat percentage : 27.2%
The distance I ran : 6.1km / 20min
Sit-ups : 160times
Stretch training : 20min

A self-service style noodle shop, which I rarely went, was closed. I liked it and am sorry that was disappeared. But I found new one when I went to another shopping mall last time.

I took notice of the shop is managed by a noodle factory. I thank for delicious noodles after a long absence. I intend to often go to the shop from now on.

Do you like "Imo Kuri Nankin" ?  Imo means sweet potato, Kuri is chestnut, and Nankin is pumpkin. They are the words that my father said many times when I was a chiled.

He had a theory "Woman likes sweet potato chestnut and  pumpkin." Is it right?  Exactly. I like each of them. I sometimes make the sweet potato very sweeten up and eat. And I have baked it like a cake. But I do not have time to bake a cake now. So I fried it while cooking and made it sweet today. Yummy.

A winter vacation began. There is the time to take a nap even if I begin work from every morning. However, I do not have time to go out far.

Then I went to a shop nearby by car and killed time. And I bought a moss ball and the bulb of the crocus. It just fitted.

I am going to bring it up on a dining table in a living room.

Recently, I run into a friend of mine at a bank.

And I went to a new restaurant with her. I have never been to Italian restaurants alone. I always wondered what Japanese liked Italian cuisine.

Just as I thought, there were a lot of people eating pasta in the restaurant. Anyway I chatted with her while eating Japanese-style pasta, strange meal, that Italian did not eat.

When I went to Italy, I ate Italian food. And I eat Turkey food if I go to Turkey. However, the pasta to eat in Japan is too different from Italian.

Well, this picture is a lunch when I went out busily. It was not delicious, too. I do not like eating out at the Western style restaurants .

Tuesday
My weight : 58.20kg
Body fat percentage : 26.7% 
The distance I ran : 5.1km / 20min
Sit-ups : 160times
Stretch training : 20min

Wednesday
My weight : 57.6kg
Body fat percentage : 27.8% 
The distance I ran : 5.6km / 20min
Sit-ups : 160times
Stretch training : 20min

One day, I went to eat yakiniku, which was originally a korean food, with my husband.

We went to the same restaurant we usually went. I had three draft beers.

Afetr eating and drinking, he ordered cold noodle. Because I didn't care for that, I shared just a little bit of it with my family.

I think that the cold noodle which I ate in Morioka is the most delicious. Any way, I was satisfied with the meat and beer.

I bought a pack of pork on sale. I dislike fatty meat of beef and the pork, but am able to eat red meats.

On the day, I browned it lightly and then boiled in soup with some vegetables. I simmered it in spare moments from my work.

Though I simmer it for a long time, it is always soft. It can be a main dish of the supper and can be a side dish of lunch box, too.  I think it is not only healthy but also delicious and convinient.

At the time, I put hardboiled egg into it for lunch. I believe "Cooking" is " Anything-gose world".

I was busy last week. I spent last weekend at work. In addition, there was a funeral.

This is a picture of my formal bag for felicity. Though it was not necessary for a funeral, I just checked for the condition.

It was awful. I will be not able to use this anymore. Come to think of it, there were only funerals for years. Both I and the bag got old.

I got some mandarin oranges. I know a man who is growing mandarin ogranges in his garden. He gave me some of the mandarin oranges from his garden.

By the way, this summer he gave me some cucmbers and tomatos harvested in his garden as well. They were very fresh and delicious. The mandarin orange in this photo is the last one.

He says he feeds his mandarin orange tree with shochu,  I don't know cuz i have not seen it, the trees don't have any mouth. He will let shochu soak into soil. I was not sure, but they were very sweet.

A few days later,  some Yuzu, a kind of japanese citrus, were sent from my home country. I squeezed them and put the rind in the bath. I thought Yuzu bath was only too stimulus to my skin.

Friday
My weight : 58.20kg
Body fat percentage : 26.8% 
The distance I ran : 6.2km / 20min
Sit-ups : 160times
Stretch training : 20min

This month, the wall paper of my PC is a Czech night view.

I arrived at the airport at 4:30pm. I had to wait for the boarding of the flight about for 3 hours.

I decided to kill time at a souvenir shop. I got a pack of pickles, a pack of oxtongue and some cheese of Koiwai for my family, and put them in my baggage.

I checked my baggage and had early supper.

There were only two restaurants there, and, gosh! both of them were going to close at a little past 6:00pm. I noticed that only after I left there.

Wednesday
My weight : 58.20kg
koremoBody fat percentage : 26.7%
BMI ： 20
The distance I ran : 6.3km / 20min
Sit-ups : 160times
Stretch training : 20min

The last day of the trip to Tohoku. I left for Iwate Hanamaki airport via Hanamaki Station. I always estimated time a little too much and acted. Because the number of service has many neither bus nor trains.

The airport was small and darkly. There was only one airplane from Nagoya. It seemed to be an airport of the European country sides.

Trip to Tohoku for me means healing, and it is sort of runout from usual days. I was impressed the land was cold and there were few people. Going to somewhere about a big city is pleasant. And going to back-country is interesting, too.

This is the second destination, Motsuji Temple.

The first generation of  "Fujiwara 4 generations of Hiraizumi"  built Chuson-ji Temple. And the second generation built Motsuji.

I am going to show the pictures which I took in Motsuji.
The garden that it is imitated Kyoto. But I think that after all it is beyond Kyoto.
Nobody were there. Snow was left. And cat ice was there on the pond thinly. It was cold!
I like this one. It seems to be Kyoto in the late fall.

Friday
My weight : 57.60kg
Body fat percentage : 26.7%
BMI ： 20
The distance I ran : 6.0km / 20min
Sit-ups : 140times
Stretch training : 20min

I do not recommend you this buckwheat noodle shop even if you go to Hiraizumi.

As It became noon when I walked around Chuson-ji Temple, I came back to the station and ate lunch.

The reason why I got there again was that I thought there was a good restaurant. But there were only 2 buckwheat noodle shops. So there was no choice for it, I ate soba again.

I ordered a set meal full of soba. Only soba appears to cost 1,600 yen. No lobster no tempura, of course no shiitake, nothing nothing! 

The hot soba is lukewarm. The side dish is made of soba. The only contents which look like sushi is soba! soba,soba,soba~~~~!!  Do not monkey around with me!!

The last line! A storemaster came out and began to speak craps. Lukewarm Soba got cool more and more!  That was so terrible. What a nonsense! what a  noisy old man!  I never go to that shop anymore!  The soba was bad, too.

I planted a saffron that the flower was over in my garden. It opens up now.

The saffron of this year blooms by a window, and is a good fragrance. The indoor flower is big and the leaves are long, but it of the garden is small.

However, the body seems to be strong briefly.  All nature change appearance by environment. Both person and plant are the same, too.

This is a bud of a hyacinth. Do you see it?  You can see a green around the top right corner of the picture?  It is it.

It becomes colder and colder from now on. May a bud appear at such time?

Wednesday
My weight : 57.10kg
Body fat percentage : 26.4%
BMI ： 20
The distance I ran : 6.3km / 20min
Sit-ups : 160times
Stretch training : 20min

It was a main destination for me, Chuson-ji Temple.

Colored leaves, snow and green fallen leaves. The leaves which a cold wave comes before turning red, and fell as green on the white snow is mysterious.

I wanted to see a golden temple and came to far-off Tohoku.　We can take pictures of the cover temple, but can not take the gold temple of the inside.　

I have wanted to peep into a symbol of the prosperity of Fujiwara who prospered for about 100 years for a long time.

I looked hard at it with my knowledge that I got from books so far. These those days, Japan did not have the custom of the mummy. However, Oshu Fujiwara kept the mummy of the line of lords. The reason seems not to be yet solved. Would they be races different from us?  I heard that a frame was different from noble of Kyoto. As for me, it makes me spark the imagination.

Tuesday
My weight : 57.00kg
Body fat percentage : 26.6%
BMI ： 20
The distance I ran : 6.0km / 20min
Sit-ups : 140times
Stretch training : 20min

Vegetables came from country home.
After all!  insects are with them!
It has feet. It crawl in a sink after this.
I exterminate this with boiled water like magic.

However, I cannot throw away a Chinese cabbage.
The vegetables from country are extremely delicious.
In some ways it is a fight with insects.

I walked around a town in the evening again. The outside temperature was 2 degrees Celsius.

There were a lot of bars but few resaturants. I like noodles, and decided to eat soba. But I did not have courage to eat Wanko-Soba alone.

Morioka is located in the inland. Though I do not know if fish and seafood are delicious, I ordered Sea urchin bowl set. That was set warm soba and cold one. A lot of side dishes seemed to be set, but almost of them were the spices to put.

Maybe everybody could guess that I was an outsider ; talking by Kansai accent. A clark gave me friendly how to eat it. The night, I was satisfied by the smile of the clerk and delicious soba. Needless to say, I had had some desserts in my room.

It was a trip of three days and two nights.

When I went to Hokkaido last year, as I stayed at a far-off hotel from the station, there were not any nice restaurants for dinner.

So I checked the place of hotels this time. The hotel I stayed was in urban areas that was easily accessible by train or on foot.

And it was not only accessible but comfatable. I was able to borrow a humidifier free, I slept well without sore throat. I should have borrowed it since the night before.