What'll it be?

After thinking about it off and on for quite some time, I finally started a blog.  Now, I still have to decide what to "go for" in the blog-world.  There are many sites as diaries for families, cooking, travel, hobbies, music and everything in between!  What a mind-boggling array!!

I'm starting with a journal approach...random things on different days...which is helpful for maintaining my sanity in this soap opera that my life seems to be (considering taking up a new career in writing soap operas...seriously!), and I want to slowly introduce some of the fun, beautiful, exotic and weird things I encounter on a frequent basis in my "new" country.  Having lived here for close to half my life, I'm not sure I can call it that anymore, but as I'll always be a foreigner here in Japan, I'll just call it that anyway!

This next bit is on the  "save my sanity journal theme." This is actually entry #2 for today...while typing entry #1, unbeknownst to me, my spouse was having a CT test and MRI at the hospital.  He's been feeling bad, and decided to stop at the hospital on the way to work.  I got a call from the hospital about 4 hours later (one hour before his restaurant opens) saying, "Can you come pick up your husband?  He's in no condition to drive, and needs to be taken to see another doctor at another location."  Huh???  No phone call from him?  Well, his cell was out-of-order  (got that taken care of), got the restaurant sorted out, took him to the other doctor (apparently an inner ear problem, still sorting out what exactly, and he still can't walk straight!), but wow, another event to chalk up on the "OMG...I can't believe this" list that is getting quite full this year.

My students were very understanding about me suddenly canceling their lessons, the restaurant staff handled everything well (went to close it instead of going to bed early like I needed to...and now I'm writing here!! Oh dear!), and I got everything organized to leave for son's baseball tourney in the wee hours of the morning. (Yes, I bought the onigiri, and yes, there were comments...but instead of the "homemade" issue, it was why didn't I buy them on the way home from the restaurant so they'd be fresher....lol...it's always something!). What, still going to the tourney when spouse is ill (and though he hasn't even a drop of alcohol in him, is weaving around like he's plastered?!)?  Yes, still going, and at his insistence (with video & camera, and orders to catch every moment possible).  Fingers are crossed that I won't come home to find something MORE has happened (it truly has been an incredible year for slightly to extremely unpleasant happenings!).  And hopefully some pictures to share as well!

BTW...onigiri are rice balls (OK, they're most often triangular in my neck of the woods, but still called rice balls)!