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Happy Holidays everyone I hope everyone got through the chaotic Christmas season. I remembered to stay out of the stores, they only make me mad, and I really don't like myself that way!!! It's too easy being able to get on the internet and shop anywhere all over the world, no matter where I'm stuck at... Some off the wall small town, where the electricity is always being blown out, some dumpy island where no matter which direction that you seem to turn, a landfill is staring you right back in the face in the far off distance...So okay, I've been here long enough, I can say to what I want to about this place, esp. to the nuts coming here, and trying to lecture me about things...like I am even going to listen to that in the first place, or like I ever listen to anyone who I don't consider my friend...It got me to thinking, and maybe this very last year that I'm over here in Japan, that I should be handin' out my own pages of rules to anyone gettin' in my face about stuff...I've been running it through my mind over and over, and I couldn't think of a better solution...So I will start with numero uno and continue from there until I can't think of anymore...

Rules for all the New People coming over here to this Island in 2010

1. Don't lecture me about how great this place is. This is a freaking island people, it can't be that great, so give me a break. I've been all over the world, and this place is not that spectacular. You may like it at first, but it wears thin after so long, and you will become bored with it yourself. The only way to freedom from here is a plane ticket, and a signed guarantee to never return to such a humdrum monotonous island this really is. Yes, there really are other countries out there, and a whole other world as well, besides this place called Japan. It wouldn't even be here if it weren't for some volcano...

2. Don't stand there in front of me talking to me endlessly about your kids. ugghhhh nothing spells out disaster quicker for me than someone going on and on and on and on about their kids. This is definitely NOT my area, never will be, not interested, end of story. Call me spoiled, but I like my life this way. You stand there in front of me telling me stories about how your kids did this and that, and I'm thinking "just how long are they going to keep talking?!?!?!" and "when is this story going to end??!!?!?" "Are these kids even famous?!?!?" What exactly am I supposed to say to something like that anyways?? It's weird for me, and I'm at a loss for words. I know people in this lifestyle don't have lives, but I do, and I strongly believe in getting a life and keeping it. I figured that out years ago, I'm sorry if you never did and need outside entertainment for everything.

3. Don't lecture me telling me I have "too much stuff" and need to get rid of some of it. Uhh okay just WAIT A MINUTE...maybe it's because you don't have enough, and are secretly desperately begging to borrow some of mine, but are too downright conceited to say that to my face. I come from a very big city, with everything, and that automatically makes me very high maintenance. I have to have my "stuff" and I don't want to hear anyone who is just getting here run their mouth about my habits good or bad. If you can't handle me fine, go back to your camp fire and tent with holes in the sides. There are other people out there who can handle me, and don't have one bit of a problem with it. so there.

4. Don't bore me to death telling me how you "can't believe that I'm not into sports like everyone else is these days." Really??? Seriously?? They are??!?!? Okay big deal, so what, who cares, not me. They can be into anything they wanna be into as long as they don't go and bother me with it. None of you obviously have ever met anyone like me before. Well, now you have, and I'm not the one at the top of the bleachers holding up signs yelling out stuff to a team. Let's see, the only time I ever did that was back when I was in school, and I went and stayed turned around talking the whole time to my friends. You won't see me out there in a muddy field trying to play volleyball, or organize a sports day like they have here ever so often. Talk to me about a trip or a newfound shopping mall, and then you've got my attention.

5. Don't sit there going on to me how everything is just so good here when it comes to the food area. Uhhh... are some of you people like blind or something?@?!? Have you seen this stuff?? Doesn't it make you wanna just vomit?!?!? Well, I guess not since you are sitting there eating it. I don't know what even more than half of this junk is, but I have noooo interest in trying it. If I have no idea what it is, or it's totally weird and squishy looking, forget it. I don't care if it's good, just get it away from me, and I'll call for a pizza. You know, normal stuff. With me being the most particular one on this planet, don't even try to talk me into liking anything here. I've been here too long, and heard it all, so I'm not impressed. It's not good to me, I'm not interested, and just because I don't try it, my life isn't going to change any. You have nothing to worry about, cause whatever I do doesn't affect you or anyone else in the world, so stop ya whinin'...

6. Don't tell me over and over that I should learn to speak Japanese. For what reason exactly?? I don't plan on living here permantely, my heritage doesn't even come close to this place at all, I have no interest in this language, I don't plan on working for a Japanese software company, not many back in the states speak Japanese unless you go to a Japanese community, or to the Universities where they teach it. Once I leave here, I don't plan on coming back!!! There is just tooo much out there to see!!! So! Why would I need to work the whole day at a job, then go straight to a class that I would absolutely HATE, but still be paying for to sit through, just so I could go around bragging to everyone, that, " oh hey, I took Japanese while I lived over in Japan!!" Just to maybe get a few "ooooooohhhsss" and "ahhhhsss." I can't think of one single thing I would use this language for at all. I can pick up words, and that is fine for me, but I don't plan on being the next Japanese translator on a plane.

7. Don't try and make me feel bad by telling me that I"m missing out on everything and the experiences because I'm not "joining in." Again ummmm so what!!! Does it really look like to you like I would be one to join in with a bunch of military guys in a scavenger hunt, or paintball, or football games, or all the other ridiculous events they have going on here happening 24 hours a day never ending. Well, then you obviously haven't met me then. Let me introduce you all to a little thing called "stubborness." I've found plenty to do the entire time I"ve been here, and I don't need other people trying to entertain me, or get in my way when I have plenty of my own activities lined up. Honestly, I don't care what goes on around me, it doesn't hurt my feelings any that I"m missing it either. If I really wanted to do any of that junk, I would go stand in line like everybody else waiting to do it. Another big time waster you know, but I guess that doesn't really matter if you are even bored with yourself you will go and do anything that's offered.

8. Keep your dogs away from me.It's really not that hard you know. Let's see!!! I remember havin' this little problem whenever I first got here. I made the statement without saying a word that I didn't want dogs around me, and get snapped at, not to mention embarrassed me half to death in front of everyone. Okay, so you wanna fit in with everyone else who comes here and wants to compete with each other in a non-verbal way on who has the biggest dog. Fine, okay, but I don't. I"m not interested, but just because I'm not, don't get some stuck up attitude towards me about it.

hi everyone, I'm at the resort now...I've been trying and trying to get on yahoo messenger, and it won't pick it up here... the weather is still really bad here, and we've been having rain for about 2-3 days now. They said that lightning knocked out the phone lines here, so that might have something to do with it...It's nice staying here, cause we were finally able to get into a suite, and not just a room....I will take pictures and post them on here, but keep in mind, that my stuff will be spread out all over the place...We found a shopping mall on the way here and stopped at it for a couple hours, and I was in heaven....It's nice to get away from "everyday" life, but there will always be certain things that I will miss....I will talk with u all soon when I get back tomorrow....happy holidays.....

Matthew 1-2, Luke 1-2 The angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and said, "Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High."

'Twas the Night before Christmas' Poem

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap.

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tinny reindeer.

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name!

"Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! On, Cupid! on, on Donner and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!"

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky.
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of Toys, and St Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.

His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself!
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"



http://www.sfgate.com/decade/ (look how much has happened in the last 10 years!!!)
Thieves steal infamous Auschwitz death camp sign December 18, 2009

Thieves on Friday stole the infamous Nazi German "Arbeit macht frei" sign from the entrance to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, police said, an act that sparked widespread outrage.

The sign, which means "Work Will Set You Free" in German, has become a symbol of the horror of the camp where about 1.1 million mainly Jewish prisoners died during World War II, most in the notorious gas chambers.

Police said the theft may have been ordered by a private collector or a group of individuals.

"A worldwide symbol of the cynicism of Hitler's executioners and the martyrdom of their victims has been stolen. This act deserves the strongest possible condemnation," Polish President Lech Kaczynski said in a statement.

His Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres expressed "the deepest shock of Israel's citizens and the Jewish community across the world".

"The sign holds deep historical meaning for both Jews and non-Jews alike as a symbol of the more than one million lives that perished at Auschwitz," Peres was quoted as saying by his office.

Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum spokesman Jaroslaw Mensfelt told AFP that thieves carried out an expert operation to take the metal sign just before dawn on Friday.

"It's a profanation of the place where more than a million people were murdered. It's shameful," he said.

Camp survivors also decried the theft.

"In taking this historic symbol, the perpetrators wanted to destroy history and committed this perverse act in order to revive Nazism," said Raphael Esrail, 84, president of the Union of Auschwitz Deportees in France.

The five-metre (16-foot) long sign was forged by prisoners on the orders of the Nazis, who set up the camp after invading Poland in 1939. It was not hard to unhook from above the entrance gate "but you needed to know how," Mensfelt said.

A police dog team was tracking the thieves while detectives combed through video surveillance footage from the site and neighbouring areas, and other officers set up roadblocks.

Mensfelt said it was the first serious case of theft at Auschwitz, located on the outskirts of the southern town of Oswiecim, which was annexed and renamed by Germany during World War II. The site has been a Polish state-run museum and memorial since the war ended in 1945.

"All leads are being considered, but we are focusing on a theft ordered by a private collector or a group of individuals," Oswiecim police spokeswoman Malgorzata Jurecka told AFP.

Police offered a 5,000-zloty (1,200-euro/1,700-dollar) reward for information leading to the recovery of the sign or the arrest of the thieves.

Kaczynski urged the public to help. "It's our collective duty to return it to its rightful place from which it has been ripped by force," he said.

Meanwhile, museum staff placed a replica sign above the gate.

Nazi Germany initially created the camp for Polish resistance fighters in an army barracks in 1940.

Auschwitz was later expanded into a vast complex, after the Nazis razed the nearby village of Brzezinka -- Birkenau in German.

About 1.1 million people perished at Auschwitz-Birkenau -- one million of them Jews from Poland and the rest of Nazi-occupied Europe -- some from overwork, starvation and disease, but mostly in the gas chambers.

It was one of six death camps set up in Poland by the Germans, who murdered six million Jews during the war.

Some of the other death camps had the same sign, erected in a cynical ploy to maintain the illusion that they were labour camps.

Auschwitz-Birkenau's other victims included non-Jewish Poles, Soviet and other Allied prisoners of war, Roma and anti-Nazi resistance members from across Europe.

It was liberated by Soviet troops in January 1945.

The theft came a day after Germany donated 60 million euros (88 million US dollars) to a global fund to preserve the site.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum said the money represented half the total it needs to ensure the site's future as a permanent memorial to Nazi victims. About 4-5 million euros are needed each year to maintain it.

What Christmas Is As We Grow Older By Charles Dickens

Time was, with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and every one around the Christmas fire; and made the little picture shining in our bright young eyes complete.

And is our life here, at the best, so constituted that, pausing as we advance at such a noticeable milestone in the track as this great birthday, we look back on the things that never were, as naturally and full as gravely as on the things that have been and are gone, or have been and still are? If it be so, and so it seems to be, must we come to the conclusion that life is little better than a dream, and little worth the loves and strivings that we crowd into it?

No! Far be such miscalled philosophy from us, dear reader, on Christmas Day! Nearer and closer in our hearts be the Christmas spirit, which is the spirit of active usefulness, perseverance, cheerful discharge of duty, kindness, and forbearance! It is in the last virtues especially that we are, or should be, strengthened by the unaccomplished visions of our youth; for, who shall say that they are not our teachers, to deal gently even with the impalpable nothings of the earth!

Welcome, old aspirations, glittering creatures of an ardent fancy, to your shelter underneath the holly! We know you, and have not outlived you yet. Welcome, old projects and old loves, however fleeting, to your nooks among the steadier lights that burn around us. Welcome, all that was ever real to our hearts; and for the earnestness that made you real, thanks to heaven!

Welcome everything! Welcome alike what has been, and what never was, and what we hope may be, in your shelter underneath the holly, to your places round the Christmas fire, where what is, sits openhearted!

Of all days in the year, we will turn our faces toward that City upon Christmas Day, and from its silent hosts bring those we loved among us. In the Blessed Name wherein we are gathered together at this time, and in the Presence that is here among us according to the promise, we will receive, and not dismiss, the people who were dear to us!

The winter sun goes down over town and village; on the sea it makes a rosy path, as if the Sacred Tread were fresh upon the water. A few more moments, and it sinks, and night comes on, and lights begin to sparkle in the prospect. In town and village, there are doors and windows closed against the weather; there are flaming logs heaped high; there are joyful faces; there is healthy music of voices. Be all ungentleness and harm excluded from the temples of the household gods, but be those memories admitted with tender encouragement! They are of Time and all the comforting and peaceful reassurances; and of the broad beneficence and goodness that too many men have tried to tear to narrow shreds.

Good Morning all, what a nice story this was that I stumbled across...but just because I read this, still doesn't and never will make me a (blaahhhh!!!) coffee drinker!!! My Internet is finally fixed, so I don't have to worry about it going out over the holidays and not having a prayer of getting it to work again!!

A Motivational Smile -
Are you a Carrot, an Egg or Coffee Bean?
By Author Unknown
A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life, and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it, and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose.

Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water. In the first pot, she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs and the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil without saying a word. In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.

Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me what do you see?" "Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied. She brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they got soft. She then asked her to take the egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, she asked her to smell and sip the coffee. The daughter smiled, as she smelled and tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then asked, "What's the point, mother?"

Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity- boiling water-but each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior. But, after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water they had changed the water.

"Which are you?" she asked her daughter. "When trials and adversity knock on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?"

Think of this: Which am I?

Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity, do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?

Am I the egg that starts with a passive heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside, am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and a hardened heart?

Or, am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you become better and change the situation around you.

When the hours are the darkest and trials are their greatest do you elevate to another level?


How do you handle adversity?
Like the CARROT, the EGG, OR the COFFEE BEAN?

I found my phone and ordered it for finally getting through my dreaded computer class finally finally finally after working the whole day then sitting 2 more hours in a class I had no idea about...same ole same ole story here they were out of everything, so I just don't mess with this place at all anymore.. I'm just glad that it's over now so I can get back to having a normal life...It was so great getting to actually meet Craig Morgan the other day and shake his hand and say what few words that I did to him. I've just never met anyone famous before, so I guess I'm starting now...They act just like the rest of us, but I gave him something of mine, so I hope that I stood out from the rest of the crowd. =) It's freezing here now, the wind at least, but not much else is happening. What a total disappointment it was waking up this morning and finding out that the entire East Coast of the United States had been blessed with a huge snow storm. I never see snow ever, unless I look up pictures of it on here, and just stare at it. I think people here somewhere had snow hauled in for Christmas, and it lasted about 3 days I heard on the radio station here. It's nice to see when it's completely untouched, and it's in the middle of the night when it's actually quiet. I haven't experienced that in I don't know how many years now. Well, I hope the entire East Coast enjoys their "White Christmas" while I'm still stuck on an island that shouldn't even be here in the first place. Just few more months and I will get a break from this place...It's just a lot of fuss to actually leave here cause so much is involved whenever you do.....I endured *one* torturous Christmas party this year this other night, and that is all that I'm putting up with. There is only so much that I can take at sitting at a table. I don't even sit at a table at home when I'm here... why on earth would I want to do it for 2-4 hours at some party???? tooo boring for me, esp when I can't sit still to begin with.... For the other one we skipped out on, we went to a Hawaiian Themed restaurant right on the ocean, which was really really nice, but tooo crowded that night. The wind is freezing here now. It feels so good. Sometimes I don't even wear a coat cause I can remember how hot it was during the summer, and even after the summer ended. All the way up until now, just a few weeks ago it was still 80 something degrees...I keep feeling like I am getting sick from doing things like that, but somehow it hasn't hit me full force and I'm glad since the holidays are right around the corner...Then it's my last full year of being here...I will hopefully get to go on my trips without some dumb typhoon coming along and ruining everything for me, and then this time next year, I will be getting ready to move back home... I hope the movers have fun dealing with all this stuff of mine since I don't have to mess with it....=) Enjoy your holiday season, and know I'm thinking of you even if I'm not on here since my internet keeps coming and going... The other night we went for frozen yogurt, and there was a huge dry erase board thing right in front on the board walk, with "WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM SANTA?" I can't walk by anything like that without also putting mine as well, and had my fun with it...not that that is going to happen, but it was just for fun....some of those answers were just too funny....

hello again everyone...I managed to get on here a little bit. My Internet keeps coming and going, so I never know how long it's going to last until they come to fix it finally to find out what the problem is. What a rotten connection we have over here on such a dumpy little island. I would never tell anyone to come and live here. Not even to visit. Only one more week until Christmas. I"m tooo excited. I'll be at the resort, so finally something to look forward to. Today I went and met one of my singers from the radio, Craig Morgan. He is in the video down below this. He was sooo soo nice. I gave him a 2010 calandar that I made, and had my picture taken with him. It went so fast, but I've never ever met anyone famous before, and it was sooo good to be around someone else who talks like me. lol (yes that is about how I sound when I talk as well, only my voice is different...lol)

Happy Holidays everyone I miss u all. I"m sooo sorry my Internet at home is completely down right now. I'm not able to get it to work at all, and this one is pretty slow as well. Well, I'M DONE. An entire 3 weeks of total sacrificing my evenings and personal life to a class, and then freaking out about my final tonight, and I'm done. I got a surprise though, a 5 page final was thrown out, and me and the rest of my class was automatically certified after showing how dedicated we were. Me esp. cause I can't take it anymore and was going to get through whatever they suggested to me to go through, I didn't care if it halfway killed me. I missed Christmas parties and everything just to get through that, and finally I'm done. And I don't even have internet at home now to tell anyone else or keep talking about it.
I'll be without internet for about 6 days until they can come next week. Yes, I got them before the holidays, can you all believe it???!@?!? I'm tooo happy now. I can go to my work Christmas party without worrying about trying to get through a class, wondering if I passed or not. I completely hate that feeling. I'm just glad it's over, that's the best Christmas present so far. It's really hard to believe that this time next week is Christmas Eve. wow. I finally made it to the end of this year without loosing my mind. I'm still sane and can speak English where it's understandable to everyone else. Now that all that's over with, I can get back to a normal lifestyle and have my evenings back again. How nice that will be since it's getting cold here again, and all it's doing is raining. This is winter here for us. That's all the winter that we get here, but I love it. I should have my computer back next week, but I guess until then I'll be coming here. I hope everyone is doing great and enjoying the holidays. Nothing can kill my glory now, I'm too happy... miss you all don't think that I ran off, this happens several times a year here... Annoying doesn't even cut it anymore how it makes me feel... Anyways, have a good day/night everyone stay safe...Again, I AM DONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The 2009 Christmas Coca-Cola cans are finally out for this year!!! Too bad that Coca-Cola is the only soda company that does this with the Christmas pictures on the cans, but they are always so much fun. Oh, and this cd is soooooooo amazing!!!!







**wow, how cool is this?!?! I have one of these exact same polar bear coca-cola mugs like this one!! I just picked it up here at a shop here that people give stuff away that are moving and can't take with them. I'm not sure how many of these were manufactured, but I"m so happy that I ended up with one!!!!

Only 2 more weeks until Christmas!!!! Happy 2nd night of Hanukkah!!!

Not too much longer until 2010 finally rolls around!!!! Is anyone else as excited as me?!?!? It doesn't even seem like Christmastime over here in Japan now. Every single day now is over 80 degrees, and tooooo HOT!!!!! This is sooo unfair I think whenever places like New York are getting several feet of snow to enjoy!!! Only one more year of this joint and I won't ever have to see this place again!!!! I'm too excited about going back to the states for 12 whole entire months!!!!! Maybe then I won't be so blllllllahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa on everything around me....

when goin' to get dinner this week, don't forget to fling the tomatoes out the window... lol will add more later!!!!! sorry crazzzeee 3 weeks for me but halfway over=)

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