MAN! It's been so slow around here...

For real! Nothing interesting has been going on. Just class, watching Buffy, and living life to it's fullest or something. Sorry I haven't been updating, but seriously, not much has happened in the past couple of weeks.

Chris and I went to the dentist on the 9th. It was all very like the dentist in America except a little more high tech. They had this cool little water dispensing machine next to every chair. You put the cup on a little scale and the water pours in until it weighs a certain amount. Then, when you need to spit, you pick up the cup and it triggers the spit sink to activate and the water turns on there. So you spit and then put the cup back on the scale and it stops the spit sink water and refills the cup. Nifty!

Anyways, normal cleaning. Although, I told the doctor that I didn't speak much Japanese, so he cleaned Chris' teeth first and then had Chris sit next to me and translate. How weird. Chris watched them clean my teeth. Heh, I'm sure it was beautiful.

Let's see, what else? Oh! Guess what I'm doing RIGHT NOW? I'm watching...
AMERICAN IDOL! AYEEEEEIII! We are on week 3 or 4. Whatever, they are at the New York auditions. Japan starts it about a month late and then shows them quickly and becomes about two weeks behind America during the top 12 stuff. I'm excited. I love it so much. Oh Ian Bernardo, you are such a bad singer. DENIED!

*cough*

Anyways. My husband is nice enough to watch with me. He says he only likes the audition parts. It's his favorite, but I think he mildly likes the rest of it. He tolerates it, at least. Awww...such a wonderful show.

Katie asked about the torii gates you find at shrines and temples in Japan. Like so:
She asked if they made the torii look like the little pictographs (called kanji). No! Hah. I don't know why they look like that, except they look like doorways which is what they are. Doorways into sacred ground and places. Beautiful. Do a google image search for "torii" and you will find gorgeous pictures. Anyways, they didn't make them to look like Japanese writing. But, there are some kanji that are probably based on the gate. For instance: "開ける" The kanji is the first symbol, the other two are hiragana which is the syllabic alphabet used here. Anyways, the word means "to open" and if you look at the center of the kanji, it looks like the torii gate. Also, the outside bits of it is the symbol for "gate" heh. Woo. So I hope that is an understandable explanation. And interesting. I could really ramble about Japanese if you get me started. It's really a beautiful and fascinating language.

Chris and I are kinda excited. Will, a good friend from school, is coming to visit us in about a month! Yay! Actually, he will be here almost exactly a month and a week from today. It will be so great to have a friend come visit us. That should be a bundle of fun.

And that is pretty much it. All I can't think to chat about. I will try to update more often, but really...it's a really slow time right now. So we shall see!

Hope things are going well for you!