Making Japan Home

Wow!  So much has been going on that it's hard to know where to start!  I guess my biggest news is that we finally made it into our house, and all of our things are here as well!  Yay!  In the interest of being fully honest, I must admit that not ALL of our things made it here, but MOST certainly did!

Our home is like a townhouse.  It's much bigger than the one Cara and I shared in Hattiesburg, though.  Thank God!  I'm surprised our friendship survived that!  Jeremy and I decided that it is important for us to be comfortable in our home.  It is the place that we will spend most of our time while we are here, and to that end, we bought some furniture, instead of using all army supplied furniture.  I think that it's awesome that the army has furniture that we can use, and we are using some of it, (like our whole dining room) but, like I said, we wanted to be comfortable.  And, comfort comes from owning your own things...your own comfortable things!  If army beds are any indication, then I'm sure army couches aren't very comfortable!  We bought a new living room suite and a new bedroom suite, and we love them both!  Falling asleep on the couch is just as easy as falling asleep in bed!  Truth be told, I had picked out a different living room suite, (one that didn't show Scrappy's fur quite so easily) but once Jeremy sat on this couch, he was done.  There wasn't any valid reason to not go with this furniture as opposed to that I had chosen, so I let him win this battle!  Honestly, I love it, too.  I have no complaints!  As for the bedroom, we both saw this set and loved it!  We got lucky there!

We also got a CAR!!!  I love my little bitty car!  I told Jeremy that, given how small the road are here, I wanted a little car.  We found the perfect little car, and we both wish that we could bring it home when it's time to go, but we know that isn't going to happen.  It's just too expensive.  The car is a silver Nisaan March.  They don't make them in the states, but they should!  I do have my driver's license here, and I am slowly, but surely, getting used to the tiny roads.  Driving on the left hand side of the road doesn't really phase me, it's the narrow roads that are killer!  Roads that, back home, would be considered one-way, are two-way traffic here.  No joke!

We have gotten out some more, as well.  We went to the Tokyo Game Show.  It was an adventure!  I'm not a gamer myself, but Jeremy most definitely is!  I didn't think I'd like it, and told Jeremy he could go without me, but I'm glad I went.  His friend, Nick, went with us, and he and I got lots of cool pictures of people (mostly girls) dressed in costume.  It was seriously neat, and every guy's dream of seeing hot Asian women in costume!  Don't worry, ladies, there were some guys dressed up, too (although not nearly as many lol)!  They gave out all kinds of free stuff and let people play the newest games.  It was a really good time!
 

 

  

  

 

I hosted my first soiree (haha) as a married lady, and although, I had hoped more people would show, it was a fun night!  Saturday afternoon I started getting stressed about being behind with the food and thinking I wouldn't be dressed on time, but everything came together at the last minute!  I had done so much on Friday that I was just kind of taking my time on Saturday, and it caught up with me.  I was a little late coming downstairs, but still managed to make it down before most of our guests arrived.  It was a housewarming party, and Jeremy invited the people that he works with, and their families.  I invited my friend Brenda, and her two kids.  Brenda and the kids came on Friday and left on Sunday, and I loved having them here!  It's so nice having someone from home within driving distance!  We made it a late night girls night, with Brenda, three other army wives, (one of those wives is also a soldier) and myself heading out to the bar on post.  It was such a good time!  These ladies really make me feel like I'm at home here!  They're a lot like my girls back home (no one get jealous, haha)!  Given how nervous I was to come here and make new friends, I think it's amazing I found them so quickly, and am undeniably thankful for them.

 

 

Oh!  The day after the housewarming, Jeremy and I went to Machida to meet and have lunch with two of his WoW friends.  I was a little nervous about it, but they were completely normal, nice people.  They're a married couple, and both are in the air force.  He's stationed in Japan, and she also will be sometime soon.  It was a nice lunch, there weren't any of those awkward lapses in conversation that sometimes happens when people first meet.  They were having some kind of festival going on that day in Machida.  We could see part of it from the window by which we were sitting.  The people were in full traditional dress, dancing, playing drums...there was even a monkey!  After lunch, Jeremy and I stopped and watch them dance for a while.  It was really something to see! 

 

 

 I have been having such a great time here with my husband!  For some reason, though, I haven't been sleeping very well.  For at least a month, I've had insomnia really bad.  It usually takes me forever to fall asleep, and once I do, I sleep for no more than an hour and a half before I wake up.  I don't mean wake up, look at the clock, and fall back asleep.  No, I wake up, eyes wide open, and can't get back to sleep.  Some nights I just toss and turn.  I long for those nights!  They are few and far between!  At least with the tossing and turning, I'm asleep for the most part.  When I wake up, though, I'm awake.  I do eventually fall back asleep, but usually it takes me an hour or more to fall asleep, and then I wake back up in about another hour.  It's starting to affect my personality and my ability to get things done during the day.  I'm going to the doctor on Monday, though, so y'all say a prayer!

I miss all my friends and my family back home, but don't y'all worry about me, because I'm well taken care of here!  Jeremy is a wonderful husband, and I am making some really good friends!

One more thing!  I know I didn't include any pictures of our house and our car, but, I will very soon!  I am going to start blogging more often, it's just that so much has happened recently that I haven't had the time.  No worries, though!  I'm on top of it!  Filling y'all in on our life is very theraputic for me!