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[Feb. 10th, 2009|09:44 pm] |
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Seems like I can log in to LJ from home again now. Computers are weird.
Now I just need time to actually post here.
... Sooo... Still at annual updates? |
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| So, yearly entries is it now? |
[Jan. 28th, 2009|09:09 am] |
Been a while.
To be honest I have been having trouble which was not the business of anyone outside my inner circle.
Also, the new LJ functionality with the antibot check has banned me from using LJ from my home IP. And I am not doing this from work ever again. It is just too embarressing.
Long story short; Rie was sick. Getting her examined for a cough revealed that she had a tumor in her throat.
And I do not care what the doctors say, there is no such thing as a "beneign" tumor when it is in the throat of my little girl.
Also my mother has been sick with the early stages of leukemia.
And I have been hating myself for incidiously killing my own family by being some Hiroshima woman freak.
We are all better now.
Given that I am banned from LJ and busy with family and working/jobhunting, it is unlikely that I will be using LJ much in the future. |
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| Life Eye Theatre |
[Jun. 28th, 2008|02:44 pm] |
Nurses and child care people finally stopped their strike.
This means that I can finally start going back to normal life again. I do not have to use my vacation days to tend the girls (and wreck every chance of actually getting any time off this year), the girls can meet their friends every day again (and they missed them by now), and Hitoshi can do his work properly again without having to cry on his wife's shoulder about stress and being unable to care properly for his patients (it is a damn miracle nobody died in his department)
And here is my modern 21st century view on work relations and strikes:
People, that stuff worked in the 19th century when management was The Enemy.
But we want equal pay!
Then get a education and get better work.
No way! Our work is important!
Clearly not, seeing how the market pays you. Perhaps go where the money is, eh?
But then the sick/children wouldn't be cared for!
Join a private hospital/child care then. Efficient management and double the wages.
You are a total enemy of the welfare state and a fascist!
I belive in personal responsibility, dear. If you are in shit to over your neck, then it is because you put yourself there.
btw, I had it better than most, since we pay the money for private child care (oh, on top of the taxes that we pay for everyone else to slack).
Also, I believe Hitoshi may be finally listening to me and considering employment in a private hospital. Mismanagement is just too rampant in the public sector.
And speaking of mismanagement, I have quit my job. I could no longer stand by the economic "policies" of my management. Stress from a bad period on top of their latest reorganizing project.
Fortunately I will not be without means thanks to the unemployment insurance I had bought, and thanks to Hitoshi's support.
Even if I cannot find new work right away, then I could do well with spending more time with the girls for a extended period - Without the stress of work and a poorly thought out strike this time, thank you.
Also, Rie and Sara are the awesomest awesome. But you knew that. ^^ |
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| Mothers Day Miracles |
[May. 11th, 2008|08:03 pm] |
Weather continues to be prefect for playing outside with the girls. And having a extended weekend at home does not make it worse.
Rie made a great achievement today.
She took the big slide at our local playground, all by herself (mommy almost not holding her hand), and to a two-year girl the two meter long slide of one and a half meter height is beeeg.
She was very proud afterwards, and everyone got icecream to celebrate. Rie could even narrate her achiement to Hitoshi with only a little help.
Sort of makes me think of what a friend of mine said many years ago; That she considered babies a waste of time, but found older children about to form their personalities to be wonderful.
I think I know what she was thinking back then. But I am still not going to think that my girls were any less wonderful back when they were babies.
Had no time to celebrate anything mothers day related. But we got a babysitter tomorrow and Hitoshi has invited me out.
He has not surrendered any details of his plans, but judging from his tone (and the fact we have been to busy to even kiss for more than a week) then I am guessing I should use the light perfume and some of the cuter underwear. ^^ |
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| Oven fry |
[May. 10th, 2008|11:52 am] |
Weather has become incredibly nice here. Sunny with a light breeze and temperatures in the middle twenties. It fact it is so good I have decided to keep the girls inside around noon to avoid them getting too sunburned. Fortunately they are tired from playing and ready for a nap about this time.
The strike has anded and I can have the girls tended at our day care again. I love having them around, but these few days at work were exhausting.
But since the social assistants got a good agreement with their employers, we can very well expect the related groups of nurses and pedagouges to be willing to strike to better their employment as well. So we are likely going to have to improvise child care again in the foreseeable future.
Right now there are not too many firms seeking people for the kinds of work I want, so I have put my job search on hold a bit.
I also lost out in two interview series for jobs that I would really have liked to do. One of them I am pretty certain was because I am a woman, and it was a very male oriented work-place. The guy they employed was not even close to my level of experience.
So much for focussing on both my competence and my feminity. But there are just things that I am not going to hold back on. And some day there will be a firm who has figured out that woman women are a very good thing to have in management.
Also sort of considered starting up my own business. I know I have the personality for it, but I also realise how hard it would be to combine a newly started firm with having children, and I want a idea - something that will make it likely that my firm will not just founder and turn into a waste of time and money. |
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| Children of the Proletariat United! |
[Apr. 29th, 2008|06:11 am] |
Getting a little warmer here. Which is good since I can start using the clothes I bought in Japan.
All the childcare people in Denmark have gone on strike to try and get better agreements with their employers during the negotiations this year. Daycare, kindergardens, everything.
I agree that they should test their strength and claim all the rewards (or defeats) that they can. But let me tell you, having Rie and Sara along to the office and minding them as well as my work is tiring. At least I was not the only mother with kids in tow, so we corporated to make it at least a little tolerable.
I also noted a pattern. While many mothers had kids along, not a single father had his children along to work. Clearly the menfolk must have some sort of secret trick they use to have their children taken care of! Some sort of Kidcave where superhero caretakers can mind any number of children, and which is only known to men.
I mean, it could not possibly be the case that the menfolk are just foisting their offspring off on their girlfriends and wives, could it?
(Oh, and in Hitoshi's defense I will say that there is no damn way I am going to let him bring the girls along to his work. They are plenty sick already without putting them in the most disease ridden place in Copenhagen - The central hospital) |
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| Tentacle this! |
[Apr. 22nd, 2008|08:28 am] |
I bought the Cthulhutech book before we went to Japan to have something to read besides my new stash of Judge Dee books.
Overall I was left with a good impression, but it was a mixed joy.
At the same time I bought the Weapons of the Gods expansion and Unhallowed Metropolis, but I will not deal with those here.
The design of the book is great. A beautiful book made with quality paper, though I have noted that the cover of mine bends in a weird way, and it cannot be because of the humidity in Japan since none of the other books do.
The illustrations alone almost sell the book, though they made me wonder if there is a law against women covering their legs in this game universe.
The dice-rolling mechanic is interesting. Based on D10 and with a curious tally system that makes me ponder how to calculate odds. I am guessing my method will be to not care about odds and just go with the flow as I do in most other games, and then shrug when the dice lets me down.
The game itself is a curious mix of upbeat mecha anime as found in Macross and its ilk, and the downcast vision of the Cthulhu mythos.
It is clear that the designers love their material, their enthusiasm shines off the pages.
I can see great possibilities in this mix, but also some huge flaws.
I can simply not figure out what sort of stories I am supposed to tell with this book. From the content of the rules and the two example scenarios I guess that I am supposed to play military games where the alien invasions just happen to have Cthulhu mythos names applied to them. It is appearently a fast and fun action game, but then there suddenly is thrown in mass rapes and the horrible doom of mankind.
As a GM I do not know how to play, as a player I do not know what to play.
I am certain a good GM with the right ideas could make something out of Cthulhutech, and I would certainly like to have a go at it if done by a GM that I trust.
Apart from that I think the mecha system is obsolete. Did we not leave predesigned modules behind with Battletech? In a horror game, even a action/horror game, players should not know what to expect from Enemy Mecha of the Week. This system is horribly predictable.
On a funnier note, in the advantage/disadvantage section of char generation it is noted that chars with advantages Alluring and/or Sexy Voice usually balance out the points with the disadvantage Big Ego.
I wonder if the designers often got turned down by the pretty girls back in high school. *snicker*
People really should learn to reread the stuff they write - And read between the lines as well.
My final conclusion is that Cthulhutech is a mediocre game that could be great with the right people playing it. It certainly made me curious, but I am just going to leave it on the shelf for now, for I do not have the ability to figure out how to use it. |
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| I'll grab the scissors |
[Apr. 2nd, 2008|05:44 pm] |
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Interestingly correct, though I do not know this character. Beauty and the Beast is one movie I never saw. |
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| All hail spring! |
[Mar. 16th, 2008|10:37 pm] |
Sunny and warm again today. In fact it has been so sunny and warm lately that I personally made the momentious decision to walk around the apartment and turn off all our heaters and open the ventilation covers. Now we got my favorite cool and fresh air in the entire house, and I will not regret it at all until Tuesday when three or four of come down with the cold.
Rie has recovered from her stomach/digestion trouble. Her little bottom is still red and sore, but she is recovering well. I am sure the little vixen is using her prior misery to coax more hugs and cuddles from her parents.
Sly little minx, I have no idea where she has got that from. None at all.
Sara is still content with rolling on the floor, but at least she is sitting up now. And fortunately whatever gave Rie the infection has not hit her. I hope it keeps that way. Stupid cheeky virusses.
The house today has been quite the giggle of little voices and happy parents frolicking in the warm air. By all the gods I love these days.
And Hitoshi has been informed that we are getting a babysitter for at least one day in Easter. We have been buried in tending sick child for more than a week, and his wife is going to seclude him somewhere his cries for mercy cannot be heard. |
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| Bedside camper |
[Mar. 12th, 2008|06:40 am] |
We have gotten a spell of cold and clear weather here. Even had a tiny layer of snow once. But the spring flowers are forging out of the ground unrelented.
Speaking of which, I have gone and bought easter lillies for every room in our apartment. The yellow makes a fresh change of atmosphere after winter.
Sara has fallen sick with a bad stomach infection. She cannot keep food in and spends a lot of time on the toilet.
It is hard for a little girl for that to be in pain like that, and we spend a lot of time to comfort and console her. She cannot sleep properly, soils her cothes and is generally miserable.
And knowing our luck Sara will catch it from her. Though we have been fortunate on this account so far.
I have started looking at job adverts and posting my profile at a few job sites. I have alotted myself a year to get a career-oriented job. Which is not all that much time since it takes time to test a new job. I guess one year means that I will have one job change, so I am being careful in what I apply for.
Also happened by a blood donor site today. Like in Japan there are mobile blood donor sites that set up in schools and workplaces and the like.
I thought I should start up being a donor again after the long pregnancy hiatus. And it went quite well blood-givingwise.
But do you know that moment just before the needle goes in? When the rush of adrenaline sharpens every sense? I had that, and suddenly realized that I was lying down on a bunk, with my shortskirted and nyloned legs towards the corridor where dozens of people were milling by.
Oh well, I hope the embarresment I felt made the blood rush faster to the bags, because that suddenly got very uncomfortable. I can laugh at the thought now, though.
Good to be back at being a donor. |
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| Hot adult action |
[Feb. 12th, 2008|05:05 pm] |
The weather cannot figure out how to turn springish, and has no idea either how a winter should look. We are caught in a strange sort of midpoint between the two. I do not mind the warm weather at all, it certainly beats shovelling snow, but I dread the sheer amount of insect vermin the summer will bring.
I turned thirty today. This is supposed to be some sort of momentious moment in ones life. Usually seen as the end of everything fun or something like that. I do not feel any different at all, but I guess it is a good time to reflect. And I must admit, I am well satisfied.
In a decade I have turned a catastrophe into a worthwhile life. Gone from suicidal depressions into the joys of life.
I have work I find interesting, a husband who loves me and whom I love dearly in return, I have two wonderful little terrors who will only become even more beautifully horrible with time.
And I have done all this with my own hands, and my own will.
Hitoshi has been a perfect catalyst for me. But I know deep inside that even if he was removed somehow, then I would still go on. Because I have come to love life with all it brings. I have strong armor, but it is no mere shell. My heart and spine are strong and well supported by my happiness. I know my weaknesses and my nightmares, and how I can combat their grip on my soul.
And so I can close the chapter that was my youth. It holds innocence, bleak and bloody horror, and the seeds of rebirth. I close it and I move on to my next chapter. Here I hope to build and to harvest. To take the new foundations I have laid down and see how impressive a house I can construct.
I am alive and I intend to live.
I have the following objectives I will work to meet:
I will love my family and devote myself to them.
I will change my job, and by the age of 50 I will be managing director of a medium - large corporation. I know I have the ability, I intend to realize it.
This is my plan. The chapter is closed, let the new one begin. |
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| Time warped |
[Jan. 28th, 2008|06:19 am] |
Happy belated New Year!
Weather refuses to turn really cold here. It is wintery, and has become stormy. But it is more like autumn than winter.
All of us are healthy, and both Hitoshi and I are working again. It is a tiring schedule, but we are keeping up with both that and the girls.
Rie and Sara are growing well and developing so quickly. Rie has begun to shape short words and trying out sentences. And Sara is proving that the crawling thing is just beneath any Morimitsu/Matsushita brood. Where Rie just tried to stand up, Sara is doing mobility by turning her side to where she wants to go, and then rolling towards it.
It is a source of great laughs for her family and visiting friends.
New webcam from family makes it possible for the grandparents to keep track of the little ones. But we are still getting a trip to Japan forced upon us sponsored by them this spring.
My parents are also plaiing to come and stay for a while in the summer, and my in-laws will come by two times for short visits when they have time off from work.
Oh, and Christmas in a Brigitine convent was a fantastic experience. |
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| Twinked to the max |
[Dec. 16th, 2007|09:21 pm] |
The poorly placed Charisma is proof!
Tomorrow we are off to Rome and monastery holiday. I should have picked Cleric, I just know it. |
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| Nothing here but flowers and kittens II |
[Dec. 9th, 2007|08:00 pm] |
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Mmm... Tasty. ^^
And if I put on my dress shoes instead of the designer ones:
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I guess that shows I am insane or something.
And why will those links just not work?! *grumble |
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| Thirteenth monkey |
[Dec. 2nd, 2007|07:08 pm] |
It has gotten quite cold and wet here. But still not enough for proper snow. To be honest I am perfectly happy with no snow at all.
Rie and Sara are getting better. They are both miserable when sick, so this makes me happy. What does not make me happy is the fact that I seem to have caught a bad flu myself.
I started working again Monday, but already Wednesday I went home with a fever. And it was likely good that I did, because it has gotten worse since.
Fortunately Hitoshi has been great in taking over things like cooking and cleaning and childcare at home, so I can rest and get better. I guess there is something good about how working i a hospital inoculates him against most stuff going around. (even if he does on occasion bring a few microbiological presents home to his family)
On a brighter note we have big plans for Christmas. We have managed to get invited to stay in a convent close to Rome for the holy days. We will be able to do some sightseeing, shopping and parttake in the Christmas celebrations in Rome. There will also be all the things about living in a convent, which I am looking forward to in a weird way.
It has been ages since I last wore the crucifux I got at school. I suppose this will be a good occassion to delve back into those parts of me again. |
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| Autumn bird |
[Nov. 12th, 2007|01:58 am] |
Getting colder and darker, and just now we had the first thin layer of snow.
It is funny to take Rie out to play in the forest or park. She loves all the colors and leaves on the ground. She is one inteprid explorer of the world, but I wonder if I should be worried about the way she always needs reassurement and approval from me or Hitoshi.
I suppose it is a girl thing, as I see boys her age just mill about without any concerns. Rie is constantly coming back to me to show me what she has found and hear my approval.
I am most likely just being stupid that I worry this might mean she is overly dependent on me and others.
I am going to start working again later this month. I look forward to it, but I admit that I am doing a low-intensity jobhunt on the side to find something more rewarding. I am already way behind Hitoshi in income and even more in saved up pension. I feel I should transfer my new abilities and experience into more money and career, and that will likely mean getting a entirely new job.
Went to a two day convention for my firm last week. It was a blast. There were good meetings and discussions, good food and a great party. I admit I worried too much about the girls and Hitoshi looking after them, but I managed to enjoy myself none-the-less.
(hey, I only called home once!)
This Firday I went out to have a drink and dance a bit with two other women from work. It was quite funny, and I think we will do it again.
I was a bit shocked by the comment one of them made that "If we find no cute guys to fuck, then lets all three go to my place and have fun!"
I really thought I had become quite freespirited after finding a firm foundation in my marriage and children, but when it comes down to it I am really still just a mere appentrice. ^^ |
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| Laidback stressout |
[Oct. 29th, 2007|09:22 pm] |
Just switched to wintertime here, and it is very clearly autumn. All the trees outside my windows are pretty in browns, reds and yellows. But it rains quite a bit, so staying indoor to enjoy them is my favorite option.
We hosted a party Saturday. Lots of drink, friends and music. It was a sort of delayed housewarming after the renovation of our apartment. That we have two floors and can spread the party by subject matter is neat. Observation: The guys congreate around Guitar Hero, the women on the dance floor.
Not that I mind, I got to dance with every girlfriend and wife in our combined circles of friends.
I just wish I had been told that somewhere along the line the invitation got twisted into some sort of cosplay party. I felt like Hitoshi and I were the only ones not in school uniforms or Hawaii outfits...
I have weird friends. Hitoshi's are almost normal.
Sort of training for the anime con next weekend, I would guess. I learned one couple of my friends are actually among the organizers this year. Guess I will have to show myself then.
Rie and Sara we had staying over at one of my friend's house. She has a six year old daughter who was thrilled at watching little kids. But I still think my girls missed mom and dad. I was certainly happy to see them again the day after - Right until Rie constantly woke me up as I tried to sleep away my tired hangover.
She has this thing with always coming over to me for attention and acknowledgement while playing. It is cute, but it hurts napping.
Managed to do a short Chinese detective story using Qin. It was well received. But I doubt I could make just as entangled closed room murder mystery again. It was fun to see the players realize that every single guest at the wedding had a possible motive to kill the clan head. One player almost shouted in character: "Anyone at all in here who would NOT see the stinking old goat dead?!" And I almost had the butler raise his hand. ^^
(except the players immideately would have zeroed in on him as the murderer...)
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bog_mod's game is fun as always. I like when I realize the man is almost as conniving and cruel as I am.
Presently at the second session of a game of Grey Ranks. I admit I love this game. The way things are going I know my brave and frail young child soldier girl will not survive. But it just so heartwrenchingly beautiful. ^^
Also wondered if this game might not be even better if done online. It has very little planning and preparation involved since there is no real game master, and the four sessions worth it takes to play through the horrors of the Warzaw uprising in 1944 as child soldiers should not take more than eight or so online sessions.
Just need some webpage tool to post the The Grid, and if not everyone has the book then somewhere to post the story points...
Hm... |
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| Got tagged! Will travel. |
[Oct. 21st, 2007|01:54 pm] |
Weather has been good here, and I am feeling great for no other reason than having had ten hours of uninterrupted sleep. Have been making use of that to finish a lot of chores and little things I had been postponing.
Got tagged for bookmeme by etrangerewhich has been interesting, because it set me thinking about a lot of old books I have read and what I really found in them. But it has also been difficult because I felt I should only pick western/non-Japanese books or those known in the west. This made a lot of second or even third choices make it onto the list. Name...
* Three books that have marked your childhood...
- Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren
- Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong?
- The Hound of Baskerville by Arthur Conan Doyle
* ... and your teenagehood :
- Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
- Lord of The Rings by Tolkien
- Two Virgins in the Attic by Nobuko Yoshiya
* Your three favourite books (only 3, even if it's hard!):
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Mist of Avalon by MZBradley
- Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara
* Three books you could read again and again without growing weary of it :
- Outlaws of the March by Shi Naian and Lou Guanzhong
- The Deer and the Cauldron by Louis Cha
- The Palm of the Wind's hand Machi Tarawa
* Three books you've read or are reading recently :
- The haunted Monastery by Robert van Gulik
- A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising by Miron Bialoszewski
- Twelve Kingdoms: The Aspired Wings by Ono Fuyumi
* Three books that you'll read soon :
- Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkin
- The Half-blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
- Twelve Kingdoms: The Shore at Twilight, The Sky at Daybreak by Ono Fuyumi
* And one special, fetish book that you'd keep with yourself all the time :
- The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Tag as many people as you've read books in your life (or just 3 or 4 people because that's way too many people)
There are a few people I wish to tortur.. er, know the literary tastes of: hertzahaeon, bog_mod, and kenshiro2k. |
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| Confused fool |
[Sep. 23rd, 2007|08:45 pm] |
Weather is slowly getting colder, and we may have to turn on the heat in the apartment soon to avoid having the girls become sick.
I feel weirdly sad and confused.
I made some choices and took some actions this weekend which likely had the best result they possibly could have had - None.
But I still feel desolate and sad as if I lost some kind of opportunity. I am just happy that Rie can make anyone put away sadness, that Sara keeps me busy and that my husband trusts me to give me comfort and a needed hug without wanting any sort of explanation from me. |
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| Phoenix Wright with Swords and Brute Squad |
[Sep. 7th, 2007|07:26 pm] |
Weather is turning colder and we all just had the first cold of the season, eagerly supplied by Hitoshi to all his loving family - He will pay.
But it meant time to read. And it is a good time for that, since I recently stumbled across the Judge Dee books by Robert van Gulik at my local library. I kind of had a vague memory of once seeing a TV series or movie about this legendary Chinese judge solving murders at an ancient monastary, so I immideately grabbed as many of those nifty little things I could and ran home to read.
And I do mean nifty little things. Van Gulik puts a lot of story into few pages and I very rarely feel bored, unlike with most fantasy writers I have encountered lately.
Not only are the books great entertainment, and I have rediscovered a joy in mystery stories and "sealed room" murders which I remember from my old Kindaiichi manga and TV series. Furthermore the Judge Dee series are so well researched that they give an excellent, if somewhat fanciful, view of Chinese criminal practice. That Robert van Gulik studied Tang/Ming sexuality as well just makes his passion crimes so much more real.
And my head is beginning to fill with vicious and neat ideas for a CSI: Rokugan campaign in L5R, though perhaps I will settle on a slightly modified Qin - Warring States game in order to get the Chinese rather than the Japanese/mixed Asian feel.
Now just to get the time and players. The time issue definetely being the worst part. |
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