February in photos Day 1 : your view today. Sunset mid afternoon and desolate winter trees.

Usually I hate memes. However, I feel like in February, it being the most poncey month of them all, this kind of behaviour is overlooked. (Any other takers? Sophia? Sarra? Vina? Erin? Joey?   Peer pressure.)

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

I don’t know why I keep being surprised whenever new months show up. It’s not like they’re unannounced - I know they’re coming at least 28 days in advance, but I just can’t get used to how quickly life goes by. 

January was an unmotivated haze of snowy blizzards and frozen, fumbly hands, and I can’t bear to let February be like that.  Do you know that for about 70 % of January, I was in bed before 10?! And I LIKED it?! I don’t know what’s worse - that my sense of adventure has depleted or that I actually enjoyed staying at home to do the ironing and mock Republicans on CNN (I made little mustaches out of orange felt and stuck them on the candidates faces during the debate. And then I heckled them.) 

I blame the weather for making me a hermit. I also blame being in a relationship. Now that I have no reason to troll the seedy streets picking up riffraff, it’s easy to get into my jimjams and stay at home with The Boyfriend. I’m not complaining and I don’t think I’m in a rut. Far from it , I think I might be gaining strides in my New Year Resolution of Becoming A Mature Adult, but I need to spice February up a little bit.

Do you think that we get to a certain stage where cooking and cleaning and working and buying bunches of tulips from the flower shop on the corner instead of going clubbing and forgoing the Marie Claire in order to buy books on the conflict in Syria… do you think this is what being an adult is? I feel stuck between the person I want to be (when I am 35) and the person I still feel like I might be (17).

Are you an adult? How do you do it? Why is there not a guide book?

Ok, firstly, Kristen Bell and I would be BEST FRIENDS if we were ever allowed to meet. (I used to think that about Mandy Moore, but then she dated Andy Roddick and got all breathy and uncontrollable in A Walk To Remember and I had to drop that hot mess.) She reminds me of my best friend who is just as adorable and squeal-inclined.

I don’t know why I started that paragraph with ‘Ok, firstly’ because thats really all I have to say about this. 

(Source: dangersofsincerity)

Im sitting on a bus, trundling through downtown Sapporo after having run away from the office (not a single other teacher had left and I always feel awkward and guilty being the first to depart -CATHOLIC GUILT).

Just before I left , I was sitting at my desk ‘working’ and secretly listening to music, when I accidentally pulled my earphones out of my laptop and some loud, obnoxious song blared out (YES! ‘I’m sexy and I know it’ by LMFAO! How did you know??) and as I fumbled with my computer trying to turn down the sound but succeeding only on making it louder, I realized that there was only one thing that could be done. And that was: spend fifteen minutes hiding in the deserted girls loo on the 3rd floor and then run away.

So here I am, whizzing away and delighted with life. apparently the way to fulfillment is Leave Work Early.

The Japanese army… Oops, I mean ‘defense force’ although the difference appears to be in name, mainly… Is out in force, building the snow sculptures for this year’s snow festival. I never get tired of seeing these military men carefully sculpting giant, icy Care Bears.

The end.

A pick-me-up is needed. Don’t know about you , but dour notes of criticism on a bright Tuesday morning really kills my groove. Gotz to get it back on. 

My favourite SA group - you should see them live WOW - here is Goldfish with Show You How.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
                        - Lao-Tzu

YES! I miss giraffes very very much. Went to the zoo the other day on a school outing and I almost cried. The poor giraffe was freezing and stuck in a 4x4 fenced off area. I wanted to cut the lock and hit his bum and let him run down the streets of Maruyama, but I chickened out. What to do, what to do. 

NO! I have never lived in one, but maybe they exist? Boyfriend’s family’s houses all have central heating, but I have never heard of it in an apartment. Why? You freezing? I am. God.