Author: redoctopus13

Well hello and goodbye! I’m sitting in the Detroit airport with almost 3 hours to go until my flight to Osaka. I found an electrical outlet so I thought I’d write a quick goodbye and share some more pictures from North Carolina and Minnesota. If you click on the picture thumbnails you will go to a larger version with a text description so you can read a little bit about what was going on when I took the pictures…. Hopefully I’ll get the internet figured out nice and quick (along with the language, the food, the money, the transportation, the new job, the….).

I hope everyone is well and that everyone comes to visit me really soon too!!! Later…….

Well, I’ve been delayed once more. But now I have a definite date! On June 14th I am leaving for Osaka!!! The Japan offices have received my COE (Certificate of Eligibility) so it is definite, for sure, and positive that I am leaving on the 14th. (Yeah!!) Let the hasty preparations begin….

I’m finally adding some photos today though the format will probably change again in the near-ish future I felt bad having all these fun photos laying around and not sharing them.

So we’ve got me and momma up at Pilot Mountain, Sebastien patiently waiting for lost luggage at possibly the smallest airport I have EVER seen (Winston-Salem and I’m just kidding), and some super tasty fresh strawberries!! Yes, this is why mom’s strawberry jam tastes so good.

And now some from Minnesota:

And we have my lovely gramma who turned 91 this year, her son (my Dad!), and me in front of her mountain ash tree, a picture of a wren’s nest that is inside a hanging plant basket on dad’s porch, and some pretty trees in silhoutte as we drove back to the farm on the highway.

Well, I’m finally writing an entry for my new blog. I hope that my friends and family will look at this page often as I get a little more accustomed to using it. Some of the links don’t work yet and I’m sure that I’ll add some more in the future. I’ve got a lot of pictures to upload from my trip to MN and NC (where I still am) but I don’t quite have the hang of putting pictures on here yet – hopefully next week or sooner. Nova has moved my departure date to Wednesday, June 7th as they haven’t received my certificate of eligibility from Japan yet.

Very exciting – I went to an oral surgeon last Friday (May 26th) and had all four of my wisdom teeth removed plus one little broken off tooth too. So it’s been nothing but squishy foods and lots of painkillers since then….. :( On the upside – my teeth hopefully won’t be hurting me at all after this. I was getting some not so fun pain the previous week that was from the wisdom teeth and I couldn’t think of anything funner to do with them so I got them taken out.