Hello! This is a log of the events that occurred in Japan last week. At the end of each day, I wrote up a small snippet of the adventures & fun we encountered during the day. Enjoy the crazy time that Julie, Judy & I had in Japan!! ~Jeremy

( Day 0/1 - 6 - 30 – 7 - 01 - 2010 - The Trip To Japan )

( Day 2: 7 - 02 - 2010 – Shopping! )

( Day 3 - 07 - 03 - 2010 – Yokohama & The W-inds Concert )

( Day 4 - 07 - 04 - 2010 – Asakusa & The Namie Amuro Concert )

( Day 5 – 7 – 05 – 2010 – Temples & Buddas )

( Day 6 - 7 – 06 – 2010 – Tokyo Tower, Pokemon Center, Statue Of Liberty )

( Day 7 – 7 – 07 – 2010 – Ueno Park, Boating, & Akihabara (the anime district) )

( Day 8 – 7 – 08 – 2010 – Harajuku Shopping (once more) )

( Day 9/10 - 7 - 09 - 2010 - The longest day in my life so far )

So its official, I'm a live-in maid. My roommate has not cleaned anything (kitchen, living room, or bathroom) in 2 months, so guess who's been picking up the slack. It sucks - major time! Ugh.. She's a nice girl, but just refuses to do chores or even put her own dishes in the dishwasher. I've tried talking to her about it, but nothing ever happens. I've even tried leaving it dirty so she would eventually clean and guess what, after 1.5 months of not having a clean bathroom I cleaned it because I was grossed out. Do you think if I charged a cleaning fee of like 50 dollars that would be too crazy? I mean its literally to the point of she just doesnt clean anything at all and doesnt care - I dont know what else to do! ugh...

So Japan is coming up soon! I'm really excited! I'm going to get to see W-inds too! Can you believe how awesome that is?! I'm going to scream my lungs out! Haha... I'm looking around and trying to research places I want to go. For now I'm just excited for W-inds, Namie & Climbing Mt. Fuji - oh and all of the super cute asian men! (Maybe I should search out the gay district there...^_~)

In my last post I said I was going to move to a different country - I've thought about it and although I really want to do that, I just am not going to do it. For one simple reason - my little dog. I just cant leave her, I would be too sad and I know she would be too. I thought about bringing her, but I think that the month in quarantine would seriously leave her scarred. Oh well, for now I'm searching for employment in the following places: Boston, Chicago, Austin, Honolulu, and San Diego. They are all quite varied but fun places. We'll see what happens!

Has anyone been watching the new episodes of Dr. Who? Damn the new season is amazing, better than any TV show I've ever watched.....and thats saying something!

:)
~Jeremy

Hi! Long time no chat! So I have exciting news for you all! I officially ran a 12-K race! Can you believe it?! I ran 8 miles! Holy crap! It was kind of a spur of the moment thing, two days before the run I was talking to my friend and she said her and her sister were going to try and run it, but she hadn't done any training, so she was thinking about walking / running it. I asked her if I could tag along and well lets just say we were troopers and did it - the whole thing! My legs are still a bit sore today (we ran the race on Sunday) but I'm really proud of myself. I've never ran anything even close to that distance, so without any training or practice, its amazing that I pulled it off! My total time was 90 minutes, which if you take off like ten minutes for the delay caused by the packed starting line (it took forever to get started-look at all those people in the pictures, the crowd was massive!) I averaged about ten minutes per mile - I think thats darn good!







Alright, now that the exciting news is over, lets get on to the real reason I'm posting tonight. I've decided something very large today that I need to share. I've decided to move out of the country. There, I said it. Whew. I'm not exactly sure where, probably Japan, Hong Kong, Sydney, or London. I think the possibility of Japan or HK is greater simply because I can probably land a job teaching english and that could be an easy way for me to move and get established there. I'm going to begin checking the programs out, so I will keep all of you posted on that. As for now, I'm going to focus on my upcoming trip to Japan and how I think the country would work out for me to live in. I just really dislike it here and I know I want to move, but the question for so long has been 'where'? The small benefits of this location over that location really are inconsequential, so what I need is a new environment all together. So, how about them apples yo? Anyone going to visit me if I move?

Well I think that just about sums up whats been happening recently. On a dorky-front I completed playing through pokemon ruby once again, that was super fun & I've been hooked on the celebrity apprentice - dont tell me what happened yesterday I didnt get to watch it yet! Oh, and I just typed this all on my phone, with no spell check, so if I biffed some words up, you'll have to excuse me this time.

Have a goodnight!
~Jeremy


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Alright, so whats with all of these blasted recalls on my car?! Its driving me insane - literally! So first my call was recalled for the brakes, then the gas petal getting stuck under the rug & now the accelerator getting stuck down! Seriously work out the bugs before you sell these things people! Ugh, makes me want to go out and get another new car - meh, if only I were rich.

In other news, today I did nine loads of laundry when I got home from work, because I realized this morning that my dog had become infected with fleas. Such an awful ordeal to go through, wash all the bedding, her beds, couch covers, toys, pillows - you name it I washed it. The total laundry cost ended up being 20.00 - now thats a lot of laundry!. Then if you include all the things for ridding the place of the 'hidden flea eggs' and shampoo/comb this flea thing has cost me about 70.00 in a day! grr, high maintenance dog!

Funny story about the pet store though. Alright, so picture this: I walk into the pet store and go to the 'flea section'. I have no idea which kind of dog flea shampoo to buy, so naturally I seek out a sales associate. The first person I ask has no idea and immediately flees to locate someone else. The guy who comes out is - I assume - the manager & we walk back over to the 'flea section'. He slowly looks over the section and locates two bottles of shampoo. I ask him what the difference is between the two bottles of flea shampoo, hoping he can tell me that this active ingredient is better, or this one is more effective than that. Nope - the guy has no clue, none whatsoever. He responds "Well they're both oatmeal scented, and this one seems to be of higher quality, but I'm just going on price here". The one shampoo was one dollar more expensive than the other one - are you being serious?! Oh but he was, and he wasn't done yet. Holding up the 'more expensive bottle' he goes "So this one is a better brand, I would definitely recommend getting this one". Dude has no clue. The one I ended up getting was neither of the two he had & going from reading the bottles & active ingredients determined my best options. Who knew the employees at pet club were so competent?

Anyway, I've been pondering where my little dog could have picked up these awful things and I think she got them from the long grass she likes to play in by work. It certainly wouldn't surprise me because I saw a raccoon walk through the grass yesterday while we were playing & I know that feral cats like to hang around the grassy areas by my work at night. So now, I'm not going to let her go over there anymore, which stinks for her, because she really liked that area! What doesnt make sense though, is that she is on flea treatment! She gets frontline every month! What the heck frontline?! Grr!

Alright, its now 12:30 and I need to sleep! All that laundry is exhausting!

Hello, Hello!

So I've decided to scratch & start over; so fresh & so clean - as 'Outkast' would put it. Anyway, I suppose I should give a brief introduction for those of you who don't know me & for those of you who do, consider it a bit of a 'refresher course' in Jeremy's life (^_^).

The Who:

Well to start things off, my name is Jeremy & I am currently the lab manager of a toxicology lab in Northern California. I grew up & went to college in Wisconsin & two years ago trekked out to sunny California for this job. I have a tiny little dog companion (see picture ^_^) and love her very much. She is a miniature long-haired whippet (the breed is called windsprite, if you're curious). She comes with me basically everywhere (including work - she sleeps under my desk) and loves to run.  In my freetime I enjoy reading (I am a total book-nerd), running & cooking. I have also been known to watch the occasional episode of anime here & there.

The What:

The purpose for this journal is for me to have a written record of the hilarious, fun & random things that occur in my life & be able to share them with others. Yes, I'm sure there will be monotonous entries, but for the most part, I'm sure you'll find them entertaining. :) I think it would also help in case I ever develop Alzheimers or have a random string of memory loss due to too much soy-intake. Apparently soy products can now inhibit memory retention. Great.  As far as updating this journal goes, I am going to *try* and update every week. Hopefully I can stick to a schedule such as every Sunday night or something close to that, but I'm sure it will vary.

So all I can say is enjoy & if you like reading, then great! If not - suck it up and get on with your bad self. ^_^

Peace,
JL