Valentine's Day

I have not posted in a long time because I have been really busy.  Also, I lack interesting stories and did not feel like boring you with filler crap about how the local sushi chef blew me a kiss or what have you.

My main motivation for pumping out this post is because my mother told me she prints out my blogs to give to my grandpa.  She said he keeps rereading my old blogs and keeps asking about me.  Of course after hearing this my blog went up to top priority. 

Happy Valentine's Day!

Valentine`s Day passed this weekend so I decided I was going to be with my girlfriend for the first time on Valentine`s Day in years due to living in distant lands.  I packed my things and headed out to Tokyo with the essentials for any successful Valentine`s Day, a bottle of sake and flowers. 

It was a restful weekend that consisted of eating ramen, pizza and relaxing because the week ahead of me would be a long one.  Of course this lovely weekend had to end with me being late to work on Monday due to my inability to ride the Shinkansen the previous Sunday.

 

Apparently there was a huge snow storm in Nagano which cancelled all the trains back.  My only option was to take the earliest train in the morning. 

The Shinkansen was so packed people were standing in the isle.  This is very rare for the Shinkansen.  The good that came from this was I made my Japanese TV debut. When I got off the train, the local news station had a camera setup to film how crowded the train was.  Naturally I walked right in front of the camera and gave it the ol' “Big Foot head turn.” People who know Big Foot know what the hell I'm talking about.  

I will watch the news tonight to see if I made the cut.

Aside from that I taught my girlfriend how to snowboard.  She improved greatly since her first day.  However, I learned teaching a girlfriend something is like walking through a field of landmines.  Tread lightly…

That is all for now, enjoy Poppy, I love you and miss you.