明けましておめでとうございます～

Happy new year~ I feel like I haven't slept in days. And... well, I kind of haven't. I have been home for a total of about 4 hours in the last 3 days. It's been a ride. I'm exhausted from sleeping on people's floors. I'm dizzy and sick from lack of sleep so I'm going to doze while I was a load of laundry. I haven't checked Livejournal in 2 days. I'm afraid of how many posts I have to wade through. But I have to do it tonight because I'm going to HIroshima tomorrow for 3 days. When did I decide to go? About three days ago. Let's start the new year by spending a ton! I got home and I thought I would have more nengajo but I only had 4. Two from students, one from Sho-kun/Japan Post (I'll photograph it later) and one spam.

I need to pass out for a while. But I feel great. The year of the cow is my year! It better be good.

More coherent update later.

It's later. I didn't really sleep but I don't feel like barfing from being tired now. For a while. It's 9 and I haven't even started packing yet but I've been angry at LJ because for the last hour it hasn't been loading. I want to write some kind of though provoking post but I think I'm not in the mood now. No, I'm a liar. I will. But first, a year-end recap:

( Uda-Sado-Heather Reunion Dinner; lots of pictures in herre )

( New Year's Eve )

( New Year's Day )

Now for The Things I Did in 2008.

 
Didn't get laid off
Saved $2000
Spent... way more than $2000
Went skiing for the first time in Nagano
Tried to see Ohno's Freestyle exhibition but failed (twice)
Saw old friends from Singapore in Japan
Met awesome new friends from LJ in Japan
Went to Nagoya to visit Yvonne
Big penis festival in Kawasaki
Saw Arashi in Nagoya
Saw my first movie alone (HanadanF)
Went to Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe and stayed with Yuka
Took the Kanji kentei and passed level 9
Had Jenna come visit and stay with me
Went to Sawara for the Autumn Festival
Went to Karuizawa with staff from school (for free!)
Started writing fic 

That's just what I can remember/wrote on my calendar. That's a pretty substatial list, I have to say. I'm going to do this fic meme that's floating around about what I wrote this year but I don't have the time right now. It's 9:40 and I still haven't packed! I'm out of here at 7:30 tomorrow morning. There goes any writing I had planned to do today. I've been replaying the scene I'm working on in my head constantly trying to figure out how to get to the next part. It's hard. :(