February 5, 2001 - Monday
Happy Birthday to Me!
I didn't have a party today, but I had a good day nonetheless. It all started when
I got up for my Japanese lesson. I was writing e-mail when the phone rang. It was
a guy checking my address. I was able to understand him and correct it, after asking
him to speak slowly. Wahoo! Then, a few minutes later, my doorbell rang. When I opened
it there was a man holding red roses. Wow! I counted them and there was 15 long
stemmed red roses. Oh my. They came from a secret admirer, not so secret to some
people though.
My lesson was bad, but that was my fault, not my teacher's. I didn't have any time
to study this week. After the lesson I went to a post office to buy some stamps.
When I put my mail in the post box, I noticed a road just a little behind the post
office. It looked like a main road so I thought I'd go and check it out. There were a few
shops but they were far away. However there was a shop with "Boulanger" on it.
"A ha," I thought, "a butcher's shop." Well, it wasn't a butcher's it was a bakery!
It's been a while since I studied my French too! I went in and bought a few things that
were really delicious.
Then I headed off for the Co-op grocery store. I tried to find a vase for my lovely
roses, but couldn't. I dined at the McDonald outlet there and bought a few groceries
for the coming weekend. Then, I walked home.
At home I watched the morning's episode of Rosie O'Neil and then started working.
I decided to start in my bedroom as there was nothing on TV for a while and I could
listen to my new cds while I worked. I picked up all the clothes off the floor
and found a few things I'd totally forgotten that I had! I ran out of hangers before I ran
out of clothes!
When I got the room looking halfway decent I even vacuumed! Then I vacuumed the living
room too. I'm now mostly done cleaning my house. I still have the toilet room and
the bathroom, but apart from those places, and the huge bags of garbage, my apartment looks quite nice.
Around 8:30 I decided to finish working. I was getting a bit hungry. I wanted to
go out for a special dinner somewhere, but where? Unfortunately I turned on the TV
and it was the old Cary Grant-Deborah Kerr movie An Affair to Remember. I love Cary
Grant, so I watched for a while. While I was watching, my phone rang. It was my secret
admirer checking on the flowers. We had a nice chat and he rang off.
I decided if I was going to leave and get some food it had better be soon, so I got
dressed and left. I abandoned the idea of going somewhere really fancy as it was
getting late and I wasn't wearing dressy clothes. I went to a coffee shop on Hanozono
that I go to sometimes and had Wafu hamburger followed by a cake set...that was a crepe
cake with ice cream and milk tea. I started reading my new Dick Francis in the restaurant...a
nice treat for my birthday.
After my meal I walked a little, but as it was late I thought it might not be a good
idea to go too far, so I turned around and came home. At home, I started to write
this entry. And there you have it. My day!
I feel really good, as I got beautiful flowers, cleaned my apartment, talked to my
secret admirer and ate a nice meal. A great day. Tomorrow I'm back to work. Sigh.
Oh well.I had a great weekend.
Night!
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