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I'll take the lighter one
"Don't let the emotions overwrite your heart.""Which one makes you smile or feel lighter? Still being married in 6 months there or being free and able to do whatever you want/need in Japan?""If you...
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10 years down on the road?
Divorce Support Expert asks:"There may be some initial gratification but how will you feel five or ten years down on the road? Will you regret not putting more effort into solving marital problems?"Do...
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Turned out right.
21:05. Thursday night. I'm making prune jam and my husband is reading a book next to me.Time is going slower than usual right now. Maybe because we're happy and content.Sweet and sour smell of prunes...
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Sun is too bright
22:37 1st.OctWhat do you do when you can't sleep?Wide awake and keep thinking. But you can't clearly figure out what you are thinking about. You know you should get your sleep..so you're trying to make...
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Promises in A Relationship
How do people make promises in their relationships? Here I am only talking about promises in romance/love. Not in general. (...can it be separated? I do)Do all the promises really come to the reality?...
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Fly outside the window
Thursday afternoon. 6th Oct.It's gotten cold since the past few days. The temperature has dropped to 12 degrees from 25 a couple of days ago with the east wind. It's coming from Russia and pushing...
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Phone call broke the silence
So many things going on in my head. Job and apartment hunt and rebuilding my life. I'm on start over. This almost makes me faint. But I will be soon ok again.My friends envied me for being married to a...
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Christmas 2016
Before heading out to Jan's parents.Merry Christmas!! I hope all of you had a great time with your family or beloved one. This year I got to celebrate it with Jan's family for the first time. One of us...
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Day 1. 18th Oct. Our Trip to Neuschwanstein
I know it's been a while since I took the pictures and never made posts about it. So I'm going to make posts of unshared events by the very end of this month. This is the one of things I want to get...
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Day 2. 19th Oct. Our Trip to Neuschwanstein
I don't know about you but I looked up and it kept my mouth opened in a shock for a while. SO beautiful. I think I'd like to write a bit about the history of this castle here. It might help you...
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Day 3. 20th Oct. Our Trip to Neuschwanstein
Woke up, felt the sunlight, opened the curtains, and asked "why so sunny today and not yesterday??"This couldn't have been more beautiful but oh well. It was lucky enough for us that it never rained...
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Day 4. 21sr Oct. Our Trip to Neuschwanstein
This was taken when we left the lodge to return home. As you can see, the weather couldn't been any worse. Windy, freezing, rainy and dark. I'm glad the weather stayed nice last days. We only have to...
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Take me back: Bostalsee 2 night-stay
I've still got a couple (maybe more) of posts that I haven't made yet and had been putting off to write. And this is the one that has been stuck in my head, wouldn't leave my mind and keep on telling...
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Scones!
AH!!!!!!! These scones are good. So good. The face you get when the first bite makes you take a big breathe-in from nose with your eyes wide opened. This is what they did to me. Cooled scones are just...
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Return Home for 2 Weeks
I returned home for exact 2 weeks in January. Surprising my mom that had no idea that I'd ever come back was a plan. :)On 14th January, Frankfurt Airport, Jan in his uniform and I walked up to the...
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10th Feb. Visit New Home in Düsseldorf
I am moving to Düsseldorf! How could I expect that? When I decided to quit the community college last year (September 2016), I was thinking that returning home in Tokyo would be my fate and I would go...
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28th Birthday and Boxes!
Big boxes are surrounding me. I'm literally surrounded in excitement. Today I turned 28.And no, boxes aren't presents but they're love. Love from family and friends.It's going to be a life-changing year!
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The Day I Moved to Düsseldorf!!
It's still feeling like today was just a dream in a random night. But I'm awake. Then this means today wasn't a dream. Such a big big day. A big change in my life. I can't still believe the morning I...
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The First Day. Lost in Town
My first morning!! Started with a couple of things on ToDo list for today. And I'm feeling determined. Somehow.1) I will get officially registered as a resident of this town and other required...
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A Pavement of Stones
How can I get through this. How can I survive this time? I'll lose my visa. I need a job. I put myself in this place. Nothing and no one else. I chose to be here. So any kind of outcomes were welcomed....
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Oma Erika
When you were asked if you were happy back then, you said you are. In different places, times, with different people you said you are happy. And now you’re asked again, 10 years later if you are happy....
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Dim light
How can I start this? All these two and half years I haven’t posted a single article to share my life with those who have followed my blog, I was in the happiest place I’d ever been and even thought...
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I know you moved onto someone newHope life is beautifulYou were the light for me to find my truthI just wanna say, thank youLeaving to find my soulTold her I had to goAnd I know it ain't prettyWhen...
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Notes to self: After a breakup
Fuck it's hard.It has been about 4 weeks since we broke up. I have been working on healing from it. I had never experienced such a pain and cried 1,5 months straight since the moment I realized he was...
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