Year in review

2005 - I actually did quite alot in 2005. That is probably why it flew by so quickly!

I opened the year in China visiting my aunt Jan. It was nice to visit her again although it was quite cold! From her place I moved on to warmer climates in Hong Kong and Macau, thus visiting three places at the beginning of the year.

At the end of January, my mom and aunt Joan came to visit. We did some sightseeing and lots of visiting... and discovered the calming effects of colouring!

February brought the death of my hard drive and general panic when I realized I had lost all my contact data and lots of work data. Lesson learned - back up, back up, back up. Of course, this lesson wasn't quite learned because when I had a major system crash in December that prevented the computer from reading my hard drive, I lost data again. So the new mantra is backup often, backup often, backup often.

March came in with record high pollen counts and therefore horrible allergies. I discovered that the eye drops that are supposed to make your eyes stop itching, are at the expense of making them feel like someone threw sand in them.

The cherry blossoms bloomed in April, but I didn't do any cherry blossom parties this year. Too busy. Hiroshi and I just went for a walk to enjoy them. At the end of April I went to Thailand and had my LASIK done. So I am now fully sighted without glasses, and aboslutely love it! It was totally worth getting done and I can't ever imagine going back to glasses again!

I spent the beginning of May recouperating on a beach in Phuket - lovely! Rainy season was late, so the weather was perfect... to bad I couldn't go swimming because of the eye surgery. I did do a lot of shopping though! The other event in May was turning 32, but we won't dwell long on that.

June and July was another trip, but this time to Canada for the first time in three years. My sister Jen got married, so it was a good occassion. I got to be a matron of honour (that sounds old!) and see lots of family. Of course I went to the casino while I was home. I won some money, but promptly spent it all on new clothes and makeup. Shopping, shopping, shopping!

August was our four year anniversary - yeah, we've been married that long??!! No we still aren't planning on having kids yet - the freedom of being kid-less is too enjoyable!

Nothing happened in September, except the Aichi Expo ended. I had great plans to go but the news kept talking about record attendance and three hour lines to get in to pavillions and that was enough for me to give it a pass. Should have gone earlier in the year. Nothing much happened in October either except I got an oven! After living in Japan for 6 and a half years, I can now cook hunks of meat and bake stuff... which was the exciting news in November because nothing happened then either.

The year ended with a fair bit of excitement... or lack thereof. I made my first ever Christmas dinner and it was a big success. I also finally made it to Kyoto - I've wanted to go for a long time but it has always been cheaper to go to Thailand or somewhere else. It was a great trip, adn was actually the first time Hiroshi and I had been somewhere on vacation together in two years! The year ended with the lack of excitement - sleep! Which was the perfect way to end it for me because I was pretty tired out!

Hope you all had a wonderful 2005 and will have a great 2006!