Tuesday 24 January 2012

Let it snow let it snow let it snow!



The picture really isn't much to look at, and lots of people I know wouldn't consider it much snow, but it made me very very happy.

Last night it started snowing as I was heading home - big fat white slushy flakes. I figured it wouldn't stick, melting when it landed. So finding a world covered in a (thin) layer of white when I emerged from the train station thrilled me to no end. I sat watching it fall before I went to sleep - loving the hush it throws over everything.

I was sure it'd be gone by the time I got up this morning and was delighted to find the world still white when I woke up. His turned to worry when I realized it wasn't so much snow as frozen slush - very slippery!

There was even still some white (the bush above) when I went for lunch, and some patches still hanging on when I left for home this evening. The white stuff made me happy, satisfying this Canadian's need for at least one snow day every year and, better yet, didn't mess up the trains all that much in the process.

It also gave me the opportunity to laugh at the behaviour of Tokyoites unused to snow... The complete uselessness of most Japanese boots (flimsy gumboots or stiletto heeled leather affairs) on ice, a short little police officer using a broom to clean snow off the roof and lights of his police "van", and a shop owner using water (cold water from a hose) to "clean" off the sidewalk in front of his store (he's really lucky it is supposed to warm up over the next few days, or else the drug store next door is going to be selling out of pain meds!).

Thursday 19 January 2012

Things I love Thursday

- electric blanket in our unheated bedroom
- making plans for the coming year
- feeling needed
- homemade gooey chocolate cake
- hearing my coworker talk about becoming a father
- knitting baby gifts!

Wordless Wednesday - Rising to Perform

Once again I sent a post to myself and then forgot to actually post it... Oops!

A while back I saw this poster. I tend not to get overly excited by "English" signs here anymore but this one had me giggling.

Wednesday 4 January 2012

Wordless Wednesday - Chocolate Shortbread Cookies

I thought I posted this on Wednesday, but turns out I didn't... Oops!



Chocolate shortbread cookies - sinfully good and they didn't crumble away to nothingness when I took them off the cookie sheet!