Hi mamapeaches.  I can't speak japanese anymore.  I only had 2 years, but I picked it up so easily then and my second year I was doing 3rd and 4th year exercises as extra homework just for fun.  But this has all been so long ago.  1992-1994.  So that's 15+ years ago.  Heck Ive been out of school for 13 years.  But I am disabled now with lung disease, COPD.  I worked 7 years in a nursing home until I couldn't work anymore.  I am thinking of going back to school but I want to do pharmacy work.  I still want to be a teacher, but I just don't have the same drive for it, like I used to.  I think if I had gone to college after high school, instead of straight to work, I would have been a teacher today.  But I am happy with my choice, I don't have any regrets and maybe one day I will do it.  

The only thing about japanese I still can do is write it.  I can't translate it, but I can pronounce good and I can write the hiragana and katakana without a problem, of course I got to look some characters up, LOL.  And I have 2 kanji flashcard sets that I paid good money for.  Its the same cards they use in the japanese school systems.  It's for elementary grades, but by no means is it easy, LOL.  

My son speaks Japanese fluently so if you want some conversation just call him. I think they are going to Japan in February. Anyway so what's stopping you from pursing the teaching thing. They really have a shortage of GOOD teachers.

I think maybe I need to go back to the beginning, back to basics, and see if I can jumpstart my weightloss again.  I need to retrain my brain, again.  I can't start this week or next cause my Dad is coming from San Diego to visit us.  We only get to see him twice a year.  So we will be doing a lot of activities and we usually go out to eat atleast once to a very nice restaurant during the week he is here.  So it would be a bad time, and an excuse for me to do what I do best...procrastinate, LOL.  

Actually it would really be a bad week.  But I am going to make it my goal to do it in October.  I get the emails from Kay, she does the Five Day Pouch Test emails and has lots of great recipes for all stages and such, so I need to go and check out her site, haven't been there in a few months.  And see how this 5 day test works exactly. 

I would like to say how proud I am on how your doing.  What exactly are Herbal Life protein shakes?  How are they different from other shakes?  100 flavors, something I need to try out.  I am so tired of chocolate and vanilla (the ones I get from wal mart but they are only 13 bucks for a big canister).  

I always wanted to be a teacher, it was my dream since I was 13.  Before that I wanted to be an astronaut, even went to magnet schools that specialized in space exploration or space sciences.  But when I was in the 5th grade we went to the Reuben H Fleet Space Center (Susan knows what this is, in San Diego, big museum with a giant onmimax theater) and they did a planetarium like thing on the screen, which is this big screen all around you and above you.  Then they did a movie where it was like you were in space, and when they showed the earth from above I got so scared.  It was the first time I realized we weren't as big as we thought we were.  So I decided to be a teacher.  And in 9th grade I started taking japanese lessons and decided I wanted to teach english to kindergarten and 1st graders.  If we hadn't of moved after the 10th grade I would have been fluent and had a chance to be an exchange student in tokyo and I wanted to go to college at the Uni of Tokyo.  

Ankle update, please!

yeah well I lasted a day......

I will climb back on the wagon monday

my head is not wrapped around it.....and I had just bought "my" groceries and had to eat them....the men in the house dont eat my food...they are too manly for yogurt and cottage cheese.

So I will dust my big ole butt off and start over Monday. Why Monday.....I am very OCD when it comes to starting new things....I do better on Monday.....last week I started and Tuesday and look I failed..... lol

tam