i found a REALLY cool website!!! if i were rich, i would totally support this site!

http://www.sheetmusicfox.com/forum/

hooray for the fight against intellectual property rights!!! woohoo!!!!

so what is it about the guitar? why are there soooo many beginner guitar players out there? I for one am SICK to death of beginner guitar players and their stupid tabs taking over the internet. you try to look up music for the piano and you will find A MILLION “tabs” for the guitar for a song JUST ON ONE WEBSITE but absolutely NO music for the piano. since when did the piano become a thing of the past? why does EVERYONE want to play the guitar???? and it wouldn’t bother me so much if people who *play the guitar* ACTUALLY played the guitar!! but they don’t! they just dilly dally around with two or three songs for THIRTY years, and throw their tabs around all over the internet and tell everyone they *play* the guitar!!! i’m sick of it! if your gonna play guitar, learn to play it, get good at it and QUIT with your STUPID tabs! GAH!

Of course, I say this, and yet i’ve been a beginner piano player for nearly 20 years. well you know what, starting now, i’m getting serious with this piano if nothing else than for the sole reason of making my previous statement a credible one. ok, i’m done.

so, i know i’m having a hard time keeping up with this thing. i’m sure many people would disagree with me, but wordpress is just complicated to me! if i had an iphone i’d probably be on several times a day, haha.
oh, so much has happened. let’s see, arron randomly went to Thailand. he came home one day and just blurted out “i’m in a hurry, babe, i’m going to Thailand.”
“what?! when!?” i says.
“in an hour,” he yells behind him as he runs all over the house, throwing things together.
ugh, he was gone for two days and came back with horror stories! apparently, he was tossed about from creepy van to creepy van (on the side of the ROAD mind you), had to use a FAKE VISA or something, had some lady who spoke no english escort him into the country, basically illegally, so he could drop off a tool and fly straight back. he got paid 120 something dollars for that. i was livid. ugh, they got out of paying him because THEY made the whole thing ILLEGAL, because they were in a rush!! since it’s not on paper that it happened, they don’t have to pay!!
ugh.
He’s going to Hawaii on Sunday. They better do it right this time, or i’m gonna be down there myself and if i get down there, boy they’re gonna get an earful.

anyway, i’m gonna talk about more cheerful things, it’s thanksgiving, i hear! hehe, we’ve had a turkey brining all night long, and it’s gonna go in the smoker in about thirty minutes here. we’re making all kinds of gramma’s recipe’s. if i can’t be with my family on thanksgiving, at least i can eat the same food, right? i figure, if the house smells like i’m there, and the food tastes like i’m there, maybe i can close my eyes and pretend like i’m there.
but then i realize, this house could never get noisy enough to be convincing. just ain’t the same without my pops XD
sigh, i gotta stop talking about that, it makes me sad. gosh, the next four years without that loud howl when he laughs and claps his hands and leans forward with his eyes closed. that’s what i see when i think of dad. or the “okay the foods awesome, but i gotta stop eating” plate push and belly rub. i miss my daddy.
i remember when i was little and i would sit on the couch and beg my mom to scratch my head every five minutes. i did the same thing every sunday morning at church too. she used to get so annoyed with that lol. now arron does. i used to hide behind her skirts all the time. i wish i still could.
and me and jeremy would fight the whole ride to gramma’s and the whole ride back. we gave my parents such hell, lol. and then he moved out and went off to college, and i knew things would never be the same between us, and sure enough they weren’t. i missed him so much when he left, i basically moved into his room. i slept in his bed every night. i missed my brother.
that’s how i feel now about my family. i’m so thankful for my family. and i’m so mad at myself for choosing to go to japan. but i gotta make the best of it. if i make the best of it, it will go by a LOT faster, and then i can come home and make up for all that lost time! I can’t wait to see my parents again. They’re gonna get so sick of me when i move back home, lol. i’m gonna be around ALL THE TIME.
I love you guys SO MUCH!!! And I MISS YOU!!!!

me & arron and natalie & victor

so we’re going to have a scary movie night tonight. a girl that i met on yokotaads.com, named caillee, is coming over with her husband and we’re going to make a yummy chocolate cake and watch all the saw movies >.< natalie from upstairs is coming down too. hope caillee doesn’t get mad o.O
i made bread today. natalie found a bread machine at the airman’s attic, and since i had said that i was asking for one for christmas, she snatched it up and now i get to ask for an ipod instead. or a zune. i made banana nut bread but instead of macadamia nuts, i used pecans. and i added wheat germ. sposed to make it healthy. meh. it made me feel healthy and that’s all that matters.
i’ve almost got my business off the ground. i don’t know if i mentioned my making a business before, but yeah, i’m making a business out of cat gyms/towers/whatever you want to call them. i named it “happii kyattsu” which means happy cats. i’ve nearly got all my materials, i just need to go to the housing office and get a business license and then go to the arts and crafts center and get permissions to use their wood shop to cut my plywood. either that or find someone who has a table saw, which….i doubt anyone on an air force base would have. like…what would they use it for… “ooh i need this table saw to add a porch to my house…oh wait…”
but hey you never know. stranger things have happened. considering i randomly came across like 100 sq ft of carpet for FREE at the airman’s attic. i peed myself a little. what are the odds?
i’ve already got like four orders for towers, which kind of stinks since i can’t even start making them yet. doh!
oh well i’m going to be the cheshire cat for halloweeen. i’m stoked. i just have to get arron to let me go to the monster’s ball so i can show off my tail haha…little pun there…
anyhow, i know i’m terrible about putting up pics so here’s the deal. dad, if you’ll call me and WALK me through setting up a …whatever the website is called account with the pictures and stuff, and like linking it to this page so i can er put them up together o.O then i’ll put up pictures when i get them. it’s just so dern complicated on this site. they always come out backwards no matter which direction i put them in. so i’m going on picture strike.
ok well they’re going to be here in like 5 min and this post is getting boring lol. so catch ya later.

jen

so i’m posting. it’s hard to post when you feel you have nothing to write about. “the walls are still here. and they still look the same. the sliding glass door is still dirty. the bunny still hates me. reba was particularly funny today….etc”

yes, I wrote an e-mail to the colonel basically begging him to let the towers to have cats. he said he would look into it. we’re all crossing our fingers. i feel like he’s going to listen to me, but i also feel like he’s going to forget.

um…other than that, nothing is really going on. i posted an ad on yokotaads.com looking for some girlfriends to hang out with. i got a few responses, and one of them i invited over for dinner. we got to talking and stuff, she lives in our building she has a 1 yr old.

sigh…. it’s tough out here. but hopefully when i ever get to know some girls and make friends it might get easier. it’s so tempting to just get a cat, but i’m not going to.

well today has been a purdy dern good day! the results just posted and Mah Baby is a staff sergeant select! yeah! and it’s so good too cause he’s been stressin about it all day and he would have been SOOOOO down in the dumps about it if he didn’t get it i knew he would though cause he’s smart and he knows it too!

and mom’ll get a kick out of this!! i made a pot roast today!!!!! and it was SOOOOOO good! it came out perfect! tasted just like my momma made it . i took pictures, too!

anyway, we’ve been trying to watch Watchmen, this is the second time we’ve tried, and man we just cannot get into it. it is the most booooooooring movie i have ever tried to watch. i mean, gosh what is even going on in this movie? it’s nothing but a bunch of really slow scenes with nothing going on… i wanna slit my wrists trying to watch this…. ugh. that cool song from the commercials isn’t even in it as far as i can tell. but anyway, arron’s handing me the phone to talk to my daddy! gotta go!

the last of the trees. and black netting.

yup. the fire escape.

more trees

i love how we get such a pretty view

this is our back porch–otherwise known as the fire escape!

yeah i know! the bed’s not made!! i said don’t judge!

and this is uh our bathroom! tres cute!

hey dad, THIS is what the towers look like lol yeah, 8 corners.

the left half of the big porch.

this is half of our big porch, the one connected to the living room.

um, a weird picture of our living room, just so you can see the other side of it. i couldn’t really get a good angle lol.

our living room, through the kitchen! which is what i love about the kitchen!!

yeah… our messy kitchen

our lovely little livin room!

arron’s new tv that he had to have lol. oh, boys and their toys

this is jumbi’s cage after i just spent about three hours cleaning it.

okay i thought that since i haven’t gotten the pictures off of arron’s computer, i’d throw everyone a bone and take some pictures of our new home and put them up. the place isn’t exactly the cleanest since we just moved in, but i have been working my tail off around the house, so don’t judge!

so anywho, here they are!

p.s. i have no idea why this blog hates me when it comes to pictures, but i’ll figure it out eventually….

my new bunny Jumbi! yeah he hates me...

OK this isn’t going to be a very long post, but I’m just updating everyone. it’s been really crazy. we’re in Japan, and we were in a hotel for a few days before we could get into our permanent housing. but now we are officially in a two bedroom tower unit, which is REALLY nice! we can’t have cats or dogs, but I’m working on that. i did however take a cute little bunny, named Jumbi, off of someones hands. maybe someday he’ll actually like me. i have taken a lot of pictures of the zoo, the flight, and some other things, but they aren’t on my computer, they’re on Arron’s computer. i PROMISE i am going to post them. i know people are going crazy wanting to see them. it’s just what with buying a car, getting moved in, getting internet, tv, and phone service, and getting our actual stuff in, it’s just been really hectic. when things calm down (as in when my hubby calms down– i so didn’t say that ) i’m going to get all the pictures up, including some of our new place and my new little pet who thus-far hates me -.-

anywho! Japan is so great, so far! and a little update on the pet sitch, i’m sending a very long e-mail i’ve composed to a certain colonel who seems like he might actually take the time to listen to me. wouldn’t it be so cool if i was the one who opened up the towers to cats? i just gotta get a hold of his e-mail address. but i gotta run. we don’t even have milk yet, and i have literally 30 loads of clothes to wash… gah.

i love everyone!!

Jen

i have officially decided that california is a very strange place. from what i can tell, there is no housing district. gas station, theater, house, mall, gas station, house, mcdonalds, house. there’s no system. and i should get an award because i believe i have solved the problem of sky-rocketing housing prices. they think they’re in japan. when you pass a neighborhood with no more than two feet between houses, surrounded by a wall, surrounded by a hundred miles of empty land…. there’s a serious problem. they honestly think they don’t have room. so if we just point out that “you’re not as cramped as you think you are,” they’ll look around and go “……..ooooooohhhh…..” and the price of buying a house will drop, drastically. you’re welcome, california.

and even though it costs a fortune to explore california, you can never go wrong with mexican for lunch and a movie for dinner. i had the best burrito i have ever had in my life yesterday. the monster burrito (get it wet, the sauce is amazing) at La Costa Azul on north texas street in fairfield. the best mexican restaurant i have ever been to. yes, dad, it’s even comparable to Moe’s. ;P and the first person who can tell me what the sauce reminds me of, i’ll give you fifty dollars. cash.

we were planning on going to the zoo saturday and get this! the zoo closes at 4. every day except for sunday. on sundays it closes at 1. what the hay? we get ready to leave at around 12, which was a fluke. i was homesick really bad the night before and didn’t get to sleep until 3:30 in the morning. arron decided to look it up on the internet and make sure they were open that day and we discover their bizarre times. i’ve never heard of a zoo closing so early. are they worried the animals will get tired of laying around in their cages all day? it wouldn’t bother me so badly if we didn’t live an hour away. either we get up at 7 in the morning and drive there, or we pay $100 dollars for a hotel the night before. i don’t know of anyone that’s willing to pay $120 to go to the zoo, without even buying anything yet! and they don’t even have a military discount. ugh. (that was mostly a joke).

oh well. i guess we’ll be getting up at seven this saturday. and we’ll be bringing the camera, so be expecting lots of pictures!