Minnesota is Heaven, But Virginia is Home

In my head, I always spell it "monkies" for some strange reason. Don't you love it when I start a blog post with a digression, right off the bat?  Ah, my mind, it wanders in strange directions.  The older and more forgetful I get, the more I wander into a room and wonder what I came in to get...I think I can actually feel my synapses getting farther apart, the fires between them less like a bonfire and more like one of those trick birthday candles. I have been so klutzy the last few days.  I have certain, ahem, times of the month when it seems that God somehow decided that not only would it be fun for me to have PMS, but also be a complete dingbat klutz.  Here are a few examples of what's happened to me in the last week (or thereabouts, the day is ending and the synapses aren't firing very quickly): On a mission for the FRG, I had to make a mad dash down to the ship to get a car key from Hans (unbeknownst to him).  I got on the wrong ship and didn't fi...

It's been a snowy couple of weeks in Yokosuka.  Yes...I know, when compared to Minnesota it's not really all that snowy.  Or cold.  But--there has been a LOT of snow in this part of Japan.  They are completely and I mean, completely, unprepared for snow.  Our first storm, about two weeks ago, dumped around 6-8" on us and more further north in Yokohama and Tokyo.  They shut the expressway down, the trains were down...everything was closed down.  They don't really have plows or snow removal equipment.  We got another 4-6" on Friday, so school was cancelled.  Whee, four day weekend! Oh, just so you all can rest easy, we've had two days of 50+ degree weather, so the snow is pretty much all gone.  Don't hate.  I can't help weird Japanese weather! It's been a bit since I wrote and that's because I've been busy.  Too busy to blog?  Meh, not really.  I just didn't have much to say.  I was sick, the kids were sick, Ha...