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It's full moon today! I took these photos when I was walking around here yesterday ( around 7pm )　 because the moon was soooo beautiful !!   Full moon time was 2:26 am (MST) on August 18 , so at this time, it was about 7 hours earlier , but  was almost full moon. Full Moon 2:26A(MST)   25° Aquarius 52′ Full moon wishes I suppose you may already know about full moon wishes. It's said that if you shake your empty wallet ( purse for money ) to the full moon, and say as if you are already receiving extra income this month and be grateful for it while shaking it, you will receive extra money soon. The wallet has to be empty , taking out all the credit cards , debit card, money, and any other stuff.  Also, avoid to do it during the Void of Course Moon times. For today,  the void of course moon time is below,  18 THU 2:26A (MST ) to 9:34A(MST)  – Pisces so it's no problem to do full moon wishes in the evening tonight. After that, better to f

Japanese breakfast menu One of the happiest moments I feel is eating my favorite foods at home. This is my today's brunch.  The menu is * A bowl of plane white rice with vegetable seasonings over it. * Two sunny-side-ups and a slice of chicken ham , * Green asparagus , * Seaweed called Nori ,  ( Thank you to my aunt Miyoko & Uncle Sakae ) * Miso soup with Daikon ( Japanese radish), Satoimo ( Japanese potato ), green onion, The sauce I use for Nori and the main dish is soy sauce . It's one of the Japanese breakfast menus but I rarely eat breakfast, so I often eat this menu or similar menu for my brunch. This kind of Japanese menu never bores me , and it shows I'm really Japanese.  But I sometimes eat garlic toast with cheese and Tuna, and egg and salad instead of the menu. Also in my husband's days off, we sometimes eat French toast or pancake for brunch. Depending on our mood, sometimes we have different feeling of what to eat, so sometimes I make diffe

 photo credit: Japanese traditional style farm house / 農家(のうか) via photopin (license) When I was a kid, my dad often told me his childhood stories.  One of the impressive things in his stories was about his experience of a nature disaster when he was around 22.  My dad was the fourth child out of 9 brothers & sisters. so including his parents ( my grandfather and grandmother ) total of 11 people were living together .  In his generation, most people were poor with many children each family.  Because after the world war 2, Japan lost so many people, so they were told by the government to have many kids as much as they could.  In 1953, there was a serious nature disaster which came from heavy rain & typhoon in the Kyushu area ( South side of Japan ) where my dad had lived.  My dad was a university student at that time, and when he came back to his home, his house was washed away and there was nothing in the property .  His mother ( my gran

Last Sunday was a Valentine's day, so my husband gave me a bouquet of red roses and I also made a strawberry decoration cake. Flowers make our room lighter and elegant, and  I felt a different energy are flowing around their space. I love the feeling of it and this kind of moment. Feeling abundance and I 'm grateful for it. I love red roses. It's been my all time favorite flowers since I was a little kid. I don't know why but whenever I imagine the word "Flower", I always pictured " Red Roses" in my mind. For me, it's as if Flowers = Red Roses,  even though I know there are so many kinds of flowers with variety of colors in the world.  I especially love red wine color ones and also light pink red ones. Also I love purple roses, pink roses, white roses, pink tulips, purple carnations, pink gerberas and baby's breaths flowers as well. It's always great to decorate fresh live flowers in our home to make our feeling

So happy !!! My Japanese relatives, aunt Takako and uncle Eimei sent us a gift again , and received it yesterday ! They are my mother's younger brother and his wife and my closest relatives. They have been really nice to me since I was a little girl. I can not say enough to thank them for so many things they did to me and my family in my life. These are Organic Mochi ( rice cakes ) , it's kind of like a sticky rice. A rice cake is made by pounding steamed rice into a cake.  I was telling my husband that I really want to eat Mochi around new year holidays because I haven't eaten Mochi since I moved to the USA,  but Asian super market  here are not selling Mochi. So I was thinking about purchasing it in amazon store.     Also the seaweed called "Nori " , and ground sesame which I eat almost everyday. So, I'm so so happy and grateful to receive their gift ! They don't know about my wish to eat Mochi, so I felt like it's

Happy New Year ! 2015 was pretty good year for us except for health. So, my most important new year's resolution for this year is keep having good health. and also have a good laugh and enjoy the moment. Because laughing can even cure illness. Also good laugh can increase our frequency level of energy and attract good luck. In 2015, many of my interests were oldies music which I found many kinds of music and films. When I was younger I rarely thought about oldies , but after I reached to 50, I don't know why but I sometimes enjoy being nostalgic, and love watching and listening to oldies films and music and photos of historical places and  etc.. My husband said he feels the same way as me. In the New Year's Eve to New Year, we were watching Charlie Chaplin 's films and were laughing a lot when the New Year came up. Recently, we both are having addiction to watch Chaplin's films. For this year 2016 , I will keep enjoying my favorite oldie

2015 will be over soon and and 2016 is just around the corner. Every time when the end of year is coming, I feel time flies so fast. This year, world became crazy and there were many shocking news and things happened in the world. But I decided to feel happiness every moment as much as possible, so that I will never regret my life.   It's Christmas today,  So,  I made a cake with decoration - a fruits spicy cake again ! I was not satisfied with the decoration last time, so I wanted to challenge it again. As a result,  I feel it looks better than last time, and with my husband, really enjoying the taste of it ! While I was making it, I found it's getting fun and it's like creating an art. I will practice more in the future because Practice makes improvement.  Wishing everyone to have a wonderful Merry Christmas !

Friday, November 6 was my husband's birthday, so I made a cake and Tempura! We were having cozy happy birthday party at home, just relaxing , eating, chatting, drinking, listening to our favorite music, dancing and watching a new movie. Last year was chocolate cake, so this year I made whipped cream spicy taste with strawberry decoration cake. I'm really not good at making decorations, but fortunately the taste was successful, heavenly yummy!!! Ray said he loves this one as much as the chocolate cake, and it became one of his favorite cakes now.  We both love chocolate taste sweets , especially Ray was eating many chocolate bars every day until he got health problem.   Ray had kidney problems last June this year, and since then he has been avoiding the foods which have high Oxalate content, such as chocolate, cocoa, dry powder, peanut butter, Bran flakes, crackers, soybeans, tofu, spinach, and black pepper.  Because a doctor told him that eating these high ox

  I have a habit to write a gratitude journal before going to sleep every night. It's fun ! I like to do it because it always makes me feel great before I fell a sleep. I sometimes stayed up too late and when I started writing the gratitude journal, sometimes I was half asleep and half awake because I felt so sleepy, but wanted to write my feeling, so I wrote. and in the next day, when I re-read the gratitude journal I wrote the night before, I noticed there were parts I don't remember, which I never imagined when I was in a conscious situation. and last night , it happened again ! I was like who wrote this ??? It's not me !!   I felt it's probably my subconscious mind wrote it. Seems like before falling sleep, our subconscious mind is opening the door.  I was writing something like "Cinnamon's scent is great ! " and also " I'm so happy and grateful to receive an invitation from ( a famous person ) .&q

We happened to see double rainbows recently ! It was my first time to see a double rainbow so I was very excited to see it.   It was very beautiful ! We were in a car, driving to a grocery store, Trader Joe. It was clear and beautiful sunny day, and was wondering rainbow usually appears after stopped rain, so why it happened ? Then while we kept driving, suddenly rain was coming in that area, and soon it's gone after we got past that area. I love the smell of the air after the rain, it always makes me feel great. Somehow, I remembered that if you see a rainbow, it's good to make a wish. So I quickly made my wish. and took a photos of it. After we go back home, I searched the meaning of double rainbows. Here is the information below, ~ Message from rainbow to you ~ " If you see a rainbow, it's a message from the rainbow that you have been doing great work.  Now you will get to a next stage. Good things will happen to yo

Last night I was reading recent news which was about a well-known Japanese  cartoon writer and his roller-coaster life . The cartoon writer, who we will call 　 "Y" , 　got huge success with his cartoon in the 1970s when he was 20 years old and his cartoon series was shown on TV every week. Y got married when he was 23 years old, after he became successful , and had two children and bought a house and also a condo for his office in Tokyo, Japan. He was earning about 40 to 50 million yen /year from the series of the cartoon for about 6 years. He also started to make other cartoon series, but for some reason, Y started feeling pressure to draw and write and get ideas for cartoons and he was unable to get another hit from his other cartoons, after his only cartoon which got big hit series had completed. From the stress, he started escaping from his work of cartoon drawing /writing,　and he got addiction for gambling and went to night clubs every night. and he s