This past week~+ Happy Thanksgiving~!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!
What are you most thankful for this Thanksgiving??? Hmm... I'd have to say firstly, God. He's awesome and always there for me even though I'm not always there for Him. Even so, He's helping me become a better person every day. So, hopefully I can be of more use to Him more and more each year! :)
Second, my family. They're always there ...because I live with them! Lol, jk jk. Seriously though, I'm definitely thoroughly blessed by my family. We may not always see eye-to-eye but in the end, God's growing us all.
Third my friends and especially my bros and sisters in Christ. Thank you to you all!!! Wow... doesn't this sound like an acceptance speech? Lol, I need to stop with the mushies and on to what I've been up to, huh? :P


It was my brother's birthday on the 17th. Our family has a tradition that the bday person gets to pick whatever they want to eat the entire day and then for dindin, we all eat dinner together at their restaurant of choice. Henry wanted Chili's so we went there. He ate a sirloin steak. Doesn't he look totally pleased with himself?


This is what I ate. It was Chicken Club Fajitas I think. They were okay, I guess.


This is the family (minus me... I'm taking the pic) singing happy bday. All the kids pick Baskin Robbin's ice cream cake for their bdays. Tasty~! Do you see what looks to be a Christmas present in the back? Yeah, that's his bday present. We just ran out (or never buy) Birthday wrapping paper, so we used Christmas wrapping paper instead. Are we the only ones who do this? hmmm....


Last Friday was the Jp Women's Thanksgiving edition Fellowship. On the way there there was a lamp post that cast a curious shadow in the shape of a cross. Thankfully I had my camera with me. You kinda have to wonder how many people would actually notice something like this? I think God blessed us with something cool on the way there because we were tired in order to encourage us! ^.^


I made the turkey for the Jp Women's Fellowship. I tried a new turkey marinade recipe the night before and it turned out to be AWESOME! The turkey was so juicy and succulent! I was really worried because I wanted everyone to enjoy the turkey. But, I think I'll be using this recipe for many Thanksgivings to come!


This is a pic of the Fellowship hall with all the peeps from the Jp Women's fellowship and the Girls' Bible Study.


Basically same thing, different angle. We had a glorious time the Jp Women's Fellowship~! Since we didn't have to worry about the parking, some of us stayed late and ended up leaving around 11. Good times~


That night Kiara spent the night and the following evening we went on base to skateboard. The first place we went wasn't ideal. It was on a huge incline so you'd go faster than you'd want to... very very quickly. We searched for another place and for about an hour couldn't find one. Then we "happened" upon a brand new, freshly paved parking lot with NO cars. It was funny because we were looking for Ryukyu Middle School, but for the life of me, I couldn't find it even though I drive past it almost every day. We were all in agreement that God blessed us with probably the best place to skate on base. Isn't He awesome?!? Anyways this is Kiara lookin' awesome while skating.


This is Anna looking awesome on her skateboard. I was having a lot of fun taking pics. Of course I played around on my longboard too. I'm getting a lot better. Ie: Not falling as much. :P


The next day Halleluyah came over to hang out for a bit. So we decided to go on base and skate again~. Of course, I brought my camera to take more pics. This is all of us and our Daigo (the celebrity grandson of ex-Prime Minister Daigo) ウイッシュ[uisshu] pose.


This is our "gangsta" pose. Yeah, we're all Japanese who grew up in Japan, so it's a little sad. I'm trying to rep LA and failing so miserably. I apologize to anyone from California in advance. (T_T)


This last skate pic is awesome in the fact that... well, look at Halleluyah!!! Man, I wish I had that kind of balance and upper body strength to do a handstand on a SKATEBOARD!!! ...Okay, so we took a few pics of ourselves. I'm pretty sure if someone was watching us (as creepy as that would be) they'd be SO amused at us.

OK. I think that's enough posting for now. I'm REALLY sleepy. I'll probably edit some of the videos and pics that I took on Thanksgiving... later today. Breaks always go so fast! Be safe out there on Black Friday's crazy shopping and for those of you in a different time zone from me, stay safe on Thanksgiving~! I'll now leave you with a daily verse from Christnotes.org! God bless~!

Whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith--the salvation of your souls.
1 Peter 1:8-9
New King James Version

Random quiz thingee instead of studying for my exams.

I'm totally procrastinating having to do all of my school work. I'll post some pics later because I'll have to edit them before posting them and that takes a little time. Time that I don't have right now... (T.T) When will I learn not to procrastinate my schoolwork?!?!?!?

6 Random Facts

1. My favorite food is unagi.
2. I was born in Yokota AB.
3. I'm double jointed in my fingers and can pop my thumbs out of socket. (Isn't that two facts???? ....hm....
4. I'm an avid anime-r/gamer.
5. I love to skateboard but am not that good at it.
6. I've only been in Okinawa for a year.

5/5 Lists (I had no idea what else to call this)

10 Years Ago:
1. I was 11.
2. I was one of the "popular" girls in my class. (heh).
3. It was 1998.
4. I hated Nsync and Backstreet boys while everyone else loved them.
5. I really didn't know what anime was. (gasps!)

5 Things on Today's "To Do" List
1. Make more coffee.
2. Go to class early.
3. Take my Mid-term exam for my business class.
4. Take my "mini-test" for my upper level compy class.
5. Do some JP Lang studying

5 Things that I would do if I were a millionaire:
1. Go to any college that I want to.
2. Buy my parents a house.
3. Travel the world.
4. Pay for my sister's college.
5. Give 75% of my moneys to missionaries who need my moneys more than I do.

5 Places I have lived:
1. Berlin, Germany.
2. Enid, OK
3. Marysville, CA.
4. Tokyo, Japan
5. Moore, OK

5 Jobs I have had:
1. Lawn cutter
2. Baby sitter (that was VERY infrequent. I REALLY don't like babysitting)
3. Waitress at a pie/country resteraunt
4. English teacher
5. Video rental store staff person

My random goings-on

Here are my random goings-on~:



This is at the Japanese Women's Fellowship from October. Lisa and I won the "who can remember all of the names from last month's meeting?" game. So here's us holding our prizes. I guess Mariko wins too since she's got the Word of God. :)



This is a lovely plate of my very awesome gyouza. It's crunchy on the outside and juicy on the inside. Yummy~!



This is the sunrise from on top of our house. I like to imagine God just kind of brushstroking the clouds in...




A beautiful hibiscus from the garden in our front lawn right after it rained.



Anna and Cassandra goofin' off at Dragon Palace in Mihama during Cassandra's bday party. I forgot where everyone else was when I took this... hmm...



This is one of my favorite purikura (sticky pics) that we took. I decorated it. :) And does anyone know where Cassandra is?


As you can see, I pretty much do a lot of stuffs. Right now I'm super busy with school. Both of my classes are upper level. Which, of course, means lots and lots of papers to write. Blah. Keep me in your prayers as I consider the Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa. They've got a Japanese majors program that I really want to partake in. However, as most of you know, the cost of living in Hawaii is crazy. So, I guess we'll see what God does with it, eh? :) He never fails to astound me with something awesome. I'll leave you with a daily verse from Christnotes.org:

Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You!
Psalm 119:11 (Read all of Psalm 119)
New King James Version

Sometimes when people come to our house, we like to hit them in the face...

Actually we only like to hit them in the face on Wii boxing! :P One of my favorite things to do when we have company over is to bust out some of my Nintendo Wii games. The favored game is Wii Sports because relatively anyone can play it (for the most part) without any real skill. However, if you want to play Smash Bros., please bring your A-game because my Pikachu dominates. :D Here's a clip of some peeps who came over to play (Wii Boxing). It took me a while because the file has to be less than 100 MB to upload. So after editing and editing now the video quality isn't as good as I had originally had hoped. Oh well~!