Today is Saturday.

I was in bed till afternoon.

I was in my pajamas till 2 p.m.

What a glorious lazy day.

I love Saturdays...

He is close!

My hubby will be home in about 4 hours!!!

I SO can't wait!!! I'm a little nervous about the fog, but I know God will get him home safely because He is a good God.

My Jamie will come out of the plane together with the Japanese and it will be almost impossible to tell the difference between them. As you can see in this picture Jamie's eyes have been rather Japanese even before this trip! We'll see if I recognise him in the airport. Might bring home some Ching Sun Yan instead of James Cooper Peipon. I guess I should check his passport first... My husband is an American citizen! That much I know! :)

Our Domestic Zoo

They eat together...

sleep together...

play together (the cats are nearby, but they prefere

to play with each other...)

'Hello, stranger!'

The super modern XXI technology is called to make life more easy!
or... uh, more complicated? See what I mean

Home alone

Oh, a blessed week of rest..... I'm staying home this whole coming week. If I wish I can stay in Monday to Sunday! And no one has the right to tell me it's wrong :) But we'll see, I might have a peek outside... we'll see... depending on your behavior.

By the way, about this 'behavior' word (and many others like 'favorite'... emm, many of them, but I can't think of another example). Anyhow, in school we all had to write an essay on a given theme. And when the next week the teacher returned our checked papers we were all disappointed at how many corrections there were (she is a very diligent young teacher, about 3 years older than us :)
On the side of the lines there were explanations of our mistakes. I understand 'WW" (wrong word usage), SP (spelling, of course), GR (grammar), but one of my mistakes had 'Am' on the side. The mistake was in the word 'favour'. Apparently, this mistake is called 'Americanism' :))))
It's difficult to be learning your second language and be constantly confused about British and American English (Okay, I get the pronunciation differences, but the spelling! common!). I love them both, but I have to make up my mind and choose one! What shall I do???

I got a call from Tokyo!!!

Guess who? :)))))
I couldn't believe my ears! Right in the middle of my work day on my cell phone! I remember thinking that Andrey's and Jamie's voices sound very similar. Today I got convinced it is really so. The little screen on my phone said 'Private #' and when I picked up it felt like it's far away... Allo, allo... Dasha? I was pretty sure that the call was made from as far as Great Britain. Oh, what a pleasant surprise, my brother was so eager to hear me... I needed like 5 seconds to realise it was from Japan! Quite a bit further, huh? I could barely hear him, we didn't speak for a long time. Now that I think of it the only things he actually told me (besides 'can you hear me?' 'are you at work?' 'what time will you be home?'...) were that we have a 6 hour time difference and that he loved me...
So I really don't know how they are doing. At least we know he is ok :)

Dreams come true.... hope not mine

When will I remember not to eat before going to bed? Everybody knows that you don't sleep very well after a late dinner because your stomach (and brain) have work to do...

Jeanne cooked a yummy meal last night. How could I refuse? It smelled so good. Plus I haven't had dinner that evening. So, I gave up.

In my crazy dream I saw nearly everyone I know... My Mom was a bus driver! A huge bus! And Mom is insanely scared to drive even a tiny car! (in real life)
I saw shoes and purses... Cats and dogs... And many more...
Thank God I don't remember everything I saw.
Whooh, what a night...

RIP

It's weird, I came to work at 9 and it was so quiet and empty in the whole office as if no one ever worked here. Monday is a hard day I guess. But it doesn't mean you can simply cross out Mondays from your routine... I wish I could do that.
The past couple of months have been really difficult, we published like 6 magazines instead of two. In our room of 7 people there are only two present right now, Olya and myself. The rest of our ladies will be away this week. They have earned a good rest.
So, rest in peace, ladies, and get more energy to substitute me when I go for vacation in a week...