Yesterday started out kind of badly, but it got a lot better!

Yesterday I woke to find Shouhei's Mixi deleted. I guess I kind of noticed it on Tuesday - he hadn't sent me my usual daily message that morning, but I just figured he was busy or something & didn't think much about it. When I woke up yesterday to again find no new messages from him, I went Footprints to see if he at least visited my page like normal, & bam! His name wasn't anywhere on the page. If I check my old messages from him, there's a --- where his name should be.

I feel a little embarrassed for being sad, but I think I kind of am. I know we've only know each other for a little bit & it's been completely through Mixi, but still - it was really nice to talk him. It was nice to think about someone over there looking forward to me.

Aaaa! I'm over thinking things again! 重すぎ, that's what I am. I think I'll give it a few more days. If he hasn't contacted me by then, I guess I'll just move on.

Anyway, yesterday did turn out much better than it started! ;] Ashley, James, Mikey, Mandi, & I went to Six Flags, & for my birthday present, Ashley & James bought my ticket in. It was so much fun! I was pretty close to going on the Viper, but I was too freaked out to go alone. I still love the octopus ride as much as I did the first time I rode it. Hurricane Harbor was a lot of fun, too! We didn't get to stay in for very long because of weather, but now we know to go in a little earlier.

After the park, we went to Mikey's house & swam for a while (I missed swimming so much!!) & a few more of Mikey's friends came over. It was getting kind of late, so Mandi drove me home, & that was that. ;]

Oh man, I am so beyond broke. My airplane ticket just kind of whooshed all my money away. My parents are feeling it, too, so I know I can't ask them for lunch money for work tomorrow. Hahah, oh well, spending the money was worth it. I'll just sneak into my sister's house tonight to see if I can steal some stuff.

I took possibly the best nap of my life yesterday. It wasn't even planned! Since we had so many relatives stay over the weekend, I was just looking for a place to chill by myself, so I hopped in my parent's bed (my bed was taken by my aunt & uncle from Arizona) to chill, & bam! I fell asleep! Two & a half hours later, I woke up, & everything was amazing. <3

Anyway! Things between Shouhei & I are doing well - a little weird, but well. I have a feeling the next 2 months are going to seem really long because of him. ;] BTW? Dealing with this kind of stuff in another language is scary. One thing may be appropriate to talk about over here while it may be awkward over there, y'know? I think I'll be able to trick him into sending me a picture of him without actually asking for it - I asked him to take a lot of pictures while he's in Guam come this August, so hopefully he'll be in one or two. ;] Finger cross!

I have to admit, though - it was pretty funny when the little mental lightbulb clicked on last week when I realized what the 'It's Complicated' status on Facebook really meant & how it described our relationship/almost relationship?/whatever well, LOL.

& now I'm going to snag this from Evil. ;]
( Meme )

So, I kind of opted out of going to my doctor's appointment today. I made the appointment to see if something could be done with this acid reflux thing, but after thinking about it, there's nothing the doctor can really do, right? I can take stuff to relieve the pain, but I just have to watch what I eat & deal with it. Mom still wants me to go to her doctor (the guy I was going to go to was my dad's doctor), but we'll see about that.

Other than that, lately I've been having a lot of fun with friends. ;] Fourth of July was spent at Ashley's house (thanks again for letting us use your house!) with good friends, & last night a couple of us went to see Wall-E.

& BTW? Freaking ADORABLE. Constant cuteness!

Anyway, I invited John (the other person going with me to Iwate) to come to Japan with me early & travel, & he said yes. So! I have a travel partner! We're only going to Tokyo & Kyoto, but it's nice to know I have someone with me for the long trips.

What else... Oh! Shouhei finally emailed me again. I was little worried that I said something weird in my last message (messaging in Japanese is some nerve-wracking stuff) & that was why he stopped emailing me, but I guess I was wrong? It's been like 2 weeks since he last emailed me, so seeing my Mixi inbox have a new message was definitely a relief. ;] He's going to Guam for his summer break! How cool!

I got my acceptance letter today from Iwate in the mail! It was pretty much full of LOLs, though - I was thinking it'd come with some kind of information like start dates & stuff like that, but nope. It was the exact same thing we received through email a couple of weeks ago. Well, at least I can get my visa now!

Maybe if I play with the Iwate website, I'll find some dates. (I'm particularly concerned with when we get out - I need to know for airplane ticket buying! Sadly, I don't think the website has been updated since 2006... Wish me luck!

つか、
お誕生日おめでとうございます
赤西仁！

When I was at school, time went by crazy fast when it came to thinking about leaving for Japan - one day I was applying, the next I was accepted, & the next I was learning about Iwate life. Now that I'm home, the three months I have left here feels a lot longer than it did before. I feel like I've scoped out every bit of information about Iwate, hahah. I've even done the whole introduction thing in the Iwate Daigaku community on Mixi. (I even made a friend from it!)

I had a bunch of weird dreams about staying with Eri's family last night. The first had me just arriving in Tokyo, the second was me talking to Eri' family & them telling me that they were going to take me to Italy (dream!world has Japan & Italy pretty close to each other, I guess?) & the third was a nightmare about us meeting a crazy killer child in Italy. (Each one separated by a slight waking up by me.)

Hopefully getting my Iwate acceptance letter tomorrow? Fingers crossed!

I'm home! The trip coming back was seriously awful. What was supposed to be a 6.5 hour trip turned into 8 when my parents decided they wanted to try a new way home which turned out to be closed because of flooding.

Anyway! Tadaima! Vacation was really nice. The home we rented was absolutely wonderful (I got my own room!!), & the lake was definitely relaxing. I am sunburnt & mosquito bitten, but hot damn! Jet skiing was fun!

I hope nothing big happened, but there is no way I'm checking a week's worth of friend's entries. Sorry guys!

Happy birthday, Mikey!
Happy birthday, Tro!

I hope you both have amazing days today. ;]

Tomorrow morning I'm off to Missouri with the family, & I won't be back until the 27th, so don't let anything too exciting happen!

After being annoyed with Vicky yesterday that our acceptance letters from our Japanese universities haven't come in yet (we can't buy our plane tickets or get our visas without them), I kind of got mine! Yamazaki-sensei (the lady in charge of us) sent our International Office a copy through email which Kelly forwarded to us.

I had a weird Vietnam-flashback to when I worked at International Admissions at Eastern Michigan when I saw the email - it reminded me of all the times international students would try to send their documents through email even though we could only accept hard copies. Oh, good times~

Anyway! They sent both John's letter & mine in the same attachment, & the format of the letters is really weird. Like, appearently the term ends on March 31st? Er, John might not have a problem since he's staying the whole year, but I kind of need to be back in US a bit before that to go back to real school... Now that I think about it, it's probably when my visa should expire. I guess I'll get more info about it when they send me the hard copy.

They katakana-ized my name incorrectly, & shame on them because I put the correct katakana on my application form, so shame! It's 'erujin', Ms. Yamazaki, not 'erugin'.

BTW? Yesterday was the last time I got to see Eri before she left the states. ;[ She stayed over at Vicky's, so we got to hang with her there. I'm going to miss her so much! Here's hoping all goes well, & I'll be able to see her in Japan!

So I'm in the middle of cleaning my house (monies for the pixies!), & I realized that I don't think I mentioned that I'm going on vacation next week. So! Just FYI - I'm going to be gone from June 21st to June 27th. The whole family (& I mean, every last one of us) rented a house for a week down in Missouri on Lake of the Ozarks. I'll obviously have my phone, & I think my dad is bringing his work laptop, but I doubt I'll be on it much.

I'm totally pumped for a tan!

But only if Nina & Beehndesu promise not to do dirty things with it!
( New haircut )