*cough hack hack*

Yes, the return of the cough.... Ugh.

Anyway, yesterday..... Bad me, I didn't even go to bed after posting.... I couldn't sleep until 3:00 AM! I started getting really anxious, I'm not sure why.... So then I suddenly felt a desperate need to get in contact with someone in Oregon, preferably my mom.... I'm still not sure why. I e-mailed her, and she got back to me and told me that everything is fine..... And I talked to Kento and my dad, and though Kento is also sick, they seemed generally fine..... So I don't know what that was all about. I guess I was tired, even though I couldn't sleep, and rather irrational.....

Anyway, yesterday MORNING. Got up for class, had a quick breakfast, and went to Japanese class.... That went fine. Worked on some adjectives, some town stuff... Stuff they did in JPN 102 (yes, I am a bit behind... Except in kanji :p).
Then I came home.... Had a quick lunch, got my bag ready, and grandma's friend, Ishido-san (I'm not sure if I'm spelling that right... Sorry! I can edit it if it's wrong... ;)) picked us up to go to Mother Farm.... Mother Farm is on a mountain, so there was a curvy mountain road involved..... I love mountains, and I'm usually fine in cars.... But curvy mountain roads aren't really my friends. There was a time or two when I thought I would get sick for sure.... But we made it with no major sickness, thankfully. Once we got up there I was fine... No problem. The mountain air was nice.... And it was warm enough that I didn't need my coat!
We walked from where we parked up to the entrance to the farm. We had coupons, I guess, so we got in... Free? I think.... I don't really know.
Anyway, after that we went to the animals... It's a farm, so where else would we go? ;) We went to look at the sheep.... Adorable little lambs were there, and the pictures will come eventually.... They were so cute! The big sheep were, well, sheep-looking.... But the lambs were absolutely adorable! There were also some pigs and a couple little horses.... Not as cute as the lambs. :p
Then we went and looked at some rabbits, and an odd little guy.... There were a whole bunch of rabbits, and one guinea pig. It was cute, but looked on in the pen with all the rabbits.... We also went down and petted some goats.... One of them was scratching its head on a tree.... It looked funny. :p
Then we went to look at some cows.... The cows were kind of muddy.... But they were cows, so they were cute. We wandered into a barn, which apparently we weren't supposed to go in.... Oops! Then I ate ice cream. At Mother Farm, eating ice cream is a necessity. I then went to pet a horse, which in turn wanted to open my C.C.Lemon bottle.... Which startled and amused me. :p
After that we rode the "Wanwan bus" (shaped like a dog) to the top of the mountain.... There were rides there that I remembered well from the last time I was in Japan, and went to Mother Farm to watch fireworks. We walked down the hill a little bit and got to a store, where I bought some adorably adorable stuffed animals.... I got two cows (one for Kento... Identical to the one I got last time we were there) and a horse.... My cow's name is Bokujyo (which means "farm") and my horse's name is C.C.Lemon. ;) Kento and my dad named his cow today, but I can't remember what they named it.... So Snorkel, you can put the name in your comment. ;)
Then we went to the dog run area.... They were having a frisbee competition, which we watched part of. Apparently dogs are welcome in the farm, which I think is awesome. You probably have to pay to use the run area, but it seemed nicely set up.
Then we watched ducks. Yes, it's true. I, Emi, watched ducks. Shocking, I know. I don't think they liked me... Two of them tried to eat my shoe.... And the feed didn't get that far back! Gr. Maybe they were mad at me for muttering "Aflac" so much.... I think they were both white ducks................
Then we went down to the entrance again. A long walk down the mountain.... While we passed by the sheep again we saw that they were taking one of the little white lambs out for people to pet... So I got in line. I'll have to ask Ishido-san to e-mail us the pictures. I'd like to put them on here.
After that we went to the store by the entrance.... We had to buy ice cream. :p Grandma bought the ice cream, then we left.

I was really sleepy on the ride home.... Fortunately I didn't feel sick this time! We stopped for dinner on the way back.... I didn't feel sick, but I didn't feel hungry either.... And I was really really sleepy. I had some takoyaki... Small, but enough for me. Then we came back home and I went to bed.

When I woke up is about where I left off yesterday.... And like I said above, I ended up being up until 3:00 anyway..... Ugh.


So this morning.... I woke up maybe around 10:30.... Around noon I went upstairs to have lunch. I played on the computer between then.... And also afterwards. I started coding the second Matthew West chat transcript for TOUMWS (another of my websites)... It's proving tedious. Grandma got home a while later.... Then at around 5:45 I went upstairs to have dinner with the kids.... Okonomiyaki! :) Yum.... We put lots of different stuff on it.... The first one had cheese, the second one I'm not sure if we put anything special on, the third one had potatoes, the 4th had egg, and Ryusuke made another with corned beef....
We had fun with the sauce.... Writing characters with mayonnaise is NOT easy. Yuutaro is a lot better at it than I am. I got some funny pictures of my attempts... Those will go up eventually.
Then I played with Yuutaro and Nanako for a bit, then went to the Bible study. I brought my computer today, and ended up doing a lot of random wikipedia searches... :p It was fun.
That's about it for today.... I'm sorry about lagging so much on getting photos up... I'm a total procrastinator. I'll try to do that soon.... Really, I will.
That's all for now.