16 days till Christmas

I haven't bought a tree yet but I'm planning to go to Kiyose, a couple stations over, to buy a small potted one. Apparently they only cost about 2000 yen each. I will probably eventually download some Christmas music to play on the computer as the time gets a little closer. I've already downloaded A Muppets Christmas Carol and Charlie Brown's Christmas and burnt them to CD so I can watch them on TV. I went to Odaiba with Fumiko on the weekend and every store had "Merry Christmas" plastered everywhere! God bless their little heathen hearts!

I taught my first private this morning. What a scam! 2500 yen just to sit there for an hour and listen to this lady talk! Actually it was more like an hour and a half. She was just so talkative and fascinated with foreigners! I'll have to be a little more strict next time. And she has a friend who wants to learn english too. And her husband is also interested. So I'm going to try and see if I can get them to all do it at once if I reduce my price a little. I'm really jealous of her apartment. It has a nice big balcony and it faces south so the bright sun made it nice and hot even though she had the balcony door wide open.

Our house, on the other hand, is still a freezer. I'm not sure if I related this little anecdote to ya'll before so I'll do it again. One night I went out to the grocery store and bought a nice chicken breast. Upon coming home, I have no idea what I did. Anyways, the next day I went off to work and on the way home that day all I could think about was the fantastic chicken I was going to cook. I opened the fridge and there it wasn't!! Then I saw it sitting on the shelf. It had been sitting out for a full 24 hours uncooked. Was I ever angry at myself! To make a boring story short, I cooked it anyways and I was fine. That's how cold our bottom floor is.