I'm writing this because Sho keeps procrastinating. If she wants to correct it, she'll have to do that later, but read this as if she wrote it herself please.



1. What is your current obsession?
Our upcoming trip to Japan. Planning every hour and meal with great excitement (its been four years since I've been home, ok?)

2. What do you hate the most that everyone else seems to love?
The Princess Bride

3. What are you wearing today?
After work? Jeans and an almost turquoise-blue polo t-shirt (see previous post about 'preppy')

4. What's for dinner?
My talented cook of a husband made Beef Hayashi stew which we ate over white rice. For dessert we had homemade yogurt popsicle that had blueberries, strawberries and banana in them (again, made by my handsome husband)

5. What would you eat for your last meal?
Fatty Toro Sushi and a good simple salad with lots of tomatoes and sesame seed dressing... and a small tasty steak.

6. What is the last thing you bought?
The polo shirt I'm wearing, from the Ralph Lauren Polo Outlet store (and the black one I bought for my sister... which she may never get).

7. What are you listening to right now?
The hum of the computer, the hiss of the speakers and the sound of my husband typing this.

8. What do you think of the person that tagged you?
They are two of the most talented women I know and the mothers of the cutest children in the world. We miss them and their kids terribly every day!

9. If you could have a house--fully paid for and totally furnished--anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Somewhere on a year round warm beach, where no hurricanes ever come.... and close to good shopping. If you know a place like that please let us know, cause we will move there immediately.

10. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would it be?
If the sun is setting in Polynesia anywhere, I'd like to be there.

11. What is one of your hobbies?
Buying and organizing craft supplies.

12. What is ONE of your favorite quotes?
"Sho, wake up! It's good morning time!!" - lil' Abby

13. What is your favorite color?
Blue

14. What is your favorite piece of clothing in your wardrobe?
Right now its my new preppy snazzy 'Skinny Polo'

15. What is your dream job?
Wedding Planner

16. Describe your personal style.
Classic and Modern. Nothing fancy or cluttered. Think Japanese Ikea.

17. What is your favorite tree?
Japanese Maple (ok, I really have no idea what Sho would say for this, but Japanese Maples a beautiful in the fall).

18. What are you going to do after this?
Finally decide where we are going to stay in Hiroshima when we visit. I can't decide! I get side tracked by looking at all the things to do in the area and stop looking at hotels.

19. What is your favorite fruit?
Strawberries

20. What inspires you?
My mother's perseverance and my in-laws creativity.

21. Who was the last person that you kissed?
My husband. Square on the lips *mwah!!*

22. What are you currently reading?
Tourism forums about things to do in different parts of Japan. It will be Obon when we are there... that's like Christmas in Japan, but with huge festivals, fireworks and floating lanterns.

23. Go to your bookshelf, take down the first book that you see with a red binding, turn to page 26 and type out the first line.
"Through the invention of traditions, national identities were being created as if they were 'natural', even eternal, features of human existence." - Michael Billig 'Banal Nationalism' (A book from my husband’s grad work)

24. What delighted you the most today?
When the work day ended.

25. By what criteria do you judge a person?
Cleanliness.

26. If you bought a wiener dog today, what would you name it?
'Next month's rent'

27. What are you afraid of?
Bugs. Any bug. Especially cockroaches. Especially Hawaiian cockroaches (they fly).