Finally doing some more sewing

Things changed a lot in Japan during the past couple of years. Among others, Japanese ladies waist is expanding, at least for some of them.

Nissen mail order giant has now a special large size catalogue called smileland. You can access it online too, www.smileland.jp

It is all in Japanese, though. Good way to put one's learning into practice ...

I have bought plenty of jackets, shirts, etc. Unfortunately, my legs remain much longer and larger (or stronger) than the ones of a standard Japanese lady.

Which means that I still have to sew my own trousers/pants.

Life is now a little more quiet (lots of stuff going on in the background, but nothing super urgent) and I found myself again enjoying my sewing machine's company this week-end.

Music (ipod and podcasts) and cats are part of it, of course.

Opps, already May

Opps, I did it again. No post for a long while.

UoL exams are over, thanks God.

Not that I prepared for them (3) as much as I should have or would have wanted to.

I had to fly unexpectedly to Hokkaido to help the new Journal Editor and her June Journal. Saved the day (and the Journal). Everything should go fine now, it is at the printer.


Some projects I have been working on recently:

• www.afwj.org homepage update (I am the new webmaster)
• my own homepage update (still a project, not yet online)
• knitting, knitting, knitting. Founds some nice wool at Hokkaido's Daiso store (100 Yen store).
  

Some projects I should really be working on ASAP:

• Translation certificate program admission exam (next deadline is June 30)
• Penn Foster courses (math, marketing, business 101, etc)
• French writing school Ecole de redaction first homework/introduction

But for now, I will just go and get some rest in front of TV... with some wool and knitting needles... the day started pretty early and was kind of rough...