December is busy month!

We call December "Shiwasu". It means even Buddhist monks runaround in this busy month.

Me? Yes I am very busy too!
I have to clean up my house on theweekend, still I did not finishthe living room and kitchen, and allthe windows. Do you know thatnewspaper can clean window glass very well? Clean the window with a wet rag and wipe with newspaper after that. But I don't know ifyour news paper can work as same, at least Japanese newspaper do.

And I had to help my parents to make their new year cards. If you play Katamari Damacy, you would see them on the Kotatsu. Next year is the dog year inthe zodiac. This page tells you "how to write Nengajo" in English. By the way I must tell you, it is nice to exchange cards at least once yearso I can know my friends, relatives, teacher of my elementary school andeveryone are doing well. However I must tell you it wasa heavy job to make cards. Actually I made 120 cards for my parents witha card program and their stupid old printer. It takes 6 hours!! Cards programs are getting very smart, printers are getting better and smaller. We can order the cards from shops on the Internet. But still it isa bighassle. So I am thinking if I will write or not this year. Times change, I may stop real cards and send them by yahoo greeting, right?

Then I have to goto some Bonenkai this week and next week afterwork at night. I have to start to cook Osechi Ryori. Here isan English recipe, if you try it. (I would buy and share with my mom though). And I will have Christmas dinner with my friendson weekends. x-) busy! But I like December, while I ambusy doing year end stuff, Ican remember this year and hope for agood next year.

Anyway, I enjoyed this site very much: "Shock & Awe (Banned Cover Art)." Among the covers shown, I have one. When I found the butcher cover CD of the Beatles, I got it immediately.

Comments

[huang]

Hmmm, so universal ! I clean my mirrors and windows with newspapers too !

[huang]

Hmmm, so universal ! I clean my windows with newspapers too 1

[Mari]

Hi Ude
yes 55% of Japanese think New Year Card is very troublesome, of course I am. So I agree with you.

Hi Medea
You enjoy Japanese Oshogatsu. = ne shogatsu!

[Medea]

When I first came to Japan, I wondered why most Japanese people I knew slept throughout Oshogatsu. What a waste of a perfectly good holiday!

But now that I work in a regular Japanese company, and my husband works in takkyubin, I know how busy December is. I will need to sleep for 3 days at New Year to make up for not sleeping for the last 4 weeks!

Merry Christmas

[Ude]

While sending even a yahoo greeting is better than nothing and times are changing, I would still personally prefer the old fashioned paper greeting card. It still is something you can hold and touch instead of an e-mail greeting. Stick to the cards and your efforts will surely be appreciated! Then again, I didn't send any Christmas greeting cards this year due to lack of time, so I'm not the ideal guy to be preaching about this. :)