The Cumbrianvixens Birthday *swishes tail and runs about* Hello PANDA!

Konbanwa! Its Motoko blogging today but I must hurry this blog now as its Birthday time *runs around like a frisky vixen*. Yes you are correct today is my Birthday, and it’s also my wife’s Birthday as well. So today is double the fun and more cake than you can shake a packet of pocky at! This Birthday of ours this year is more super awesome than others as we now Amanda to share our Birthday with. Amanda gave is super Birthday cuddles this morning and she gave us both a wonderful homemade Birthday card each, I shall treasure this card for a life time.

The weather is foggy, damp and fairly miserable even for Cumbria, but this is a cheerful and happy day in the vixens den today *likes paw and grooms behind the ears*. But is the weather going to be like this for the rest of the week and the weekend? Well I don’t know *shrugs and swishes tail* as I haven’t looked and for once this blog is not going to have a full Cumbrian forecast, in stead here is my current observation for my little corner of Cumbria right now!

*Opens shutters, looked out. Closes shutters come back to pc* It’s dark and damp, outside and that is the weather forecast for this evening followers!

This week also has seen the arrival of my maid who is called Tetsumi. She is a bright young girl and full of life and very obedient and polite. Tetsumi used to be my fathers maid, he helped her though further education by paying for it and supporting her. She can speak several languages, and a qualified house keeper / maid and has even undertaken self-defence and body guard courses. Not only that but she also undertook a few cooking courses as well, all of which my father helped her with not only with financial support but also helped her with the course work as well. My father was a most important and busy man, but he always found time to help people, my father was a true and honest and kind man. Because of the qualifications that Tetsumi had gathered she started to help deal with my father’s paperwork as well.

As some of you know my father passed away and left his house in Kyoto to me, and left his second home to my older sister Sarah. This left my father’s maid without a master to serve and no job. So I at once stepped in to keep, I took her on as my own maid. So she still lives in my home (that was my father’s home) in Kyoto, and she sorted out anything that comes up in Japan when I am not there to sort things out. She keeps the house clean and tidy and makes sure everything is in working order.

Tetsumi has never been to England and in fact she has never been out of Japan, and so I thought it was time she did! This is why I and Jenny invited her over here, to stay with us in our little Cumbrian home. When she arrived she said she packed two sets of her uniform in case she was here to keep our Cumbrian home in order while I and Jenny and Amanda had time off work for our holiday. I told her work first then she can have a few days off towards the end of her stay. So she went off and changed and when she came back I told her. That in fact she was here for a holiday with a big grin, and she didn’t find my joke funny, and Jenny and Amanda said it was a mean joke.

My rather cute and good looking maid did bring some treats down as well and lets check out the swag that she had brought over, I didn’t have time to take photos of them all as today been very festive and busy.

Firstly we have Hello Panda, which are chocolate filled panda snacks, they are super awesome *dramatic Anime Hero Pose*. These are a high up on best snack list.

Here we have some more Panda related goodness, and these are sort of like Hello Panda! Or as we call them Sakupan Choko Monaka! It is a wafer shaped Panda snake, and they are really nice to go with a nice warm mug of green tea.

Ooi Ocha is a well trusted brand in Japan for green tea drinks that come in a can or a bottle, and it’s very refreshing I can tell you this for a fact you know. This is green tea powder and it is great in a warm tea or add to water for a nice cold refreshing glass of green tea. So it can be enjoyed hot or cold, how versatile and wonderful is that. This is Ooi Ocha Sarasra Ryokucha, if you wish to know this now.

Sake time yeah *dances around and twitches noise and flicks tail*. This is not the grand that I always go for, but I do find it most welcome to have a small amount of this sake with a good book or curled up on sofa with Jenny in front of the log fire. For you information now this is Gekkeikan Petit Moon, Full Moon Junmai Sake. This is Mitsuru Tsuki Jummai.

Sam Mia our good friend is working again but at the moment she is taking things very easy indeed and only working afternoons and I got her to do light tasks on the yard. She doesn’t want to over do it and I don’t want her to over do it either. It is great news that the happy Icelander is almost back to her normal self, and on way to work this afternoon, she dropped of this package for me and jenny. She said it was a joint gift, and a gift for me and one for Jenny shall come tomorrow! I wonder what this is now!

Well we are off for a Birthday meal very soon now and so we must be getting ready and head on out. I wish you all well and thanks for the happy Birthday wishes!

That is all about it for the blog this evening but We shall blog again real soon, so take care!

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Hello everyone *waves* its Motoko blogging for today people, Jenny had to have a small operation on her arm, and she is really worn out and sleepy at the moment. Her operation went really well and she is back home and resting up. She had to have a third pin inserted into her right arm making the sum total of pins in her arm to three. This should mean that it has strengthened her arm and will not need any more operations again on it.

Well now it’s been a wet day today in our little part of the Cumbrian world that we live in but how will the rest of the week fair up. It’s time for our blogs little Cumbrian forecast we always add to our blogs, it’s become a routine for our blogs now!

So now that’s the weather forecast over and done with we can (or rather I can) get on with the topic my blog is dealing with today. That topic is about me, yes me and about my background and this is cutting a very long story short. I have missed out a lot of what when on and so on as its personal and privet but here is the basic story of me!

First of all I was born in Kyoto, Fushimi which is a fantastic part of Japan and I was very lucky to be born into such a wonderful area. Nothing lasts for ever and all good things must come to an end, and I and my older sister were adopted off in England. We were adopted into another Japanese family living in Cumbria, England. Life was good there and I and my big sister just getting used to the Cumbrain way of life when five years after we all moved back to Japan due to my fathers work. Before that my new parents had a child of their own and I had a little sister. But she stayed back in England when I and big sister went back to Japan with our father. Ironically we all went back to Kyoto so I had come full circle.

By this point I was taking all this morning around and shunting here and there very personally and I was begging for some stability in my life. Being five years old I couldn’t express myself in the way I wanted to and I shut myself out from almost everyone. As you can imagine this didn’t help when it came to being sent to a Japanese school, everyone there ignored me, and treated me like an outcast. I wasn’t pure Japanese, hell I wasn’t even Eurasian. I am half Japanese and half Canadian, what do you call that combination, as I don’t know.

Very soon I did manage to make three friends, and they have remained my friends ever since. Ritsuko was the first friend I made, a happy bubbly and very loud girl, and then Rin a really quite sort of guy but with a big heart. Then there was Esumi, a puzzle and an enigma. I never knew what to make of her but she befriended me and kept all the bullies away with vengeance.

School holidays came as regular as clockwork, each time they came around me, big sister mother and farther came back to Cumbria, England. I loved it and felt happier there than I did in the city of Kyoto, even if it was a great, clean city steeped in history. Coming back to Cumbria, England also meant I got to see my little sister, but I found English hard after learning Japanese, and we found each other growing apart. This is something that hurt more than ever, and took many years for us to grow together again. It took a lot of hard work, trust and time to become sisters once more.

School holidays came to an end and it was time to fly back to Kyoto, Japan once more. Doing this every holiday started to get to me, the stability I needed still wasn’t there and I felt more and more like an object rather than a human life. My farther was a great man, and I respected him and his work. He brought me and my sisters up in a fair, strict but realistic way and I wouldn’t be the person I am now without his support.

My education came to an end and the trips to Cumbria at almost the same time came to a close as well. I worked so hard day and night to become something I would be happy with. Blood, sweat and tears for many years at school had paid off. The grades I got were better than I could have wished for, and I just wanted something to do with them. Esumi had the same luck with her grades as well and arrived one day at my house talking about the Japan Air Self Defense Force. Before long we had both signed up and over time got in and were training to be pilots. At last I found something to focus on and try and make a life I so badly needed. After some time I and Esumi had managed to get though the courses and training and passed them all. We got some time off and Esumi went and did her own thing and I took a trip to Cumbria, England.

Once back in Cumbria, England I made up my mind that I wanted to try my hand at horse riding again. I lived a few miles from a riding stable, and that was my first port of all. Flying a plane was hard but rewarding, and I though that if I can do that. Riding a horse will be very easy indeed. Once I was at the riding stable I was greeted by a young girl. She was called Jenny, and she took one look at me and I remember the first thing she said to me was “You’re not from around here are you”. That line stuck with me ever since, and why you ask? Well this Jenny is the girl I fell in love with and the girl to whom I married a few years later.

Life in the Japan Air Self Defense Force went on and so did my trips back to Cumbria, England when I could get the time off. Each time I went back to Cumbria, England me and Jenny got closer and closer and started dating each other. I felt as if my life was at last something I could live with and be happy living it. I and Jenny been dating for some time at this point and one day I decided to do something which I found more nerve racking than anything I had never done before. This was asking Jenny to marry me. The weather was gray and was pouring down with cold heavy rain, thunder was in the air and this was the day of all days to ask the girl I love to marry me.

Took some time to track Jenny down, they were short staffed and she was doing the job of many people. When I managed to catch her, she was covered in mud and strew all over her waterproofs but she saw me and ran over to me smiling. A few people watched me and her talking to each other. There comes a time when you can’t make small talk for ever so I dropped to one knee and asked the question that will either send you to new heights or come crashing down to earth in a crumpled heap.

Looking up at the girl I loved rain hamming my face, my body feeling ill with nerves I asked her in these exact words “Jenny *produces a ring* will you do me the biggest honor of becoming my wife. I know I am ‘not from around her’ as you said the first day we met but we been together for years, and I want to be together for the rest of my life. Will you marry me” I said.

Worst thing that can happen in that moment happened. Jenny said nothing, just looking down at me and then around at all the staff and her boss all of which were now transfixed upon me and Jenny. I didn’t move or look around at anyone; I kept my gaze upon Jenny’s face the whole time. Reason is I didn’t want to see any ones expression, this would have made this long silence even worse than it was for me already. The moment of silence lasted at lest two minutes, and I was coming to the conclusion that I had just made the biggest mistake of my life. Jenny looked down at me at last and said “Your kneeling in horse poo you silly moo” and she stood me up. Took both my hands and looked into my eyes, and then said “It will be an honor to become your wife”. As you can guess I wasn’t expecting that after the long silence I had to endure. I had to confirm it and after she reassured me I slid the ring onto her finger.

On 15th December 2005 I and Jenny got married in Loch Fyne in Scotland, and after one more year of working in the Japan Air Self Defense Force. I came back to Cumbria, England for good. I left the Japan Air Self Defense Force life behind me. Got a job at the yard Jenny was working on, and we already had a house of our own on the driveway of where she worked and that was fantastic, and we still live in the same house now.

Late 2010 I and Jenny brought the yard from the owners of the yard, and we are now turning it into an equine trekking centre and the work as almost been finished. On 4th of April 2011 we adopted a teenage girl called Amanda, who we had been fostering a few months before we decide we would take the next step and adopt her. I and Jenny have always been happy with the way our relationship was but there was always something we both agreed that was missing. That something of course was a daughter or son. After a few months of fostering Amanda we decided to adopt her, and we feel that our relationship is now complete and that all three of us are very happy.

Leaving Japan Air Self Defense Force for Jenny and the Cumbrian life was the best thing I have ever done. I enjoyed my life in the Japan Air Self Defense Force but I felt like it wasn’t fully what I wanted. Life with Jenny is what I been looking for all my life, and that is stability, and she has plenty to give me. Our daughter Amanda was the last part of our life to make us complete. I could never of have had such an amazing family as I have right now if I had stayed in Japan Air Self Defense Force.

Well sorry for the long blog, I know it was maybe a little bit boring and so sorry for my grammar and spelling. I am a little sleepy and worn out from work and my English is at its worst then! Worked from early this morning from 06:00 till 14:30.

We shall blog again real soon, so take care!

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