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Comic: My friends totally get me
Usually, I love hanging out with other people and meeting up with friends. But I also go through phases of being really anti-social. When you calculate the time, effort, and money it takes to put on...
View ArticleVideos from this week (Week 16, 2015) on YouTube: Interview, Jindaiji Temple,...
As many of you know, I also have a YouTube channel called “Texan in Tokyo.” I started the channel last year in June and honestly wasn’t expecting it to be this fun. Because it is. Fun, I mean.
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Comic: You have a cold? Ok, let’s go to the hospital!
So I have the flu right now. I’m on, like, day 5 (so it’s not that big of a deal – more annoying than anything else). When I first started coming down with something, Ryosuke pushed me to go to the...
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Comic: Going to the hospital in Japan (Then VS Now)
This is basically a continuation of yesterday’s comic. In Japan, you go to the hospital/clinic for very minor illnesses and/or problems. That’s just how it works here.
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My Japanese Toothpaste Tastes Like Pickles
Ryosuke is usually in charge of buying the face wash, toothpaste, lotion, etc. Neither of us has any particular preferences per se but as I showed in this comic, if we’re not careful, we end up with a...
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Comic: Is Glycerin good? Or bad?
Ryosuke got a new face cream a couple days ago. When he was showing it to me, he was like “Oh – it says this cream has glycerin in it!” I knew I had heard the word glycerin before – but couldn’t...
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Top 10 Surprises about Marrying Someone Who Speaks a Different Language
This week’s guest post comes from my friend Tracy – who has a memoir coming out this summer! She writes: When I first met my husband, I was a part-time professor of writing at a university in Boston...
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Comic: Hugging in Japan
Hug meeeeeeeeeee. Ryosuke likes to joke that I’ve gotten more hugs from his mom in our 4 years in Japan than he’s gotten in his 26 years as her son. I’m totally a hugger. ———————————- If you want to...
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Comic: Crazy Pizza flavors in Japan
At this point, I don’t even know what “normal” is. I spent large parts of my developing years in Texas, Ghana, Philadelphia, and Japan. All four places have radically different definitions of...
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Videos from this week (Week 17, 2015) on YouTube: “Japanese things,” a day in...
As many of you know, I also have a YouTube channel called “Texan in Tokyo.” I started the channel last year in June and honestly wasn’t expecting it to be this fun. Because it is. Fun, I mean.
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Burnout
I should have written this post several weeks ago. But I was being stubborn. I thought that if I just pushed through it – like every other time I’ve been “tired of blogging” – than I would eventually...
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That time I had a Breakdown in the Levi’s Changing Room in Rural Japan
Somehow I managed to make it all the way through puberty without body-image issues. Or, more specifically, weight related body-image issues. With frizzy hair, bad acne, and braces I knew I wasn’t...
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Comic: No wonder you speak Japanese so well!
Some people are great at picking up foreign languages. Some people suck at it. Sadly (as I talked about in this post), I am one of the latter. I’m embarrassed by the fact that I’ve been living in...
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Comic: Does having a Japanese spouse make it easier to learn the language?
This is a continuation of yesterday’s comic. A lot of people assume that having a Japanese spouse automatically means you can speak the language better. Ditto to other languages. Of course it helps...
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Comic: Arguing with you is impossible
Every time I cut my hair short, I love it for a couple weeks, then start to REALLY miss my long hair. And every time I swear that was the last time I cut my hair short. Until the next time. But...
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Comic: Exotic outdoor dancing with little old Japanese Grandmas
I spend a lot of time at the park near our house. Being outdoors really helps my creativity. During one of those visits, I came across a group of old ladies wearing revealing yoga clothes, dancing to...
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8 Things I Learned Working from Home
1. Spending all day alone makes you “weird.” And not in a good way. In general, I like working alone.
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Videos from this week (Week 18 & 19, 2015) on YouTube
I took a break on my blog that sort of messed everything up. So there are a lot of videos for this week. As many of you know, I also have a YouTube channel called “Texan in Tokyo.” I started the...
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Comic: High Heeled Rain Boots
Aaaaand the rainy season is almost upon us! I’ve been living in Tokyo for like three years now and STILL don’t have rain boots. I usually just wear my very waterproof snow boots. I tried to buy some...
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Comic: Trying to “Google Search” our Names (in middle school)
Why. Why, why, why. Someone please tell me what kind of sick person turns off “safe search” on a school computer??? The first time I had used a computer with internet connection was in middle school.
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