Low Key Kind of Christmas

Damian had the flu the week before Christmas and over the holiday weekend so it was pretty easy to make plans... stay home and hang out on the couch! He was feeling a little better on Christmas night so we did go to a friend's place for dinner which was really nice! He is slowly getting better but it takes time, yesterday we went for a walk to get some fresh air and that wiped him out but he did go to work this AM. We were able to skype and call a lot of our family and friends all over the U.S. at some point during the weekend which was really nice and brought a little bit of home here to Japan. We also had lots of little goodies to open under the tree which made it feel like Christmas morning!

Tonight is the last night of Chanukah... can't believe this year is almost over!!! New Year's Eve is still up in the air... we are waiting to see how Damian is feeling and if I get sick after spending an entire week around him while he has been sick. Hopefully my awesome immune system will kick this flu's butt and I stay healthy so I can go out and ring in the New Year!!!

This upcoming year should be interesting.. I'm hoping for a job (as a substitute teacher or at the hospital) or to at least start volunteering to keep myself busy! Hopefully Damian and I will be able to do some more traveling both here in Japan and around Asia so we can cross some more places and things off our list! He'll be busy on the ship and going to some training courses in the U.S. and then we will be looking at another deployment (and hopefully me heading home for a few months)...

For those of you who I told about the Japanese government offering 10,000 free flights to come visit... the government did NOT approve the budget for the flights so start saving that $$$$ if you want to come visit! We were really hoping for this to work out to get a few of our friends over here to visit as most of you know the ticket prices are absolutely astronomical! It's a total bummer that it costs so much to get here because while we are here it is such an awesome chance for people to come visit and we can show them around and they can stay with us for FREE! Here's hoping for ticket prices to go down in 2012!!!

Japanese Phrase of the Day:
Kekko dess, arigato (kay-ko dess ari-got-to): No, thank you