May 24th and 25th Cleaning Up in 2016

May 24th was pretty dull. I had only one class all day, with Tateishi Sensei, and even in that I wasn’t particularly involved. The remainder of the day was primarily spent walking the school, occasionally talking on Skype, and reading. Nothing of interest happened.
When I got home, I tried to pay some bill which I apparently have to pay at the bank. It turns out that the bank closes at 3 PM, which is idiotic. I need to get there this weekend. I have no idea what the bill is, but, I’ve evidently got to pay it and 7-11 can’t oblige this time. Then, it was off to Plasse. I bought food and a frying pan, only to discover that I already had a frying pan (I hope I can return items). I spent WAY too much time cooking. However, the food turned out pretty well. My stir fry style food works out a lot better in a pan than on a GF grill, but, the eggplant and potato come out better on the grill, so, it worked out pretty nicely. I also did a lot of cleaning. Today (yesterday’s tomorrow) was a non-burnable trash day. You can’t really tell that I’ve been cleaning for hours every day. Which is a bit frustrating, because I’d like there to be some noticeable results. However, as I think I’ve said, I’m doing lots of little detail work. Boxes have vanished from several rooms (and from behind the fridge), which, while not looking like much, took an incredibly long time. They had to be de-taped, and to be broken down. Still, dinner took 2 hours, and that’s just too much time to repeat very often. However, I knew that I’d have almost no time for the next two days and wanted to get some vegetables in my system before I went back to the joys of cereal. Gotta save money. Somehow or other. I hate saving money.
After that, I did laundry. I talked to mum a bit, which was alright. She was up early, and I haven’t talked to her in days because I’ve been getting to sleep at a decent time. Or at least going to bed. I’ve been getting roughly eight hours of sleep (I think that FitBit is a bit generous) for five of the last six days. That’s a pretty remarkable streak for me. Again, it could be a bit lower, but, still. Anyway, I didn’t get much else done. I feel/felt incredibly jumpy. I think part of it is giving up smoking. I think part of it is just all of this energy and not knowing how to process it. I think that I’ve also got a lot of caffeine in my system. I find that the tea that I make myself is a lot more . . . infinitely drinkable than the bottles I buy. So, I’m having a lot more of it. However, in trying to pace myself yesterday, I had a lot of tea left over towards the end of the day. So, maybe caffeine? I also feel especially jumpy this morning, but I had coffee. Come to think of it, I did yesterday too.
I got up a bit before my alarm today. Like, two minutes. I then set about my morning routine, which goes a lot faster when it doesn’t include a half dozen cigarettes. I felt so relaxed and rested (at least rested) that I thought that it was a shame I wasn’t getting up even EARLIER to study or something (as per a BBC article that I showed to Courtney yesterday)). I actually went back to the old trick of standing outside right after getting up (in my white jimbe). I don’t know if it helped. When I wake up, my vision is incredibly blurry. It gets blurry randomly during the day, too. I don’t know why. I had the same trouble in China, but when I went to an eye doctor in the US, I was very expensively told that I had no problem. Having been awake for two hours now, things are still blurring over from time to time.
I’ve got three classes with Ebihara Sensei today and one with Tateishi, which leaves me very little walking time. If I’m lucky, I can manage four thousand steps during class and another four thousand through the course of my time off. If I walk to and from Eikaiwa, then I should be in decent order (especially with a cereal dinner). I’m trying to prep for a big low-carb push at the end of July in the month leading up to my homecoming. I have several weeks of sitting at the BOE, which means that I’ll be able to eat whatever I want for lunch.
There’s apparently a social dance group in Satsuma, as I was informed by a member of the chorus. It meets on Wednesdays, half an hour after Eikaiwa finishes, at the same place (Himawarikan, Sunflower Hall). So, I don’t think that I’ll go this week, but, I’m going to try to at least get some details. I do have a lot more cleaning to get done while I have all of this energy. I feel bad that singing nd guitar are suffering, but I really need to get my sty back under control.
I think that’s about it to report. I’m thinking about having Simona stay ten days instead of a week. I really want to do a sightseeing excursion in Michigan, and I think it’d be fun to do it with her. We’ll see how that goes. It’s kind of exciting. Ummm . . . Yeah. Not much else to report. Don’t know how I can write this much about nothing. Hooray for me.