 a happier note, we got internet in our building today =) Yay for not having to steal borrow internet from the one unsecured network in the neighborhood!
I'm off to make this yummy recipe for dinner (with out the andouille sausage because my commissary SUCKS).
We went to lunch at "the next place we see that has pictures in the window"...yeah, my restaurants choosing abilities are the best! We sit down and start looking at the picture menu (thank God for those things!) and a waitress walks up and starts talking to us in Japanese. Me, being the genius that I am, assumed she was asking us if we want something to drink so I say "mizu" for water. She looks at me funny and walks away and the boys (my husband and our new friend Andrew) start laughing hysterically...apparently she asked if we speak Japanese...oops! I guess she got her answer =) I'm never going to hear the end of that one but at least I'm trying...right?!?!
We didn't come home with bikes, but I'm so glad we went out looking and found this celebration!
I don't know if it's my favorite, but the 1st one that comes to mind is this: My uncle works for the Cincinnati Reds and when I was younger I would ride down with him and sit outside the gate until the gates opened then he would let me in and sit me in a seat with a box of cracker jacks and I would sit there watching the game until he came back for me after the game. I always felt so cool and independent when I was there.
uh...does stay at home wife count because right now that's all I'm doing. I stopped going back to school so we could pay for the husbands grad school and I was working for EFMP at our last duty station but apparently my services aren't needed here (yet). I will probably try to get a job teaching English to Japanese ladies after the hubby starts work next week. I don't have a "profession" or "career" though.
4. What is your favorite TV channel to watch?
5. If you could have any job/profession, what would it be and why?
7. If you could tell your teenage self something, what would you say?
this is kind of cliche but "you're not as ugly as you think you are"
8. What is your biggest blog pet peeve?
not sure I have one but maybe when people type in a whole bunch of different text sizes all the time, it makes it really difficult to read, so normally I just don't read them!
I have a video all ready to go of the main floor, but right now I'm stealing borrowing internet from someone in the neighborhood until ours gets turned on Monday and the signal isn't strong enough for a long enough period to upload the video, so for now you get a few photos I've taken.
we hung our DVD racks and set up our "entertainment area"
so I spent 30 minutes shoving pins into my curtains while my husband found a way to give himself the punk rock "piercings" he's always dreamed of...gotta love him!
I've been able to cook again, FINALLY!
and the most delicious grilled chicken fajitas, which I haven't shared the recipe for yet, but I promise to do so soon!
this was my 1st time driving off base and I was pretty much terrified, but it wasn't nearly as scary as I had anticipated!
and how stinking cute is our car key?!?! he he, I love that it matches our car!
It's finally supposed to start cooling off here so I wanted one last day in the sun and it was just what I needed to relax after all the craziness of unpacking! We only have a few more days before Jason goes back to work, so hopefully we get to do a little more exploring before our time becomes limited.
Friday we moved into our new house on post. We did our inspection/walk through while the movers waited outside (I'm pretty sure in the US, they would have left and made us reschedule), got our keys and started the move in process. After moving 5 times in 2.5 years, I'd say I'm getting pretty good at this. I learned to have the movers unpack all the boxes, it makes it much easier to see what is where and there's a lot less stuff (boxes and paper) everywhere. Here's how much paper we had and we weren't even 1/4 way done...
When the movers left, we were missing one box. How 4 crates of stuff makes it here with just one missing box is beyond me, but that was the case. (it happened to be the box with the xbox and wii in it) We unpacked/rearranged stuff until about 8pm and I was done. I couldn't do any more. I managed to get my entire kitchen organized and I was satisfied with that.
Ok, so it's not really a beauty, and it's the smallest car either of us has ever owned, but it was cheap (that 17 in the car means it's 17,000 Yen, with taxes and all the other stuff you have to pay for over here, I think we're paying a total of like 2,200 USD) and it's practical over here. If you ever visit Japan, you will understand! Our sponsors car that we're driving now is a small station wagon and it is like trying to navigate a semi through NYC!
Anyway, back to the grill. We get home and Jason goes to put the propane under the grill and...
we found the missing box!
This one makes me the most angry because they broke it back in Missouri (I found the piece of red glass that's missing as they were packing things up) and they didn't tell me (if they even noticed) when I was still there and could go pick up a new one. Now I have to call them and have them ship me one (or3)!
I'm happy that nothing major was lost or broken, all of this stuff is replaceable.
I couldn't beleive they let me take pictures inside!
They also had food and beer tents, oh, and music. Last year Flo Rida performed. This year, it's Jon B...yeah we didn't stay for that part.
Back to dinner and unpacking...

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The participant must hold the Spanish nationality and the work submitted must be built in Spanish territory. Architects may submit completed work since 2006 included.
The candidacies will be analyzed by the pavilion curators, Carlos Quintans and Iñaqui Carnicero. After reviewing the submissions, the curators will select the works that will become part of the exhibition which will take place between May and October 2016; only the selected candidates will be notified. Once this process is over, the selected architects will be asked to send additional material for the realization of the exhibition and the corresponding catalog.
All material submitted must be free of copyright costs.
The submission will consist in a.pdf file. The document must clearly state in the first page the category, name, and location of the work, author/s and year of completion. The submission must include a brief written report justifying the work’s inclusion in one of the categories as well as drawings and enough images to understand the project. Candidates may include pictures of the model, if existing, and must indicate its availability.
An announcement of the selected work will be sent only to the selected candidates no later than ten days after the deadline.
- At least one representative floor plan and section of the project in a.pdf file.
Each document will be in independent files named 01_project title_floor plan.pdf and 02_project title_section.pdf.
- At least 5 representative photographs of the project with sufficient quality for publishing (300ppp) in.tif format. The file names will be 04_project title_picture1-5.tif consecutively.
- Picture of the model, if existing, indicating its availability.
- Complete name of the work.
- Location of the project (city, street, number).
- Date of design process and completion of construction.
- Name of author/s of the project.
