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I really like Osaka. Never been to Kyoto or Hiroshima.

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8/22/11 9:51 A

Wow, this thread is super old.. If I were dreaming (or living the dream..) I would live in Osaka/ Hiroshima/ Kyoto,.. not sure where yet. I'd have concert tickets for every single jrock band (that I want to see),. I would be fluent in Japanese, own my own place and have cute little Japanese babies,. Ohh,. And I would be slim enough to pull off any cosplay costume:)

EX-WIMPIE. baha,. 'leave a trail of blood in the gym...' graphic,. made me laugh,.

And what an awesome dream! Well done!

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2/13/10 1:03 A

I will have to try some when I go back to Tokyo..

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2/12/10 2:15 A

Plum wine is yummy!

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2/11/10 11:05 P

Weather has been chilly still and some rain ... love the double sakura blossoms ... ume are blomming now ... I'm told ... never tried plum wine ...

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2/10/10 2:40 P

Ah, cherry blossoms. I read the hanami are parties sitting under the cherry trees. Now this does sound like a dream - I could handle.

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2/9/10 6:56 P

Sakura blossoms sound really good .... camera have travel ...

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11/17/09 2:22 A

Except for the friend in the hospital, it sounds very nice!!

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11/15/09 8:09 P

Dream ~ I'm leaving on a jet plane going to Narita Airport...Christmas in Tokyo would be wonderful..if it wasn't for this economy...celebrated Mother's Day there...my son sent flowers, Thanksgiving also...my friend was in the hospital that year...had sushi...

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11/15/09 2:24 A

I saw your Christmas tree. PRETTY!

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11/14/09 4:30 P

I was in Tokyo in November 2007...and they do have light displays at some rail stations and in the Metropolitan Building..a huge lighted tree..might be on my photo page..

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11/12/09 9:51 A

I am not sure as the Japanese seem to have so many of them. I am game for anything.

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11/12/09 2:44 A

Brilliant suggestion, Stevie! Actually, since this is the holiday season in the U.S., I was going to propose adding a new thread on "Japanese Holidays" in the General Forum, and about.com would be great place for information.

What do people think of the Japanese Holidays idea?

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11/11/09 3:23 P

Have you been to about.com to look at newsletters on Japan? It might help you with your "dreams."

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10/30/09 1:02 A

Hurray for your heroic dog rescue! Good job!!

Tokyo would be interesting at Halloween...

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10/30/09 12:21 A

If I could dream...I'd be in Tokyo..to see how they celebrate "Hallowee"

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10/30/09 12:19 A

My excitement is someone lost turning around in the cul-de-sac...You have to go "Downtown" to get some excitement...watch the college kids...and go..I remember wearing those clothes in high school......Yesterday I did my good deed...the husky was jumping on and off the couch in front of my living room window..so I go and look..there at my front door is a young male dalmation...open door and he walks in..keep him all day..then took him for a walk about dusk..his owner drives by and stops, "You have my dog"..."Oh, thank you, etc, etc" made my day..I named him "Bailey" his real name is "Murdock"...he was such a sweet boy

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10/29/09 4:28 A

I live in the suburbs. We're HALF civilized.

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10/27/09 11:01 P

Not out where he lives...no sidewalks..I walk facing what traffic might come down the street...I'm not up to the steep streets yet..I could get lost

Very small unincorporated country area....my home is in the civilized part of the world..

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10/27/09 4:34 A

LOL! I had an image of the wind blowing the sweat off your face during the return trip, and the sweat is flying in the wind behind you. Hope no one was walking behind you!

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10/27/09 12:14 A

The wind helps push me to walk faster and on the reverse..helps me cool off and work harder...the wind was cool...so helps the sweat from dripping into your eyes..

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10/26/09 2:25 A

That sounds like a really good workout while you're in recovery mode! (That would be a really good workout for me NOW, but my knee couldn't do it.) I hope nothing broke open and started bleeding.

How does that wind work for you, that it pushes you along the whole way? When I did a lot of biking, the wind helped one way and was a curse going the other way!

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10/25/09 6:13 P

I decided to walk for 45 minutes on paved roads..avoided the steep hills....felt OK...maybe try for more minutes...the windy weather helps push you right along.....did use the dumbbells for alittle bit..

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10/25/09 1:57 A

If you go to the gym tomorrow, be gentle with yourself! I think leaving a trail of blood in the gym was on that list of "Top 10 Gym No-No's" that I read on SparkPeople.

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10/24/09 7:38 P

Congratulations, on your weight loss...

I might try the gym tomorrow, a easy workout..if I can control myself...just take extra bandages...

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10/24/09 1:00 A

Yes, going to dentists and specialists certainly stimulates THEIR economy, but doesn't help OUR economy!

*sigh* Didn't win any money on Wednesday's Powerball lottery either.


On the bright side, I lost 3 lbs this week! Another 4 lbs to go to relose the weight I regained from layoff emotions + convention chaos.


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10/23/09 7:50 P

At the dentist...or specialist..I'm nothing but a "stimulus package" to them...

Edited by: RIORIOGIRL at: 10/23/2009 (19:51)

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10/22/09 1:50 A

It was a low blow from the Tooth Fairy.
I'd actually been working on my flossing, managing every other day--a significant improvement from zero. I'd had a flouride treatment at my last checkup 9 months ago. I expected to be showered with roses, not $$$ new dental work!

Ignorance might have been bliss...

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10/20/09 1:31 A

I'm afraid to see what the tooth and the dentist ~ referrals ~ would cost me

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10/20/09 12:40 A

I agree! And today the tooth fairy (dentist) brought me a cavity and a tooth needing a crown. Darn fairies, costing money instead of bringing money!

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10/19/09 10:56 P

There must be something wrong with that lottery !!!!

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10/19/09 2:56 A

BIG puppies are nice and snuggly too!

Well, the lottery fairy didn't bring me money for my knee and my Malificent costume this weekend. Alas.


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10/18/09 10:33 P

So far, the one puppy is two years old...and would not fit in a basket....maybe a twin size bed...and is in Wisconsin....

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10/18/09 6:51 P

What a lovely, snuggly dream! I hope it comes true!

My current dream is that I can actually get my knee(s) FIXED--and that money mysteriously (and safely) appears from somewhere to pay for it, as well as for that Malificent costume.

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10/17/09 7:58 P

Time to dream again....I wish I could find one of my three choices for a new puppy in a basket with a note attached...."For you too love"

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9/18/09 3:59 P

**Never say never****sometimes when I get antsy...I go read a book, or try to knit again...or listen to music and dance around...

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9/18/09 2:52 A

Your success with forbidden foods (and exercise) is why you weigh what you weigh and I weigh what I weigh. Awesome job!

I could say why that approach won't work well for me, but it's really all excuses. It boils down to "I Don't Want To."

*sigh*

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9/18/09 12:34 A

Don't give up on your dreams....I even slip daytime dreaming into my day once and awhile....

On forbidden foods..if I crave something in the freezer or frig...I take one bite and quickly throw away the rest...garbage disposal work great...I tell myself...I ate the forbidden fruit and now it is gone...and I brush my teeth right away to take the taste away from my memory

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9/17/09 2:17 A

That's great news, RIORIOGIRL!!

I'm not having any success on my dream work the last couple nights. This is typical for me and why I get frustrated and set my dream project aside for a while. *sigh*

I was thinking about someone I read about who used lucid dreaming to lose weight. Her technique was to go lucid in dreams and then dream she was eating all the goodies she was avoiding in her waking life. She claimed that she could resist temptation because she knew she'd be able to eat it that night in her dreams.

If that was working, she must have been WAY more consistent at becoming lucid than I am. I wonder if she had trouble later because those dreams reinforced the desirability of "forbidden foods."

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9/16/09 10:09 P

One unexpected dream come true...I have found a friend at the gym that is a personal trainer...so she is getting me on a different routine...to define the muscles and try new and creative ways not to get bored at the gym....helps we both have similiar medical issues..and if I was up on the WC newer fee schedules,rules and regs...I would be a great help to her...

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9/16/09 10:07 P

My children still are surprising me.....and one thing...you will be a parent/mother for the rest of your wonderful days on this earth...even though they may get tired of "Mom's advice, etc"....but...they will go thru the same situations.....

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9/16/09 1:29 A

Those are great dreams!

I had good times being a mom too, but I've always ended up liking whatever age they are at the moment the best. Lack of imagination on my part, maybe. My mom used to say she like us best from ages 2-12, and my dad used to comment "12? That's just when the kids started to get interesting!"

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9/15/09 1:54 A

Sometimes, I wish my children were young again...and in retrospect...I was a full time mother most of their lives...but I would change just a few things....but overall I had a blast being a mother...the dream would be and world travel with them...if the lottery hit LOL

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9/15/09 1:30 A

heh heh... Yeah!

When I get dream success with , I can confidently move on to success with . After that, I think my next dream target will be .

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9/14/09 12:43 A

I could wake up every morning "with a smile" and "smile" during my workout...snicker...snicker...

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9/14/09 12:40 A

Yeah, we need an emoticon for eye candy! I think you should start telling yourself every night when you go to bed, "Tonight I will dream about Toshiro Mifune dressed in his Hidden fortress attire." (You might want to throw in some suggestion about romance so that you don't end up in a dreamtime war zone.) It will be so fun when it works!

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9/14/09 12:16 A

I enjoy your humor...and I enjoyed your dream...hmmm...I need a Toshiro Mifune dream...dressed in his "Hidden Fortress" attire....no emoticon for..."eye candy"...No Calories !!!

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9/13/09 2:10 A

Thanks, RIORIOGIRL! I've been having an especially tough time staying on track since (1) I saw that losing 32 pounds has made NO difference when I cosplayed in July, and (2) I was laid off. I haven't given up though.

mmmm... handsome samurai in kimono... Imaginary samurai is even better! My anime harem is wonderful. They always say and do just the right things, go away when I want them gone, and never comment on how fat & old I am.

Off and on I've experimented with lucid dreaming--I'm not very good at it--but I was working on changing my dreams "mid-flight." Someone suggested starting with something fun first, so I made my dream goal to have mad sex with my favorite (at the time) anime character, Miroku.

Finally, one night I:
(1) realized I was dreaming (without waking up in the process),
(2) called Miroku into the dream, and
(3) announced to the dream that Miroku was madly in love with me.

Well, Miroku looked at me nervously and said, "I think I'm gay."

?!?!? Not even in my dreams? Then I thought, "Wait a minute! This is MY dream!"

So I grabbed Miroku by the hand and dragged him into a shed, saying, "Let's find out, shall we?"

Sometime later Miroku came out of the shed and yelled, "I'm not gay!"

Best dream in my life! But the next time I have success with a dream, I need to add that I'M young and gorgeous.

A little tale just for fun...

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9/12/09 11:09 P

Never give up...I can never look like a lovely Japanese woman or Geisha in a beautiful flowing kimono...beautiful hair all done up to perfection..and walking in getas...either....but I can dream...of that handsome samurai in his kimono...

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9/5/09 12:59 A

Oh yeah, my dreams aren't based in reality, but they definitely help keep me going.

Ah... Along with winning the lottery and vacationing in Japan, I'd love to get down to 130-150 (I'm 5'8") and look young and fabulous. Alas, I have so much weight to lose and I'm so much older than 21, I doubt that I'll ever have the classy chassie of my dreams.

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9/4/09 11:44 A

Win that ole' Lottery and vacation in

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9/2/09 3:16 P

Watching Akira Kurosawa directing Toshiro Mifune in one of their great collobrations: Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Hidden Fortress and Throne of Blood just to name a few...what a dream...

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9/1/09 2:50 P

These dreams are not based on reality !!

Dreaming can keep you from going insane...a nice dream or wish can be worth a thousand words..

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8/31/09 2:32 A

Do these have to be dreams based in reality?

Well, first thing I have to do is win the lottery to finance my fantasies--or else have some unknown rich uncle die and leave me his entire vast fortune.

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8/30/09 4:41 P

If I could...spend as many years in Japan...total immersed..in language and culture...after I win the lottery....

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