HI, ladies!!
Congratulations, Sunflower and Cosmos!
I’m very proud of being a member of this hard-working and wonderful group, and I’ll move into the fast track by hanging on to your coattails!
Thank you so much for your concern about my daughters, Plum. Fortunately, they were not dissatisfied with my absence and even greeted me with a smile on Monday evening. They appear to get used to that situation these days, I guess, but I don’t know when they might change in the near future. All I can do is doing my best when I stay with them at home…
Summary: Free love 2
Mary Ellen---she tried to live as a sex radical who married the writer George Meredith. They claimed they were too clever and high-strung, and thus she fell in love with Henry Wallis, and left Meredith.
…It’s almost supper time. See you next, bye!
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Hi, ladies!!!
It’s Friday, November 28th, 2008, and it’s been cloudy but not so cold, or rather warm for last autumn perhaps, today.
I am very happy to hear that you don’t have, at the moment, any particular problem with your daughters concerning your attending our study meeting, Cherry. It’s so delightful to hear that your daughters showed a smile on their faces when you got home on Monday evening.
A few days ago, an artificial tooth, which my dentist had put in a gap after he pulled out one of my natural teeth for the purpose of a dental implant, fell off when I was eating some biscuits. It was not a big problem itself, but my tongue touched the residue of the hardened dental glue whenever I tried to speak and move my tongue, and I got a little frictional pain, which became unbearable last night.
So I called my dentist’s clinic early this morning and went there to get my dentist to solve this problem of mine. He did a very good job and I don’t feel any friction at present, which is wonderful.
One of my friends lost his father at hospital recently. His father had a cancer operation and seemed to be getting better, but his condition deteriorated and he died all too suddenly, my friend wrote in his email to me. He and his family believed his father could leave the hospital shortly until a few days before, he added.
He remarked that he felt he was in some kind of state where he did not believe what had happened. As though at some time his father would just magically return...
I wrote to him that it was quite a normal way of feeling for those who have lost their loved ones.
Strangely enough, last night I had a weird, funny but lovely dream in which my deceased mother and sister appeared. Three of us live in rented rooms on the second floor of a poorly constructed building, and the first floor is used as store space. The rooms are scarcely furnished and there are only two small windows made, and we are terribly destitute. I am a carpenter/painter, repairing some torn wallpaper of the staircase. It appears that all of us are happy and keep talking to one another, which was relieving when I woke up from the dream.
Have you ever had such a funny dream, my dear friends?
It’s completely dark now and almost time to cook supper, my lovely friends. Bye for now. Have a brilliant Friday evening…
Hello, Ladies!!!
It’s rather warm today. In the early morning it rained but it turned to be fine. I stayed at home whole day, cooking, cleaning, eating and reading in my room.
It’s interesting that “Marriage as a Mission” reminded me of Japanese housewives nowadays. The book said that the special mission of middle-class housewives is how to organize the household rationally and efficiently.
Wife’s thrift and carefulness benefit family’s wellbeing. This kind of idea could be hold today.
A wife’s economy and carefulness could contribute to the surplus income of the family, which could then be available for luxuries.
Japan is now in a business slowdown so this idea unbelievably would work. Sorry I’m not the type of careful and thrift wife. Yet excellent housewives are thrifty and keep accounts and enjoy a haggle over prices. By their thrift and economy they contribute to the families’ budgets.
By the way, it is said that the substantial number of affluent middle-class housewives employed servants. In 1851 there were more than a million domestic servants in England.
This reflected me JApanese newly middle-class housewives also employed maids in the Taisho era.
The mission of housewives was intended to organize the household efficiently and to accept an inferior role in marriage, to put their husbands’ interest first and to sacrifice themselves to their families, but young girls hate those conventional roles. Social butterflies were against the traditional role prescribed for wives. The vast number of books was written to reinforce the ideal of the submissive wife in each generation again and again, yet women were not such idiots as to welcome taking a backseat after marriage.
The most interesting part to read was that the author saw that if women had been behaving as required, such books would have never been published.
In any time, instructive writers wanted young girls to become dutiful and docile as well as to accept the traditional roles of women.
I hope it'll be fine tomorrow. WE're planning to drive to Mr. Chausuyama to enjoy beautiful colored leaves in the mountain.
I'll go to bed earlier tonight. Good-night, my dear friends.
Hello, everybody!
Unexpected surprises are so often happening to you, Plum! I can understand troubles in a mouth is always very discomfort for anyone. Anyway I have felt released to know you have become better. In reality, I went to a dentist once a week for almost three months, from August to October.
The dentist is a very nice skillful doctor. Even though, I don’t like the dental place equipped with robotic instruments with long arms. Big glasses, white mask and the noise, all of them make me feel uncomfortable and ill. I, however, had to take treatments. To tell the truth, my three front teeth are artificial, doweled ones, in Japanese “sashiba”. Unfortunately I had some decays between teeth a couple decades ago. They were not so bad, but teeth don’t have natural power to recover by themselves. And they were front teeth. Then I had my teeth reformed. They had lasted for years. But at last this summer I had to replaced them with new ones. How expensive! It seems that money doesn’t want to stay in my wallet.
Thank you for reading my sad story, ladies. Good night. I hope you have a good dream. Bye.
Hi, ladies!!!
It’s Saturday, November 29th, 2008, and it’s been a fairly pleasant autumn day, hasn’t it?
In the morning, my husband and I went to the Aerospace Industrial Technology Show 2008, which was held at a huge building near Nagoya Port for three days from Friday. My husband works for a company that manufactures steel molds mainly for various automotive parts such as instrumental panels or bumpers. A few days ago he asked me to go and take a look at what was happening at the show. I was not so willing, but since he insisted I decided to visit it.
Miscellaneous products made of steel or aluminum chiefly used for machine tools were exhibited at the show, and unexpectedly I quite enjoyed seeing diversified machine parts and hearing explanations given at different machine part manufacturing company booths. I also saw some robots on display that were cutting, grinding or burnishing various kinds of metal.
After that, we went to a department store in Sakae and picked out an absolutely lovely and pretty purse for our daughter-in-law’s birthday present. We also bought a beautiful tie, which I loved so much, and a toy telephone, for our son’s birthday gift and our granddaughter’s Christmas present, respectively. I simply cannot believe that Christmas is just around the corner.
Tomorrow, some junior members of NWSRG are getting together at my place to discuss their essay projects. I really hope we will have a good time at the brainstorming session.
Good night to my lovely friends. Have sweet dreams. I always hope you are well and happy. Night, night…
Hi, ladies!!!
It’s Sunday, November 30th, 2008, and it’s been a bit cloudy today, hasn’t it?
We had a brainstorming gathering for essay writing at my place. Those who attended it are:
Azalea
Cherry
Peach
Rose and me.
First Cherry talked about the life of Sugako Kanno, and remarked she would like to present Kanno as resisting power to the ultra nationalistic Japanese Meiji government for the good of socio-economically and politically oppressed fellow nationals.
Secondly Peach explained the life of Ichiko Kamichika, and stated she would like to describe her life story decades by decades. After her talk, we had lunch and yatsuhashi sweets for dessert, which Azalea kindly got for us when she went to Kyoto with her daughter on Monday, 24th.
Thirdly Rose spoke about the life of Emiko Kamiya. It is going to be her first opportunity to write an essay for our collection of essays, and it would have been pretty hard to prepare the timeline of Kamiya, but she did an excellent job. Good for Rose.
Lastly Azalea expounded the life of Mumeo Oku, who lived to be 101 years old. Her explanation was quite analytical and very well prepared. She must have spent so many days reading various written materials so as to make her handouts for today’s discussion session. She appeared to be seriously committed to her essay project, which is excellent.
We had a not only delightful but also fruitful time together. What a splendid meeting we had today!!!
Tomorrow is the first day of December, and the year 2009 is just around the corner. Time flies… It is totally beyond my imagination. Goodnight to you all, my precious friends. Sweet dreams…
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