Yea.. New Years Resolutions......

So, I was all pumped after the New Year. I cleaned and reorganized my apartment to a stage I am pretty satisfied with. I set out a schedule to get things done, study Japanese and so on and so on.  Things were going pretty well until the third week of January and then homesickness hit me hard.

One of the partially rescued photos from my laptop before it crashed .
The original is gone but here is the copy with fancy edits.
Taken in New Hampshire, 2011 on a visit with my friend.
Pray for Japan!

The sad thing is, nothing bad happened in Japan, in fact, I haven't been this stress-free in such a long time but I found myself flashing back to memories of driving on the Kennedy and seeing the Chicago skyline ahead, or sitting in the tv room of my best friend's house, I even had a horrible flashback to my cubicle at my old job with my supervisor looming over me throwing some paperwork at my head.  (that actually snapped me into a reality check)

It also hasn't been so great with my computer being on the fritz. I'm probably going to buy myself a lovely new laptop in the coming days/weeks. Its an expense I wasn't looking forward to but its is a necessity at this point. I just need my Downton Abbey fix and to be able to stalk you all on facebook from a screen bigger than my hand!

.... and well, to keep up with my blog. Yea, I should do that too, huh?

So, keep a look out for some catch-up posts from the various travels I have done thus far in Japan.

For now, Happy Valentines Day!