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1) Taihen – Taihen! I can’t think of any T words. What is a girl to do? Taihen is one of the few useful words my Japanese textbooks have taught me. I really don’t care that Mr. Santos likes to paint pictures of horses. Or that Mr. Tanaka collects antique watches. And would someone just let Mario buy a camera already?? But you know what? Sakura. Taihen kirei desu ne!

 

2) Trampoline – My friend Sabrina has one in her back yard. At least she did. I haven’t been back home in a few years, so she might not have it anymore. It was seriously awesome. Sabrina, Kathy, Andrea and I would pile onto it and sit down. Then Sabrina’s husband would stand in the middle and jump. I mean JUMP!! This was NOT the approved trampolining activities that we used to do in gym class back when we could still do trampolining and insurance companies didn’t totally suck. It’s no small miracle that none of us were launched off of that sucker to crack out heads open on the ground. Good times. Good times.

 

3) Travelling – I have been to a lot of places. I’ve been all over Japan. Mostly to concert venues though. Oops! I love driving. I hate flying domestically. The plane never gets high enough and my ears never clear. So it’s 90 minutes (or whatever) of agony. My next trip is to Okinawa with my sister at the end of the month.

 

4) Tipping – Japan doesn’t do it. Which is nice enough, but if I have a complaint (and I sometimes do) what leverage do I have? Also…will I remember to start tipping again when I go home?

 

5) Toilet seats – is there any greater pleasure than sitting down on a warm toilet seat at 4am on a January night? Well, yeah! There are several. But none of them start with T, so forget about them. Heated toilet seats may in fact be the greatest contribution that Japan has made to the world. But Mindy-loo! What about the Pretties?? Well yeah…they’re cool too. But many people fail to understand their appeal. Many of these many people would be members of my family. But everyone. EVERYONE! Can appreciate a heated toilet seat.

 

6) Time zones – A necessary evil. As nice as it would be for it to be noon everywhere right now. . . it’s dark in some places! I blame Australia for this. Australia is on the other side of the world (from all directions) so clearly it is their fault that we require time zones. The next time my mum phones me at 4 am because she “thought it went the other way,” I’m going to call the PM of Australia and say nasty things about his ancestry. Oh wait.  Australians like that.

 

7) Tired – Last night I came down with a case of whatever-the-heck-is-wrong-with-Bex and did not sleep well. I think I have too many biggish events coming up in the next few weeks, and I’m worried if I have time for them all. Whatever the cause. . . I’m tired today. And I wish I could be cranky, but I don’t want to be responsible for THAT many kids crying today. Boo.

 

8) Trial – This is the grocery store I go to most often. It’s not the closest one to my house, but it is by far the cheapest. It’s about 5km there and back, which makes it a nice walk. And I like eating everyday, so that is good motivation to walk. So I walk to Trial a lot.

 

9) Tackey and Tsubasa – I would never describe them as “my boys” but I had a great time at their concert earlier this month. No small part of that was how much fun it is to go to cons with Annie (Yeah, that Annie. Not the other one.) Their concert goods were the best organized that I’ve seen in ages!! Well done, T&T!

 

10) Typing – That is what I am doing now. I’m not very good at it. But it always impresses the kids/teachers when they see me typing without looking at the keys. They never seem to notice how often I have to back up and try again. They just see tappy-tappy-tappy Mindy-loo.  And it floors them. All. The. Time. Most people I deal with seem to subscribe to the “Hunt and Peck” school of typery. And yes, that is a word. Just like trampolining is a word. Stuff it! (Please refer to word #7 for an explanation of my snippiness.)