With the relocation fast approaching (just 4 more days), I’m starting to feel a bit better about the big move. We’ve essentially packed everything that needs to be packed and the movers are coming tomorrow to ship our stuff to Japan. Oddly enough, our house looks no different than it does on a normal day […]
I’ve now been in Tokyo for exactly one week (though we left Boston two days earlier for an extended layover with friends in San Francisco). For the past seven days Randy and I have kept ourselves busy registering his residency with the city hall, searching for apartments, shopping for household necessities, and looking at rental furniture […]
Though not necessarily a gastronomic adventure, an adventure of another sort starts taking place in less than 24 hours. We’re catching a flight to San Francisco tomorrow morning where we’ll spend the night with friends (with some shopping and eating thrown in for good measure) before catching a Sunday morning flight from San Francisco to […]
My dear readers, it looks like I’ll have some new motivation to post on here more frequently. In the next month or so Randy and I will be relocating to Japan so that Randy can take an assignment working out of his company’s Tokyo office. It’s been a ridiculously long process in the making, with […]
Randy is sick of me repeating this, but it’s true. Weather-wise, this has been the best winter ever. I’ve probably said this to him at least once weekly since, oh, even before winter began (November). With rare exceptions, it’s just been sunny and 5-20 degrees warmer than normal consistently. I’m sure we’ll suffer for it later […]
Any by that I mean: Happy Veterans Day, Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Martin Luther King Day, Happy Valentine’s Day, and Happy President’s Day. Yikes, it really has been along time since my last post. I’ve periodically looked back at my blog in disgust over the past few months. Partially because of […]
Wow – my last post was September 20th. I think this is the longest gap in blog posts in Adventures in Gastronomy history. Not a good thing. In my defense, I have been fairly active during that lull. My aunt died shortly after that post so I hosted my parents for a few days and went […]
The past few weeks have been chaotic for Randy. Actually, it’s been nearly a month and a half. But there’s some major drama happening at his work that’s nearly had him flying to Taiwan at last once per week since our honeymoon. Yep, even on our honeymoon he was asked to go to Japan and/or […]
With decent weather predicted, Randy and I opted for a last minute trip to Provincetown for Labor Day. Sadly, it was our first (and only) trip there this year. As always, we had a great time. We made it an extended weekend by taking a vacation day on Friday and heading down to my parents’ […]
I had my annual physical on Friday, and although the bloodwork hasn’t come back yet, I’ve already received some good news. My blood pressure was quite good (110/75), despite a family history of high blood pressure (both parents and my brother have it). But even more pleasant to hear was that I’ve lost 12 pounds since […]