Events and incidents in 2005

At the end of September I moved, and at the end of October I was very confused.
Before moving from our rooms, my parents had moved to a residential care condominium and then Father broke his left thighbone tumbling off a rope. He stayed in hospital for 3 weeks, and now he has two screws in his leg. Additionally, a week after that day Mother underwent an operation for breast cancer. That's why my apartment was still messy in November.
My parents looked healthy and lived in luxury. My mother didn't want to cook any more, that's why she decided to move to the condo. (I had never seen my father cooking, so he had no disagreement with moving.
However, both of my parents got out of their hospital in the middle of November, and then unpacked and set up their house which was out of my hands. Fortunately Mother's cancer was found by health screening, so the affected area was small and she is full of energy now. Father can walk now with a walking stick and he is very satisfied with his new flat.
I wanted to study English and practice tap dancing but I had a hard time. I worked hard and moved twice.
My speaking skills aren't progressing and I feel miserable, then I failed the first pre-test of STEP(aka EIKEN English test in Japan)but I think that the person who hangs in has the last laugh so I decided to study English again.
But I moved again in December! If I seek help from my husband now I am free of blame, aren't I?

Events and incidents in 2005

One day, My husband and I went to a department store two stations away from our house.
In the train I said that "some people ask everything too easily, they should think for themselves to start with. Even if I say so, I think too much by myself and it is sometimes an obstacle to solving problems, though asking is too easy, all too easy." He felt he was being critisised and tried to argue with me.
Soon the train arrived at our destination but our conversation (I didn't set out to argue) wasn't finished. He got off the train and looked at a loss for words.
In the store we chose a DVD recorder and whilst going to the cashier he said "I lost my wallet!" Aside from his wallet, he didn't have his backpack.
His wallet and cell phone were in the backpack and it was on the overhead compartment of the train. He had nothing! I was amazed and we dashed to the Lost and Found office. I couldn't help but complain to him. An officer found it in the train at the end of the line, 1 hour away from us. While he was going to get his backpack, I waited with shopping because I was too angry to follow him. Even if he was preoccupied by my words, he had nothing else. I couldn't believe that he was so careless. I was very forgetful and Mother and my teachers often scolded me, so I was getting to be careful and I would never separate my bag from my body in the train. I thought he was an absentmided person and I even saw that he lost his wallet on our first date, so if I had been critical he would be better for that wouldn't he?
I told some people about this. Someone said men are singleminded and it's their weak side, so you think broad-mindedly about it. Another person said he was not a child, so I shouldn't try to reform him.
I abandoned trying to rectify his weakness. Everyone whom I know said he is nice, but I am still worried that such a forgetful person can have a good job.

Tap dancing

Every Saturday I made it a rule to practice tap dancing in a beginners' class since last year, but I had been off the lessons for a whole month because of my sprained ankle and suffering from hives. I am not a good athlete, so cutting classes for a whole month is a big bottleneck for catching up with my classmates.
As anticipated, the movement training had made a lot of progress and I couldn't follow them. My classmates kindly explained all of the steps, but the tempo of the dancing was too fast for me to understand. After the lesson I wrote the steps in my notebook for homework, and my classmates helped me, but the movement was too difficult to write down.
"Ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-tan. Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta!" I realize I can't remember the steps from such notes right now!

My favorite video game

The Japanese game maker ATLUS opened their USA website. http://www.atlus.com/

Their SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI series are my most favorite video games. I prefer this series to even the Final Fantasy series, so I want to introduce this series to all the people who love Roll Playing games. The series have a lot of titles in the Japanese version. I played "Devil Summoner Soul Hackers(Play Station)", "Persona 2 Crime" and its "Punishment"(PS), "Shin Megami Tensei 3 NOCTURNE"(Play Staition2), "NOCTURNE MANIACS"(PS2), "Degital Devil Saga"(PS2), and "DDS2"(PS2). (I think "NOCTURNE" in the USA version is "NOCTURNE MANIACS" in JAPAN, because Dante doesn't appear in "NOCTURNE" in the Japanese version. Dante, the hero of Capcon's "DEVIL MAY CRY", is a special guest in this game.)

The theme of the Shin Megami Tensei series is dark and grotesque, cynical and humorous. I can say the main characters and most demons are very cute, but some demons are disgusting and the demons mutated from humans sometimes eat humans in the stories. (Hence it has a minimum age requirement.)

In most of the series the heros threaten, grease the target's palm, or bait a hook with demons. They make a companion of demons and fight other demons in the mutated world. You can combine two or three demons, which you have caught, into a stronger, new one. It must fire up your collector's spirit to get into the imaginary scene.

Year-end Dinner Party

Yesterday, my most favorite singer, Tomoharu Iwasa, whose band is called "Kozmic Ride", had a party with a concert. The party had a talking and eating time and a performance (Rock concert) time.
I was satisfied with the best singer's voice and enjoyed chatting with my friends.
At first I was worried that my friends wouldn't be able to enjoy the concert and the atomosphere.
They were not interested in the singer and they only knew one of his songs, which he sung in an ex-band 10 years ago, and I can say they better suited a nice restaurant than a small pub. Against my anxiety, they were touched to tears, and in chorus they said they certainly wanted to go to the next concert in February.
However I felt a sense of loss, because my happiest time this year, the moment when I saw him singing, had finished.

Bad dream

I dreamt.
I dream frequent dreams like that I am in the school: the junior high or high, but I don't know what day of the week today is.So I didn't prepare today's timetable.
If I had been lucky, there would be maths, national language or science in the timetable. If I had been unlucky, there would be homemaking course, gymnastics or art.
Why they are unlucky, because they need private something. I can borrow text books of maths or etc, but I can't borrow gym suit(it has a name tag), clothes in the making, or a picture in the drawing. When I was in schooltime, I often forgot something and teachers told me off and I was scared to forget something everyday. It maybe traumatized me.
Today I was not slightly unlucky. Because a classmate said today's timetable is geography, geography, geography-A and geography-B.In reality, I had geography once a week so I was still twtchy and wondered that "thank goodness, but, what is geography-A?" in the dream.