No need to be praised by others 1/15/2026

I could sleep 10.5 hours. Recently, I sleep longer and deeper. I feel my body needs the sleep to heal the body by itself.

In the afternoon, I went to town with my husband. Since I still could not walk around in and out the several stores, I stayed in the car and rested. While I was waiting for my husband, my homeopath friend called me, and we ended up chatting for a long time. It was good to talk with her. The conversation with her made me realize that I still have desire for recognition and desire to be praised by others. During the conversation with her, I thought I can let the desires go. I can recognize me and praise me. I don’t need others to be happy. I can make myself happy.

In the evening, my husband changed the engine oil for both of our cars.

Resting, resting 1/14/2026

I could sleep 9.5 hours. I had a fun dream. I was with one of the most famous Japanese comedians.

Today I went to town by myself. My daughter stayed behind at home tackling with her school work. She has been working the school work ahead of the schedule for the upcoming Japan trip.

In the evening, I talked with my Japanese friend regarding the short trip to Kyoto.

Graduated from the online game 1/13/2026

Last night I could not sleep until 4 a.m. so that I resulted in staying in bed until 9 a.m. During the walk, my daughter told me about her friends. Some of her friends go to the public high school. They belong to a sport team or a music club. She confessed that she is not interested in any sports or musical instruments. I told her it is fine with her that she doesn’t need to belong to a sport team or a music band. I belonged to sport club for the entire school days and I appreciate me of those days to discipline my body to build up muscles all over my body. But all the team mates didn’t stay as my friends at this age. I think nothing is a must, rather, any option is fine, as long as listening to their heart. I know for sure my daughter will be guided to the area where she will fully enjoy and find good friends there. She doesn’t need to hurry to find her best suitable area right now. She can take her time to find her best place.

Today I made my mind on completely quit the online game. I cannot believe I have played this game for 11 years. In 2015, my daughter found this game. It was a Japanese online game and all the instructions were written in Japanese. She would bring it to me and asked me what to do. The game is to take care of a game character. Whatever we purchase items, we get 3 items to share with our game friends. Once we receive a gift item from somebody, we are to return something. That was how I got in deeper and deeper to the game. Then the number of friends got increased, I could not tell them I would graduate the game. I did tell them I would like to quit the game. Every time they stopped me. That was how I had played the game for 11 years. The game took my precious time and energy. I feel so great that I could finally quit completely.

Update of my laptop condition 1/12/2026

I could sleep 8 hours straight without waking up in the middle of the night.

In the afternoon, I talked with my Japanese friend. We decided to have one night trip at hot spring during my next visit in Japan.

I tried to sleep without gabapentin. I tried hard but could not sleep until 4 a.m. I should have given in long time ago. I took the medication and fell asleep right away.

I talked with the owner of the biofeedback dealer. He believed that the main cause of my biofeedback laptop not working was a fan. He told me he already ordered a fan from China at the end of last month and still waiting for the fan to arrive.

The airplane ticket to Japan purchased 1/11/2026

I could sleep 8 hours straight without waking up in the middle of the night.

I woke up with my left finger tingled with nerve pain. I remember before I got the severe case of sciatica, I would wake up with my left finger with tingling sensation. I hope this is one of the healing process, centralization, back to the original.

I decided my next trip date to Japan. I purchased the airplane ticket.

9 hours and 47 minutes sleep 1/10/2026

This morning, I woke up feeling much more energized. I had slept 9 hours and 47 minutes. It is a record since injury day. But it was with the support of gabapentin. I hope the day will come soon that I can sleep through the night without gabapentin.

My husband cleaned up my desktop computer. I haven’t cleaned the fan for 4 years. He said the fan was covered by dusts. It was good that he cleaned the fan before it stops working.

My first 8-hour sleep since injury 1/9/2026

I could sleep through for 8 hours. It is my first 8-hour sleep since the injury day.

At 9 a.m., my family and I went to see the house for sale. It is the house located next door to the across the street. The current owner is an old couple. We have greeted many times. I never knew they had a dog inside the house. I never saw them walking the dog. They took really good care of the house. I still have a desire to purchase a brand-new house, rather than a second-handed or owned by many different previous owners. But it was fun to have a house tour.

Hair shedding due to pain stress 1/8/2026

I cerebrated about yesterday for spending all day and night without gabapentin. However, when I combed my hair with a hair brush, I shed a bunch of hair. Maybe it was super stressful to the point where many hairs sacrificed their lives.

In the late morning, my husband and daughter went to the movie theater to watch Zootopia 2.

It was a cold day with low temperature. In this kind of cold days, my nerve pain gets bad. I had pains in right butt and back area. Around 7 p.m., I stopped suffering and gave in; I took 1 pill of gabapentin, the medication does work. right after I took the pill, the burning hot sensation called down. I could proceed some studies on the professional homeopath course.