My in-laws are visiting our area. They arrived at the local hotel last night. They will stay for 3 nights to spend time with us.

So, today was our Day-1 to spend all day with them.

Our all-day-tour stared from sightseeing the old western town. We had lunch at the Mexican restaurant there. It was fun to see all the workers in the town were in the old Western outfits. Even in the restaurant, all the waitresses were in the old fashioned Western dresses.

Our next stop was sightseeing the mining town. We attended the mine tour. For the tour, after we paid the admission and signed-in the agreement paperwork, we needed to wait for 2.5 hours until the tour started. It was my very first time to attend their tour.

All the tour participants were outfitted with a yellow slicker, a helmet, and a miner’s headlamp. We boarded the mine train and descended into the underground mine. The tour was conducted by the former miners and shared his personal experiences worked as a minor.

It was a fun tour. In my personal opinion though, only one tour is enough. For some reason, my in-laws love this tour. As a matter of fact, today’s tour was their third one.

Our last stop was the local Asian restaurant for dinner.

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We walked a lot throughout the day.

By the time we came back home, Sun was already set. It was dark and cold.

I was exhausted.

It was not only from walking but also from the nervous feeling being with in-laws. I’ve known them for the past twenty years, but still, I feel nervous being around them for such a long time.

Another reason was due to the crowd of people. Everywhere we went, there were many people around us. Compared with the crowd of people in a big city in Japan, it is definitely nothing in our small town, but still, I don’t like being surrounded by many people. I was born like that.

While I am writing this, I am peaceful at home. I am glad and thankful that our day went well, and I am safely back home.

Today was a regular Friday for everybody, but not for my family.

My husband had a red eye on this week from time to time. It was not from serious disease but from fatigue. So he took a day off from work today. He rested up all day and recovered his good health.

It was irregular to stay at home with my husband in daytime of weekday while my daughter is at school.

Some of my older friends are having this kind of days every day, because their husbands either work at home or they don’t need to work after retired from work.

I am used to stay at home alone while my husband and daughter are out of home during the daytime on weekdays. To be honest, I like being alone at home.

That being said, while I am writing this, I received a block of thoughts from my family spirits. I should be careful what I wish for.

While I was single, I had time and freedom all to myself for many years. I wished for my family to spend time together. Now I am provided my family.

I should appreciate for what I am provided right now. I should cherish the time whenever I stay with my precious family.

Today my friend and I were planning to go to the mountain for hiking. But something urgent came up to her, so we rescheduled our plan.

It was fine with me.

I was looking forward to our get together, but at the same time, I was happy for the reschedule.

We were planning to swing by at the Donut store on the way back home. There we were planning to get some donuts and coffee for lunch. If we had gone, I would have taken too high sugar and calorie.

Since the beginning of this month for 10 days, I have been on the 16/8 fasting method. I haven’t lost weight yet, but I started feeling lighter than before. As for the glucose level, it shows a slight improvement every day.

I want to get used to this new routine, at least in this beginning stage.

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Today I had another peaceful day.

I took care of my nukadoko, cooked homemade food for my family and myself, cleaned the house, and did a laundry. In my free time, I read some books about the knowledge and recipes of fermented foods.

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Recently my daughter’s favorite outfit is an overall skirt. I bought her three different sized and colored ones. She looks good in the overall skirt.

That made me think to buy one for me. I have searched an overall skirt for me in the adult size, but I could not find it anywhere. So I decided to make one for me by myself.

I bought a denim fabric. I usually don’t use a pattern.

What I do is simple.

I create an image of the product what I want to have in my mind. With the image in my mind, I draw a rough sketch in a paper. I ask my family spirits for support. Then, I go ahead and proceed to cut the fabric.

All the process went smoothly. I made my overall skirt. With the leftover fabric, I also made an overall skirt for my daughter.

It was a creative and enjoyable day.

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I had a get together with my new friend.

She is one of my neighbors. She and her family moved into our area three years ago. From our first impression, we both liked each other. Whenever we saw each other during my walking, we chatted for a while in the street. We exchanged our phone number and mentioned about having a get together some time.

I didn’t call her right away though. I wanted to be cautious to make a new friend in this county.

Here is my reason for being cautious.

In my first several years in this country, I freely made new friends. Soon I realized some of them were Christians with strong personalities. They aggressively tried to convince me into going to their church and changing my belief into theirs. I encountered such people more than 10, or maybe much more than 20 or 30. Dealing with such people was very uncomfortable experiences for me.

I respect everybody’s free will. I honor each person to have their own believe and religion. I have my own belief and religion. It is fine as long as nobody forces theirs to others. I don’t force mine to others, and they should stay away from forcing me to theirs.

Anyways, that is why I am cautious, especially when making a new friend with a Christian.

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So, at the very first moment of our get together, I politely told her about my feeling. I knew she is a Christian and goes to church. I requested her to respect each other’s religion and belief. I am not going to force her to believe mine, and I want her to do the same.

I waited for her reaction. If she reacted as the same way as the previous people, I was about to leave her place right away.

She was different from the previous people.

She agreed with me. She has gone through the similar experiences and she didn’t like it. She promised me not to force me to believe her religion.

I got so relieved to hear that.

So, that was how we started our getting to know each other.

I actually enjoyed her company. I arrived at her house at 10:30 a.m., and we were so into our conversation that the next moment I noticed was almost 3 p.m.

I like her a lot. I hope we can build our friendship slowly and sturdy.

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I have started the 16/8 fasting for 5 days since October 1st. Skipping breakfast had almost become one of my routines until yesterday.

I made yesterday as an exceptional day. It was Sunday. My family and I were planning to go to town for some chores in the morning. I didn’t want to skip breakfast so that I would not get super hungry during in town. It is dangerous to walk around the grocery store with an empty stomach. I might end up buying a whole bunch of unnecessary foods due to the strong desire from the empty stomach.

So I ate breakfast.

In town, we went to the First Food restaurant for lunch. I ate a hamburger and fries along with an ice cream as a dessert.

Obviously I had too high calorie yesterday.

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I check my weigh every morning. For these past 5 days I weighed 61.1 kg (134.7 lb).

This morning my weight got raised to 61.8 kg (136.3 lb). I was shocked how easily I gain weight with just for one fun day. It is hard to lose weight and maintain weight as the same.

I will get back to my new routine from today. I will be more careful for eating Fast Food on weekends.

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Recently I made a new friend with one of our neighbors. I often see her jogging in the evening. She asked me to join her to her evening routine. I accepted her offer with one condition. I can join her with walking, instead of jogging. She pleasantly accepted my request.

She told me her usual goal. When I looked it up in Google Maps, it showed 9.8 mile (15.8 km) in the round trip from our area. She said it usually takes her about 1.5 hour. I asked her if she stops here and there. She said no. She keeps jogging for the 1.5 hour without stopping. That is amazing. I really respect her for doing the good exercise for more than 10 years.

I usually walk to my daughter’s school. It is 2.4 mile (3.9 km) in the round trip. I get used to this distance, so that I can walk this far without any issue.

For today’s walk, since it was our first get-together walk, she suggested me the alternative goal for us. The goal is located in the middle of her usual goal and my usual goal. We both agreed for her suggestion.

We fast-walked. We jogged from time to time. I left my house at 4:45 p.m. and came back home at 6:00 p.m. Thus, we walked for 1 hour and 15 minutes. After the walk, both of us sweat like a horse. It was actually comfortable sweat. I felt my body cells were happy for this refreshing exercise.

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After I came back home, I looked up the goal of our walking of this evening. It showed 4.2 mile (6.8 km) in the round trip.

I was amazed at the long distance we walked. No wonder we had a huge amount of sweat. It was a very nice walk with her. I enjoyed her being company.

We wanted to keep this walk every evening. But in the next week, she has to go to work both in the morning and in the night, due to lacking of staff members in her workplace. We might be able to resume our walk in the following next week.

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Recently I have sent my mom a text message through LINE app for several times. I never received a reply from her. The good thing about LINE is that I can know if she has read my message or not. I was happy to know at least she had opened and read my message. I have my parents in my mind. I always have a good vision about my parents. In my vision, they are doing fine and healthy.

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This evening I received a wonderful surprise gift.

It was a phone call from my mom.

My mom’s voice sounded healthy. It was much better than before.

My mom told me she actually has been doing better. She believes it was because she stooped a chemotherapy. I was very happy to hear that. I don’t agree with having a chemotherapy. I feel my mom is recovering through her vital energy.

I talked to my dad too. He also sounded healthy.

They both wanted to send me some gift money, and that was the main reason why they called me.

I was very happy to hear from them.

In the soul level, I always know my parents love me. But in the physical level, I once in a while think hard if my mom hates me or not. When she was in a very bad situation in last August and September, I offered her to go see them in Japan. My mom kept asking me to postpone the trip.  

During this evening’s phone conversation, I again offered my mom that my daughter and I can visit them in next week. My daughter’s school has one week autumn break. Then again, my mom turned my offer down. She asked me to wait until she gets little better than now. We agreed to make a visit plan in next May.

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It was a very nice to hear from them.

I am happy that they are doing well.

I am happy that they also think of me and love me.

I keep having a good vision in my mind that my daughter and I are visiting my parents in next May, and we all are enjoying our visit.

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My usual Friday morning routine is to leave my house at 5:30 a.m. to go to the grocery store. I like it because everything is quiet in early morning. The street and the store are not jammed. Besides, all the people I encounter is calm and nice.

But today, I needed to change my routine time differently.

Yesterday I purchased some fabrics online, so that I needed to go to the craft store to pick up my item. The craft store opens at 10 am.

I didn’t want to go back and forth to the town. I wanted to make my trip in one shot. That was why I decided to change my routine time.

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I left my house at 9 a.m. to the grocery store. As I knew already, the grocery store was full of customers.  After shopped at the grocery store, I headed to the craft store.

I seldom go to the craft store in the weekday daytime. I was shocked at the scenery of the store.

There were three workers in the store. All the three workers were very, very old women. They all looked being the age of over 80s. All the customers except for me were also very old women.

You would not believe my next statement. All the three workers were unbelievably rude to customers. The three workers dealt with a customer individually at the different areas. All the three workers raised their voice to a customer. They were not smiling. They all looked mad.

I didn’t want to get affected from these workers’ angry energy. I quickly said a protection prayer in my mind and put a protection energetic layer around my aura field. Right after I received my purchased item, I quickly left the store.

On my way back home, I was very close to get involved in an accident. While I am writing this, my heart is still beating fast. I felt scared.

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I am now in the safe place. I am so thankful to my family spirits for protecting me from the possible accident.

From my experience of today, the lessons that I learned are these.

— It is good to keep the routine as much as I can.

— Whenever I need to change my usual routine, I’d better to pay extra caution and protection for every direction around me.   

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My period came. I am so happy it came on schedule.

While I was young, I had my period regularly. I took it for granted. Now I am in the process of menopause, I don’t take it for granted anymore. I appreciate my body cells for still functioning my monthly cleansing. I appreciate to my body cells.  

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While I was reading a book regarding good health, one part deeply resonated with my heart.

The author mentioned this.

“If you are experiencing a tough time to lose weight or some health challenging situation during your menopause, you might want to simply accept it as the influence from menopause.”

He continues.

“Normally women have their menopause for 10 years between the ages of 45 to 55. Middle-aged women take the 10 years to gradually go through their menopause process. They will go through some malfunctions in their body systems. The doctors might not identify the sickness name; instead, simply describe it is one of the symptoms of menopause. After she completely finishes the process, all the malfunctions might be cleared up.”

I appreciate the author to give me a good heads-up. All the symptoms that I am dealing with might be cleared up with the ending of menopause.

Instead of fighting, it might be a good idea to simply accept and live with it.

I have decided to enjoy the process and appreciate my body cells for still functioning during menopause. Once it is completely done, I will throw a congratulation party with my body cells.  

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