I woke up at 6 am with the natural sun light. I had a fun dream this morning. Instead of getting out from bed right away, I stayed in bed for a while, enjoying the remainder fun feeling from my dream. I love spending time in-between of the awake world and dream world. In case you are curious of my fun dream, my dream was about our family vacation with my in-laws.

Suddenly, my relaxing moment was disturbed by the sound of a continuous thud sounds. With my half-awake consciousness, I noticed it was from the garbage collection truck.

I thought to myself. “Seriously? It is still 6 am. They cannot come in this early morning.”

I didn’t want to miss our trash being picked up. I quickly got out from bed and went outside. However, I saw nothing but the collection truck’s butt. It just passed by our house.

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Recently my local city changed their trash collection rule.

As for the pickup frequency, previously they used to pick trash up twice a week. Now they changed it only once a week.

As for the pickup time, previously they used to come around 10:30 am. Now they changed their policy of pickup time as “anytime between 6:30 am to 6:30 pm”. After their procedure change, the truck started coming at their spontaneous day. So far, they came around 7 am for some times. For other times they didn’t come until 5 pm in the evening.

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Later this afternoon I had two different visitors to my house. Both of them are my neighbors. They came in a different timing. I normally don’t have any neighbor visitors to my house, so it was a bit surprising for me.   

One neighbor wanted to ask me about the water usage. Her recent water bill shows double price of previous months. They are an old couple, just two of them. The old couple was upset for the sudden raise of water bill.

The other neighbor wanted to ask me about the trash collection time of today. It was after 5 pm when she asked me the question. She didn’t know the trash collection track already came at 6 am this morning. She was upset about that. 

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There is another concern for all of us. The new city mayor recently announced of utility fee raise. They already raised the trash collection fee a couple of months before. Now, starting from this month, they will raise the fee of water, sewer, and the accompanied tax. They put an example of a residence of 4,000 gallons per month. it will be raised to 1.70 times as much as previous amount.  For most families of 3 or 4 or more, the fee will be raised to double price of previous amount.

I have heard people complaining in person. And I have read disagreed and upset peoples’ comments in their Facebook page. Obviously many citizens are upset about this new drastic change.

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Today my daughter’s school had a photo shooting by the professional photographers. My daughter wanted to make her hair special. She requested me to do her hair with two hair buns, just like my friend’s daughter did to her while we were in Japan.

I normally wake up 6:30 am without the help of an alarm. Last night my daughter asked me to wake her up at 6 am in order to do her hair. So I set my alarm. I also asked my family spirits to wake me up before the alarm goes off.

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My family spirits always listen to my favors and requests. Here was how it went.

This morning I woke up naturally with the sun light. When I looked at the alarm, it was 5:58 am. I could turn off my alarm before it goes off. I knew it was my family spirits who woke me up before 6 am, just as I asked them last night.

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Nowadays I have been experiencing many miracles made by my family spirits. Here is another one that I experienced today.

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On every Tuesday evening, my daughter attends the club activity after school at the library. They offer the electric club. My daughter loves the teacher, and the teacher loves my daughter too. My daughter looks forward to this club activity and had never missed the club before.

As usual I was planning to walk to school to escort my daughter from school to library. Today was different. For some reason, right before I departed to school, I felt like driving to school instead of walking. It was rare for me as I don’t like driving and I always try to walk there instead of driving. But I followed my intuition and drove to school.

There at school, my daughter told me she was feeling sick. Her eyes were red and swollen. She wanted to go back home as soon as possible.

I heard a bell sound rung in my head. This was the reason why my family spirits suggested me to drive there, instead of walking. I thanked them for letting me know. I was glad that I came by car so that my daughter didn’t need to walk with feeling sick.

I always appreciate my family spirits to allow me to hear them clearly.  

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This morning while we were waiting for the school bus, I was talking about the theory of yin and yang to my daughter. I don’t know why I started talking about it.

In the afternoon when I picked her up at school, she was excited to show me something. It was a yin bracelet that her friend gave her.

When her friend saw this friendship bracelet in the store, she thought of herself and my daughter. She thought they were good friends because they represent a well balance of yin and yang. So she bought the bracelet. She gave the Yin half to my daughter and keep the other half, Yang, to herself.   

I thought it an interesting coincidence. I rather should say it as a synchronicity. Maybe I was catching the energy of my daughter’s friend, who was thinking about the yin and yang bracelet.

My daughter’s friend most likely does not know about the theory of Yin and Yang. She grabbed it based on her intuition.  

Another interesting fact is that my daughter’s friend sees my daughter as Yin energy. My daughter shows Yin personality at school. My daughter’s friend is right about observing my daughter’s outstanding aspects while she is outside. My daughter is shy, quiet, and polite in public.

However, my daughter does have lots of Yang aspects while she is with us at home. My daughter’s personality, as far as I have observed her whenever she is with me, is outgoing, loud, and brave.

So, maybe her friend can have the opposite aspects while she is with her family at home.

Everybody has different aspects depending on the situation and place. It is interesting to observe to see how people show their aspects differently between in public life and in private life.

I am probably same as my daughter. People see me as Yin energy in public life but I have Yang energy in private life.     

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Today April 1st 2019 of Japanese time, they announced the name of the upcoming new era. It is “令和” pronounced as Reiwa. Japan will enter to a new era on May 1st 2019, one month from today.

As with other my generation people, I am lucky enough to be able to experience three eras. I was born in Showa. My youth years went with the Heisei era. Now we are entering to a new era, Reiwa.          

I am looking forward to witnessing Japan and the world in this new era. I hope we all will be able to establish the most peaceful era in the world together and pass it down to our next generation and future descendants.

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We woke up at 2 am and left the house at 2:30 am. I gave my husband a ride to the airport. He has departed to Hawaii for a one-week business trip.

My daughter and I came back home from the airport by 5 am. It was still dark and cold outside. We went back to bed and had some more sleep.

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When we woke up from our morning nap, it was already past 10:30 am. We must have been tired.

After our nap, I noticed of the size of my calves. They seem to be back normal. Finally I don’t have pain in my calves anymore. As for my daughter, her swollen lips and its rush are completely cleared up.

We are finally back to normal health state. It has taken us for one week to have fully recovered from the fatigue from the trip.

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It has been hot these day. The temperature was raised up to 81 F (27 C). According to the monthly weather reports, we will have close to 90 F (32 C) next week.

Before I departed to the trip to Japan, I hoped our maintenance guy would switch heater to cooler while I was gone. But when I came back to America, I noticed it had not done yet. I was a bit disappointed.

I had to ask our realtor twice about switching to cooler. This morning it was finally done.

Today we had a young maintenance guy. A couple of times before, he used to come with his uncle as his apprentice. He came alone today as his first time to switch all by himself. I like him as he is always polite and cheerful. We all hoped he had done properly as his first job as all by himself.

After a while since he left however, I noticed some dripping sound. The sound came from the garage. It was a water leakage from the faucet that he turned it on during the process of switching to cooler.

Within 30 minutes after our call, the young maintenance guy came back to our house. He first apologized for his mistake, then he fixed it quickly.

In the evening my family and I enjoyed the cool air from the cooler.

Now I am happy that our cooler is back. We are ready for the upcoming hot Arizona summer.

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After school my daughter attended the club activity of craft. There the teacher taught her on how to weave a basket.

It was a nice surprise for me. I was thinking of teaching my daughter on how to weave a basket for a while. My secret wish naturally came true. I am always amazed on the miraculous ways of how our thoughts create the reality.

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Yesterday I received a LINE message from my mom. As always her message was very short. Too short to understand what she really wanted to say. She wrote in a couple of simple Japanese terms. Kind of meaning of “Aren’t you be back home yet? Talk on the phone?”

Her message made me confused.

First, I sent an email message right after I arrived at home on late at night of Monday night, March 25th. Hasn’t she received my email of the day? Second, I was not sure if she was planning to call me or she wanted me to call her?

I usually call my mom on Friday evening in Arizona time that is Saturday morning in mom’s time. So, I called my mom this evening.

When I called her, she quickly answered the phone. The first response was “I am glad you are safe.”

She said she never received my email of my arrival day. She has been worrying about our safety since then.

Then she asked me when we would visit them again. I thought to myself “Mom, I just came back and I am still recovering from the fatigue from the long flights and jet lag…. Please give me some more time to think about it.”

But all in all, I was happy to hear my mom’s voice. It is always good to have family who think of you.

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Today I had an uncomfortable experience.

It happened in the evening on the way back home from the bus stop.

There are a sibling of three in my neighborhood. The three kids approached me and asked me to let them use my cell phone. I thought to myself, “Not again. Why they always casually ask me?”

It was their third time to ask me the same favor. I didn’t want them to use my phone but I could not say no to them.

Because I was reluctant to let them use my phone, I was hesitantly and slowly taking out my cell phone from the phone case, the teenager girl roughly grabbed my phone from my hand and started using it. She said it was emergency.

The girl was mad at the bus driver and wanted to tell that to her mom. I heard the girl complaining about the bus driver, but it was not an urgent topic that she needed to contact her mom immediately.

After the girl spitted all her anger out to her mom over my cell phone, she returned my phone to me without saying anything. I was stunned at the girl. She is probably an 8th grader; 15 years old or so. She should be old enough to know to say thank you after somebody has done nice thing to her.  

As I mentioned earlier, it was their third time to casually ask me to let them use my cell phone. They always returned my cell phone without thanking me.

This sibling lives in my neighborhood. That is all I know. They are not my friends. I don’t even know their names or grades. They’re never be nice to me. They don’t even greet to me. Not to mention, they are never nice to my daughter.

I don’t feel comfortable about them for casually asking me to let them use my phone. I feel myself being coward and powerless that I cannot say no to them.

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I asked some other parents if the sibling has ever asked them to let them use their phone. They all said it never happened to them. They also said they would not let any strangers to use their phone, because a cell phone contains lots of private information.

One of the parents mentioned to me like this. I look nice and don’t seem to say no to them. Probably that is why they ask me, not to any other parents. She said until I change the pattern, the kids will ask me over and over again.

She was right. While I was listening to the parent, I felt myself as a little helpless child being picked on by those kids. Today’s incident happened for a reason. I need to do something to change this pattern. I don’t want to end up to be a convenient person whom the stranger kids can ask me any favor.

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After I came back home, I asked my family spirits and angels on what to do. Should I contact their parents and mention about it? Or should I let it go?

I instantly got their answer by vibration. I don’t need to contact their parents but I do need to improve my energy field so as to protect myself.

I still don’t know exactly what to do for that, but I will work on that.

All in all, every incident happens for a reason and it gives us an opportunity to improve ourselves, right?

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My daughter and I woke up in the middle of the night. The clock showed 00:14 am. All our efforts to go back to sleep was in vain. We finally could go back to sleep after 4 am.

After we slept only a couple of hours, we forced ourselves out from bed at 6:30 am. We needed to get ready for her school.

I guess we are still suffering from jet lag. Our sleeping habit was messed up.

There are other side effects of the trip to Japan. As for me, my calves are still swollen and they hurt. As for my daughter, her lips were chapped and rushed due to extreme stress and fatigue.

It seems we will still need some more rest to fully recover from those.

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There was one uplifting event for me today.

My husband told me about the trash day of last week. In our area the trash pickup track collects a resident’s trash on Wednesdays.

On last Wednesday morning, my husband took out our trash bin on the street. When he came back home in the evening after work, he saw our trash bin was put back to our backyard door where we normally keep it. That day was a windy day. He instantly thought of our neighbor man across our house to do such a kind thing for us. Since then, my husband wanted to say thank you to our neighbor man but he didn’t have any opportunities to do so.

When I heard the story from my husband, I hoped to have an opportunity to say thank you to our neighbor in person. This morning my wish naturally came true. When I came back from my morning walk, our neighbor man happened to be in front of his entrance door. It was a good timing for me to talk to him.

I went to him and greeted him. I asked him if he pulled back our trash bin to our original place on last Wednesday. His face brightened up. He said it was him. According to him, the strong wind blew our trash bin all the way to the end of the street. So, he pulled it back to our original place.

I thanked him. I could see he was happy that we noticed his kindness.

We had a chat for a while. He and his wife are our new neighbors. They moved to this area sometime last year. He said he likes this area because it is quiet and surrounded by nice people like us.  

It was good to have nice people in my neighborhood. My neighbor made my morning.

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I woke up at 6:30. It was great to have slept in my own bed. My daughter told me last night, that she would go to school today if she gets up normally. However, she did not wake up from her deep asleep.

At 8 am, I called school and informed them of my daughter’s still being sick. She was too tired to go to school.

At 9 am, my daughter finally woke up. According to her, I was snoring very loud that she could not sleep in the night. I felt sorry for her to disturb her sleep.

I know I don’t snore in normal days. Only when I am exhausted I snore loudly. Last night was one of such nights.

After I fed my daughter breakfast, I started doing my chores.

I washed all the clothes, hanged them in the sun, dusted off the shelves of the house, and vacuumed all the floors.

I unpacked my luggage and three cardboard boxes, organized all the items, and put them into appropriate places.

By the time when I finished bringing in all the dried clothes from the backyard, it was already evening to prepare dinner.

Time went by so quickly. I still feel tired and sleepy. My calves are still swollen from the long flights and Shinkansen rides. I need more rest to fully recover.

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