Today was my third acupuncture treatment. My body get used to the treatment. I had a relaxing treatment as usual. From the diagnosis of my tongue and pulse, my spleen still needs to be healed.

This time, my acupuncturist prescribed me two Chinese medicine tea.

One is familiar with me. I have taken for 3 weeks now. It is called 六味地黄丸. It is for diabetes. It also enhances the function of kidney.  

The other one is new to me. It is called 降脂飲. This is to lower the cholesterol.

I wanted to experiment about my diabetes medicine, Metformin. Since May 25th, I had stopped taking the medicine. I closely checked my glucose level. It had been good until two days ago. Since June 4th, however, my glucose levels started spiking up again. It seemed to be back to the bad stage again.

I mentioned that to her. She did not agree to completely stop medication all of a sudden. She suggested to go slow. Maybe I can reduce the intake amount first. And then, I can reduce the frequency from twice a day to once a day. If I do well with the frequency, then the next step will be once in every other day. Slowly and slowly, by closely checking my glucose level.

I really want to get rid of medication from my body, but I guess I need to be patient and gentle with my body.

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Today we went to the outdoor swimming pool. The sky was clear blue. With reflecting the blight sun light, the pool water was sparkling.

Currently the pool admission fee is $1. They would raise the admission fee in next month. We don’t know how much it would be. I know the amount will stay low, though.

This pool is located within my walking range. There are not too many people. They always have three to four life guards. They are high school students. They are polite and nice.

I feel lucky to live here.

In this small community, people know each other. Especially for my daughter. When we entered the pool side, my daughter was greeted by many friends, not only her classmates but also different grade students, even school teachers and faculty.

I feel safe to be here.

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Today was the first day for my daughter to attend the summer school. She was excited but at the same time little nervous about the first day. Hoping she would have safe and fun day, I went back home happily. Finally I have my own alone time back. Yay!

When I picked her up at the school, she told me lots of fun activities they did today. She made some new friends too. They had time for art and craft. They had time for running around in the playground. They had time for reading books alone, along with somebody read books to them. A guest visited the class. She played the guitar and everybody sung some songs along with the guitar music. Everything sounds really fun.

She had a great day, as I did. She was happy, as I was. I think most of families are the same ways. Kids need to play with kids, and moms need their alone time or spend time with their friends.

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My personal update:

Today is my 69th day of daily muscular training. My weigh does not show any drastic improvement, but my body fat did. It reached to 28.5%. For my age group women, the body fat rate less than 30% is categorized as “ideal” body.

I want to celebrate for my progress in body making.

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My friend shared her personal spiritual experience with me. It was beautiful experience that showed her she was loved by her family spirits. By listening her story, I recall my old memory.

In my younger days my Navajo boyfriend-at-that-time frequently told me “You are beautiful”. It was new and stimulating for me, because his compliment was super straightforward.

One day when we went for a drive, he told me this phrase again. I felt embarrassed a little, because I didn’t think of myself as beautiful. Right after he said that, he turned on the car radio. This song lyrics popped into our ears.

You’re beautiful

You’re beautiful

You’re beautiful, it’s true

We looked at each other’s face. I was astonished. He was smiling. He seemed not to be surprised at all. He said it happens all the time. He said “spirits are always with us. And it is a piece of cake for them to manipulate an electric device, especially radio.”

This song “You’re Beautiful” is co-written by James Blunt, released on 30 May 2005. I never heard this song before. I never knew about this singer. I got goosebumps all over my body. I was touched.

Since then, I have similar experienced over and over again. Now I fully believe what he told me that day. I totally believe spirits are always cheering us up.

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My mom sent me a letter by Air mail on May 14th. Although air mails usually arrive within seven to ten days, this time the letter has not arrived. It took so long. My mom and I had started worrying about that.

The letter contains the birth certificate of my daughter, issued by the city hall. I need the document to make a passport for her.  

Today my mom told me that the letter came back to her. She didn’t know the reason. If she knew how to take picture and send the scanned data of envelop to me, I would have known the reason.

In Japan, we write the sender’s and receiver’s name and address differently from that of America. I guess my mom mistakenly wrote down the sender’s name and address toward the center. If any of American post office workers were thoughtful, the letter would have been delivered correctly. It is based on luck. In that sense, we were unlucky for not having a kind worker.

It is not my mom’s fault at all for not knowing the American postal office rule. I feel sorry for her that she needed to go to the city hall, along with going to the post office twice. She is not young and active anymore. I know it was hard for her to go here and there.

Previously, the Japanese city halls did not have the system for Japanese people who live in foreign countries. And that was why I asked my mom to deal with the procedure this time.

Today I searched around again about the information. Bingo! I found their webpage stating about the procedure for us. Since the page was updated at the end of last year, Nov 2017, this procedure must be new to them.

At least from next time, I won’t need to ask my mom to do chores for me. That being said, I know my mom’s personality. She is very kind and loves helping others. I am pretty sure she is happy to help me out on anything.

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Today I felt blessed. I found a Japanese medium’s show, Spiritual House in the Netflix contents.

This medium is famous in Japan. He used to star in the popular television show during the year of 2005 to 2009. It was almost the same time when this show was ended and when I moved to America. So this show was memorable show for me.

The Netflix show has only five episodes. I quickly finished watching all of them. I enjoyed them very much. I love this type of show.

The medium looks different from before. He gained more weigh and lost more hair. He looks older than before. He looks like a monk. Especially because he wears a kimono.

I think his changing appearance is a good sign. With the appearance of an old monk, it makes easier for people to listen to his message.

While I was watching him in the show, I was sure aging is a good thing. Aging makes our appearance and personality to be calmer and more confident in what we do. It helps more convincing in our messages and advices.

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Back in this February, I paid the fee for the angel reading. The reader is an Australian public figure. He is famous about his published books from Hay House.

The procedure he explained he would was like this. He would connect to each individual customer’s angels by meditating about the person, and receive the message specifically for the person. Then he would record the message in the video for about 10-15 minutes. The video was supposed to send out in the month of April.

I didn’t receive the video in April.

On May 11th, he sent out the official announcement to all the paid customers about the delay along with the reason. The main cause of the delay was his breaking up with his boyfriend. He also mentioned all the reading video should be sent out within 2 weeks.

I had waited for the two weeks, but still nothing. I contacted and asked them to update the status of my reading video. I hadn’t heard anything from them for my two inquiry emails.

In my third inquiry email, which I sent today, I requested a full refund with the reason.

Within some minutes I sent the refund request, I received the refund receipt email. To my surprise, it was just the receipt only. There was no apology.

During this past over three months, I had patiently waited for the reading video. I also sent sincere hope and good energy for him so that he could heal from the breaking up pain as soon as possible. I even replied back to them with kind and nice wordings. If I were him, I would definitely express my sincere apology for everything.

I am not going to do anything to harm him, such as by sending a complain email or by sending a bad review.

Here is my humble hope.

I hope he would be aware that he owes me a sincere apology. He created energy debt to me. It is a karmic debt that he would have to pay it back in other ways.

In this high vibration era, nobody has to create an unnecessary karmic debt.

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My friend wants to help me heal my diabetes. She believes its root cause is the lack of sweetness of life. So, she sked me one question. “What is your sweetness and bitterness?” Her question gave me an opportunity to analyze myself.

I’ve thought about her question. I needed to ponder about that.

When I was single, my life was busy. I had some jobs with the high rank, high pay, and heavy responsibility. I learned a lot through my jobs; about human relationships, communication techniques, and job’s technical skills. I was constantly stressed out for making money to pay my bills.

Since I was not engaged with any serious love romance relationship, I had freedom. I could travel to anywhere domestic and international, whenever I wanted, wherever I wanted, without making any plans. I enjoyed making many friends. I was a free spirit. I was a free bird.

So, my life while I was single was that of extremely dynamic. In such hectic and busy days, I envied for a wife/mom staying at home as a homemaker.

Now my life is completely different from before. I have gained that status I envied in the past. I am a wife/mom staying at home homemaker. I currently don’t have jobs. Thus, I am nobody without any status, pay, nor work stress/responsibility. My married life is that of static.

When I think of my sweetness and bitterness in life, I always have them both. In my younger days, I had my sweetness and bitterness specifically fits for the situation. I like my past years of full of adventures and excitements.

Do I miss my past dynamic years? No. I love my current static life with my family. My current life style and family are priceless.

My answer lies in there. I am full of sweetness in life, in my current life.

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Since the summer vacation started, I have been chased around by my little play-with-me-monster. I love her so much and I appreciate her to show her interest in playing with me. However, I started feeling overwhelmed, to be honest. 

I thought back of my elementary school days. The environment and the situation of mine and hers are totally different.

I never chased after my mom asking to play with me. I never did because I didn’t need to.

I had other playmates. My brother is only 13 months apart from me, and we grew up together like twin siblings. I always had him to hang around. Besides, I had several classmates who lived in our neighborhood.

There was a playground in our small community. Even we didn’t have a promise to meet up there, we naturally gathered up there and played baseball together.

Our town was close to beach. We could walk to the beach with 10 minutes walking. Sometimes we gathered up into a 5 – 6 classmates and went to the beach together. We run around on the beach. We explored the tetrapods, which are four-legged concrete made structures used to prevent coastal erosion. We even swam in the ocean without adult surveillance.

Our town also had a small swamp. It was a fun playground for us too. We gathered up there and enjoyed fishing. We didn’t need to have any store bought fishing poles. We found a twig and tied a small fish as a fishing bait with a string. We used to get a whole bunch of crayfish.

I hope my daughter will find some fun exploring on her own way, but always in a safe way.

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Two week ago, in the morning, we saw smoke coming from the back of the TV monitor. We quickly unplugged the monitor so that the smoke stopped. We were lucky enough to be there. Otherwise, it could have caused a fire on the entire house.

We received this TV monitor as the Christmas gift from my parents-in-law. We have used it for six years or so. It is a 50-inch monitor.

I thought it was not repairable. I thought we would have to buy a new one. When I researched the same type of monitor in online shops, the price was about $500. I was upset about this unexpected expenditure.

My husband stayed calm. He said he might be able to repair it. He has 10-years job experience as a vehicle mechanic, and currently works as an IT guy. He is a professional repair man. I almost forgot about that.

He found the cause of the smoke. There was a burnt mark on the circuit board. We contacted the manufacture and got the information of the required part.

We bought the replacement of the diode. It cost us about $4.00 including shipping fee. Actually the part itself cost $1.00, and the shipping fee cost $3.00.

With the replacement part, my husband fixed the TV monitor.

I was so amazed at his ability. In the past, he fixed our washing machine too.

It is very cost effective to have a professional repair man in my family.

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