Navajoland visit Day-2, 4/25/2024

My family and I spent all day with my mom-in-law together. Our day started going to the zoo. The second stop was the museum, where we found they had a job fair. My husband had an beneficial conversation with two recruiters and received the contact information about the future job opportunity. Even though the pay rate would drop, the job is job. He is interested in getting more information. After we came back, we had a nice cookout.

In the evening at 5:30 p.m., one handyman came to our homesite for our new shed building project. It was nice of him that he gave my mom-in-law a phone call at the previous evening as a friendly reminder of our upcoming appointment. Even today when our appointment time came closer, he called my mom-in-law that he was several minutes away from our homesite. Then when we met him in person, all of us liked him a lot. He seems to be trustworthy and keeps his words. My mom-in-law is willing to pay for all the cost for building a new shed for us. I am looking forward to our new shed to be completed. It might happen much sooner than I think.

Navajoland visit Day-1, 4/24/2024

We left our house early in the morning to head to Navajo land. Today the road was quiet and peaceful so that we could enjoy our road trip of 8 hours. When we arrived at our homesite, we were amazed that the property was nicely taken care of by cutting weeds and the dead leaves were nicely raked. We thought my mom in law hired somebody to do so, but she said she did all by herself. We are glad that she is healthy and takes good care of herself as well as the property.

Comparison our daily life between 40 years ago and the current days 4/23/2024

My daughter needed to create a presentation material for the social study. The theme was the change in our life between the old days without the high technology and the modern days with the high technology. The instruction says the students are required to start interviewing to two people who are older than students about the change. My daughter interviewed my husband and me. It was an interesting project. I shared my experience regarding the research method switched from books to internet search. My husband shared his experience regarding the communication method switched from payphones and home phones to personal cell phones. My daughter’s teacher liked her presentation very much and gave her a comment “absolutely perfect.” I bet he enjoyed watching her presentation.     

Training videos of Japanese and English versions 4/21/2024

I watched the biofeedback training videos of both American version and Japanese version. The Japanese training is definitely helpful, but they use very old version and the screens are not exactly the same. On the other hand, the English version is helpful with the current screens, but their English is very fast that I sometimes need to slow down the speed to 0.75 as the normal speed. In any ways, I am enjoying learning the new information and technique through both versions of trainings.

State University tour 4/19/2024

In the early morning, we left for the big town for the state university tour. when I got the receptionist counter, I was astonished at the number of people. I thought the tour will be done with a small number of people, like just us and other one or two families. But I was wrong. There were more than 100 people in the presentation room. After the 30-minutes presentation, they divided us into two groups. We were told to follow the young guide to walk around. They said the walking tour would be around 90 minutes. It was tough to walk around under the strong Arizona sun. We decided to give up following the tour at the very beginning. It was nice to see the campus and the students relaxing here and there.

Lots of wooden panel for backyard 4/18/2024

I have been hoping to get lots of big sized wooden panels to put on our backyard. The panels will prevent garden weeds from growing wildly. I have been working on removing the garden weeds every day. since the ground is very hard and the roots went strongly deep in the ground, it is hard for me to remove the entire roots. I spend 30 minutes in every morning. Now I saw our neighbor shed company put a whole bunch of wide sized wooden panel in the free wood area. I was so happy to see the wooden panels and grabbed several of them. I am happy that I could surround my vegetable garden by the wooden panels to prevent the harsh garden weeds.

Orthodontist appointment 4/17/2024

In the early morning, I took my daughter to her orthodontist appointment. The doctor mentioned that he will remove the braces away on the next appointment. We set the next appointment in June. My daughter started wearing the braces from January 2022, so it took 2.5 years. We are excited to see her straightened white teeth in two months.

Pain in my right shoulder was gone 4/16/2024

Same as the previous night, last night I had a sound sleep after the session from Q-Ta. And this morning, I naturally woke up feeling refreshed. I noticed I don’t have the sharp pain in my right shoulder that I had been suffering from the past two weeks.

In the last night session, I treated the conscious level of lucid dreaming. Probably that was why I had a clear dream this morning. My ex-boyfriend that I had dated during the university days visited me. I thanked him for his all the kindness. And I woke up feeling happy and refreshed.