This weekend officially blows

So our great beach weekend was..... cancelled!
Fuck it I was so looking forward to swimming and getting out of the house for a bit. Long story short there was a family argument of some kind involving Ryota's mum and boyfriend (who's house is at the beach) and first of all we were leaving early, then late, then staying 2 nights, then just the day then it was all cocked up and cancelled.

10 things that blow about this weekend~ (Written Sunday)

1) No beach
2) Raining
3) Had a fight with Ryota over something so stupid I can't remember what it was.
4) We not only didn't go to the beach, we didn't do anything at all.
5) Had to sit for 3 hours talking to the tooth fairy.
6) Ryota slept for 3 hours in the day leaving me to look after Ashton and do all the housework then cooked him dinner. Arsehole! (Still slightly fighting if you couldn't tell...)
7) Didn't eat dinner due to fight protest but now bastard hungry and no food in the house.
8) Having post-birth issues STILL!
9) Ryota lifted Ashton up and smacked his head (hard) on the low beam becasue our house was made for fucking midgets.
10) I ripped my finger open on our new kakigori machine and it stings like a bitch!

Ok I should explain a few...Went to the turtle and tooth fairy's house to kill some time and Ryota ended up helping his Dad fixing something in the garage so I was left with the tooth fairy and of course Ash fell asleep right when I didn't want him to. So I had to make chit-chat and the woman is fucking painful pardon my french. There's a rumour she used to work in a snack bar and that's where they met but I don't see how that is possible, her conversation skills are rubbish, in the end I was so desperate I just started washing up the dishes in the sink!

Won't go too far into the post-birth issues becasue I know there are a couple of people who may read this giving birth in the near future, but let's just say the war wounds popped out and I was freaking out, I should probably go to the Doc, with all the country swapping I never actually got examined after pushing that huge peach head out.

10 reasons why this weekend didn't blow that bad~ (Written Monday...)

1) I was riding the crimson wave so beach probably wasn't that good of an idea anyway.
2) After my tiff hunger strike Ryota went out and got me the best takoyaki ever and I swallowed my pride right along with it!
3) There was a massive thunder storm (it was great but the thunder was so loud the house was shaking which was pretty scary!)
4) We ended up going to Mino falls which was very pretty and we even saw some monkeys!
5) We're making new plans to go to the beach.
6) I finally had time to make a photography portfolio.
7) Did I mention we saw monkeys!?!
8) Have eaten so much home made kakigori I'll be on a sugar high until Christmas.
9) Got to take some amazing photos, going to be hard to choose 5 good ones.
10) And with the fighting, comes the great making-up.

So it didn't turn out to be all bad, I was well pissed off to begin with but gotta make the best out of a no beach situation I guess!
Amazing how much an attitude can change in a day though...

Kawaisou Grandma, Kawaisou....

I love and hate 'kawaisou' in Japanese, I'm going to say it's 'Too bad' in English but it just seems so much more useful in Japanese. And as useful as I find it, it annoys the shit out of me when it is used referring to Ashton. Slight Japan/ in-law rant is in order I think...

Now that Ash can move anywhere, not crawling yet but man that kid knows all the angles, turn, wriggle turn and he's in the kitchen with knives and chemicals and all that anti-baby stuff. I discovered this the hard way when I put him down in the living room and 5 minutes later heard a crinkling noise only to discover him with his big head stuck in a shopping bag. (I know, I know, won't get mother of the year this time.) So we're being extra careful about leaving him anywhere by himself, I'm going to look at investing in some sort of gate contraption soon. This said, if he is busy playing with something or is all milked up and calm then I can leave him for a little bit while I get whatever I need to done.

Today was a stinker, like Japan summer, I always forget how fucking hot it is hot, so when I went to hang the washing out upstairs I left Ash playing with his monkey. I'd only just got to hanging out the undies when he started whinging , but i know his cries by now, and it was a more of a 'Hey, walking, boobs, get your arse back here bitch!' rather than a 'Hey walking boobs, I'm ingesting poisonous chemicals right now bitch!' So I decided to quickly hang out the washing then get back into the air-con heaven.

By the time I got downstairs even through the sweat pouring into my eyes, I saw that that the front door was wide open. Now had it not been for the lil' ol' lady slippers strewn in the genkan I may have very well broken out the baseball bat and gone to town on Obaachan's arse thinking she was a robber, but of course, living so close to the in-laws, I know better.

Ashton was smiling up at Obaachan the little shit, and she started in on a "Ohhh Ashton's by himself, kawaisou neeee" spiel which just pissed me off.

I'm not a 'let them cry it out' mum, but I'm not a 'pick the baby up as soon as they make a noise' mum either, I usually let him cry a bit, finish what I'm doing, then go see what he's chatting about. It's kind of hard to use this strategy though, when people pop in all the freakin' time to check on the baby!

But whatever, Grandma is pushing 100, I can forgive her, doesn't mean it doesn't piss me right off though!

But today wasn't only meddling Obaachan, no, BIL came waltzing in asking to borrow our car while I was just about to hop in the bath. Anyone who bathes a baby by themselves knows this drill, you get naked with bubby then both jump in together. So I must have looked like such a twat scrambling to slam the un-slammable sliding door holding a naked baby with my bits flopping all over the place! I think BIL got the point when I just threw the keys at him through the crack (heh) of the door and just screeched, "Don't fucking crash it you little bastard!!" (In English) When he asked me what I said I just said "nothing" and he left thank god.

Saying all that, we're escaping to the beach this weekend, I'm excited!!! The beach isn't like a normal Japanese brown rock shitty beach either, it's actually really pretty. I hate the fact that I can't swim any further than the stupid barrier, but apart from that it's great and will also be Ashton's first beach visit!

Hope everyone is staying out of the heat, happy hump Wednesday!!!

That's what I was thinknig Obaachan!!!