Well, I am officially a licensed driver. Now, I didn’t say a good driver, mind you, but nonetheless a legal one! :) This driving on the wrong side of the road is a bit crazy, but worse than that is the small roads! The roads here are so tiny and have no shoulder. Most of the cars follow suite, but being that I am a reproductive superstar, I can’t drive a dinky car, and instead have settled for a Honda minivan (it looks like a Scion bred with a Caravan!). This lil Honda? Not so great at navigating these tiny roads. We tried to go to Miyagi Island yesterday and literally there were places my car DID NOT FIT! True story. I was so scared, and finally just gave up and came back to the hotel. Gaw! In other news, I have an interview tomorrow! Last night I did a little resume updating, and I’m going to try to find a place to print it today. It may not be in the best paper, but I’ll see what I can find. My interviewer was transplanted here at some point, so she will undoubtably understand my haphazard interview prep. Hopefully.

On the diet front, I am doing meh. I am trying to at least be aware of my portions. That being said, dinner last night was one of those mini pizzas from Pizza Hut! It was so hot here we decided to go bowling and then exploring after it cooled off, and there is a Pizza Hut/A&W combo in the bowling alley. At least I refrained from the root beer floats the boys partook of!! I have been running about every other day. It is hard to run if you don’t wake up super early, and I have been sleeping normal again. That coupled with the time difference, because yesterday morning I spent 3 hours talking to my family on google talk! Which, if you didn’t know, is the GREATEST thing EVER! You can use a web cam and a mike (mine are both built into my laptop) so it is just like real time videoconferencing! SO awesome! Thankfully, I am happy to report my weight is down about 4 pounds from where I started (not sure what day I weighed in though… I think it was about a week ago)!! Yippee!! I still have 5 to go before I am where I was, and then another 15 to be at goal, but I am feeling pretty empowered, and that is all while still hotel living. I know once I get a home things will go MUCH smoother.

Alright, I’m off to go see if there is an alternative route to Miyagi Island that I can fit through!! There is a cliff there to DIE for, and I must take a picture! Happy Sunday, chickies!