Special. Expensive. Treat.

Last night Andy and I threw together some salsa took on the adventure of making a batch of salsa. We had carefully brought to Japan one lonely bag of tortillas and we decided that last night was the night to use them before them became stale. The menu was set: fajitas, rice, tortillas, chips and liquid gold salsa. We set out for the store with the task in mind to buy ingredients to make a small batch of salsa. I will spare you the details... but one homemade batch of Salsa cost well over $20.00! Needless to say, liquid gold salsa is rarely on the menu at this house! I am not even going to try and add up how much the entire dinner cost us. (I think it would have been much cheeper to go out!) Anyway, eat some chips and salsa for me!

Bullet Point Catch-Up!

Wow. I can’t believe it has been over a month since I made a blog post. Much has happened and is happening! I like love to make lists I thus I will summarize my life since the last blog post with a list of what I have been doing.

·      I have visited five different states in three weeks! (some of them twice… I guess because I like them so much!)

·      Discovered my purse had been stolen. (Before I left America)

·      Experienced a minor inconvenious as I worked to replace important cards and identification that had been stolen while at the same time changing my name!

·      Re-packed, re-weighed, re-arranged, every bit of belongings that I brought with me to Japan!  (And repeated this process many times!)

·      Said good, sad, hard, sweet, bittersweet, good-byes to friends, family and dogs!

·      Moved to the other side of the world.

·      Moved into our own apartment! YAY! YAY! (Did you notice I am excited?!)

·      Cleaned a little of the apartment disinfected every inch of an apartment that used to be known as “an ideal bachelor pad.”

·      Working on “settling-in” and finding a “groove” or a “new normal!”

·      Loving the adventure of life right now.  

Over Coffee...

Countless hours of my life go by while drinking coffee or meeting for coffee or having coffee in hand or with a coffee mug sitting on my desk or grabbing a cup of coffee on the run. It is almost certain that nearly every blog post that I make will be written with the delightful smell of a freshly poured cup of coffee near-by. Thus “over coffee” felt like a fitting title for this blog. I like to celebrate life. I like to drink coffee. I think that both should be done together. I hope you are able to enjoy a cup of coffee as you peruse this blog from time to time. After all it would be in some way a virtual way for us to meet over coffee! 

So put on a pot of coffee and check back here from time to time to catch stories of my life!