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My family recently came and visited Japan for three weeks, during which my sister with celiac disease was able to visit for the first time in ten years (back then eating gluten-free was a disaster.) This article is me sharing everything I've learned:
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@ciaela
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3 years
"My showerhead broke so I bought the cheapest one they had at Donki and..."
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08.2022🐣
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Hi. I am turning off of public DMs and comments for this, but I felt it was time to share our story. Thanks for listening. ❤️ 突然の辛い発表で申し訳ございませんが、最後までの応援よろしくお願いします。❤️
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@ciaela
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2 years
I made a thing 🥺❤️ Baby “Evie” was born August 17th at 1:53pm, weighing a hefty 4.3kg. She is very healthy and very strong - exactly what we needed to hear. 8月17日の13時53分に次女が無事に生まれて来ました。4.3kgの巨大ベビーですが、とても元気でよく食べてよく寝てくれてます❤️
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@ciaela
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2 years
My parents have arrived in Fukuoka, after successfully applying for a temporary visitor visa through the consulate of Japan in Canada. It’s our first time together in over three years, and they’ll be staying for a month. Here’s how I did it:
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@ciaela
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雨上がりの紫陽花 ♥️☔ Hydrangea after the rain ☔♥️
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@ciaela
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3 years
🌊🌊🌊 📍Itoshima
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@ciaela
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3 years
I can finally get revenge on that time I uploaded my shots from Mifuneyama Rakuen in Saga, and the autocrop did them so dirty.
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@ciaela
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3 years
Thanks for all the comments and words of support. I am glad that I could share this part of my life with you, since it's a big part of mine (and its definitely getting harder to hide it)👀 一昨日から優しい応援の言葉を頂いて本当にありがとうございます。3人で元気をもらっています💪
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@ciaela
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3 years
I don’t post about my relationship very often but I just wanna say that even after 2 years of pandemic and spending nearly every single day together, I leave the house for 30 minutes to walk the dog and he sends me texts that make me laugh out loud and I love that for me 🥰🥰🥰
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@ciaela
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3 years
It’s been a year since we moved to this beautiful house. A year of surprise centipedes, spiders the size of my hand, crows smashing our roof tiles, Lon bringing home a snake, & learning to acclimate to humidity, heat, and cold. Now that we know what to expect, bring on year two!
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@ciaela
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Fukuoka is going to open up a 24 hour vaccination center in July so anyone can get the vaccine regardless of their lifestyle rhythm! 😍 So far Fukuoka is apparently the only city in Japan to put this type of system forward. Finally some good news!
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毎日新聞ニュース
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福岡市、24時間ワクチン接種可能に 7月の一般向けから
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@ciaela
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2 years
She’s worth the S̷̪̃̂l̴̤̕e̸̠̽̊e̷̯͐̉ṕ̶̩ ̵̢̜͗̈́d̴̞͐̈́e̶̛̲p̶̙͔̈́̑r̵̺͐͠ͅḭ̷͌̓v̵̜̽a̶̡̭̿̐ț̵̗̋̓ĭ̵̪̟͗ö̷͉͂n̸͖̤͌̓ ❤️
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The rain is so bad the koi have left the ponds of Saga Shrine and have spilled out onto the flooded streets. 😩🎏
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【速報】佐嘉神社の鯉、またも道路を泳ぐ
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2 years
This is 30 (weeks) 🐣 30週目なう。
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2 years
I don’t know when we left the gremlin newborn stage but I guess I have like, a real baby now? I still can’t believe it. 新生児じゃなくなったのはいつ? 気づいたらお目々パチパチしてるベビーになってる。早くない?
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なんとか臨月に入りました😭💕 はーやくでてきてー #重い #浮腫んでる けど #楽しみ In Japanese it’s officially the “10th month of pregnancy”, known as “ringetsu”. We have at maximum 4 weeks left. Nervous, but very ready to not be swollen anymore 😂 everythinghurtsandimdying.gif
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@ciaela
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今日はいい空が見えたなあ。We had a really nice sky tonight. 📍天神
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夕方の福岡市 😍 Fukuoka City in the Evening 🌇🌇🌇
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今日はずっっっっっと来たかったところで撮影が出来て嬉しかった!同じ京都と言っても全然想像したイメージと違う!伊根町! Can you believe this is also Kyoto!?! I was so excited to finally visit Ine today! ☃️❄️
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This is what it's coming to: Ramen shop posts plea for business, stating they won't last another month at this rate and haven't had any financial support since March. They promise they will serve delicious ramen with all their heart, and plead for customers to help them.
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@ciaela
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I've been feeling delirious as we wrapped up with the birth and spending time with Lia at around 6am this morning, but then I've had health checks and had to write a birth certificate and death certificate and arrange for her remains to be cremated and I haven't slept 😩
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@ciaela
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3 years
Please send good vibes 😩❤️
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3 years
Waiting For Santa 🎅
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笑ってくれたよ?! He’s actually smiling for the camera omg.
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When I got home today my neighbor invited us to see her rose garden! 😭❤️ She clipped us a bouquet to take home. "I work all year just for these two weeks of reward." 今日は隣の方の庭に誘われて、バラ束を作ってくれたの 😭 この2週間のために一年中庭で作業してるらしい。感動で���。
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@ciaela
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You know I couldn’t resist getting some Fuckin‘ Strawberry 🍓 ファッキングストローベリーって名前凄すぎる 🍓 これは買わないと!
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久しぶりのセルフィー✨
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Ryokan Azuma-en, located on the edge of a quiet dam lake in the Unzen Onsen region, in Nagasaki Prefecture. The private open air bath (rotenburo) faces the lakefront, and a kaiseki dinner is served in-room, for the perfect social distancing vacation (an introvert's dream 😘)
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庭付きの古い一軒家だから、虫が出てもおかしくない。覚悟はしていたけど、そろそろ対策も考えなきゃいけないんだなあ。 I love living in an old Japanese house and I knew bugs would be one of the tradeoffs, but I guess it's time to think about prevention because no more centipedes plz.
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庭に見つけた小石を丁寧に噛むキット 君 😂😩 Kit often picks up rocks from the garden for some reason and carries them around extremely gently.
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I keep saying this, but having a baby has been the best introvert hack I’ve accidentally discovered. You can go anywhere alone with baby and look busy. “Hi, yeah she’s sleeping, yup, we’re fine! Just soaking in the atmosphere and contributing absolutely nothing!”
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@ciaela
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People talk about how eating alone is weird or embarrassing but I actually love it so much? Just me and my thoughts, at my pace, with my favorite foods. Also, there are two other women in this lunch spot right now who are eating alone as well - I suspect they feel the same way.
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@ciaela
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How it started/How it’s going 🥰 (For context, I was an Airbnb host for a while and he was asking about rooms lol) 最初の連絡とその3年後 (昔はエアビーで部屋貸し出しってて、その空き状況の問い合わせでした。笑)
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@ciaela
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I don’t post about my relationship very often but I just wanna say that even after 2 years of pandemic and spending nearly every single day together, I leave the house for 30 minutes to walk the dog and he sends me texts that make me laugh out loud and I love that for me 🥰🥰🥰
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@ciaela
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Ads & pop ups are killing every single experience online. Every other reply on Twitter is a sponsored tweet, Instagram is constantly showing me people I don’t follow, every news website or blog has pop up overlay ads. How is this the right move for brands? Scrolling is a chore.
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オケハザマのメンバーと過ごす誕生日、楽しかった!サプライズありがとうございました!ケーキ美味しかったよ🥰🥰🥰🥰 Thankful for the birthday surprise during our shoot today! The closest thing I’ve had to a birthday party in years! I’m another year older! 😅
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@ciaela
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2 years
I don’t need any more presents, I already have everything I need 💕 これ以上プレゼントなんて要らないよ!これだけあれば十分なの✨
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I love being your Mommy 💕
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Still not used to having an actual baby. She’ll be sleeping soundly for three hours and then wake up to feed and make a noise and I’ll literally jump because I forgot she was in the room. 😭😭😭
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Beautiful first family vacation at Galleria Midobaru in Beppu, Oita Prefecture. 赤ちゃんとの初旅行です!大分県別府市のガレリア御堂原🫣✨❤️
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@ciaela
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I enjoy going to cafes and sitting next to people who are obviously on their first date. Poor guy hasn't stopped talking for thirty minutes and this girl has only said "ahhh" "heeee" and, when he asked her if she's free tomorrow, "nnnn...." 😅😅😅
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黒川温泉で過ごす週末♨️ A family trip to Kurokawa Hot Springs 🥰🥚🐣
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And I mean this is on top of feeling like I've been hit by a bus because, you know, I literally just birthed a human this morning... 😩 I feel like I have barely had a moment to even think about how I'm feeling. I guess it'll come out somehow later in an unhealthy way whoops.
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The fact that you can get through the entire thing without hearing a single “Nihongo jouzu” proves that whoever made the Netflix movie #Kate has never lived in Japan.
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Man, the “squid game subtitles aren’t accurate” discourse really split the internet. Who cares if they didn’t *actually* say “red light, green light”, it’s the same game. In Japan we say “the daruma fell over!”, which also wouldn’t make sense in an English sub 🥲
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It would be nice if Japan was open to accepting refugees, but considering it took two years before they considered resumption of work and student visa entrees, it feels like a tall, impossible ask.
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Kishida has approved the acceptance of Ukrainian Refugees (starting with those who have family or contacts in Japan.) I did not think it would happen, considering the two years of difficult and confusing rules for immigrating foreigners, but I am happy to see I was wrong.
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うちの庭の紫陽花をみて心を癒やしてさい ✨☔💐 The universe gave us hydrangea to apologize for the soul sucking humidity of rainy season.
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Kotatsu Cat 🥰
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京都丹後鉄道の電車、お洒落だなー♫
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❤️ 注意⤴︎
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I keep coming to Twitter and wanting to be social say something funny and engage but all I have are depressing anecdotes from the past two weeks and I end up closing the app because I don’t wanna make people uncomfortable I just wanna feel *normal* but nothing is really working🙃
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キット君、インスタグラムモデルのモノマネ上手過ぎるんだけど (汗) Why does my dog take better candids than most influencers? 😬😅
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Everyone knows Fukuoka for its tonkotsu ramen, but the real soulfood is the curry. There's so much curry these days - with one-plate meals being the most popular. 福岡の名物はラーメンだとみんな思ってるんだけど、実はスパイスカレーもびっくりするほどたくさんあって、全部美味しいよ!
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Had a really great weekend, and upon reflection, October was a really good month. Although I live far away from my own family, I'm definitely not alone in Japan. I have so much love for everyone who has taken care of me, and I feel like I have really good people around me now.
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Shhh. Don't tell anyone about Fukuoka's beaches. Let them think they have to go all the way south to find such a paradise. 福岡の海岸の美しさ、内緒にしておこうね。🥺💕
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@ciaela
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“Hi”
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@ciaela
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I am feeling better 😌 Part of this I never really had the foresight to predict was how, for the next little while, going out/leaving the house really sucks because you never know when you'll have to run into someone and give them an update on your life. Social anxiety is high.
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福岡にもさくらが咲いてるよー
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Waddle waddle 🐧🐧 (Visited Nansuikaku at the end of July, with the current weather conditions I wouldn't advise going to a river right now 😩) (この間、7月末の楠水閣です。川大丈夫かな。。。)
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Japan to grant residency to high-earning professionals after 1 year
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I always thought grief was just being sad, but there's a lot more that happens when your body goes through shock: it's almost been a month and I've only started being able to eat, the other day I slept until 4:30pm by accident, and I absolutely can't watch violent movies anymore.
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Excuse me what
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I can never do important adult things without crying and it’s embarrassing. I went to city hall to ask if there was anything I could print out that proved I lost my child, since it’s not on my juminhyo and we don’t have a “family register “ since neither of us are Japanese…
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I don’t know what to do now. I … guess I’ll go back to work?
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Ten years 🥰💕 お誕生日おめでとう 🎂
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Nice 🍁👏
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First Sunrise of 2022 from Aburayama, Fukuoka 🥰❤️ 油山の展望台から初日の出を確認出来ました。 今年もよろしくお願いします。
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Fuck I love my baby.
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I've been going through some really troubling stuff the past few weeks (I'll talk about it when I'm ready), but I was surprised/impressed to see that Fukuoka City has a welfare division that actually reaches out and does mental health checks for people flagged in their system.
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@heyitssharla @lukecraigphoto @AbroadInJapan I think more photographic evidence is needed please 👀💕
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福岡城跡から梅の花の様子をお伝えします✨ The plum blossoms are out at Fukuoka Castle, and Spring is just around the corner!
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This is a very non-issue at the moment, but just something I’m thinking about - I took baby E to Konoha Mall on the weekend because it’s very popular with local children, wanted to give her some experience playing publicly with other kids.
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"Our cat keeps playing with the bulbs so this is our Christmas tree this year."
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猫が玉型のオーナメントで遊んでしまうため我が家のクリスマスツリーはこうなってしまった…
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Merry Christmas @ Hakata Station
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One of my Japanese friends from my high school in Canada (we had beginner Japanese classes and an exchange program, I subsequently came to Japan when I was 17) sent me this page she wrote about me 🥲🥲🥲 little kitchen weeb (now big kitchen weeb)
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I always feel ugly in the present but when I look back on photos taken 3-6 months ago I'm like, "oh, I don't look as bad as I thought I did, I wish I would have appreciated it more at the time." I know there's a lesson there but this cycle has repeated my whole life lol 😩
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A kissaten and a shokudo. Miyazu - Northern Kyoto
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Christmas Lights in Fukuoka🎄✨ 福岡市のクリスマスイルミネーション✨
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An Uber taxi driver picked me up today and told me he was "already past but made a U-turn" because I was a five star user. I asked and he said because it's rainy he gets a lot of requests but "only accepts five star users" when it's busy. We live in a Black Mirror society 😶
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Two years of pandemic have really made me come to appreciate the satisfaction of vacuuming your house and hearing those crackle crackle crackle noises as it sucks up dirt.
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Man. They tell you raising kids is hard, but you really can’t understand what they mean until you’re in it. I think of all my friends who had babies before me and I feel bad I never really knew how hard they were working every day to keep things afloat until now.
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You know, when all has been said and done, the pandemic has brought out the worst in almost every single country, and even with this countries’ own particular problems, I consider myself very lucky I am going through it in Japan and not back home in Canada.
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12月になって一気に寒くなったね🥶 It’s December 1st and suddenly the temperature has dropped straight into winter territory.
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I’ve been opening up more with people close to me about what happened, and my thoughts about it all. I’ve come to the conclusion recently that death itself isn’t inherently sad: a peaceful death is what most of us hope for. Death is harder for those left behind than the dying…
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Excuse me, which mythical creature is this? キット君のお口からツノが伸びてるよ!?
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お金をおろす度になっぴーの事を思い出すのってなぜなんだろう😅😅😅 I think of @nappi_0809 every time I get money in my hands. I wonder why.
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Now that Japan is finally scrapping masks (aside from public transport and certain locations), I’m having a hard time taking mine off. Wondering if anyone feels the same? It feels weird to go outside with a “bare” face.
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I feel bad that I have no plans for the holidays but I’m so burnt out that going through the effort to enjoy life seems like too much work.
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19 year old Japanese student studying in the USA arrives back in Japan, fully vaccinated, has an error on his PCR certificate, has digital record of his test but Immigration doesn't accept it - they send him back to USA 3 hours after arrival in Narita.
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本当に入国手順がクソすぎた。 まずアメリカではその辺の薬局で無料でコロナ検査ができるが、そういう普通のPCR検査ではダメだと。Nasopharyngealという、どこもやっていない虚無の検査を要求される。結局政府が指定する謎のクリニックにPCR検査の結果を送って、書き換えてもらうのですが、
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Aburayama Shimin No Mori Observatory feat. Fukuoka City and the Sun™️
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屋台が復活してるね。 Nice to see the yatai are still hanging on (even if I'm not sure I'd visit one myself just yet.)
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オーストラリア出身の彼がコロナ禍でずっとお家の中から仕事をしながら近所に住む日本人以外との交流がなくて中々日本語を学ぶ機会はなかったけど、今週から日本語学校にてプライベートレッスンを受ける様になりました。 今日は、日本語で「大好き」と言われてドキッとして泣きそうになりました。
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Yeah, baby learning to smile was cute until she started smiling at empty corners of our old house 👻
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My darling bought me Animal Crossing so I could have something to distract myself with during anxiety peaks but I'm playing it and slowly realizing all you do is wake up, grind for bells, try to contribute to society, but unlike real life you never die so it's just endless?? ☠️
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@ciaela
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Happy to announce that our late night talk-show オケはザマってなんですか?(What’s your Okehazama?) on RKB has been renewed a third time 🙌✨ We are also syndicated in Hokkaido now! I took a short break in September but I’ll be returning to host from the next recording as well😌
@okenanrkb
オケハザマってなんですか?~弐ノ陣・版図拡大~
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㊗️オケハザマってなんです��?リニューアルして継続決定〜‼️㊗️🤣 メンバーと、ハザマー(オケハザマファン)の皆のお陰で、番組がタイトル変わって継続決定しマーシェル🥳💓 新タイトルは 「オケハザマってなんですか?〜弍ノ陣・版図拡大〜」🥳🤣 新たにイラストもできたよ・・っん?誰かいる?😮
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Yesterday at work they were talking about the new member and said, "we thought you'd get along because she's a lot like you - she doesn't answer our phone calls either" and I've never felt more seen yet understood and accepted. #justintrovertthings
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@ciaela
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Koi
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