pink bikini and knife and scissors


pink bikini and knife and scissors
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Someone got a pink bikini today. And her very own kitchen knife.

The scissors she's always had, and used them to open the packaging of her other gifts.

Do NOT mess with this girl!

soboro gohan


soboro gohan
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When she eats, she EATS. A bowl of cereal followed by a bowl of soboro gohan.

chillin


chillin
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The question is: what the hell color are my eyes?

foots

So recently (ok, the past couple years) I've been overly concerned about how I walk. And my feet. Or more specifically, my shoes.
Lemme 'splain: I spend most of my day sitting in a (deceptively comfortable Aeron) chair. I do not go to the dojo nearly as much as I and my 74 kilo gut feel necessary for total mental and physical health.
So I try to walk as much as possible. Stairs vs. Elevator ("Up one, down two"), walk home whenever possible (i.e. not in the middle of thundering monsoon season), spend the weekend walking and pushing Tonchan, etc.
Much of my study about how walk centers around the various "old-school" Japanese budo walking styles: namba, nami-ashi, whatever you call it. There are many variations, but the basic concept is thus:
Instead of using the small muscles (calf, ankle, etc.) to push yourself forward with every step, let gravity pull you along. Concentrate more on stepping down with the front foot, not pushing off with the back foot. Also, don't walk balancing on a single line, twisting the upper and lower body in different directions, but walk on the two lines below the left and right hips. To propel one side of the body forward, relax the knee, let the body fall, and use the hips, back, and shoulder blades to move the hip/shoulder forward and in-line.
It is not nearly as neanderthal left-foot-left-hand, right-foot-right-hand as it sounds, and it certainly works when using a sword.
Over the past couple of years I think I have seriously changed the way I walk and my posture in general, and I certainly have no problem walking home for 40 minutes after working all day. So it must be working.
Related to walking is the choice of footwear. Barefoot is best, like in the dojo, but as I don't have soles made of hardened chitin, I wear shoes. Been preferring lightweight Ecco brand for a while. But then I discovered Terra Plana.
Founded by the son of the Clarks shoe empire, these really are the barefoot of shoes. Minimal sole, zero arch support, no heel, and a wide toe box.
To, from, and at work I sport the marginally acceptable Claudius, and on the weekends I am oh-so-fly with my lighting blue Aqua kicks.

all clean and ready for bed


all clean and ready for bed
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post-bath mookun


post-bath mookun
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rainy sunday with ton

Once again tried to get a haircut for Ton, so we cruised down to Barber Kawamura as always, with a stop at Starbucks first for a late post-breakfast snack.
scone brunch

At the barber she was surprisingly cool and mellow, but I had to go first, so I got my head shaved and Ton read books and watched TV and sat in all the chairs and was reasonably good. Then when it was her turn, she balked and wanted to leave. Oh well, next time.

We went downstairs to Queens Isetan and did some shopping, then got on the subway up to Azabujyuban to avoid the rain, then had a quick lunch on the steps outside; yer basic onigiri and Calpis.
the usual: onigiri and calpis

She was getting grumpy so I made her sit in the stroller and she was soon out. Slept for an hour and by then we were home. P and BabyMo were napping on the couch, so when Ton woke up I held her and we all crashed on the couch for another hour.