Jinsei wa Bōkenda: January 2015

Wow! I can't believe it has been almost 3 months since I last gave an update. That's probably because not much has been going on.

After Thanksgiving, Chad went to Guam for 3 weeks. While he was gone, my friend Blossom took me to 2 different Thai restaurants. All the food I tried was delicious! I love being adventurous! I also pampered myself and got a Christmas/Winter pedicure.

A Christmas tradition for the Japanese is to eat KFC. It made me laugh that this was a nail art option!

Chad came home just in time for Christmas! I'm glad he was able to be here for Thanksgiving and Christmas because being over here without family is already lonely enough; I can't imagine being without my husband for the holidays. We opened our presents from each other Christmas morning and then Facetimed each of our families to open their presents with them. I am so glad that's the last Christmas that we have to spend so far away from home!

We celebrated our 3 wedding anniversary on January 6th. We both took the day off work and spent the day at one of my favorite beaches picking up sea glass and just enjoying the beautiful day! We went to a Brazilian Barbecue restaurant for dinner called Bovinos. It's an all you can eat restaurant and we both left there stuffed!

Myah is doing well, her skin condition at this point is getting better but it's still there. We took her to the on base vet to get an opinion but they were pretty clueless as to why she was itching and basically just told us to give her benadryl. So we did and that worked for like 3 weeks but then she started becoming immune to it. We took her to the off base vet again this last week. He thinks she is allergic to dust mites. He gave us some medication to make her stop itching but said there was nothing he could do for the dust mites. His advice to us was to remove all the carpet. That made me chuckle, since we live in base housing and don't have that option. Even if I did own my own home, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't just trash all my carpet. So, the medicine he gave us is working miracles! She hasn't itched since she has been on it. I really hope it's not temporary and she starts growing hair back where she has lost it from itching.