Days are filling up quickly

Well it's been a little while since I last updated, things got busy quickly!

Work has been very busy, I get my head around things and then just as quickly learn something else that I hadn't been doing needs to be done, but I'll get there.  That's not what you're interested in, I'm sure!

We have settled in a lot more now, we have important things like all our necessary kitchen appliances, we have curtains in some rooms, and we have a couch to sit on.  At the moment we're on a holiday.  Although we don't get Easter in Japan, we do get Golden Week, a series of public holidays that often happen in a row each year.  It's been wonderful to have the time off and get the things done around the house that need doing.

We have our gaijin cards now, and our first bills have been paid, all of this feels very adult and like we're making some progress.  We had a look around Kawasaki station on Monday on our day off, went to Kichijoji on Thursday, and had a day at home today.  The weather's been pretty drizzly/rainy so it hasn't always been ideal to go and do things outside the home.  The cherry blossoms have been and gone, but the weather is warming up, and it's looking like a hot summer.

I've become an expert at sorting rubbish here, which is pretty important in Japan.  Today was the general rubbish and cardboard day.  On my way downstairs with my load of rubbish, I bumped into our next door neighbours, a young couple with a toddler, introduced myself in an awkward mix of English and Japanese, they seem very nice.  I really like the area that we're in, 30 mins commute to Shinjuku, and far enough out to have a rooster crowing throughout the day next door.

Otherwise there's not much to report, things are becoming routine, and it's nice to have a routine.  Things will be busy again soon, so we're revelling in the laidback until it starts back up again on Monday.