Happy New Year

Another long weekend for the New Year holiday- although quite mellow, it was still tiring. On 30th of December I suddenly decided to do a paint job in the restaurant, and that's what I did after Taiyo went to sleep. It's somehow so hard to get motivated to do this- this time it was relatively short two years- but once you get started it is quite therapeutic to apply fresh coat of paint. I very much enjoyed quiet relaxing and uninterrupted time although it was still work. A few beer helped very much. By 4am I finished major parts of dining area. So we woke up to this newly painted restaurant but to my surprise and disappointment, Taiyo didn't seem to notice. He was of course excited about some tools laying around.


Finally I lured him out of the house after two days of spending mostly indoors to see the train show at the Grand Central Station. Then we went to Bryant Park and got on the carousel. These were the most holiday-like things we've done this season. Then Taiyo had to have a hotdog. The only hotdog I found around the Bryant Park holiday market was "Hotdog Strudel." It was pretty yummy he had to have the second.

Back home, we rang in the New Year watching "Nightmare Before Christmas," second time this week. "It was great!" He wanted to watch again. It was just another night for him. My block was fairly quiet- I didn't even notice when it past midnight. My New Year resolution- I usually like to keep it simple- drink more tea.