Yesterday I found my cell phone broken, but I was told by my younger daughter to take her and her friends to the riverside, so I put off repairing it.

In the evening, I said to my husband, "My cell phone broke! It's the second time... May I go to an electricity shop open lately or wait until tomorrow?"
He firmly replied "Go to the repairer tomorrow."

I hear email alert sounds so many times from my broken cell phone.
Is my cell phone available again, or do I have to replace it?

This photo is taken in March of last year, one month after I started keeping bee shrimps.
The shrimp tank was in my elder daughter's room and she enjoyed watching them.

Gradually, she wanted bigger tank and more dynamic kinds of fish, shrimps were moved to the tank in the main entrance.

There lived an apple snail too, which ate algae on the tank.
But it loved spinaches too!!

Last month my husband and I got both flat broke, I felt so guilty for keeping fishes and growing aquatic plants and said to my mother;

I'll quit my aquarium. From now I start selling, auctioning my fishes, plants and equipments for our deficit compensation and when they are all sold out, I'll quit it and never start again.

Some eqmipments were auctioned off, but that's the only sales so far.
Shrimps and plants still haven't been auctioned off yet.

And I realized how much I love aquarium and it's my precious stress reliever.
The tanks in the entrance relieve not only me but my children and customers, even my younger daughter's class teacher.

So that's not true that I'm fed up with aquarium, my word above is just an act of behaving as a good obedient daughter

nI've been yearning to have a favicon on my web site someday.nnSo I tried making it by myself, searching on the net how to make it and put the one on my web site...nMy elder daughter tried it too.nnIt is not enough to make and upload a .icn image, we found it quite difficult and takes so many steps to show it on the net. nShe seemed to give up.nnnI joined Favicon Japan!! with my web site, but my IE8 does not accept personal web sites' handmade favicons....#:-o

I'm renewing my web site now, and remember I have an online link list abandoned for two years.
I tried accessing the maintainance page and found my account still available.
I'm sooooo delighted to see my link list again and enjoyed editing it.

「がっくり」って気持ちの時にめーるやらブログで使う「orz」。
これ、声に出して読む時はどう読んだらいいんだろう？

絵文字だと、ひざまづいてる図をたまに見かけるけど、orzも「ひざまづいて落胆」て語源？らしい。

英文日記に英語用顔文字を使ってみたくて、ググってたら、こんなページにたどり着きました。

前回の日記の英文が、私が思った以上に駄文で、只今orzな気分です。
「学校が生徒に●●を禁止する」って言いたくて、「禁止する」って直訳してprohibitを使ったら、何か、何か・・・変で、prohibitは法律で禁じていることに対して使うって後で知って・・・・こそこそって編集しました。
用法間違いだらけの英文を、実名も顔（変わってるかもだけど）も出てる場に出すってのは、お粗末極まりなくて・・・・ホント

orz

orz

orz

なんだけど・・・

やっぱりここに英語書きます。
間違ってたら直せばいいんです。
間違いを恐れて発することをしなければ、覚えるものも覚えないもん。

I was so surprised to see on the net that the emoticon "orz" was made in Japan!
Emoticons (emoji) has two types, western style and eastern style, and the eastern style one we Japanese are familliar with.

Reading the wikipedia article on emoticons, I'm also amazed that eastern style emoticons are getting popular among western people. They are often brought with Japanese animes.

I think I must use western style emoticons when writing English, but it will be very handy for English-learning Japanese if eastern style emoticons is spread worldwide.

デジイチ購入前から使っていて、2年以上頑張ってくれていた２GBのSDカードが、見当たらなくなってしまいました（涙）
今年のGWの写真を圧縮しようと思って、だけど息子が進研ゼミのウェブ教材やることになって、ビスタノート貸して、書きかけブログも下書き保存で終わらして・・・・・・
・・・とやっていたら、どうも見当たらず。。。

めぼしい写真は加工済みで「ピクチャ」フォルダに納まってるからすごく困ることはないけど・・・
忘れた頃に「あの頃の写真～（・ｗ・） 」て思い立ち、生データをあさることが往々にしてあるので、ちょっと、さみしいです。

こまめなバックアップ、大事ですね・・・

I'm a little sad now because the SD card for my medium-sized digital camera is missing.
It contains more than half of my photos.

Most of them in need are already edited or printed, but what I shall do when I want original pictures in the future?

I remember a talk with an experienced photoshop clerk, that digital cameras sometimes cause troubles in trips especially when media cards are missing during the trip so some junior high schools do not allow students to bring digital cameras with them for school trips.

Wow! Writing about pictures, I remember I have some film phtos to reprint...

Aquarium costs a lot.
I'm afraid I have to quit it, for it's not only helpful to save money but also can show my parents that I devote my life to raising children.

On the other hand, it's my precious mental reliever.
Now it's so difficult for me to get a English-teaching job after more than fifteen years' interval.
Actually my aquarium knowledge and products may be more useful to get a job; I've been working on it without interval.

To quit or not to quit?
That's a question...

Who will be happy if I quit it?
Only me will be happy if I continue it...

I made fish tank stand screens and put them on the lower half of the stands, taking a chance on my family's (especially my mother's) permission to continue aquarium.
Yesterday evening, my mother told me she hadn't mentioned that I should quite it so far.
She also said if I've imagined or believed she wanted me to quit it, it's just MY superstition...

I can't see what I believe, who I trust; I'm completely at a loss:?