Real Stuff

Paid my bills today (gas, electricity, water). That's right. I'm paying bills! It was unbelievably easy. Just take the stuff you get in the mail and pay at the bank. Also took some money out of the ATM that had no English option. I didn't even use the dictionary on my phone! It was either intuition or I recognized some Kanji. I'd like to believe the latter.

Cooking for breakfast is getting better. Today I had some rice, eggs, miso soup, and some side dishes. I also cooked dinner. I think I can do this . . For tomorrow's breakfast, I'll have some toast with eggs, and cereal & soy milk. Bought multivitamins today too. Wish I can read the Japanese instructions on how many to take a day.

I need to exercise more. Maybe go out for a bike ride around the neighborhood. Might do that tomorrow. I also need to figure out how to study Japanese. Obviously I'll get some listening down at work, kanji from the genki book etc etc. but which one should I put more emphasis on?

Probably speaking, vocab & grammar but I need a solid studying pattern or structure so I can actually concentrate and put some real effort in it. At the moment I'm just fiddling with my genki book, looking up some kanji here and there, but that's not enough . . for my taste. It's all good though. I'll sort everything out, eventually.