Belated BIRTHDAY post.

I am a walking paradox. Born under the sign of water, I can’t even tweak my arms and stretch a decent freestyle. Well.. at least I can float! Harhar! So I figured, I will never ever receive a boat on my birthday (dream on girl!) haha! Lucky for me, as a birthday treat, husband gave me a new baby that goes by the came of Carrie, which pronounced itself on the world of arts through the immortalization of Herb (wink). Thankiieee!!!

Belated Happy V Day!

Its the V day! whilst Japanese girls maybe hovering for last minute chocolate wrapping to give to their boyfriends, me and my husband maintained our conventional valentines day celebration where men favored the ladies with flattering sweet nothings. Yesterday i got a bunch of overwhelming pink roses while I prepared chinese dinner for us. Although it doesnt quite match the celeb we had for the previous years we still enjoyed snuggling while watching Friends, afterall its our first V day as husband and wife!

Chinese on a budget..
Since I remain under the unemployed bracket, I have to make do of what we have inside the fridge. I was able to knock down a bit of luck by putting together random stuff to come up with chao fan rice and a dimsum!

directions for chao fan rice:

I used cooked rice, shredded cabbage, cubed chicken tonkatsu, minced garlic and onion, 2 beaten eggs, worshestershire sauce, paprika, salt and pepper to taste. Put everything in a nonstick pan, mix well and season to taste.

The shomai dimsum and peppered chicken were bought cooked from dayztown and kasumi hurrah!

Shame guard temporarily off. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I snore. Apparently, it caused my husband to shove me every few hours which drag us both to lack of sleep which is already two days in a row. And it drags me further to being a cranky irritable kettle pot that would snap at my husband because I haven’t slept for more than two hours when he hadn’t had any. A day ago, I justified my snoring as a cause of exhaustion. This morning, I have a lousy excuse of blaming it to staying up late to study hiragana (?) Err.. duh! For consolation, it doesn’t happen everyday (whew!) so we are now theorizing on what may have caused it.

1st theory. Bed position. This can be easily ruled out since I changed position each time he woke me.

2nd theory. Bad cold or allergic rhinitis. I haven’t had this for a long time. But it did return when I got here in Japan.

So with lazy eyes and fingers I googled “snoring” and this is what I’ve found.

The physiology behind snoring starts when a sleeper progress from shallow sleep to deep sleep where the muscles in the roof of the mouth, tongue and throat relax. If the tissues in the throat relax enough, they vibrate and may partially obstruct the airway. And the more narrowed, the more forceful the airflow becomes the more forceful the vibration hence the louder the sound it makes. Dr. Woodson from Medical College of Wisconsin said that when it happens the brain has to respond by waking up, which last milliseconds to a few seconds so people don’t remember it. The waking up is to reestablish breathing, and because of this and breaking up of sleep, they never get into the deeper levels of sleep they need to be rested and therefore are tired during the day.

Research named the causes of snoring and/or sleep apnea as: nasal congestion, anatomical deformities, obesity, asthma, hidden food allergy (according to John Kernohan, Director of the York Nutritional Laboratories in Hollywood, Florida)

Other contributing factors are mouth anatomy, alcohol consumption, airway obstruction or apnea.

for more readings you can check http://www.helpguide.org/life/snoring.htm