Hōkago Karte - 放課後カルテ (literally "after school medical record") or "After school Doctor" in English, is another medical-adjacent drama. I know I wrote before I needed to branch out, but this is such a fun one I couldn't resist 😄

It's been COLD here in the Bay Area, close to freezing for the last few weeks. Usually I like getting into a cool bed after a hot bath, but the unseasonable/unreasonable cold had me pull out this nifty device that works like an electric fan or hair dryer if you will.

We bought Kagami Mochi (鏡餅 - mirror rice cake) to celebrate New Year. I thought it was just a decoration but I'm so glad my husband introduced me to oshiruko!

If you read last week's post, you know I severely sprained my ankle on a morning walk while looking up at fighting squirrels, so that post was about looking where you're walking. Then, I remembered this song, which I feel is telling me what NOT to do when I go for my next walk. (Ankle update: still sore but already so much better, I'm walking without a cane and am thinking about doing a half hour walk this weekend!)

Last weekend was painfully reminded of this Japanese proverb which means "Watch your step as you walk."

I was happily walking along on a local trail at 7:30am on Saturday morning, enjoying the sunrise and looking forward to a fun day, when I was distracted by squirrels loudly fighting in a tree. I looked up, stumbled off the path, and my foreseeable future had just drastically changed.

I vividly remember getting a book about origami when I was in my early teens and spending hours and hours folding fantastical shapes out of the most beautiful paper I had ever seen. I could never have imagined though that origami would be used in space!