Maitta! Always - Daily Amazing Confusions -

The end of the year, I have few words. In the beginning of year, I post on this blog everyday. To the end of the year, my posts have less and less words, but it is still quite an achievement to post more than 500 times a year every day.

When I count numbers in the bath, I did without thinking. I know that now I've learned numbers from 1 to 1,000 by heart. I also know that half years ago, I hadn't really learned by heart how to count numbers in English. When I began the habit of counting numbers this summer, I often had to think what would come next. This thinking time prevent me from speaking smoothly, and even simplest things like counting numbers, it happens. Just counting numbers in the bath has told me a lot about what fluency is like and some of problems to solve to speak English (and Japanese) fluently.

Today I went to Sendai station in spite I was off work. I had two coffee tickets of Starbucks, which expire on the end of January, and I wanted to use them before they expire. At the shop I ordered soy latte Venti with extra shot of espresso. I was so tired that the extra shot was a little bit heavy to me. After lunch I went to a discount store and bought a film for Kindle Fire HD. I replaced the film while riding train. While covering Kindle with the film, the screen should be clean and free from dust. The covering work should also be done carefully. If you do in a rash, there are foams between the screen and the film, and you have to do again, and the more times you try to do, the less clean the screen, which is less desirable. After five or six times of retry, finally I succeeded in replacing the film. There is some dust remaining between the screen and the film. Then I took photos of myself with my Kindle. I was a little disappointed because I looked older and less neat than ...

I finished writing new year's greeting cards. I have a few people to send ones. I wrote messages and illustrations with my ball point pen. I hear that some people send tens or hundreds of new year's greeting cards. Such people use printing services or use printers and a little bit of handwriting messages. I can hardly imagine what I have hundreds of people to send greeting cards, but I imagine that probably it's what people doing important jobs is like.

I'm off until January 5, next year. All work days for this year have ended. I'm really relieved. I experienced a few mental crises in this year, struggling with coping with basic business communications. I made a great progress in skills in editing web pages. This is thanks to the opportunity of Abilympics. I prepared a lot for this skill competition and learn a lot of things about web pages and web programmings. There is one sad thing about my workplace. It's set as a workplace for disabled people in Sendai, however now I'm the only employee with a disability who regularly go to the office. I hope in the next year we'll do wonderful work with wonderful staff members with and without disabilities.

This evening I counted from 1000 down to 1 when I had a bath. It's for the first time in recent weeks. I don't remember any time I counted this many after December came. I was too tired to count many in December. I counted from 300 for a few times. These were the best I could these days. Today I could because I has been released from the burden of work for this year. I'm thinking that one of the simplest habit like counting numbers in a bath is not easy because our physical and mental conditions vary so much. Continuing a simple habit sometimes take us so far, and my counting habit helped me improving English pronunciation and speeches. I hope to improve my English speech by continuing simple habits like counting numbers in a bath.

In the morning these days, I'm so tired that I move slowly. I don't know what to do. When I listen to the music of favorite games I played many years ago, I feel a little bit relax. In this way the time of breakfast come, and prepare for going to work.