20 days

I woke up this morning to a $650 charge on my debit card. $650...means another ten days have ticked by at the Navy Lodge. $650 means we have been in Japan for 20 days.....wow, that's almost one month.

The thing I struggle with the most right now is feeling useless. I don't have a job and can't really start applying for them until we settle into our house.I know people make excuses all the time for why they don't have a job, but the first two weeks of moving into our house will demand my full attention. So it's better to wait than apply for a job, get one, then immediately have to ask for days off.

I spend my days reading, practicing my Kana alphabets, watching the Travel Channel, and trying to avoid napping. I clean the hotel room often and check and see if there's anything I can help John with in the ongoing arrival process. Every other day I go to the gym and work out for about two hours before walking back to the hotel.

Yesterday, I decided to take my book to the waterfront right outside of the Navy Lodge (pictures below of the water, it's beautiful). I found some steps to sit on and settled in for some good reading. By the time I looked up an hour later, the waterfront was full of wives from the Navy Lodge, sprawled out on benches and stairs, reading, going through documents, and napping. It made me smile because it means I'm not the only one bored out of my mind everyday.

I could go off base, but I don't feel comfortable wandering around by myself and probably shouldn't anyway. The buddy system was invented for a reason.