V for...

...Valerie Page and expressed with Roman flavor!
Light the Norse-fire's and stand back!
A half decade may seem hardly any time at all in the measure of some things but it is a landmark for us.
On Saturday, Hitomi and I celebrated our fifth anniversary of togetherness.
It's strange how... well actually it isn't! You go away for a little while and seven small hills grow into a mountain range that only a fevered liveliness around Mount Venus can roll back. I spent most of a rainy Friday catching up on life with e-mails and phone calls of both a professional and personal nature. We had a large gathering for dinner on Friday night with Hitomi and I, Hiro and Rina and baby Yoshiro and our Father joining us.
Dad has been a devoted grandfather and is so proud of his first male grandchild that Rina has often to invent reasons to take him away from Grandfathers arms. Yoshiro is twelve weeks old now, the time seems to have rushed by and he grows so healthy and strong.

Saturday morning was the usual chaos as Miss dancing shoes couldn't find her dancing shoes and at some time during her great furniture re-arrangement, had boxed them and placed them in her wardrobe and had other shoe boxes neatly stacked on top. Perhaps chaos is her element since she always seems to find exactly what she needs if she's hunting through the laundry basket.
Finally she went off to dance and I spent the morning with dad and we had a small discussion about some of the things that have been on my mind. Dad may not speak from the same point of emotional intensity that I feel but he always speaks from a calm, loving and understanding position. He always makes me feel stronger when I am with him and he always manages to see things that I don't.
As for uncertain futures, Dad assures me that all futures and all pasts exist around us like places. Th past is accessible only with memory and the future that I desire must be traveled towards. That in itself is no guarantee that I'll get there because of the currents around me but it offers me the best chance.
I have to stop worrying about those far away places because in so doing, this limits me in my present space.

Hitomi had booked a table at the Keio Plaza Hotel. We were actually there last year for the fashion writer awards but this time it was personal. We arrived a little before seven fifteen and had a drink at the bar before asking for our table. The hotel restaurant was quite full and we ordered more drinks. Mizuki arrived and T.W texted Hitomi to ask for directions. We thought she was lost somewhere but the taxi had dropped her outside and she simply wanted let us know that she was jokingly navigating her way into the restaurant. Funny really because you have to go up a flight of stairs and then down again if you come in from the front doors.

Companionship and togetherness are the opposites of solitude and my friends and my lover mean a great deal to me. Mizuki has been my best friend from work ever since I joined and also knows Hitomi well to the point of being X-men together. T.W from the agency has become quite close really and is as much of a friend to Hitomi as she is to me. The companionship at the table helping Hitomi and I celebrate five years was a perfect blend. The food was perfect (Gochisosama deshita) and the happiness and laughter was very much needed and appreciated. I would thank Hitomi for her wonderful devotion to me for the last five years and to my wonderful friends who make me feel warm, loved and very content.