An eye on the passing days

It is a mystery. Hitomi and I were walking back from Mars (our bar, not the planet). We'd just gone to the end of the road and turned onto Naka Street when a small truck went past us pretty quickly. I do not know if something came off of the back of the small open truck or something on the ground was blown up in the air by its speedy passing but whatever it was it hit me in the eye. It was such a shock that I was knocked back a few paces. Hitomi poured some of her water into her hankie and cleaned my eye thinking some foreign body may be there but I couldn't feel anything in there scratching at me.
We walked around the corner to the railway station and hailed a taxicab. When we got home, Rina, my sister-in-law, who was minding the angels and Hitomi both had a good look in my eye but other than being bloodshot, said nothing was in there.

When we woke on Sunday morning my eye was puffed up badly and so we went to the Doctors. He had a good look and said it was impact trauma that had caused the swelling of the tissues. He gave me some eye-drops and covered my eye with a dressing. Needless to say I didn't feel like going out to watch the sky fall and I knew they would not let me in for half price since I'd be viewing the movie with only one eye! My angels who are forever my complimentative children called me a pirate!
I think if they spoke English I'd get an "Aye" and not an "Aye Aye Captain!"

By Tuesday, which was our seventh year anniversary, my eye was totally clear and looked like normal again. It felt amazingly good too so I was very happy. We had a little cake with seven candles and saved some for the angels when they returned home from school.
On Tuesday night Hitomi and I went out for dinner and to watch the new Daniel Craig movie Skyfall.
We loved it! Just like the first Daniels '007 movie' Casino Royal, it was realism with just a touch of the 'Bond stunts' that everyone expects in these movies. It was also quite gritty true to life flavored issues. The plot being a sensitive hard drive being stolen and 'age' being brought into play for both Bond and his boss 'M', who had to leave us at the movies end. The new Quartermaster and the 'bond-girl' who turned out to be 'Miss Moneypenny' were pretty young which of course introduced the generation gap elements in shared dialogs. For those lucky enough to have seen the very early Bonds played by the very sexy Sean Connery, we saw the return of that old classic car that he used to drive in this movie as he drove his boss safely out of London to his childhood home where they were going to make a stand against the villain of the piece who had threatened and indeed tried to murder her. I think it was quite touching to actually uncover some of Mr Bond's childhood origins which allowed us to explore this recurring character. It at once helps us to become familiar with him.

Nia and I have been cleaning and redressing a couple of the studio sets so that Miss Plum was happy. She in fact had Miho, one of our regular photographers come in and take a couple of sets. Of course the hair and makeup girl was totally unprofessional and tried to make the model laugh. Sadly I have to inform you that the studio owner fired the makeup girl - at least five times.
I've put some samples of her work on my page. Please look for the 'Greengage Plum Album'.

On Wednesday I mentioned to the angels over Spaghetti Bolognaise that it was a year ago today since they came back to live with Mama.
They smiled and said it felt as if they'd always been with their two Mamas' and they were home.
I understand that they don't associate the relevance of this date like they would to a birthday or a festival but it made me happy just that they felt at home. It is perhaps nothing much and just indeed a small thing but it meant a lot to Hitomi me.

The sad news is that Yahoo chat comes to an end on December 14. I had a lot of fun there years ago and met some weird and wonderful characters. I suppose in truth this finally ends 'Jazz' because that name was devised simply as a chat-room identity. I had several names in the chat-room over the years but I was universally known as Jazz. I feel a little sentimental about its demise but I have not been in chat for a couple of years now and so I won't feel the loss as much as present users would.