Women love shopping

Mari loves shopping.

The next Sunday, Mari bought a new washer-drier. She told me that she cannot do laundry with old washer any more because there is no room to hang the clothes up in the new apartment. She bought her iPod and my MacBook too. She explained me that we should buy them at the same time to ask for a discount.
The washer-drier arrived next Sunday. Mari greatly delighted and turned it on immediately with a lot of clothes to wash. When I saw her expression, I remembered the common knowledge as title.
We spent a lot of money for moving. I am expected to make enough money to support my family. Can I continue it in the future? I have to use pipettes to eat as well as chopsticks.

On the moving day

On the moving day, I took a nap for a few hours and finished packaging of our apartment. The moving truck came our apartment at 8:30 a.m. and removed all packages.
Mari and Ken went to the new apartment via train to open the door. I stayed former apartment and continued to clean up the garbage. I had an appointment to return the keys of the door at noon but I could not complete the cleaning until that time. The real-estate agent came again 1 hour after that and told me that his agency does not refund any security deposit. He justified the reasons and I gave up to quarrel with him.
After that, I drove toward our new apartment with a lot of remaining sundries. I felt very sleepy, but no service area was found on the highway. I reached there with great effort.
This apartment had been renovated but jammed with packages. I had a hard time to make up them. Yet, I know that we have to move next March again.

New apartment and strawberry jam

I left Hachi-ouji city on Apr 14. I lived in there for 6 years; during the years, I married with Mari, Ken was born, and we registered this city as the domicile of my family's origin.
On Apr 6, we went to Asaka city to see our new apartment. Mari had a shock when she saw the apartment house. She chose the apartment and signed the contract without seeing the room. She found that the apartment house stands at the bottom of a hill and we have to walk up a steep slope to go to the station. After that, Mari was somewhat confused, and she walked down the up escalator.
At first we planned to put Ken at a daycare near the station, but Mari decided to take him to the on-site daycare near my laboratory. But the daycare requested us a doctor's certificate that allows us to put him in a daycare. So I took Ken to a pediatric hospital last Sunday to obtain the certificate.
At a vegetable store near the hospital, I bought 4 packages of strawberries. I made strawberry jam from 2 pounds of strawberries. Ken saw the fresh jam and said "What's a dream. There is a lot of strawberry jam!" I would like to take Ken to the strawberry-picking tour in this spring.

Train trouble

I had many orientation lectures in this research institute. On Apr 10, I left my home at 7:00 a.m. to have a lecture for the utilization of radioisotopes. But the train I took made a long stop at a station. An announcement told us that the trains stopped by fire in a railway substation. The station was overcrowded anywhere and many people stood in line waiting for busses. I caught a bus at long last and took another train line. It took about 4 hours to arrive at my working place and I was completely tired. I heard that the line recovered at 3:00 p.m. after all.
The next day, a coworker and students in the former laboratory gave me a farewell party. After then we went bowling together. I had a good time throughout, but my score went up and down: 103, 166, and 102.

Photo is peach blossoms in the research institute.

Cherry blossom

We are moving next Monday. Until then, I have to take busses and trains to go to my working place. I and Mari go out our room at 7:30 together with Ken. We catch a bus for Ken's daycare and take a train at the same station. It takes about 2 hours, but it is not so hard for me. Rather I bother with packing up my apartment. I do not ever know it is much of a bother to move with my family.
On Apr 1, my first working day in the current laboratory, I was welcomed by cherry blossoms in the research institute. But it was very windy day and the trains were delayed. I remembered a well-known phrase "When flower blooms, it may catch storms" (in a Japanese poetry, which was translated from an old Chinese poetry by Masuji Ibuse. It also says "our lives are filled with separations".)
The train line I take, Chu-ou line, tends to be stopped or delayed by many accidents, in particular by suicide. People in the train are disgusted for such accidents. They are angered for their lost time and never have pity for the suicide. Here, the death was converted to time. I considered the strangeness in the delayed train.

Haku-ren

On April 1, I moved to the research institute where I work as a postdoctoral fellow. In the former laboratory, I took over my works and all of my samples to a technician by the end of March. Since she did not involved in my research project, she requested me to make a list of all of my samples, plasmid constructs, reagents, and cDNAs. I did it reluctantly.
I dive into a new research field again. I have worked for a long time as a postdoctoral fellow. I am in an exhausted condition. I would turn a new leaf.

Photos are blooming haku-ren (haku-mokuren, a white magnolia). I made a "haiku", short poetry originated in Japan.
"Sari-yuki-te, haku-ren no sora aogi-miru" (I look up at the sky with flowers of white magnolia. You know, I went another way.)