Roxanne Modafferi

I’ve been training and working really hard lately! Great sparring, great technique. BJ-san and Wicky-san have been giving me lots of advice lately. Thanks

WICKY!!

Wicky had been training at Alpha Male, with Urijah Faber, and he’s back now! I dunno, his and Katsumura’s striking techniques are the only ones that I’ve been able to see, do, and have stick immediately. All other attempts have failed miserably. Probably because they’re unconventional and irregular.

Something amusing happened on Monday. I went early to open the gym, and was wheeling my suitcase with my gear in it. I passed this fighter-looking dude standing outside the locked doors, and said, “Konichi wa.” He kind of glanced at me and like barely inclined his head, then looked away.
“Tee hee,” I thought, turning the corner to get at the electric lock. “He doesn’t know I’m from Groundslam.” So while watching him, I stuck my key in the lock and then the metal shutters started to rise. As did his eyebrows. When I came ’round the corner again, he was all bowing and “It’s a pleasure to meet you, I’d like the honor of visiting your gym” etc etc introducing himself. YEAH, THAT’S WHAT I THOUGHT! HAHAH XD

This weekend, I was SO exhausted. I didn’t train at all on Saturday, and in fact, finished my book “Valley of Horses” by Jean M. Auel, that I’d been reading. I want the next one! :<

Recently, I've gotten into looking at the Overly Manly Man memes on Reddit! haha so funny!

And random pic…. a little creepy. See what I mean? Look closely. Is it just me?

CREEPY.

I tried a bunch of strange random food recently because……it’s strange and random. ADVENTURE!!

Spinach/basil/bacon rice ball.

I bought it because it was green.
Roxy rating: 9. Eat frequently.

Napolitan Spaghetti / egg/ fatty ham sandwich

I laughed outloud, said “Ewwww,” took a pic, and made fun of it to my friends for a few days before becoming curious enough to try it.
Roxy Rating: 4. My tastebuds were very confused. But it wasn’t gross, per say. Will never eat again.

Marinated spicy grilled pollock roe

very popular Japanese food.
Roxy rating: 8. I eat occasionally when out.

And I just saw this in a convenience store. An anime character called “Crayon Shin Chan.”
Butt-shaped jiggly pudding.

WTFFFFFFFFFFFF! I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED IN THE JAPANESE CULTURE. ~_~;; This is for like 4 year olds and up. We teachers experience little kids making sexual inappropriate comments to us, and wonder how the f*ck they know those words. Well, here’s why. The adults introduce them at an early age through anime….BUT WHY? WHY TEACH THEM THAT? Why draw a pant-less boy like in Gash Bell? It’ll just get little boys to mimick that, and it’s not GOOD.

/end rant

Roxy rating: negative five billion seven thousand and twenty five.

Well, I don’t teach MY kids such things, and I punish them if they say or do stuff. YEAH

Speaking of kids, in my class of 11 year olds, I introduced myself as “Super teacher Roxanne” and they were like “Oh you wanna be a Super Saiyajin?” (in Japanese) and I was like “Yes.” So they called me “Super Roxanne” the rest of the lesson. I LOVED IT!

Yay, the Lawson Convenience store next to my office started selling my favorite low-calorie ice cream again! Weeeeeeeeeeee!

I thought that was noteworthy. ^_~

Amusing moment of the week: Tuesday evening:
*bell rang, signaling class start* Boss is walking down the hall in front of me. He says out of the corner of his mouth, “…yer cat’s in the toilet.”
I was like, “What’s in the toilet?” O_o;;;;
Boss: Your guy’s in the toilet. Your student. *enter his classroom*
Roxy: Oh LOL *walks into an empty classroom and ends up waiting a minute*

Totally misheard that. XD Hah Irish accents + UK English phraseology. They say “in the toilet” rather than “in the restroom.”

After two hard practices on Monday, I was wiped out on Tuesday. (my training schedule is Sunday: weights, Monday: MMA x 2, Tuesday off, Wednesday: Stairs, morning MMA, Thursday: morning MMA, Friday: Stairs, morning weights/S&C, evening MMA, Saturday: off) All times not training, I’m working, except I don’t work Thursday evening.

I did my Tuesday’s dare care center kid’s outservice. AAaarg one of the girls, who actually looked mentally disabled, was biting my flash card when they got passed around. ~_~ SO annoying! Because they’re my school’s cards and I only have two sets, so now they have permanent teeth marks in the corner. (>_<) And group 1 didn’t listen so well. Must have been something in the air- spring?- because on Wednesday, my kids were also nuts. One of the OLDER ones put the stuffed toy in her mouth, and then passed it, and the second boy was like, “Ewwww it has your spit all over it!” x_x; She was definitely not disabled, and looked abashed afterwards. She should be! She’s too old for that!

Haha anyway, Tuesday night’s student was lovely. Wednesday morning, training was good. I took SOCK OFF and woke up feeling genki. (energetic) I love that recovery supplement! XD Body still sore, but that shows I’m working hard. I’m getting stronger! Mwahaha! Katsumura-san came at 10:30 (class start) and asked me to run warmups because he had a lot of stuff to do. Then I ended up practically teaching the whole class. LOL Afterwards, I did some special training with him on certain points! (super ninja training!!) Then I taught him the English of how to be a good cornerman. Like “Hands up! Circle out! Go for the (name of attack)! Watch out for (name of attack)! Etc. Then I shadow boxed and fed him the situations for him to practice. It was good. PPP, baby! Berlitz method! hahaha

Moving on. Lol

Went to work, taught the angels mentioned above. Went home not feeling totally dead. I recognize that I could have potentially taught 4 kids classes in a row, rather than 3, so I’m grateful to the boss. Thanks! I read some of “Valley of the Horses” before I went to bed. By Jean M. Auel. I wanted to read more, but I got too sleepy. ;_;
Today, I have training, then bonus lessons in the evening.

I’ve been watching Dragon Ball Z Kai lately, before work/training, or after I come home, while laundry is going, before I go to work. I’m on the part where they’re on Namek, and now the Ginyu Force came and Goku just showed up.

Yesterday, my work schedule got changed at the last minute, and rather than teaching, I ended up getting a lot more time to Kid Coordinator’s tasks that I’ve been wanting to but never got the time. So I was really pleased. It was an easy day. I peaked at Wednesday’s schedule….it looks rough. Four little kids classes in a row. I’ll be going after training, so I’m gonna be dead. lol ;_; Oh well.

After work yesterday, I lifted weights. My usual Sunday workouts have become ill-timed, because on Friday I work out hard with Mitsui-san, my personal trainer, and we’re doing weights. So I’m still really sore come Sunday. :/ I don’t really want to lift weights, but I wanna do SOMETHING because I took Saturday off. There’s no MMA class on Sunday, though, so the only thing I can do is weights. And Friday is the only day I can meet Mitsui-san.
Yesterday, despite going with light weight and many reps, I started to feel like I was hurting myself, so I stopped. *sigh* I just don’t have enough time and energy in the week!

After THAT, I hurried to Yokohama and met Bri-chan! I wasn’t going to eat anything, but ended up having this French toast and roasted fish eggs and a bite of ice cream. lol (what a combination!)
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Brittany had okonomiyaki. At the place that I got food poisoning at. u_U I’m deathly afraid to eat their okonomiyaki now. But I’ve never had any other problems. *sigh*
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The Chef drew fish kites to symbolize “Children’s Day,” or actually “boy’s day.” The carp fish swims upstream, so is used as a symbol of young boys growing strong against hardship. Families with little boys always hang fish kites around their house.

Bri-chan gave me a little jelly shaped like a heart. Haha. And look at my kick-@$$ One Piece T-shirt with the character “Jinbei!” He’s so cool.

Then we had a Japanese lesson. I’m really impressed with Brittany. She’s picking it up and catching on. I know I’m not a Japanese teacher, and she doesn’t have time to learn all the writing styles and stuff. I was trying to force her, but it’s not as useful to her as the spoken language, so I tolerate her writing notes in romaji (English characters) rather than the way I learned, taking notes in hiragama. (Japanese characters). Of course, a great deal of the improvement is due to her listening to it every day at the gym.

And in case you missed it, I showed a technique with G-san.

Omg I leave for the tryouts the day after tomorrowwwwwwwwwwwww!

I forced myself to take a full day off from training, because I felt like if I went in and forced a session, I’d just get hurt. I ended up eating ice cream and crappy stuff. ;_; lol But oh so good.

I worked some overtime, but before that, I walked around and took pictures of random things in Kawasaki, because it amuses me.

WHAT IS WITH THE ELF HATS? The first time I saw it, it looked like someone’s winter hat was too small for their head, so instead of pulling it down properly to fit their head, they just let it stick straight up. Like an elf. Haha So cute.

Then I saw it again.

And again.

Like, so many people were wearing these “elf” hats, mainly men, cuz women don’t wanna mess up their purty hair. -_- And I have seen ones that stick up EVEN TALLER.

FAR BE IT for ME to criticize anyone’s fashion sense. Hahah I wear crocodile socks and anime T-shirts as a staple. But I think the elf hats look kind of goofy. ^^; But whatever makes them happy! I’ll just snicker and be a paparazzi. I’m entitled to my opinion, too, right?

I went to Unidy and found amusing stuff.
Pig pads! (female sanitary products.) Oh, how cute, I think I’ll buy a piggie design. X_x lol Because pigs are so clean. Wait…okay mixed images here.

Ghost hot pot holders, and a fish-shaped clippie thingie that helps you squeeze toothpaste out of the tube.

Silicon pot lid shaped like a hippo? and whale!

Stick these thingies around and they eliminate bad odors!

This an alphabet chart for Japanese kids. It’s supposed to go “Ta CHI tsu te to.” IT’s CLEARLY CHI, not “TI.” and TSU not TU. OMG they’re teaching their kids wrongggggggggggggggg! get it righttttttttttt! As an education professional, I am enflamed!

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So I was going to check out at the 100 yen shop, when I found this in my basket. I totally did not put these there. But upon closer inspection, I found out that THEY ARE ACTUALLY FANTASTIC so I bought them. XD Hahaha bizarre. Has that ever happened to any of you? Something appears in your cart that you don’t remember adding, but you decide to buy it anyway?

Finally, I went to my friend Tsuruoka-san’s restaurant Fukuzushi.

He wasn’t so busy so we chatted a lot. That was so fun. ^_^

My baka electric stove is broken. If I try to turn it on, it blows my circuit breaker. What do I do? I dunno. HAHAHAHAH THE ADVENTURE BEGINS HERE!!! *play Zelda music*

I went downstairs and talked to the guardsman/caretaker dude. I asked him if he could contact the owner to get it fixed.
Caretaker: “Oh, I dunno. Let’s ask the Ri-blah blah-cho.”
I blinked. “The who?”
Caretaker: “The Ri- blah blah cho. Here! *dial*
Roxy: Wait! *splutter* Ri…ri…who what why what do I say? Who? The owner? STOP!”
Caretaker: “No, not the owner. More important. Here, he’s on the phone.”
Roxy: WHO IS ON THE PHONE!?!?
Guy on the phone: Hello? Hello?
Roxy: UM. HI. My name is Roxanne and my stove is brokennnnnnnnnnnnnnn…..”
Guy: blah blah blahjapanesestuffIcouldn’tunderstandatall??????
Roxy: ……. Um. ;_: um. I have no idea what you just said. TAKE THE PHONE BACK, MR. CARETAKER!”
Caretaker: hahahah yes, uh huh *listen* Okay. *hang up* He’s coming down.
Roxy: WHO IS COMING DOWN?
Caretaker: The Ri-cho blah.
Roxy: ;__________; The owner?
Caretaker: He’s not the owner. He’s the boss of the owners.
*guys comes down the elevator* aaaaand it’s a guy I had a little run in with when I tried to convince him I paid my bike fee but he claimed I didn’t and I got all upsettttttttttttttttttttttttttt HE’S THE BOSS OF THE BOSS?!? LET’S PRETEND THAT NEVER HAPPENED.
Roxy: HELLO! Oh It’s you!
Boss dude: Ah Hello.
Roxy: My stove is broken, what do I do?
Boss dude: you have to contact the real estate agency. They’ll contact the owner. Call them.”
Fine. I hate talking on the phone because I can’t understand their Japanese, and can’t make myself understood like I can face to face. But fine. Called them.
“Oh, we can’t call them,” the real estate agent dude said. “You have to call your management company.”
Roxy: “Um, you guys called them last time for me when my toilet was broken. Can you please call them again for me?”
Agent: “Sorry, we can’t. I’ll give you the number. It’s Skycourt…”
“No, it’s not,” I said, upset. “It got changed! We had this problem last time.”
agent: “Our records say it’s Skycourt. Who did it get changed to?”
Roxy: “I forget, but you guys found it for me last time. Could you find it for me again, please? Sorry.”
agent: “Sorry, we can’t. Call Skycourt and ask them…”
Roxy: “Last time I did that the number didn’t go through,” I said impatiently. “OH I KNOW, it’s EM…Japan. EMK Japan…MKE Japan or something. Do you know?”
“Sorry, I don’t know. Then ask your caretaker,” the agent said.
Roxy: “He said to call you!”
Agent: “We can’t help you.”
Inner Roxy: You can eat my stinky sweaty BO rashguard, you jerky piece of crap!”
Outer Roxy: “I see. Thanks. GOODBYE!”
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR
*pant pant* I’m gonna go over there and sit in their office until they help meeeeeeeeeeeeee! Oh wait….they gave me a number for just in case something else was wrong. Where did I put it. ….oh my fridge! I found it! Found it found it!

Here is my stove burner. My panda tea pot is posing, for effect.

*called* “Hi, my electric stove is broken, and you helped me fix my toilet etc etc etc.”
“Oh,” the apartment management company lady said. “The real estate agency usually calls us and then we contact the owner…”
Inner Roxy: I KNOOOOOOOOW THAAAAAAAAT!
Outer Roxy: Oh really? Well I talked to them and they said to call you directly. 
Apt mgt lady: “Well, okay, we’ll call blah blah and they’ll call you.”
Roxy: Thank you!
*clink*
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
*wait*
*wait*
*puts a load of stinky laundry in the machine*
*ring ring*
guy: “This is EMK Japan calling for……”
Roxy: OH HELLO THERE, Thank you for fixing my TOILET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guy: o_O;;; You’re welcome…. Um….so your stove is broken, so blah blah yackity fix it.”
Roxy: ……..um fix it? Yes please?”
Guy: So I will contact the owner who will set up a time to check out your stove.”
Roxy: (the owner STILL has not been contacted?!) So do you know the situation?
Guy: The stove isn’t working well?
Roxy: No. Whenever I tried to turn it on, it blew the circuit breaker, so I called the electric company and the guy came and checked it out, and said that it’s not an electric problem, it’s that the stove UNIT is broken, so I need to replace the unit itself.
guy: OH REALLY. So…is it a blah blah blah unit?
Roxy: What?
guy: An H blah blah unit.
Roxy: ……eh? Sorry….
Guy: smooth or coil?
Roxy: Oh coil, it’s super old. ^^;;
Guy: okay So they should call you soon to set up a time to replace it.
Roxy: THANK YOU!!

Yay.

Hopefully the end. I finally got through to the right people. Now I’m just waiting for that call!