Seeing Meeting My Favorite Works Again

The National Gallery Gellery of Art Exhibition is currently being held at The National Art Center in Tokyo. Today I went there and enjoyed viewing watching 80 paintings that were borrowed from the museum. This brought back some old memories. me back to my old memory. I would often go to the National Gallery Gellery of Art in Washington D.C.(because it was admission addmission free*1) when I lived in Maryland a long time ago.
My favorite paintings are impressionist masterpieces by Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. I still have a jigsaw puzzle and small reproductions hung on the wall in my house. I was very happy to see the originals today. It was as if I been reunited with had seen my old friends.

The painting I would like to see most now is "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt. I like the facial expression of the woman, she looks so happy. I also like the dazzling colors of it. In order to see it, I'll have to go to Vienna.

*1 You could also just say "because it was free"

A cold in summer

I caught a cold. catch cold now.
I have a fever, and a severe cough is severe.
I sleep well and eat well to try and get over it. and think to get over. *1
I want to talk with all of you again, so I want to if I get well.

*1 Might not be exactly what you meant

Driver's license /driving licence

I received a postcard yesterday that informs informed (or reminded) me that I needed the period of time to renew my driver's /driving license/ licence. I was surprised that five years have already passed since the last time. Always Time really flies! :D

CF : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_license_in_Japan

久しぶりね、エリーさん！それは良かっただよ :)

Licence is a noun, eg. "I have a driver's licence."
License is a verb, eg. "We are licensed to sell alcohol."
Many native speakers get this wrong.

Driver's vs driving licence seems to be a regional thing "A driver's license/licence (United States, Canada, South Africa), or driving licence (United Kingdom, rest of Commonwealth, Ireland; see spelling differences)" (from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver's_license">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver's_license</a>). And apparently I say it wrong for where I come from, hehe. America has a pretty big influence on language here through TV.

Stupid me!

As I get older, I sometimes make the same mistakes.

Even though I bought something In spite of I bought it the other day, I find myself buying another one bought one again. I didn't need two, I needed only one.

Despite I prepared the stuff in front of the front door inside that I needed to bring with me the next day, I forgot to bring it and went our. :-p

Another mistake is when I prepare something and put it by the front door, only to find myself forgetting it when I go out!

I don't use the word despite often, "even though" is usually better in my experience, more of a simple term I suppose. I think changing your sentence so it says "Despite the fact that I prepared..." would make it grammatically correct.

Same with "in spite of," apparently (I didn't know this before) it can replace "despite." So the sentence looking like this would be better "In spite of me buying something the other day, ..." or "In spite of the fact that I bought something the other day, ..."

Talkative gadgets

I have some talkative gadgets.

Every morning, my alarm clock says, "Good morning! It's time to wake up! Get up!"

When the washing machine has finished washing clothes, its alarm goes off.

When I leave a the door or a drawer of the fridge opened for three minutes, its alarm starts to ring. 

My rice cooker says, "The rice was cooked" every time the cooker worked properly.

It's the custom for most of Japanese people to soak in the bathtub every day. My bathroom system says, "It's possible to soak in about five minutes" and "The bath water has been put and heated." If I don't have the system, I have to put a lot of water into the empty bathtub and heat the water every night. It's really useful and convenient comfortable that the system can do this automatically at the touch of a button. when I only press a button to set it.

すごい！:)