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Back to Songbird Bakery...

Soleil is the name of this bakery's melon pan.

I've tried melon pan in the past and most times, the bread that is under the cookie dough topping is dry and tasteless, but Songbird's is a game changer...buttery moist and so so good!

Cheese bread

Fig simmered in red wine, cream cheese bread

Ururu.....is another unusual named bread.

This one looks hard but is super soft.

Apparently the baker puts lots of liquid in his dough then bakes it slow and low.

Look forward to trying the cheese bread & fig bread with wine tonight and I put the ururu bread in the freezer to eat later.

If I can gather the ingredients, I want to re-create this tako (octopus) salad from 7-eleven.

If you want to try, this is what the salad includes...tako, edamame, celery, broccoli, potato and pesto....sounds easy & tasty yeah?!

7-eleven also came out with mochi doughnuts but they are not as good as some others I have tried.

So...The night after receiving my 2nd vaccine my joints got all stiff.

I woke up the next day with body aches and a headache.

I took some aspirin and then took my temperature, which had gone up a bit.

We laid low on Tuesday and took many naps.

That evening, we both had fevers.

Overall we both felt sluggish.

On Wednesday, I was back to normal but Satoshi was still feeling sluggish, he refused to take any aspirin, so I think his reaction took some time to weaken.

Satoshi, he kept saying..."Kat you are so strong!"....I was like, “just take aspirin!”

I admit 10 years or more ago I probably would have waited until the last moment before taking pain relievers, but nowadays, I don't wait.

Japan is in a krazy downward spiral…case numbers increasing rapidly and so many people dying at home because there are no hospital beds for them...Japan hit 20,000+ new cases on Wednesday and at this point there are 70,000 at home waiting for hospital beds!

The place that I get my hair colored also had two cases over the weekend, so I guess I need to wait a couple more weeks for the vaccine to do its thing or at least until they can get the case number in a more manageable range before I can get my hair colored.

The main branch refuses to lock everyone down because they say it won't work (how do you know unless you try?!) AND is still on summer vacation! (what is wrong with these people?!)

Oh and the Lambda variant from Peru came with someone from Peru during the Olympics but no one from the main branch of government addressed it until AFTER the Olympics was over, because it was only 1 case....um, it only takes 1.

On top of all of this it is still raining in Kyushu, Hiroshima and the surrounding areas, so much damage and loss of life.

We plan to lay low, hopefully the case numbers will go down as well.

I hope you all are doing well.

Please keep safe and have a nice weekend.