I missed last year for the family Christmas.  My reasoning was that just days later i was off to Antigua for my birthday bashes.  It was a hard call to make, but you only have so many days of leave and i had been home for dad’s 70th. Oddly a huge number of things happened after that and while I have some thoughts that I wish i had gone home i dont’ think it would have changed alot of what happened later.

I’m going home now and really looking forward to it.  I want to see the island and beach and just sit there and take in the view and area.  Also there a few snapper in the sea that have my name and hook on ready to be caught for our dinner.

 While I have an a good supply of oysters (during the season) here in Japan, they don’t quite taste as sweet as knocking them off the rock at home!  Nor does the fish taste quite as fresh.  And while Japan has some of the freshest seafood ever, catching it, cleaning it and eating it within hours can never be replaced.

The only small issue is that going home I’m putting off something that I am debating on sharing and the moment.  oh frack it.  I’ve done cancer so why prevaricate, I’ve been told I have a benign tumor and will be scheduling surgery when I come back.  The expert tells me its benigh, which doesn’t quite work for me these days as the last expert who said it could not possible be cancer was well so very wrong.

will see how it all works out. Not like i haven’t done this before.