It's been fun...

Headed out of town for a bit... and back by the 24th. Probably taking a bit of time off the blog. Keep checking for periodic updates.

Big kisses...

Jenny

Haiku Contest Winner

MY ASS
Ugh, where did you go?
You use to be so perky
I check everyday

-Jill Graff


Anamaria is coming tomorrow, so no more blogging until the 19th!

j

Haiku

OK. So, apparently some of you do not follow INSTRUCTIONS very well... Nevertheless, here are the entries thus far.


Jenny and David
Should you really move away?
Is NOLA our home?
-Jeannine

Sunday morning blue
Baby with cold no sleep
Much coffee today
-Becca

House for sale NO LA
Please someone f-ing buy it
Cute child with purchase
-Jenny

Perhaps it's a sign
You need to move back asap
reason for party
-Casey (referring to Jenny)

It's jenny's birthday
a green tea and raw fish cake
for her special day
-Danielle Ramo-Larios : )

Carlos,David And Jenny
Tacos in Japan
Needing chile, come on home.
-Roberta Ramo


six months in japan
kutz and ramo family
makes for good reading
-Leah

>nola japan blog
Jenny loves bathroom humor
I always knew it
-Leah


Carlos! Jacoma?
Divulge the definition
I wish to know friend
-Ronan Schmidt

Hupula is mine
The word they can't recognize
Its meaning; COME PLAY
-Ronan Schmidt


Sleeping yanks so far away
Soon to be home where love stirs
Embraced by those left behind
-Paula


">Keep them coming!

Haiku Contest Without a Prize

Please submit to me
An haiku that is worthy
And I will post it



Five syllables
Seven syllables
Five Syllables


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Swallow whatever you are drinking and sit down...

Disclaimer: Jennifer Anne Ramo (hereinafter known as "Geisha") has given all readers of this blog (hereinafter known as "victims") fair warning of the graphic and possibly disturbing content below. Victims renounce any and all claims against Geisha now and in the future from psychological distress, depression, or physical illness resulting from viewing of photos presented below.















Here I am thinking about how much I would like to pour
some hot tea for a Japanese businessman.


Look familiar? I went to Kyoto yesterday and got a geisha makeover for a piece for NYLON magazine. So funny. I'll wait to write the article to give all of the details, but it was a ball. I lasted about 20 minutes in the outfit and that was enough for me. I did look realistic enough for a bunch of tourists to take my photo thinking I was an actual geisha not a 36 year old mommy.














Here I am on my way to practice the shaimasen
(for those of you who did not read Memoirs of a Geisha,
it is some sort of guitar/violin like instrument that geisha play).


















Touching up my lipstick!



















Mama needs some Visine!



















I can't wait to get to the tea house to
perform a dance for the Minister of Agriculture
while he eats his eel!




















Geisha tan lines

Geisha-izing

Off to become a Geisha for the day (or a Meiko... a younger Geisha) tomorrow in Kyoto... then to Osaka for the night to see my friend Kathy who is in town on business. I will miss David and Carlos, but cannot wait to sleep in.

Be back on Wednesday with some geisha photos.

j

Love at the Aquarium

Carlos attracts the ladies like nobody's business. Here is his. Minding his own business, when a lovely young lady comes calling. At first he looks interested, but ultimately plays it cool. She, on the other hand, is practically throwing herself at him.