Snow in Nagoya (^0_0^) It’s so fluffy ☆☆
It’s practically powdered snow (*^^*)♪

Snowy landscapes are just so pretty aren’t they ♪♪

It might be hard to tell in the pic but my foot is buried under the snow ♪(￣▽￣)ノ″

Yaa ~ (￣□￣)/☆

I made this a little while ago, fried ginger pork (with mustard cheese sauce on the side) ♪
It was really good (^ω^)
It was kinda heavy so it really filled me up (*^ε^*)!!!!!
I got the feeling that I can kinda use mustard sauce with anything now ☆☆


Mustard: 1 tablespoon
Soy sauce: 1 tablespoon
Mayonnaise: 1/2 tablespoon


something like that…
Although I always just kinda eyeball everything so
I’m not 100% positive those are the exact measurements (__) sorry (;_;)

Here is me recently ☆☆

Happy Birthday to me♪♪

I’ve turned 18 years old now ☆
Except I don’t feel 18 at all ヽ(・∀・)ノ
It’s kinda like “so is this what its supposed to feel like (?Δ?)” (@_@) (lol)


And of course I celebrated with the MM girls, my hometown friends, my cousin,
my manager, the other Hello Project girls, etc…
I celebrated with so many people (*￣▽￣*)☆☆
Such happiness (つ´∀｀)つ

But you know, the first Happy Birthday mail I got was from Hagiwara Mai-san (^з^)-☆
She called me up too ♪♪
I could feel the love (*__)

I wonder what my 18th year will be like, I can’t wait to find out ~ (-ω☆)

Please continue to support me, the now 18 year old Mitsui Aika m(__)m♪

Yahoo ~ (^3^)/

The other day I made an egg bowl (*^-’)b
The previous day I had made a pork bowl so I added the egg to that ☆
It was really good (^^)v
I’m also really happy I was able to arrange the dish nicely as well (*≧m≦*)♪♪




Lately we’ve had such good weather so I’ve been in a good mood (^з^)-☆
But I’ve just been going from home → Nakano
so I haven’t really been able to go outside (;´-ω-`)
There are lots of sales going on right now too, so I really wanna go shopping ~ (￣Σ￣)☆

Here’s Ai-chan and myself in the dressing room ＼(^^)

Yahoo ~ (^_^)/

A little while ago my cousin came to Tokyo to visit, and we both had the same day off
so we went to Disney Sea ~ ☆☆
It’s been so long since I last went, I was so excited about Disney Sea (*￣▽￣*)
The weather was great too, everything was wonderful ♪
Going there really gave me a power charge up (^3^)/
For dinner we ate at a buffet ♪♪
The Disney Sea buffet is really 1st class (*^^*)
The roast beef was soooo good (￣ω￣*)
Also, I love all the small little items ☆☆
I love the giant Mickey shaped sweet potato too ~ (*^∪’*)
The Mickey shaped foods were: this grilled onigiri and the sweet potato ☆ So cute (*´∨｀*)
And we saw the usual fireworks at night as well ( ´∀`)b
Ahhh so happy (*／ω＼*)
My cousin loves Disney too ~ (｀▽´) !!!

    

Thanks everyone ☆☆

Sorry for this really late announcement (~_~)
but it’s been decided that I’ll be releasing a photobook ~~ (^3^)/☆


Apparently a DVD digest is already out as well though (^^ゞ
I had no idea (￣Δ￣;)


I still haven’t seen the finished photobook myself (>_<) I can't wait to see it ~ (｀∀´) So excited (^з^)-☆

Happy New Years (^∨^)☆☆
Thank you for a great 2010 (^3^)/
How was the year for all you guys?!
For me, I felt like the year has really helped me mature (^^)
My cousin has said so as well, I’ve grown up quite a bit (-゜3゜)ノ (lol)
well I mean, I’m “grown up” as much as a 17 year old can be (￣▽￣;)b
I’m able to cook now and make a lot of different things
I can even go out to eat by myself now
I think about 3 years ago, if my mom wasn’t around I would be like
“Ahh chores are such a pain, nah I’m not gonna do them” (__;)
Lately I’ve been kinda feeling like I want to try living by myself…
And like! become a woman (^ω^ゞ (lol)


Also, I now have kouhais ~ ☆
And again this time it doesn’t seem like there will be anyone to train them officially ♪
so I hope we can all become friends as soon as possible (*^-’)


I don’t really know what kind of girls the 9th gen members are yet
but they seem very kind and I’m really happy about that ☆★
I hope we can become really good friends rather than just in a superficial way ( ´∀`)/~~


It’s been so cold lately huh, have any of you caught colds?
I’m okay though (^-’)/ Our winter cons have started as well ♪♪
It’s so fun ~ (*^▽^)/★*☆♪


Leo-kun is also doing well ♪
My mom made this hat for him to wear (^-^)b

A little while ago, I went to see a movie by myself for the first time (^^)b
I’m growing up into an adult now too (￣▽￣)b
It was so lonely (–;)


I was surrounded by 4 sets of couples (‘∇｀;) (lol)
It was crazy but I couldn’t do anything about it ~ (゜～゜;)
And I mean, the couple in front of me were acting pretty lovey-dovey as well (*’ω^)/
It was nuts ~ ヽ(・∀・)ノ


I also when to Odabai’s Aqua City illumination show ☆☆
There was like some limited time mini X’mas aquarium display going on (*^-’)b
Illumination shows get me so excited ☆☆ There was a huge tree too (*^ー^)ノ♪


If you guys want, you should go check it out too (*^▽^)/★
Although I don’t recommend going alone (・ε・;) (lol) (sweat)

Haiiiii (￣0￣)/☆

Good afternoon ~ ☆☆

Continuing off from last time, here are some more pics of the Yamanashi bus tour ☆☆

The fans went grape picking ♪♪ I wanted to try as well,
but I ended up eating a lot of grapes (．．)
I mean, the staff guys brought us grapes so (^^)
but it would’ve been nice to eat ones I picked myself ☆

Also, the fans had a lava BBQ ヾ(・ε・。)
They’re so lucky ~ (￣□￣)!! I wanted to do that too and eat some of that ~ (tear)

But I had some white peach ice cream instead ~ ^ω^)/
It was so good (^^)v
Michishige-san and Ai-chan were cold so they didn’t eat too much of their ice cream
(*≧m≦*) pupu
Ah I wish I could have another one ♪
If you guys find some, you should check it out (^з^)-☆

Haiiiiii (￣0￣)/☆




On November 6th and 7th, I was on the Michishige Presents bus tour ☆
We went to Yamanashi (^^) Mt. Fuji is just so amazing Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ !!
It’s so tall and has such a presence I couldn’t help but take pictures ♪♪


Being my second bus tour, it was pretty awesome ~ (*^▽^*) !!
I just love interacting with the fans ♪♪
When I see the fans enjoying themselves
when I see their smiles
it just makes me want to spend more and more time with them
but time always flies by so quickly, it sucks (￣^￣;) (lol)
I hope I’ll get more opportunities like these though ☆☆