some news

Dear Family and friends like family,

I hate to send you this non-personal huge email to everyone, but frankly speaking, I have LOTS going on in my head, and I do not know where to start if I would to email each and every one of you, so here it goes.

1st, As some of you already know, I am engaged to be married to a wonderful man. His name is Yushi Sugi. Ya, that's a funny name, but wait til you hear what I'm gonna sound. Yuri Sugi. Not so excited about the name, but what can I do? Okay, I didn't mean to start out with a complaint.....anyways, The topic came up this Friday. Today is Sunday for me, so 2 days ago. We had been going out for the past 7 years since our first year of collage, so many of you have already heard his name, heard about him, seen his pictures, and even friends with him on facebook. He now works in the same company as I do, well most of the Ishii family does.(As of September or October, Keita will join, so that will make for the entire Ishii clan) We have talked to my parents, and I have introduced him to my Japanese side of family just today. We will be handing in our papers this September, but the wedding will not be for a while. This raises the 2nd topic.

2nd, We are opening a handbag shop near Akihabara. Some of you may know the name of this area. This is where all the computer geeks, and anime-fans go shopping and what not. The shop is opening at the end of September, and I will be in charge of the shop, taking care of everything. Things are going to go crazy, and it will take some time for things to settle down, so Yushi decided this was the timing to break the news. We were at an italian restaurant, done eating, and I was so tired, I nearly fell asleep. Then Yushi took my hand, and asked me to marry him. It came out of NOWHERE, so naturally I froze and was WIDE awake. I'm sure all of you can picture me doing that. anywho, that is how it went down.

3rd, Did I mention Keita is going to join the company this year? I think I might have somewhere above,,,,,,,, We are doing a lot of business with India now, and he is going for a few weeks starting this month, and check some things out. Yushi and I will be joining him during our summer break for a week. This is petty exciting for us! We are now looking for plane tickets and figuring out how to get visas and do our marriage papers all at the same time. you all know how I am good at multi tasking right? ya, I suck.

Okay, the above 3 were the major news, now that I look at it, I have turned every topic into the subject of yushi and i, but face it, that's what you all wanna hear!!!

Britt told me that she did not understand what I meant by getting married this year, and having the wedding next year. See, in this weird island of Japan, nobody gets married on the same day as their wedding. (or so I hear) In our case, we wanted it official business, and a place of our own before the shop started, because this is a new project that we plan to drain all my energy out, everything needed to be done either before it started, or it had to wait til after I got a grip of life again.

we are hoping that this shop will be a success, and if we make lots of money, we can afford to hire people to help us, this will be the point where I will call "settling down". until then, I will not have time to travel at all. I am going to try to get there to Utah as soon as I can and bring yushi with me, but for now, we just have to wait and see how the table turns.

Thank you all for your loving message. You mean the world to me. More than you will ever know.

I love you all.

Yuri Ishii, soon to be Yuri Ishii Sugi (I still need time to get used to the name. )