I live in a country where people work full time on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, a country where Christmas is more like Valentine's Day and not Christmas.

Every year I stay in Japan for Christmas.

It gets harder.

I get my annual crying episodes in and spend time with my friends mostly.

Last year I went home and asked my family what they thought about me being so far away.

And I'm not really sure they can handle it around such an emotional time, either.

All right, I'll be home.

It's hard, but this year is a little bit different.

As some of you may know, I met my Japanese Beyonce on instagram.

I flew to L.

A.

I met him for the first time and we got engaged.

Now we're living happily ever after in Tokyo, Japan, living our best lives.

We got an apartment, went furniture shopping and had fun, creative dates, all in a span of a couple months.

Yeah, it was fast, but it was great.

We worked hard to be together and we gave each other the world.

But our fun time has come to an end.

And do he has to get a real Japanese company job becoming the ultimate salaryman.

So now I'm alone again Christmas Eve with not much to do.

But you know what?

That's okay when everyone else and their brother is working on Christmas.

What do you do?

You set goals.

I sat down and wrote up my goals for the next year and what I wanted to accomplish.

I use this time to get motivated.

My fiance and I scheduled a time to spend on the weekends and made that our Christmas celebration.

And we have a New Year's and Christmas celebration coming in the next weekend.

Well, that's right.

Is it?

What?

Mhm.

You know, open it.

This part was broken because I don't want to stop my eyes.

Yeah.

Oh, these are so pretty.

It's like cauliflower.

I think it's a cauliflower.

Flour.

Yeah.

So pretty cool.

I like that plant.

It's a nice plant.

Yeah, little bonsai tree looking things.

There's a bonsai tree.

I want one of these in our apartment.

Yeah, that's for old people.

We're old Well, before not telling me that if you ever go home.

Mhm.

Yeah.

Mhm.

Yeah.

In Japan, amongst hefty work schedules, there are plenty of Christmas markets that make it feel just a little bit more like actual Christmas.

And for me, that's legit enough.

This is so they have little shops and stuff.

This is so cute.

I want to get a picture here.

Mhm.

We're here at the Christmas market right now, and it's raining.

We got a good seat, but it's raining outside, so we're like, we have an umbrella and we have our sausage and pretzel and everything.

How big is it?

Oh, my God.

Hot, juicy.

I like that.

Christmas alone is a chance to recharge and reflect.

I enjoy it, and I see it as a different experience.

Mhm, but yeah.

Mm.

Okay, so apparently, there's a natural goods store around here, but I kind of wanted to go check out.

So I'm gonna head a different way and go a different route.

I'm gonna go see what they have, because it would be nice to, um, see if there's any, like, organic foods or something like that.

I'm gonna head to the store and see what kind of Christmas stuff they have.

So it's actually a pretty nice day.

It's not that cold, but yeah, This is a little bit of the neighborhood old Japanese house from a long time ago.

Temple kids drew pictures.

The side?

Yes.

Like shrines and stuff around.

Very windy.

Mhm.

So this right here, close up.

The house is hard together in Tokyo.

Yeah.

Mhm little shrine here.

Mhm.

Mhm.

Okay, Now, don't get too sidetracked.

We're gonna head across the bridge.

Okay?

Mhm.

I love this.

It's so cute.

Sky tree.

Okay.

Mhm.

Okay.

Narrow streets.

Wow.

Yes, it's huge.

Great.

Like the little details.

Well, did you?

Wow.

This is beautiful.

Like, Mm hmm.

Okay, so I just kind of kicked in, and it looks like there's, like, some package things, but not so much to buy there.

Um, it's very small.

So it wasn't really expecting that.

But there's so many cute things around here.

A little hair studio.

So we're just gonna head to the market.

This is a nice little walk, though.

It's very peaceful.

It was like Japanese house.

You These houses are so cute.

Oh, my God.

Mhm.

Mm hmm.

Uh huh.

Garden in front of somebody's house.

Isn't that amazing?

Is so cute.

It's beautiful.

Another old house.

Mention myself about condition of the skin.

Yeah, Yeah, that's time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Fire.

Really good, Yeah.

Mhm Yeah, yeah!

Mhm Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

What?

Okay, so I just got my stuff.

It's kinda heavy.

Hopefully it gets Back in one piece and I'm heading home right now So we're gonna walk a different way this time Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Longer walks are sometimes what we need to recharge I try to take a different path when I have the time to experience a new journey This mhm mhm.

Something else.

Oh, okay.

I just got home.

It's called.

It's really warm in here, though.

I'm gonna just take a break for a second before I work on some stuff.

But I bought a lot of stuff, and I'm going to show you what it is when it's dinner time.

So fast forward to dinner and I'll show you everything that I'm cooking and what I'm doing before you g comes home.

I think he's gonna love this.

This is gonna be awesome.

We don't have a light in our kitchen, which kind of sucks, But I put a candle on the table because I wanted it to look nice.

Anyway, I had made Christmas dinner.

I don't know how I'm gonna react to any of it because some of it has is made with eggs.

So we'll see if I start to feel weird.

I'm just going to stop eating it.

But I made a lot of food and usually really wanted something like this.

So I just wanted to make something for him, mostly.

So, as you can see on our table, we have mixed vegetables with garlic and olive oil, and then I have a makeshift salad here.

That salad basically is just made in the store.

Japan loves cabbage in their salad, and that's not everything.

So I'm going to kind of reheat some stuff.

Ignore the bananas were not eating that for dinner.

But we have fried foods here, which I cannot eat a lot of, because I know I'll have stomach problems and I heated up some of the lobster.

Oh my God, we have lobster.

This is crazy, but some cake in the refrigerator.

But I'll film it later.

Cake here and then some appetizers, cheese, ham, crackers, some beef jerky, all that stuff.

And we have a second cake over there because I didn't know which one again.

And I didn't know which one do he was gonna like, so I just bought both.

They're so beautiful.

I just couldn't I couldn't not buy it.

So we have our spoons.

Here.

We have plates.

We have mugs for the coffee or whatever and our beautiful table set up.

I need to move these jackets.

Yoga mat here at this place is a mess.

But anyway, this is our little setup for now.

What do you think, baby?

Amazing.

Isn't it?

Good?

Oh, my God.

Mm hmm.

I am the type of person to spend the holidays in a peaceful setting.

I feel like doing this at least every other year allows us to think and be grateful for the smaller things in life.

And, hey, this is our first Christmas together, so I'll always cherish.

And remember this day, even though Diggy had to work hard most of the day, I'm about to cut the cake.

Yes.

Cut it.

That looks so good.

I know.

I'm gonna cut a big piece.

Mm.

Yeah, yeah.

Look at this handsome man Shower.

How am I 16.

I didn't say You were sexy, Jenna.

Merry Christmas, everybody.

It is actual Christmas Day here in Japan, and I am doing nothing.

It looks very nice outside today.

A little bit cold, have a bit of digestive distress from yesterday.

And the good news is, I had an egg today and I didn't really react to it.

Immune wise, I usually react with an immune response, and I did not.

So that's good news.

I still feel a little bit of digestive distress, like I said.

So I'm going to keep going with my protocols.

And I'm going to keep healing my gut and never go back to the way that I was eating before.

But it's Christmas.

So we had a lot of food yesterday.

Yeah, and this morning we had some breakfast.

Do he didn't know what an egg in a basket is?

Or an egg in a frame.

Whatever you guys want to call it, it's called egg and a frame.

This is crazy.

Oh, how did you just put it in the center?

You open it up, you cut it open.

You cut a hole in the bread, you put butter on it.

But I made it for him and I had one, and it was good.

I had mine with him in the beginning.

And then I had a second one with egg, and I didn't really respond so much.

So that's good news to hear about my health.

But I still have a long way to go before I'm, like, 100% healthy.

But I feel good.

I feel happy.

I feel hopeful today.

I'm not gonna do too much.

I'm gonna end the vlog here because, um, I just wanted to show our Christmas and how we celebrated tonight.

We're gonna watch a Christmas movie, and that's about it.

Um, have some leftover Christmas cake and just relax.

Today do G is working.

Like I said, you know, people working on Christmas.

Thank you guys for watching this video.

It's another year in Japan alone on Christmas.

But New Year's is huge in Japan.

So I can't wait to show you guys what we do on New Year's and my trip to his hometown, which will be very interesting.

And I hope you guys will like the rebranding of my channel, which I'm doing right now.

I was going to change my channel to my name and my actual name Kelly.

Elizabeth.

But I did not.

Because my name is going to change soon.

I would really like to use my my full name.

Um, so if you guys see Kelly Morita, that is gonna be my name in the next couple months or so.

So I just want people to get used to it.

Before I actually changed everything.

Because last time I changed everything, nobody knew who I was anymore.

So I think people were confused.

Like, who is this?

Who did I subscribe to?