[loveskyliemole]

At the beginning of the sentence, you could use "those things" or "that stuff", but "those stuff" sounds awkward. If you choose to use "those things," then "is" should be "are" instead, so it would be "Those things are always confusing me..." Also, the comma "," isn't necessary here.

Oh, I always make that mistake! "stuff" isn't countable right?

Nope, that's all it says. Maybe it isn't a very accurate entry? The dictionary I use is actually the website Denshi Jisho - Online Japanese dictionary. I have a regular paper dictionary, but it's pretty small and useless... I'd love to get an electronic one some day, but they're a lot of money. It's hard for me to justify the cost of one when I can just hop online and look up anything I need to.

Since you can read and write hiragana katakana plus Kanji a lot, maybe a Japanese-Japanese dictionary (which I meant a reguler dictionary for Japanese) can be usuful and helpful for you, I think.Especially the ones for children are great because they have very nice and simple explanations on each words and sometimes it comes with the pictures!

I checked amazonJP and found this:
Amazon.co.jp： こどもにほんごじて&#x 3093;―ことばはともだ&#x306 1; (ことばはともだ&#x3061: 本

There are so many dictionaries !
Amazon.co.jp:

I will! That sounds easy enough to make.

You know what? I had that corn (we call it yaki-toumorokoshi or Yaki-Morokoshi) last night and that was yummy!

Whoops, my mistake! I thought it may have just been the fried version of the same noodle.
I didn't realize they used a yakisoba sauce when they made that, though. I assumed it was soy sauce. I need to stop assuming things about noodles. I don't seem to be very good at it!

haha
I don't know much about noodles anyway because
we have wide(?) varieties here in Japan.
You know ラーメン　right? (did you like it?)
In my area (around Tokyo:I am originally from Yokohama), we call it
「ラーメン」but some people in Osaka area call it 「中華そば」.
My friends from Wakayama was surprised when I said
「中華そば？おいしそう！たべてみたい！」 .
I didn't think that means ラーメン。
I thought something different!

See? so don't worry about it!
(I guess you are not worried anyway)

I will write that name down for when I get a chance to visit Nagano. Hopefully I'll be able to save up enough money for another trip to Japan next year, but with the U.S. economy so bad right now, I may not be able to...

Yeah, I also want to save up enough money to travell overseas! My last overseas travell was 1999 to Australia for a month to see my friends.

At that time the Japan economy wasn't so bad.
But, it's not good anymore and also the airtickets are expensive because of the price of oil.

I really wish there will be some great substitute for oil,
whish is friendly to the enviroment
and to our purse!　
(It doesn't make sense in English does it? we say おさいふにやさしい for economy prices）.

僕も同じで、　辛口のほうが好きです。　とんかつとい っしょだったら、最高！

「カツカレー」ですね！

夫と私は「牛・豚・鶏　肉」を食べないので、シーフー ドやきのこをたくさん入れます。

Dang, I always make that mistake. I must be more careful. Please be as strict as you would like in correcting my Japanese. I want to become as good as I can at speaking it!

わかりました！

お互い　ビシビシ　いきましょう（笑）！

覚えます！　いつか日本人の女に好きになったら、使い ます。　 (is this grammar correct?)

「日本人の女」というより　「日本人女性」　「日本の 女性」　のほうが
丁寧です。　

日本人の女性を好きになったら・・・ですね。

"I am often asked for help with relationships..."
その話はすっっっっっっごく可笑しい！　（笑）
まゆみ先生はオレンジ色ですか？　
I'm not sure about the answer to your question, though. The only possibilities I can think of are 愛人（あいじん） or 美人（びじん）. What was he trying to say?

ね？おもしろいでしょ？

I don't think I am orange,
I think I have a reguler colour for an Asian!

mmm, your guesses weren't quite right, sorry

He wanted to say 「にんぎょう」！

「あなたはわたしの人形」

Do guys usually say " you are my doll?"

I told him that it didn't make sense in Japanese
and I don't want him to think I am his doll anyway!
NO!
Well, that wasn't the reason why we broke up, but
I said "Let's be just friends" about 3 months later.

It has been ages since I had a thought of this guy last time!
I was 22 and he was 21. oh It was a loooong time ago now.
We were in Melbourne, and he was very happy to have an oriental girlfriend,because いろいろな人にひやかされたり、うらやましがられたり しました　(I don't know how to put it in English).　
I thought I liked this guy cos we had a lot of fun time together with other friends, but since we started dating then I realized that he enjoyed "showing off". I got disappointed and thought that he wasn't the guy I respect.

Maybe it's me thing, or I don't know if it's a Japanese girls thing,
I don't like guys saying "you are beautiful","You are MY DOLL" or even " I love you" often. I get goosebumps!

After this guy, I fall in love with an Aussie guy who treated me as just one of his good mates! He was a guy didn't say those things to me and only one time he said that I was cute and I was genuinely happy, but anyway it didn't work out then I moved to Sydney and met a Japanese guy who became my husband in 10 years time!

So what I was trying to say is...
girls and boys things are not easy! haha


Oopsie, I spent over 1 hour for writing this, I don't know why I ended up talking about my ex!

hope I didn't make you bored.