The Emperor's Cup Succer final is going to be played between J-2 teams.

  The weather forecast said it would begin to snow with strong wind at around 9:00 a.m. and would continue till 6:00 p.m., so I left home at about 8:20 a.m., a little earlier than usual. I returned home at about 10:00, and it didn't snow at all. In the afternoon, the wind blew strongly for a few hours, but it snowed only a little.
  In the afternoon, I watched semi-final games of the Emperor's Cup soccer. Surprising enough, the two winning teams were the teams from J-2, not J-1, the top league of Japanese professional teams. FC Tokyo (J-2 Champions ) defeated Ceresso Osaka (J-1), and Kyoto Sanga ( 7th place in J-2) defeated Yokohama Marinos.

Ayako went to Sapporo to see her sister and her husband, brother-in-law.

  As the weather got better, Ayako went to Sapporo by bus to see her sister in the care house and her husband alone in the condominium. She left home at 9:30 a.m. and returned home at around 3:00p.m., when I was walking along the Tomakomai river. Ayako said her sister was sleeping and didn't speak even a single word, and her husband was well tough living confined to a wheel chair.
  Before I left for the Tomakomai river, I watched on TV the final game of high school basketball championships tournament. Sapporo Yamanote high school beat out Yamagata comercial high school and won the championship for the second consecutive year.

I stayed at home all day, though the weather was not bad.

  In the morning, when I looked out, I found my garden blanketed with snow. After breakfast I removed the snow around my house and took out the garbage. Then, the broadcast of the basketball game of the semi-final in the national high school championships began. A semi-final game of the invitational tournament between Sapporo Yamanote high school and Ohka high school from Nagoya was an very exciting one, but finally, Sapporo Yamanote won by the score of 74-71.  Yamanote
proceeded to the final with Yamagata Comercial high school tomorrow.

It didn't snow here today either, though, in the other parts of Hokkaido, it snowed much.

  In many places, not only in Hokkaido, but in some north-western parts of Honshu, it snowed very much. Even in Nagoya, where it seldom snows, the roads and streets were covered with 8 cm snow. But, here in Tomakomai, we only saw some flakes of snow falling down.
  Around 11:00 a.m., I watched a basketball game of Sapporo Yamanote high school, I went with Ayako to the post office to send some documents to Takashi in California. The frozen roads were so slippery that it was dangerous to walk on.

Do I have some trouble with my stomach?

   It was snowing heavily on the western side of Hokkaido and Honshu. I spent all day because I felt a little sick with my stomach. I must have eaten and drunk a little too much last night. I didn't eat nothing for lunch today. I have got quite well now. I am relieved.
   In the afternoon and evening, as I had nothing to do, I first watched on TV a high school basket game between Sapporo Yamanote high school and Tkokai Dai San high school from Nagano.  Sapporo Yamanote is the efending champions, an defeated the team from Nagano by the score of 91-71. Then, I watched with Ayako women's figure skating  "the 2011 Japan Championships Competition". Mao Asada won the victory and became the champion. She was great because she had just lost her beloved mother.   

It didn't snow at all despite what the weather foreast said.

  According to the weather forecast, it would be stormy today, but it didn't snow at all. We cleaned the house. I wiped the window panes and room lights in the morning. After that, I sent Christmas e-cards to my friends overseas. Then, I watched succer games of the Emperor's Cup. Four teams incluing FC Tokyo (J2),Yokohama Marinos, Kyoto Sanga(J2), and Ceresso Osaka won and ecied to proceed to the semi finals to be played on Thursday ( 29th of December )  next week. In the evening, Ayako and I had a small Christmas party for us two.

I had to shovel out snow for the first time this season.

  It was not so cold, but snowed and I had to shovel out the snow around my house.