May 23, 2025

Friday - Sunny and warm

I’m back!

We had a lovely visit with my sister and her husband. They arrived on Monday afternoon and left early this morning. They’re off on a driving tour of Japan for another week or so. They drove up here on Monday. We (F and I) took them to some of the local tourism spots and some nice restaurants. We all had a great time. My sister and her husband don’t want any pictures posted of themselves, so I won’t be posting any.

Today I slept in for the first time in days. I did wake up early though. I woke up at 6 am for some reason, then was half asleep until 8 am. I got a text from my sister letting me know that they were off down south. I replied and then went back to sleep. 

I got up later. F told me that he was going to make lunch for his mother and himself. I was a bit surprised as he didn’t mention me at all! I really didn’t want what he was making so it was fine, but I hadn’t done any shopping for myself. 

In the afternoon, F did ask me if I wanted to go out for lunch and we did. We had Indian food and it was very nice. I had the chicken curry today and F had the pork. After lunch, we went to the doctor’s office. We went to a new clinic for both of us, a dermatologist. F got seen to first and it was a long wait for me to be seen. No problems, just something that I should monitor and if I have any changes I’m to go back. 

After the doctor’s office I suggested going to Komeda Coffee, so we did. We spent quite a long time there just relaxing and drinking our iced decaf. Around 6:30 I suggested we get going as we had to feed F’s mother. He decided that he’d make some food for her and everything that he talked about did not tempt me at all. I asked that we go to the grocery store and let me get some food for myself! If he’d asked me to cook today I could have bought food last night, but he didn’t!

I ended up getting myself a 5 cheese pizza and some items from the deli. I got some cheese wonton like things and some chicken bars. F picked up a few things too. We checked out and then came back to the house. I suggested that F make his meal for himself and his mother since it wasn’t fair to make her wait much longer. Then, I would make mine.

He came upstairs around 8:30 or so, so I went downstairs and baked my pizza and heated up my deli goods in my air fryer. I brought everything upstairs to eat. It was very nice really. 

At 10:30 I watched the episode of Rebus and then I went downstairs and took a shower. When I came out and went to turn down the hot water, I saw K sitting in the living room. I asked her if she was okay and she said she was, but I wasn’t sure. When I was ready to go upstairs, she had gone back to bed. 

I watched a few videos on my computer while I started to do all the things I like to do at night. I’m winding down for the night. 

I’m not sure what we’ll get up to tomorrow. K has to go to her day service again, I imagine F and I will have a meal out, but apart from that, I don’t know. 

Come back later if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow….

May 18, 2025

 Sunday - Cloudy but hot

I went to bed rather late last night, but so what. It was Saturday night! I didn’t want to get up this morning, but I had to finally! Surprisingly, F had a suggestion for a lunch place again. He wanted to go to his favourite fish restaurant. They didn’t have the usual lunch special because it was the weekend, but when we went there, they asked us to come back in 30 minutes. We said okay, and they took F’s phone number so they could phone him. 

We went off to the nearby Daiso again and bought a few things. F needed to get labels to go on K’s clothes for when she’s in the short term stay. We found a few things and then F got a call from the restaurant. We paid for the stuff and then rushed back to the restaurant. 

We had a nice meal there. I had a tuna katsu. It was good, but I have weird texture issues. The inside of the katsu was cold and the outside was hot and crispy. It was a bit weird. It was good but not great. F had a tekka-don, or tuna on a rice bowl. We were both happy with our meals.

After lunch we went to a drugstore and I bought a few things. After that, we came back to the house. F did the labelling. I did offer to help, but F said no. Instead, I relaxed upstairs. That was quite nice for a Sunday afternoon.

Around 5 pm F suggested going out to get groceries. We picked up a few at Mina. I’m not going to be cooking much over the next few days. 

After 5 pm, I texted my sister to see if she had arrived and when I was in the store I got a reply. She was in the airport and was waiting for her bags. That’s the last I heard! 

F and I came back to the house. I gave K a bento for her dinner and then I went upstairs. F took a shower and a little later left the house. He went to have a massage. His shoulder was bothering him today. Sadly, it wasn’t a great massage and he was in a lot of pain afterwards.

When he came back, we went out for our dinner. I suggested Gusto and that’s where we went. I couldn’t stomach rice for another meal, so I didn’t have any! Tonight I had a burger and shared a plate of fries with F. The burger was good and the fries were okay too! We both had drink bar and we surprisingly both enjoyed our meal. I was surprised that F enjoyed his meal! Usually he hates Gusto. 

We came back to the house after our meal. I took a shower and then watched the first episode of Murderbot. I quite enjoyed it and will watch more. I’ve heard a lot about Murderbot but I haven’t read the books. Maybe I’ll try and find them later.

And that’s about it for my day. I’ll be taking the next few days off blogging so DON’T miss me too much. I’ll be back later in the week. 

Until next time….

May 17, 2025

 Saturday - Rainy

I slept in quite late this morning and it was lovely. F did go to the doctor after all, which I think was a good thing. When he came back he wanted to go for lunch as usual. He had a suggestion for a change. He wanted to go to a new to us place. It was a Japanese restaurant. I wasn’t sure that I wanted to go, but I thought what the heck. Plus, he made a suggestion which he rarely does. 

We went off to the restaurant and it was okay. It was a new looking place, with only one staff member. We were told that they only had fish available for our lunch. That was fine. We had a smaller lunch, I didn’t want a huge one. We had some stewed fish, genmai rice, macaroni salad, soup, and a few other dishes. It was actually pretty good. It took a while though.

We left the restaurant and after a washroom break went driving! F wanted to go to Atsumi Onsen. I was fine with that. There are some incredibly long tunnels along the way…I think I fell asleep in one of them. One was well over 2km. Long!

We went to a Michi no Eki to check it out. We used the washroom and then did a window shop. F bought us both ice cream cones. Mine was great. I had Blueberry and Vanilla mixed. F had a shrimp flavoured one. His cone was broken at the bottom and leaked everywhere. Poor guy. Luckily I had some tissues in my purse, but no oshibori. We went back to the washroom, but the rain was coming down something fierce. 

We had to get back to the house to be there when K was finished. Unfortunately, we were running late. I think F did make up some time on the highway coming back. We made it back to the house and about 10 minutes later K came back.

I went upstairs and relaxed for a while. F came upstairs and I gave him some coffee. We chilled for a while and then he went downstairs and made some dinner for his mother. When she was eating, we went out.

We had dinner in Coco Ichibanya. I had the grilled chicken on curry with vegetables and less rice, F had pork cutlet with his, I liked mine a lot, F less so.

We drove to Mikawa next. We left the restaurant around 8pm and then went to Mikawa in the rain. Our movie started at 8:20 so I wasn’t sure that we could make it, but we did! We made great time to the mall and then in the cinema we split up to get jobs done. I bought the movie tickets and F bought the popcorn and drinks. We went to see Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning. It was fun. I’d heard that the first hour was talky and it was, but the rest of the film had a ton of action. I liked it. I sort of hope this is the last film because Tom Cruise isn’t all that young anymore! Maybe he needs a new person to take over the franchise?!

We came back to the house via a convenience store for F. He needed stuff for his mother’s breakfast. He also got himself an adult beverage!

We got back to the house just after midnight and I’ve been blogging or getting computer stuff done since then. I’m just about done now!  

Just a reminder that I won’t be blogging for a few days. I most likely will blog tomorrow, but from Monday to Thursday I think, I’ll be on holiday from the blog. Don’t miss me too much!

Come back later if you like and hear all about my Sunday. Until tomorrow….

May 16, 2025

Friday - Hot and sunny

I got up when my alarm went off this morning, I went downstairs and then came back upstairs. I went back to bed for a snooze. It was already hot in the room and it was still morning. Ack.

I got up later and dressed. I went downstairs and made my breakfast and then came upstairs to eat. I opened the windows up here…it was so hot. I know it got up to 27℃ in the room. It might have been higher, I just didn’t check it. No wonder they were warning about possible heatstroke on the news the other night. 

I did a load of laundry in the afternoon and when it was nearly ready, I went downstairs with my bread to make my lunch. I brought the laundry and my lunch up at the same time. I hung up the laundry and then ate lunch. I watched an episode of The Bondsman while I did that. I have one episode left I think.

F called when he was finished work and said he wasn’t going to go to the doctor after all. Sigh. He didn’t really have time. He went to the store to get food for his mother’s breakfast tomorrow.

I went downstairs and investigated the kitchen. There were a few things in the drainer, most of which I had to rewash! I got a little ready to make dinner, but F had called to say he was in a traffic jam. I wasn’t sure what was going on. 

Tonight for dinner we basically had our usual pasta with a garlic sauce. F contributed some warabi and I also did a cucumber pickle. When we finally sat down to eat, dinner was good, if a little late. 

I got to do all of the dishes again. I was overjoyed as usual! I did listen to my podcasts afterwards so that was good. 

I came upstairs when I finally finished. Tonight I decided I’d take a late shower and watched Rebus on WOWOW. It was gritty. I’ve read a few of the Rebus stories and I liked them, so I was looking forward to this show. First episode was good!

I helped F with sending something to me on his computer. It’s funny, he just has no idea how to do some things that I’ve taught myself to do over the years. Tonight I had to show him how to save a document and then send it over to my email. It was fun, and a little difficult since I was doing it on a Japanese language computer.

My night has been quiet. I took my shower after 11:30 which is a bit late for me, but no problem. I’m not sure what we’re going to get up to tomorrow. K has her Day Care to go to and F and I have to get ready for my sister’s visit.

I’ll be here for a couple more days, but I will be taking the days that my sister is here off blogging. I haven’t taken much time off this year and my sister and her husband are very private people so I’d rather not blog about them. Also, I’ll be getting up early to meet up with them, so I need to be getting to bed at a reasonable time. 

I’ll be back tomorrow though! Come back later if you like and read all about my day. Until tomorrow….

May 15, 2025

Thursday - Hot and muggy

Today was a good day. I woke up when my alarm went off. I was on the way to the washroom when I realized that K was bopping around downstairs. I waited until she was out of the way and then went downstairs. I came back up to the room and went back to bed for about 45 minutes. I didn’t sleep, but I did relax. 

I got up and dressed. I was going out, so I found some of my clothes and put them on! When it was a bit after 10 I went downstairs, used the loo, brushed my teeth and then headed out. K had the TV on and was cooking something but she was nowhere in sight. I left the house, locking the door behind me. 

I hiked to the bus stop and waited. I checked the app and it said that the bus was running late, about 4 minutes. That grew to 5 or 6 a couple of minutes late. It finally appeared and I got on. The bus had quite a few passengers over the ride, and they got on and off at unusual stops too. When we got near the station, which was my getting off point, I saw a city bus and was a bit worried it was my bus. It wasn’t. 

I only had 5 minutes to wait today before my bus arrived. It was fine. I also managed to get on the bus safely this time. I didn’t catch my ankle getting on the bus. Hurray. My ankle still has a bruise and a bump from the last time!

The ride out to the mall was fine. At the mall, I got off the bus and then used the loo. I decided I’d have lunch first, trying to beat any lunch rush. I went to McDonalds again. I had the Chicken Tatsuta set and it was okay. The “Burger” seemed awfully small though. 

I did some shopping at the grocery store and even looked upstairs at the clothing. I tried a few things on and everything fit, but I didn’t buy anything. There was one shirt that I might see if they still have it on sale in a few week, but I really didn’t need anything. I made a deposit at the post office bank, I checked out the hundred yen shop and then I decided to go to Doutor for a nice drink. I had a decaf ice cafe latte. 

I went upstairs when I finished my drink and bought tickets to go and see Thunderbolts* again. I got my popcorn and drink and then went in. I enjoyed it just as much this time. I know I probably shouldn’t have gone again, but I really enjoyed myself.

When the movie was over, it was nearly time to meet up with F. I walked over to the other part of the mall. He hadn’t called yet, so I decided to get yet another drink. I had a filled up point card in my wallet, so I went to the cafe and cashed it in. I got a milk tea and she put some boba in it. It was very nice!

F called a little later and then met me at the Food Court. We decided to share an order of takoyaki again. We had the yuzu-negi ones and they were very nice. 

F wanted to get some soil, so he went into the hardware store to get some. I stayed in the car. We came back to the house and although I had planned to cook dinner, I didn’t really. K had made some Bamboo stew, F’s sister had also dropped some off yesterday, so F heated it up. I contributed some salad and also some mini-croissants. K liked those a lot! Dinner was okay, but honestly there wasn’t enough protein for me. Also, F did that Japanese thing where he used 8 billion dishes. He did that weird thing where he just disappeared at the end of the meal so I got gifted with the 8 billion dishes to wash. Thank you so much dear!

After I finished the dishes, I found F and asked if we could go out soon. We needed a few things for tomorrow’s meals. I changed and then we went out.

We went to Mina and I went in. I bought a few things for K and some meat for the bamboo stew that K made. I paid and I also asked (and received) the last of the free bowls that I’ve been keeping the stickers for. Yay me. 

We came back to the house and I put away the groceries. We went upstairs and at 11pm I watched Yellowstone. It was an interesting episode. Beth got herself arrested, it was a dumb move from such a smart lady. 

F and I had a few chats over the evening. We spent a bit of time together and he finally went to sleep. I’m headed off to bed soon too. 

It was really hot today for May. It was around 25℃ which is a bit hot for me! I guess I was lucky I was in an air conditioned mall. 

Anyway, that was it for today. Tomorrow, the struggle to get laundry done and work on my column continues! Come back later if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow….

May 14, 2025

Wednesday - Warm and sunny

I went to bed a little late last night, and fell asleep fairly soon. I woke up at 7:00am when F’s alarm went off. However, F wasn’t in the room! He’d left the house around 6:30 or so! I went downstairs and then came back up to the room and watched a few videos on my phone before falling asleep again. When I woke up, I got dressed. I planned to go downstairs, but I heard K’s daughter down there. She stayed for a while and was doing stuff in the living room and kitchen with K. I waited a few minutes, but had to go downstairs anyway. 

I came back up to the room and watched a few YouTube videos. A little later I went downstairs to get my breakfast. K’s daughter (aka F’s sister!) had left. She sounded sick and had quite a bad cough. I’m not terribly happy that she chose to come over to see her mother with a cough. I hope she wasn’t infectious.

I got my breakfast, ate it upstairs and then had a quiet afternoon. I did work on my column. I’m not done, but I did write quite a bit. I also did a load of towels and hung them up in my room. 

During lunch, I watched last Saturday’s episode of Lockerbie. It was good. Now that the crash is over, I think I’ll be able to continue watching the show. I have to take too many aeroplanes to watch things about plane crashes. 

After lunch I watched the news and spent time on my computer. I was writing and getting ready to go down to cook dinner.

F called around 5:30 to say he was on his way and a while later I went downstairs to get started on dinner. Today I did air-fried chicken from the store, broccoli, salad with bacon bits and some cucumber pickle. Dinner was good and almost all of it disappeared! I made a plate for K’s lunch tomorrow before I served everything. 

I did the dishes and then I got the garbage ready to go out. I put the bag in the genkan for F to take out later. I said goodnight to K and then I went upstairs. I relaxed for a bit and then after 10:30 I took a shower. I came back upstairs and watched The Irrational again. Tonight was about Art Forgery. I quite liked it.  I turned off the TV when it was over. 

F went to bed a while ago and I hope to go soonish. I’m planning to go out to Mikawa tomorrow and do a little shopping. I really need to keep going out and doing things by myself. I stay in too much and spend too much time alone. 

That’s it for me for tonight. Come back later if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow….

 

May 13, 2025

Tuesday - Warm and sunny

I woke up this morning when F was getting dressed for work. He left and I went downstairs. I came back upstairs and gathered my clothes for later. I was sitting on the bed getting ready to go back to sleep for a while until my alarm. However, I heard the car coming back into the parking space outside. Hmm. F was coming back to the house. 

It turns out that F had forgotten to pay a bill and realized that we might have a utility cut off today. Yikes! He meant to pay it but made a mistake on the date. He ended up taking the day off work too. 

He paid the bill and called the company…things were fine. Whew! I slept a bit late since my sleep was disturbed. I got myself up and dressed. I grabbed breakfast and wondered where F was. I didn’t see him for hours.

I did a load of laundry and had time to hang it up too. I half wondered if F would want to go out for lunch, but I didn’t see him so made my own lunch around 2:45. Then, F came back. I took my lunch upstairs and ate while I watched an episode of Buffy. It wasn’t one of the good ones!

I watched the news around 4 pm and then went downstairs around 6 pm to start dinner. I was busy for a while. Tonight I made a pork and veggie stir-fry with salad and some potato salad on the side. Dinner was a bit late but it was pretty good I think. 

Afterwards, I did the dishes and it took a while. I finally got done and wanted to leave for the grocery store. However, I was late, F was late and then it was late. I asked to go to MaxValu instead of my usual place. We drove there and I went in. 

I did my shopping. I don’t really like shopping there because it is so big, but I managed to pick up most things. Yay. I got a few things for myself as well.

We came back to the house and I put the groceries away. I went upstairs after a few minutes and then watched tonight’s episode of FBI: International. It was okay. This new guy on the show has really changed things up, but not in a good way. In my opinion anyway!

Before midnight I turned off the TV and somewhere after 1am I woke F up and suggested he get into bed. He was sleeping on top of the bed and had been for a while. 

So, that’s it for me for tonight. Tomorrow I hope I’ll work on my column and probably do more laundry! Wish me luck with that.

Come back later if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow….