June 14, 2025

Saturday - Rainy, humid and cooler

I woke up early this morning…somewhere before 8 am. F was still sleeping which is very unusual. I made a quick trip downstairs and then came back to the room. I woke F up coming back into the room and asked him when he wanted to get up. He said he had woken up around 6 am and then gone back to sleep. He got up, dressed and went to the kitchen to make breakfast for K. A little while later he took her to her Day Service.

I tried to sleep on. I didn’t really fall asleep again. I did watch a couple of videos and then almost dozed. I finally got up and dressed. 

F and I left the house around the right time and did our doctor’s visit. I got a lot of my book read, so that is good. It’s the only place I read my “real” books these days. 

After our appointments and picking up our medicines, we talked about lunch. F threw out a couple of good ideas so we decided to try the local coffee shop, B-Flat. We went and had a very nice, but slightly petite meal. I had a smoked salmon sandwich which came with soup and salad. F had an omu-rice. I’m not sure if he liked it as it was covered in ketchup. We had either coffee or tea afterwards. When we left, I had a couple of full stamp cards, so we got our drinks for free. Yay. 

We did try to go to the Art Museum but the parking space was packed. We decided not to go. We went to a bakery that we like and picked up some bready things for us for later. We decided to just go back to the house after the bakery, but did stop into a grocery store to pick up some snacks for us and a nice bento for K. 

We spent a couple of quiet hours at the house and then K came back. We had to leave soon after, so F gave her the bento we got for her and we left soon afterwards. 

We drove to the Kamo Aquarium and got there a little after 5 pm. We went in and had a nice look at some of the beasties. However, we weren’t quite done when they announced that they had opened seating for the concert. Unfortunately, we were too late to get one of the comfortable seats around the edges of the space and had to sit on stools. They were not comfortable. I fidgeted a lot trying to find a comfortable position. F asked if I’d like to leave and I said no. I did think about putting my shawl on my seat as a cushion, but I didn’t. 

Finally, just as the duo was starting their final encore piece, a big group left the concert hall. They had been sitting around the edge of the room so F and I changed our seats. It was so comfortable, I really don’t know why they took away the chairs that they used to have! The stools are horrible. The concert was good and we enjoyed it, but I’m not sure I’ll be so quick to go again unless we can get there super early to get good seats. 

We were going to buy a cd but we already had the one that was on sale, so we just left the Aquarium. We drove back to Tsuruoka in the rain. 

I suggested going to Cocos for dinner and F was okay with that. He wasn’t feeling great so he had their rice porridge dish and seemed to enjoy it. I had a burger with a bun, soup bar and drink bar too. I also ordered some fries and a special dessert to share. I reached a certain point level so they gave me a free dessert. I tried to share it with F, but he didn’t want much of it. 

I shared as much as I could with F! It was lovely.

The meal was okay. I didn’t get something that was delicious but it was fine. My special dessert was lovely. I ate a lot of it, but I gave F the fruit and a macaron. 

After dinner, we made a quick trip to PAL grocery store for me to get some coffee creamers. I had completely forgotten to buy them when I was in the store earlier today. 

We drove back to the house and just chilled. I watched some YouTube and then FBI at 11pm. F was on the bed and eventually fell asleep. He’s very tired today. 

And this was my day. I got to see some lovely jellyfish, I had nice dessert and I got to hear some very good music. I just wish I had been more comfortable doing most of it!

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

June 13, 2025

Friday - Sunny and warm

I woke up this morning before my alarm went off. I was quite impressed with myself! I went downstairs and then came back upstairs and sorted out my laundry! I put the basket where I could just grab it on the way downstairs. 

I went back to bed, watched a few videos and then snoozed for a while. I managed to drag myself out of bed before yesterday’s time, so that was good. I took my first load of laundry downstairs to wash and then grabbed my breakfast. I brought it upstairs to eat while I watched a bit of YouTube.

I ended up doing two loads of laundry and hung them up in my room. It was hot today, but it didn’t hit more than 26 degrees so I was okay with my fan. 

I went downstairs around 2:45 to make my lunch. While I was making my lunch the doorbell rang. I went over to the door as I saw it was a delivery person. She asked me if I was someone and I said I wasn’t! The funny thing is that she just stared at me. It was like she had never seen a foreign person before in a house! I told her that this was F’s family house and she apologized and left. No big deal for me, but she really stared until the end! I brought my lunch upstairs to eat and today watched an episode of Matlock. I’m quite enjoying this new version of it. 

F called me around 5:30 and I asked him to pick up some coffee creamers for me. Unfortunately he wasn’t able to find the ones I wanted so he didn’t buy me any. Gee, thanks! I got changed and went downstairs to the kitchen to start dinner.

Tonight I did spaghetti with carbonara sauce, salad and sliced cooked chicken. I also made some garlic toast which did disappear quickly!

After dinner I did the dishes and listened to my podcasts. F went upstairs fairly early as he was tired and K went to bed before I was finished. It was quite nice having the kitchen to myself for a while! I’m afraid I dawdled for a while!

I went upstairs and relaxed. F was in bed nearly asleep. I made some tea for myself and then watched a bit of YouTube again. I took myself downstairs to have a shower and then I came back upstairs. Once again, K was up in the living room with the lights on. I said goodnight to her again before I went upstairs. 

I feel a bit sorry for K. I don’t spend much time with her and F shouts at her whenever he’s with her. She’s almost completely deaf so I don’t know what the point of yelling at her is. If he spoke normally to her and tried to look at her when he speaks it would be so much better, but he won’t. Sigh. 

I came upstairs and watched tonight’s episode of Rebus. It was a good one and ended on quite a cliffhanger. 

I turned off the TV and started doing all of my computer stuff for the night. F has been sleeping for most of the night, but he does wake up from time to time and mutter something!

Tomorrow we have doctor appointments in the morning and hopefully the concert in the evening. The bad thing is that we’ll have to plan for it by picking up a bento for K early. I hope F is okay with going tomorrow night. 

So, that’s it for me. I hope tomorrow will be a good day, today was fine if a bit lonely. I didn’t get to spend much time with my hubby at all. Come back later if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow…. 

June 12, 2025

Thursday - Warm and sunny, cooler

I woke up before my alarm this morning. I was rather happy about that!  I got up, went downstairs and then came back up to the room. I went back to bed and watched a couple of videos. I fell asleep again. I woke up when my alarm went off, but then I fell back asleep and slept a bit later than I planned!

I got up, dressed and went downstairs to get my breakfast. That in hand, I came back upstairs and ate. I had a quiet morning/early afternoon today. I discovered that there is a concert at the aquarium on Saturday night. I sent the ad for it to F. If he’s feeling better we might go. We’ve seen one of the performers before and bought his CD. And, we listen to it! F is still coughing a lot so I don’t know if he’ll be better by Saturday or not. 

I went downstairs and made my lunch and then came back to the room. I watched an episode of Major Crimes today. I wanted something familiar and easy to watch. 

Around 5:30 F phoned to say he was on his way back to the house. A little later I went downstairs to get started on dinner. Tonight I did a simple one, nothing too strenuous. We had premade burgers, fries, salad, macaroni salad and cucumber pickle. I tried to put out some actual pickles, but neither of us could get the jar open! I tried, F tried but it wouldn’t budge. I think I need to try again with really hot water on the lid. Maybe!

Dinner was good and a lot of the food got eaten. After dinner, I cleared the table and then I did the dishes. 

I went upstairs after dinner and changed my clothes. F and I went to the grocery store and I bought the groceries for tomorrow. I think I got all the ones that I needed to get. I came back to the car and we came back to the house. I put the groceries away and then went upstairs.

I watched tonight’s episode of Yellowstone which started a tad early. Oops! Luckily I was recording it so I watched it from the beginning. 

At midnight I turned off the TV and turned to my buddy YouTube. F is sleeping which is something that I’m happy about. He’s not been sleeping well as he starts coughing all of a sudden. 

Tomorrow I have laundry to do and cooking dinner again. I hope it stays a bit cooler weather wise as well. 

Until tomorrow…. 

June 11, 2025

Wednesday - Cloudy with a bit of a drizzle, slightly cooler

About 10 minutes before I went to bed last night, F woke up and got up. Sigh. He was very noisy and even after I went to bed, he didn’t fall back asleep.

The first thing I knew this morning was F calling his office to tell them he was taking the day off. I was asleep and then all of a sudden I wasn’t. He proceeded to cough and wheeze for a while before he left to go to the doctor’s office. 

I slept a bit longer and watched some videos as well. I got up just about the time F came back from the doctor’s office. He made brunch for his mother, which annoyed me because I had made her a nice plate for her lunch last night. He got a bit annoyed with me because I wanted to have my breakfast and I dared to ask him to move! I only wanted my bowl and my cereal but he didn’t want to shift himself!

I did get my breakfast and I brought it upstairs to eat. I watched some YouTube and after a while, F asked me if I wanted to go out. I said I’d like to if he was okay. He had to go to the bank and I suggested getting coffees at Doutor. I could get a nice sandwich there too for my lunch. We did that. 

We had a nice time at Doutor. F decided that he wanted to have decaf coffee too and then complained later that he was sleepy! No one forced him to have decaf!

We came back to the house via the grocery store in the mall. I picked up a couple more things for me to eat as the sandwich was a little small. At the house, I brought my food upstairs and ate. I had some salmon salad sushi and an onigiri. They were nice, but not too much for me.

I relaxed for a while, I watched part of the news and then some more YouTube. Around 6 pm I went downstairs to start on dinner.

Tonight I was a little busy in the kitchen. I made a nila side dish, some cucumber sticks, salad and a pork stir-fry made with saké lees. It was very nice and something that I don’t usually serve. I’ve never made it before. 

After dinner I washed the dishes and then sorted out the garbage in the kitchen. There is always so much. K is a garbage making machine! I went upstairs when I was done and did up my garbage in the bedroom. F took it out tonight. 

I took a shower before 11pm and then came back upstairs and watched The Irrational. It was the last episode of the first season. Grey’s Anatomy comes back next week. Yay?!

Since midnight I’ve been watching a few YouTube videos and working on the things that I usually do at night. F was sleeping for ages, but he just woke up. I hope he goes back to sleep soon. He’s planning to go back to work tomorrow.

And that’s it for me. Not sure what I’ll get up to tomorrow, but if you come back, I’ll fill you in!

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

June 10, 2025

Tuesday - Hot and sunny, rainy at night

I woke up a bit late again, got up and went downstairs. I went back to bed for a bit, watched some videos and then snoozed. I got up, dressed and went downstairs to get my breakfast. What I also did was marinate the meat for dinner and make up an onion for an onion boil. Yay me.

I went upstairs with my breakfast and ate. I had a quiet couple of hours and just enjoyed myself. I watched a lot of YouTube! A bit later, I brought my lunch upstairs and ate while watching an episode of Magpie Murders. It was the last episode of the series and we found out whodunnit. That was cool. 

F texted to say that he might take tomorrow off work. He’s still not feeling well. He said he felt okay this morning, but by the afternoon he felt bad again. Sigh. I think if he’s sick he shouldn’t be at work anyway. 

He came back to the house around the same time that I went downstairs. I got stuck into washing my day’s dishes and then I started to cook dinner. I did coro-coro steak with an onion boil, Asian cucumber salad that I made, some bought kabocha salad and a salad. I had forgotten to ask F to make rice again, so I had to do the prepackaged stuff for dinner. No worries.

Dinner got decent reviews and most of it disappeared. I did the dishes and then listened to some podcasts while I did that.

F and I had to go to the store after dinner. I went in alone and did the shopping. I had asked K if she wanted something and she asked for orange juice. I bought her a carton, I hope she likes it! I don’t drink orange juice.

When we came back to the house I put away the groceries while tripping over F. He was making rice for tomorrow. I’m glad that he did that, but wished he could wait a few minutes for me to finish in the kitchen.

I went upstairs and relaxed for a bit. I watched FBI: International at 11pm and it was okay. It took place in London at a school. It was a bit….I think this is rapidly becoming my least favourite of the FBI shows.  

And that’s about it for the day. It was so hot this afternoon that I had to turn on the AC. It made it up to 30 degrees. Usually my limit is 28 so I was a tad surprised! I can’t believe it is this hot this early. And this super hot at that. 

I’m not sure what I’ll get up to tomorrow. It depends a lot on whether F is here or not. He’s currently awake and sitting up in bed at the moment, but I’m going to go to bed soon!

Until tomorrow….

June 9, 2025

Monday - Hot and sunny. Too hot!

I didn’t hear F get up this morning. I slept through my first alarm and ended up getting up about half an hour than usual! I went downstairs and then came back to the room. When I got back to the room I sorted my laundry, then went back to bed for a bit. I watched a couple of videos and then snoozed on.

When I got up later, I dressed and then went downstairs with my laundry and put it in the machine. I then went and prepared my breakfast and took it upstairs to eat.

A little later, I brought up my clean laundry and hung it up. Yay me. I had a relaxing morning and afternoon. I backed up my computer. I went downstairs around 2:45 to make my lunch. I brought it back upstairs and ate, and I watched an episode of The Good Fight. It was a humdinger and one of the lead characters got fired. I think something’s going to happen with that. 

After 4 pm, when the news was on, I updated my computer. I updated it to the newest OS. It took a while, but not as long as I thought it might. It’s all bright and shiny now! 

I didn’t hear from F at his usual time, but I knew that he had a driving assignment in another city so he might not be able to come back on time. I went downstairs and got stuck into dinner making. Of course, being Monday, I had to clean up the kitchen a bit. It’s so annoying that someone couldn’t do it himself yesterday. I know he was sick so I’m trying not to get too annoyed!

Tonight I made dinner and it was quite good. I decided to do bibinba rice with toaster oven chicken, cucumber pickle and some baby leaf salad. Dinner was nice. But I’m ahead of myself. F phoned just before 7 to say that he was on his way back to the house. I told him that I’d cooked so I was going to feed K and that he could eat when he got back. He was okay with that. 

K and I started and enjoyed our meal. She even asked for more rice, so that was quite good. F showed up around 7:30 so I got him a plate and a glass and we continued with our meal. He didn’t eat too much, but I think he was tired. 

After dinner, I washed the dishes and left the kitchen in a better state than I found it. I listened to my podcasts and enjoyed them too. 

I went upstairs after I finished and relaxed for a bit. I went downstairs after 10:30 and took a shower. I saw K a couple of times…I’m a tad worried about her.

I came back upstairs and watched another episode of Gotham. It was rather good today. I’m enjoying the series. It’s picked up from the beginning. 

And that’s about it for my day. I’m not sure what I’m going to get up to tomorrow. I might do more laundry and as always, there’s dinner tomorrow night. Sigh. 

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

June 8, 2025

 Sunday - Hot and sunny

I woke up at a fairly reasonable time this morning. F was up making breakfast for his mother I think. He came up to the room to find his phone and spent some time looking for it. He had left it in the kitchen. 

He soon went off to the Sunday Doctor and I went back to sleep. I heard F’s car come back a couple of hours later and I started to get up and get dressed.

We talked about where to go for lunch and I suggested yakiniku. F didn’t like that idea at first, but then decided it was okay. We headed off to Togashi and had a very nice lunch. My idea was to go to K’s Denki (electric shop) which is near Togashi to make a return but F had forgotten to bring his phone. We went back to the house and picked it up. Then, we went back to K’s Denki. 

We took in my cord and asked to have the money refunded. It had a loose connection and I had a lot of problems with it. Of course, the guy at the store couldn’t see any problem with it. The new cord I bought last week works so I don’t know what to say! I did get my money back and F and I left. 

Next up, we checked out a new store. Muji Store just opened in Tsuruoka on Friday and I wanted to see it. We went over and at first the parking lot was full, but we were able to snag a spot when someone left!  We went in. F tried on a shirt but I thought it was too small. I really only wanted the food section. I got some drip decaf coffee and some nuts, F got some doughnuts for K. We paid and left.

F wanted to go to Musashi, the hardware store again. Today he was after fish supplies. Sigh. I am not a fan of his fish. He bought a second tank today for the “baby fish” that just arrived. Eye roll.

We hit up a drugstore to get some throat candy for F. He’s got a very hoarse voice and a nasty cough. He sounds terrible. 

After this, we came back to the house. F set up his new tank I think and I went upstairs. It was very hot in our room, somewhere around 28℃, which is a lot more than I am happy with. I watched some videos and then a bit later, F came upstairs to lie down.  

After a while, I joined him on the bed and we talked about dinner. Since he wasn’t feeling well, we decided that we’d do gyudon and bring one back for K. We’d also get our groceries too.

We went to the newish gyudon shop and I had the chicken kebab bowl. It was very good, but so spicy. At least the sauce was.  F had a garlic and beef dish. He thought it was a donburi, but it wasn’t. I thought it was funny!

We went to grocery store PAL and went in. F let me do the shopping alone so that was nice. I got most of the things we need, but I couldn’t get onigiri for F and his mother’s breakfast tomorrow. That’s okay. I got them something else.

We came back to the house and I put the groceries away. F gave his mother the gyudon so she was happy. I went upstairs when I was finished and decided I’d watch a movie. Tonight I decided to watch Fountain of Youth on Apple TV. Well, I’d heard it wasn’t great, but it sounded like a bit of fun. When I saw the credits I was a little sad to see that it was a Guy Ritchie film. Sigh. I really don’t think he is that great. He has made some good movies, but in my opinion, not for a long time.

Well the movie was okay but not great. It’s entirely missable which is too bad as the cast was game and pretty good. It was a mix of much better movies, a meh mix that is!

And that’s been my day. F has to go to work tomorrow, but I’m a bit worried about him. Hopefully the sleep he’s getting tonight and the medicine that the doctor gave him today will help and he’ll be okay on his driving assignment. 

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