January 24, 2026

 Saturday - Snowy and cold

I woke up fairly early this morning. F was still in bed, or he just got back to bed, I’m not sure. I went downstairs and then he got up to make breakfast for his mother. We looked outside and there was a lot of snow. Although I offered to help F with it he turned me down, so I went back to bed!

I snoozed for a bit but dragged myself out finally. I got dressed and started to get ready for going out. I went downstairs and checked in with F. He was playing games on his phone again. He seemed a bit confused about us going out, but he knew we had to! 

We left around 10:30 and saw the snowplough at the corner. The driver let us go by and we made our way over to the doctor’s office. We did a lot of waiting and we both had blood tests and then we had to pay and went to the pharmacy.

I chatted with F about lunch and he suggested Arpeggio. I was fine with that, so we drove over there and went in. F got to have his 10 item-tray again and I had the chicken tenders set meal. It was lovely.

After dinner, we hit up Gyomu Supa for some kitchen necessities. It’s an interesting place, but I didn’t manage to get some of the things I wanted. Still, I got a few things, and some pickles too. Yay!

We came back to the house and had to shovel snow as the snowplough had blocked the entrance to the house. F had it done in 5 minutes, I’m sure I’d have taken 20 minutes at least. I cleared the steps to the house and part of the path. 

We went in and I put away the groceries. I headed upstairs and relaxed for a while. F did come upstairs after a while, but had to go down again when his mother was due to arrive back. 

F gave his mother her dinner and then we had to decide about our dinner. I gave F a few options and we decided on going to the Taiwan Restaurant we’ve been going to for a while. We parked and then got a table inside. F had the Subuta set meal and I had the Yurinchi set meal. Chicken again! It came with some spicy-sauced tofu and unfortunately some of it fell on my favourite shirt. I’m not happy about it.

On the way back to the house we stopped both at the grocery store for F to buy stuff for K’s breakfast and dinner then the drugstore to get more stuff for the house. 

We came back to the house and F spent a bit of time shovelling snow again. I went in and unpacked his groceries for him. I went upstairs and chilled for a while until the heater heated up the room. I also tried washing my shirt in the washing machine with some spot cleaner. Unfortunately, the stain is still there. I’ll try and clean it again on Monday or so. This is one of my favourite shirts so I’m upset about it. 

At 11pm I watched the new show The Hunting Party. It has possibilities. I quite like it so far. When it was over, I stopped the heater and took the tank downstairs to refill. We’re going through a lot of kerosene because we’re here at the house a lot and it’s so darn cold. 

Since midnight, I’ve been watching some YouTube and getting ready to go to bed. I’m not sure what we’ll get up to tomorrow as we will have to do the proper grocery shop and try to get ready for tonight. 

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

January 23, 2026

Friday - Cold and snowy

I slept in again today, I originally woke up before my alarm though, but only by a few minutes. I went downstairs and then came back upstairs. I sorted my laundry and then went back to sleep for a while. 

When I got up, I took my laundry downstairs, started the first load in the machine and then girded up my loins (and all the other parts) to go outside to the snow. I was outside for about 30 minutes and I did manage to clear a lot of snow. The snowplough had gone through a little earlier, so I moved the small wall it had made. The part near the door that I had cleared got covered over, the snow was coming down that fast. I was freezing and my fingers were really cold. All of a sudden, it stopped snowing and the sun came out and it was gorgeous! It even warmed up a bit too!

I went back inside and scared K a little. She must have felt me banging my boots on the steps to get the snow off them. I think K scared me too as I didn’t expect to see her there!

I came inside and a few minutes later swapped my laundry over. I took my clean clothes upstairs and hung them up, then went back for my breakfast. I came upstairs and ate. 

A bit later I went downstairs to make my lunch. I also set the heater in the kitchen to turn on right away. It is so cold that it takes ages for the kitchen to get anywhere near warm.

I ate my lunch and today watched an episode of Elsbeth. Alan Ruck was in it today and it was a good episode really. 

F called around 5:30 to say he was on his way back. I got ready and went downstairs to the kitchen just before 6. I got things ready in the kitchen. F was a little late because he stopped at a grocery store to get his mother’s breakfast for tomorrow. 

Dinner tonight was okay. We had cut bacon, salad, and pasta with a lemon-olive oil sauce. F and K also had some mini-tomatoes which disappeared!

I did the dishes after dinner and then went upstairs to relax when I was done. After 10 I went downstairs to take a shower and it was blooming cold! I didn’t want to take my clothes off, but it is a little difficult to take a shower in a winter coat!

I came back upstairs after turning off the water and watched an episode of The Great British Sewing Bee. It was an episode I saw before, probably on NHK or something. 

F went to bed fairly early and I really need to get there soon too. We’ve got a doctor appointment in the morning and so I need to get up and be a reasonable person in the morning!

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

January 22, 2026

Thursday - Snowy and cold

I woke up this morning because of my alarm. It was amazing! The first time I’ve woken up like that this week I think. I got up, went downstairs, checked out how much snow was outside and decided to go back to bed for a while!

I woke up later and got up. I dressed and then went downstairs. I put on my coat and hat, tied up my boots and went out to shovel some snow. I worked for 30 or 40 minutes I think and got most of it cleared away. I went back into the house and made my breakfast. I ate upstairs and relaxed for a while too. 

I had a quiet afternoon. My breakfast was quite late, but I still had to have lunch! I enjoyed it and watched an episode of The Good Fight. It was an interesting one with Rob Reiner as the judge in it. That made me really sad, but happy to see him again. 

F called around 5:30 so I went downstairs around 6pm to start dinner. Tonight we had chicken drumsticks done in the air fryer, steamed veggies, salad, potato salad and rice. Most of dinner disappeared, so that’s good!

Afterwards, I cleared the table and then did the dishes. I listened to my podcasts while I was working so it was good for me!

When I finished, I let F know I was going upstairs to change. A few minutes later, we were outside and he was clearing off the car again. Oh no. The snow was quite deep outside. F had been home for 3 hours at that time. 

We drove to Mina, the grocery store and F helped me put the old meat trays and the juice cartons in to be recycled. Then he went back to the car and I did the shopping. I didn’t get much at the grocery store, just a few things for tomorrow’s breakfasts and dinner. 

On the way back to the house we made another stop. Our local drugstore had closed in October I think for renovations, well, today they reopened. It was more of a rebuild than a renovation as the old drugstore was torn down and completely rebuilt. It was nice inside! F and I toured the store a bit and got some snacks and I found a new kind of tea that I haven’t seen before. It is a mikan rooibos. I made myself a cup tonight and it was lovely. I told F I liked it and he asked for some too! I made him some as I’m so darn nice!

We came back to the house and relaxed. I watched an episode of Evil and it was a bit scary tonight, plus an episode of The Reluctant Traveller with Eugene Levy. Tonight he was in Vienna going to a ball. It was interesting, but I’d rather have seen more of Vienna!

I turned off the water downstairs after midnight and also filled up the kerosene tank in our heater. I brought the tank upstairs. I maybe could have run it until I go to bed, but even if I did, my first chore tomorrow would be to fill it up, so I’d rather do it tonight!

F has long gone to bed and honestly, I should get there too. I’m a tad worried that he might need help with the snow tomorrow, so I should try and get a lot of sleep. 

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

January 21, 2026

Wednesday - Cold and a bit snowy

I woke up this morning when F started moaning that his leg was cramping. He was up, getting ready for work and he got a bad cramp. He decided not to go to work today. I went downstairs and then came back to bed and went back to sleep. I slept a bit late and went downstairs. I slept on a bit, but did get up a bit earlier than usual. 

F and his mother were eating in the living room and watching TV. I have no problems with that. I decided that I’d fill up the kerosene tank, which I did. After I brought it back upstairs, I went back downstairs to get my yogurt for upstairs. I was eating my breakfast when F came back upstairs and asked if I wanted to go out for lunch. I told him I didn’t, I was just eating my breakfast! I did ask if HE wanted to go out, but he said he didn’t. 

I had a pretty quiet day. F spent a lot of the day downstairs and then when he did come back upstairs, he went to bed. He was complaining about the cold. Fair enough, our bed area is far from the heater and it takes a while to heat up. 

I grabbed my lunch around 2:30 and brought it upstairs. I ate and watched Project Runway Season 21. To be honest, I’m not loving this season at all. They don’t announce who is “Auf’d” until the next show and the designers aren’t all that. I miss Tim Gunn! Heidi is back, and she’s okay, but the new judge…that stylist guy just seems bitchy at the moment!

I went downstairs around 6pm and got started on dinner. I washed dishes and then I began to do the prepwork. I cut up some cabbage for a side dish, and a little bit of the main dish, plus the chikuwa for the main dish. I also had to slice the meat into bite size pieces. After all of that, I started to cook. I made a stir-fry with konbu and pork and chikuwa. We had that with a steamed cabbage dish, potato salad, salad and rice. 

I got it on the table a few minutes after 7pm. It was nice. F actually said that it was a good dinner and I didn’t have to ask him if he was enjoying it! Yay for me!

I did the dishes after dinner and while I was listening to my podcasts on my little speaker, the speaker’s battery ran down. Darn! I listened on my phone after that. 

I did up the garbage and then did a bit of cleaning in the sink as well. I got F to help me put K’s garbage in the bag and then I closed the bag and put it in the genkan. I went upstairs after that. 

I changed into my pyjamas upstairs and then relaxed with a few YouTube videos. Around 10:20 I started to get ready to go downstairs to take a shower. I talked to F and all of a sudden he gave me a weird look and said that he’d already turned off the water. What? It was only a bit after 10pm. And I wanted to take a shower. It’s cold here right now so he had turned the water off so it wouldn’t freeze. He didn’t think that I might want a shower. 

I turned the water back on and took my shower. It was a bit chilly getting out of the shower though. After my shower, I did turn the water back off. I don’t want to worry about the water freezing overnight. 

I came back upstairs and watched Wild Cards. It was obviously the last episode of the second season. I hope there’ll be more. It’s a silly show, but the leads are cute and it’s filmed in Vancouver, so what else could you ask for?

I had a quiet evening with some more YouTube videos. F went to sleep a while ago. I can hear the snowploughs out and about tonight. I hope that they don’t block our entry way too much or F will have a hard time getting out of the house to go to work. I hope he goes to work tomorrow!

Well, that’s it for me for today. Tomorrow I hope to work on a craft project, maybe have a look at my latest column that I need to start soon and who knows

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

January 20, 2026

Tuesday - Snowy and cold

I woke up this morning before 7 am. F had already left so I’m not sure why I woke up! I went downstairs and then came back upstairs and went back to bed, after I turned off F’s alarm! I left some of my alarms and I woke up a couple of hours later. I made another trip downstairs and then went back to bed again for a little bit. Silly me.

I got up, dressed and went downstairs. I checked the mail and received a lovely birthday card from my bestie. My birthday is next month, she’s just very well organized! I made my breakfast and then made up a couple of dishes for our dinner. I marinated the Coro-Coro steak and set up for an onion boil. I put both in the fridge for later.

I did a couple of loads of laundry and then hung them up in my room afterwards. I finished around 3 pm. I went outside for a bit and did a bit of snow shovelling. It was cold outside. The snow wasn’t deep, but parts were icy so I tried to get rid of the ice. 

I went back into the house and then made my lunch. I took it upstairs and ate. I didn’t have time to watch anything unfortunately. I watched the news and tried not to pay attention to some of it. 

F called at his usual time and said that he was going to run some errands before coming back to the house. That was fine. I went down to the kitchen around 6 and got started on my work. I turned on the heater in the living room, it was about 6 degrees in there. Brr. 

Tonight’s dinner was good. I did heat up my sister-in-law’s curry for us, and we had that with the onion boil, salad, and the coro-coro steak. It was really nice. I did the dishes after we ate and listened to my podcasts which I enjoyed.

I got changed and then F and I headed to the grocery store to pick up something for dinner for the next couple of days. I also got things that are good for the rest of the week. I came back to the car and we came back to the house.

I put away the groceries and then headed upstairs. I spent time on my computer and F made some onigiri for us. It was nice of him but I didn’t need it! I did eat it though. 

I watched tonight’s episode of FBI: Most Wanted. It’s just about finished, the show I mean. I think there’s only one more episode or something. 

And that’s about it for my day. Tomorrow I’ll probably have to go and shovel some snow. The weather is going to be very nasty over the next few days. They are advising people not to go out unless absolutely necessary. Boo!

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

January 19, 2026

Monday - Rainy, sunny and warmish

I woke up this morning around 6 am and had to go downstairs. F was still asleep but I almost tripped over some of his stuff and I woke him up. Sigh. I went downstairs, then came back and tripped over his bottle of water again. He woke up and I don’t think he got back to sleep again. I went back to sleep and mostly slept through him leaving for work and then my alarms. I got up a bit later and went downstairs, then came back to bed!

I got up later and dressed, then went downstairs. F’s sister was there. Sigh. She did say hi but I didn’t go in to see her. I don’t like it when she just shows up and basically lets herself in. I can’t say anything because she’s visiting her mother and I don’t want her to not visit her. Does that make sense?

I took my breakfast upstairs and ate. I had a quiet time. I also did a small load of laundry. I needed to wash my usual pants and house sweater as I’ve been wearing them non-stop for weeks! 

Later on I made my lunch and came back upstairs to eat that. I watched an episode of Elspeth and it had Eric McCormack on it. It’s always nice to see Canadians on shows! I watched the news when it finished and wonder again at how some people live with themselves.

F called me at his usual time, but told me he was still working. His boss was in a meeting and he had to wait until they were done. He said he’d call me when he was finished.

I went downstairs to get dinner started, I did the dishes and I decided that since we had bought new milk yesterday I would throw out the old milk. It was from the beginning of December. Don’t blame me…I don’t drink milk and rarely cook with it. Well, I looked in the carton and it was practically yogurt or cottage cheese. I poured it out, keeping the solids in my corner basket in the sink! YUCK. I wanted to throw it out before but anytime I mention that to F he says that he’ll drink it. I don’t think he did. 

F finally around close to 7 pm and said that his sister had been by and left some food for us. She’d made some kabocha curry or something. Well, it didn’t fit into my meal plan and since everything else was just about ready I didn’t want to heat it up tonight. F got quite pouty at that. I did offer to do it, but he whined a bit and then whined more that he wanted some of the pickles that she’d provided too. I put them out on the table but didn’t have any.

F was very pouty all through dinner. He helped himself to extra rice and I thought that he probably wouldn’t want any dessert. Since we had fresh milk I planned to make a dessert. He said he would like dessert so I cleared the table and made up the dessert in the kitchen. It was just a packet that I mix with milk, but it was nice. We all enjoyed the peach dessert and K even said it was delicious! I guess she needs more desserts?!

I did the dishes and then when I was finished said goodnight to K and F and went upstairs. I relaxed for a while and then went downstairs after 10:30 to take a shower. 

When I got back to the room I watched the next episode of Pluribus. It was good and left us on a big cliffhanger. F fell asleep so I turned off his light. 

Since midnight I have been working on my online stuff and now I’m about done! Tomorrow I plan to do more laundry and I have to prepare for dinner as well. The dinner I’m planning needs some prep. 

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

January 18, 2026

Sunday - Clear and sunny, warmish

I dragged myself out of bed around noon today. I got dressed and then made a quick trip downstairs. A little later, F came upstairs and asked if I’d like some of his chicken rice dish. He’d made it early in the day and it smelled gorgeous. I took some of his rice and it was okay. The add-ins were great, but the rice felt a bit mushy in my opinion. 

After we ate and had a nice hot drink, we decided to go out. We went for lunch to Gusto because both restaurants are close to a Yamaya. I wanted to pick up some tea and F said it was okay. We went over to the Shinsai-Machi Gusto and were seated right away. I had a burger and shared some fries with F. He had their kara-age set meal and said it was okay. 

We had a nice time there and enjoyed our meal. When we left, I used my points to reduce the price of our meal so it was a tiny bit cheaper for us. Yay.

We went over to Yamaya and I got a couple of boxes of rooibos tea. I got a caramel one and an organic one. F picked up quite a few things, mostly noodle based!

Next up we went to PAL shopping area and did the shopping. F needed stuff for the dinner he was making and I needed stuff for the next two night’s of dinners plus some breakfast and lunch foods. F came in with me and didn’t annoy me too much. He did do a bit of Walkabout but it was fine!

We came back to the house where he did get a bit annoying. He keeps unpacking the shopping bag and putting things all over the kitchen. I wish he’d just leave everything IN the shopping bag. My preference is to put the bag down near the fridge and put things straight in, but he doesn’t do that! I thought I had finished putting things away, but he’d put the meat for tomorrow’s dinner over by the sink. Why? Anyway, I put it away. 

I went upstairs and I think F came up soon after. I watched some YouTube and F told me that dinner would be ready around 7pm. He was a tad early. I decided that I wouldn’t really help him tonight. So, he put dinner on the table, Japanese style with a million plates. Oh well, I wasn’t washing dishes tonight. He also forgot to put drinks out for us, but I didn’t say anything! He had bought some tuna sashimi for tonight and had forgotten to put it out so I did remind him about that. He put it out quickly.

When the meal was over I did give him a tiny bit of help, I opened the door for him and carried a couple of things to the kitchen. Then, I left to go upstairs!Tee hee! 

F came upstairs around 9pm. I was watching some YouTube but I decided I’d watch a movie off the DVR tonight. I did invite F to watch with me but he begged off. I finally decided I’d watch Beetlejuice and it was a hoot. It’s been a while since I saw the original movie. 

During the movie, I unpicked a bit more of my blanket and wound the yarn into balls for myself. I’m not sure how much of it I’m going to take down!

After the movie, I went downstairs and then came back up to the room. F has gone to bed but I’m not sure if he’s asleep or not yet. He’s back at work tomorrow.

I’m not sure what I’m going to get up to tomorrow. I might do a bit of laundry because I need things to dry before I go out on Tuesday night! 

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