December 10, 2013

Tuesday - rainy

Day 3 of the War

An okay day.  I got up this morning and checked my email. I had a few that had to be dealt with right away.  After that, I watched Veronica (only a few more episodes left) and had some breakfast. 

I got a bookmooch request during the day, so I prepared it to go in the mail, and wrote up a couple of postcards.  It's less stressful doing a few a day.  I was going to walk to the post office, but although it was raining, it wasn't terrible.  It was very, very windy out there!  

I got to the post office before it closed and sent off my book.  I think the postal clerk thought I was daft because I sent it by sea mail and not the expensive air mail that he thought I should use!  Ha!  

I came home and waited to see how F would be when he came home.  The answer was not good.  He was still angry, but later on we had an argument and got a few things out.  There doesn't seem to be a resolution for now, but he now claims that he doesn't want to eat with me ever again.  He's also blaming me again for not letting him eat fish, which is ludicrous because I have never stopped him from eating fish!  I can't count the number of times that he has changed his order to whatever I'm having!  Which, by the way, is usually chicken. 

He stormed off for a while so I made my dinner.  Tonight it was the pancakes that I had read about in Mark Bittman's newspaper column.  Basically just flour, egg, and a bit of water.  I put some bacon and some cheese in mine and fried them up.  I had them with a little sour cream and a salad.  Yum.   Really nice.  

I was finishing my prep when he came out of the bedroom. He dressed and went to the store.  He came back with some food for himself and made his dinner.

We talked a little bit later on, but it wasn't pleasant really.  He'd ask me something and then take it back, it was annoying really.  He is insisting that we don't eat together anymore.  At the moment, it is fine with me.  The only problem is that with winter coming I don't really have a way to get food here at home.  Anyway, we'll work those details out soon.

The rest of the evening I was subjected to Japanese TV…in other words, torture! He finally went to bed and it was all I could do to not jump up and down in happiness.  

Tomorrow I'm not really sure what I'll get up to.  I might go out if the weather is decent.  I'd love to get my hair cut, it's getting much too long, or I might stay home and work on my column, which I have finally started.  Yay for that! Come back and see what I do!  Night.

December 9, 2013

Monday - Sunny and warm

Day 2 of the War

I got up this morning and made the bed.  I watched Veronica and afterwards I took a shower.

I wrote up a couple of postcards, scanned them, and took them, and 4 books that had been mooched from me to the post office. First up, I went to the bank and got my bank book updated, then the post office near the bank.  The woman took ages to do everything, but I had checked prices, etc on the internet before I came, so I knew exactly how much everything would cost.  

I came home a different way so I could enjoy the sunshine.  It was so lovely to be out and not have it raining for a change.  I stopped at a convenience store to get a few things for my late lunch and then came home.

I relaxed for a while, but when F came home he wouldn't talk to me at all and went to bed.  I tried going in to talk to him, but he was being his usual mulish self. It was annoying.  I left as I wasn't getting anywhere except angry.

Later he got up and gave me some money for dinner because he "couldn't eat with me anymore". Gee thanks.  

I waited for a while in case he'd eat or decide to go out, but nothing happened.  I went to the grocery store and picked up some food for myself and came home.  

He's still up, now making bread.  That's annoying since it is supposed to be my bread maker, but I never use it.  I never have the chance.  I just hope he's not taking the bread to work with him.  

I ate my dinner and it was quite good.  I had katsudon from the store.  

Tomorrow, I'm not sure what I'll get myself up to.  I may go out in the afternoon and try for a haircut, or I may stay home and work on my column.  I haven't decided yet.  Will I be talked to tomorrow?  Hmm, doubtful.  Got to go.  Night!

December 8, 2013

Sunday - Rainy

Oh boy…

So, yesterday I was rather fearful of going to that restaurant in Sakata, remember?  It was with good reason.  Sigh.  

We stayed up late last night, F got up fairly early, I didn't really, but I was up and dressed before 12:30.  I sat at my computer and used it while F decided what to do with himself.  He had made bread so he gave us some. It wasn't bad, it was raisin and cinnamon I think.  

We went out late to Sakata and got there around 3 pm.  We both thought it was closed, but sadly it wasn't.  We went in.  It wasn't busy so we ordered and while we were waiting for our meals to come, I offered to buy him a drink from the vending machine.  At that time, the staff started yelling at us.  I had no idea what they were saying of course, but F said rather rudely that if I went to the desk they'd give me a coin to have the drink at a discount.  It made no difference to me.  F decided he wouldn't drink anything and there wasn't anything I wanted anyway, so I got some water for myself, after asking him if he wanted some.  I sat down and started to eat my meal which had now arrived.  

All of a sudden F started reaming me out, telling me over and over again how stupid I was for not saving 50 yen…I got tired of it and told him I was really sick and tired of him treating me like I was a child.  I told him to stop telling me off.  And those were the last words we spoke to each other today.  

As soon as he finished eating, he left.  He went downstairs and then went and hid somewhere.  I finished, went to the car, but he wasn't there, so I walked back to the building, just as he walked out.  He went to the car, started it up.  He did let me in, but the whole way back to Tsuruoka we didn't say anything to each other.  We arrived at our apartment, he drove me to the door, I got out and he drove off. 

That was it for a few hours. He came home after a while.  He didn't talk to me at all.  He made ramen for his dinner, went to bed.  After he did, I made my dinner, washed up afterwards.  I've had a lovely evening by myself.  I actually mean that!

I've thought about why I don't like that restaurant.  It reminds me of a barn.  It's noisy and the tables are long and remind me of troughs.  Yes, the fish is good and fresh, but that's it.  So what.  I wouldn't swap it for one of the restaurants that I like going to.  F has named a few restaurants as ones that he won't go to again, that's how I feel about that place.  

Anyway, I'm not sure what I'll get up to tomorrow.  I might go out if the weather is okay, if not, I'll probably stay home for a bit.  Wish me luck!  Night.

December 7, 2013

Saturday - Rainy, snowy, clearing later on

A good day.  I got up fairly early and F came home soon after that.  After a little I got dressed and we went out for lunch.  Today it was the turn of Pacific Airy Heights.  We both had the same thing, herb grilled chicken and it was good.

We did some shopping and errand running after lunch, got a lot done.  Yay us.  We ordered our chicken for Christmas, bought some cheese, got some cash, and then came home.  We vegged for a while and then went over to Mikawa.

In the mall, F immediately went to have ramen(!) while I went to look at yarn in Aeon!  I spent a few happy minutes walking through the aisles and then  buying yarn.  I got enough for a couple of projects, a lap afghan and a scarf, or a hat to match my new coat.  

F came and met me and we went for me to have dinner.  I went to the pasta restaurant and F came too. He had a small pizza and I had pasta.  It was good, and came much faster than the last time I was there.  

F and I went up to the theater and bought our tickets, then I waited in the popcorn line while he ran our stuff to the car.  Then, we went in to see 47 Ronin.  I had a rough idea of the story, so I kind of knew what was going on, but it had been changed a bit.  It was fun, until the end.  Hiroyuki Sanada was great as always, and Rinko Kikuchi was creepy, and Keanu was Keanu.  I know it wasn't the original version of the story, but it was entertaining.  

After the movie we just came home.  F has requested that we go to the restaurant at the port in Sakata tomorrow for lunch.  I hate that place.  It's loud, busy, confusing and I have never had an actual meal there.  F and I usually end up fighting because he keeps "suggesting" foods for me that I hate.  This may not end well.  

I want to grab my yarn and start one of my projects, but right now, I just don't have time.  I hope that if we go all the way to Sakata for lunch, we do something else while we're there.  Wish me luck with that!  Night.

December 6, 2013

Friday - Rainy…as usual

An okay day.

I got up quite early this morning and came through to the living room.  I debated taking an early shower, but didn't.  I watched my morning telly and then went and took my shower.  In the afternoon I had breakfast and then lunch.  I finished up the rest of the fajitas and they were still good.  Yum.

In the afternoon, although it was raining, it didn't seem to be too bad, so I rode over to the post office.  I mailed my cards and then went into the post office to buy stamps.  I got three kinds today, so I had better send a lot of cards soon!

I came home and relaxed for a bit.  When F came home he seemed in a slightly better mood than last night, which was good. He wanted to go for a massage, so I suggested going to the new Subway for dinner. It just opened today.  

We went to the one in the mall and F didn't really know about ordering, so he just ordered for himself.  The bad thing was, I was ahead of him.  I expected him to say that we were together and get the woman to do my order at the same time…but, he didn't.  Then, when I told him that he should have told her we were together, he got upset at me.  I dunno…he always gets upset with me these days. Anyway, I loved my sandwich…he thought his was okay.  

We went to return a key to his office, but he couldn't find it.  We went to the internet cafe and when he was in the parking area, he found the key.  We went back to the office and he returned the key.  Then, we went back to the internet cafe.

We spent a little over 4 hours there tonight.  I watched a bit of TV and did some reading.  We both had other things to eat there.  It was quite relaxing tonight.  I think I have finally figured out how to work the darn chairs!  They are all in kanji so the controls are a bit difficult for me.  

We left and came home via a convenience store.  At home, we watched a bit of TV, including the two Expendables movies.  They were pretty bad, but fun.  

And that's my day. It was okay really.  I'm not sure what we'll get up to tomorrow, but I hope it'll be okay.  I'm hoping to get some shopping done, but I don't know if it will get done in time.  That's it for me.  Night.

December 5, 2013

Thursday - rainy

An okay day.  

I woke up this morning when F called me.  He'd found a couple of Christmas presents to my sister's family that must have fallen out of the bag on the floor of his car!  Yikes.  We thought we'd sent everything.  He asked me to package them up and he'd send them later in the day.

I did put them in an envelope and got them ready for him to take out again.  

I had a quiet morning apart from that.  I wrote a couple more Postcrossing cards, and later on scanned them and a bunch of the incoming ones I have.  I uploaded them, did what I could and then I didn't even take them to the post office.  It was raining really hard today, and it gets dark so early.  

F was late home today and in a strange mood when he arrived.  I had just washed dishes and had sat down for a bit when he came in.  He barely talked to me, turned on the TV to figure skating and then ignored me.  

I got dinner started and had it ready fairly quickly.  For a change he wasn't too difficult to get to the table.  It was really nice too.  We had pasta with our own preferred sauce, a rolled chicken and vegetables thing to share, plus salad.  It was good.  

F did the dishes and watched more sports.  Things went fairly well until 11 when I reminded him that I wanted to watch something at 11:15.  For some reason, F doesn't know how to use the short cuts on the remote control, so I was trying to tell him what to do. He yelled at me for speaking to him while he was trying to read.  A few minutes later I told him that I thought he was really rude for telling me not to talk.  I would of course, have changed the TV for myself if I hadn't have been peeling a couple of pears for us, and trying to make tea.  He stormed off to the bedroom, then the bath while I watched my show.  And it was good!  Much better without him around to make noise in the last 10 minutes!

I got some crochet done too during the show.  Yay, first time in ages.  I'm so glad.  

The rest of the evening I was ignored and I watched the end of a movie and turned off the TV.  Oh dear.  Don't much care!

Tomorrow if the weather clears up I'll go out.  I have to get out soon and run some errands.  I have to!  If it doesn't, I may have to go out anyway! Wish me luck.  Night.

December 4, 2013

Wednesday - Clear and sunny

A good day.

I got up in time to watch Veronica Mars.  F, bless him, had actually tuned in on the TV for me. Yay.

We had a quick breakfast, and I finished up the cards.  I sealed the last ones I had written last night.  Yay.  They were ready to go.

We relaxed for a bit and then went out in the afternoon.  We first went to the post office and mailed off the cards. Done!  They were regular price too, so they went air mail and didn't cost as much as last year.  I think I will have to buy my cards in Japan instead of in Canada.  They were so expensive to send last year.

We had a quick lunch at Cocos (we both had rice gratin, different ingredients though) and then headed over to the doctor's office.  We got our flu shots, paid and left.  We had a quick tea and cake in the mall, F bought himself a couple of things in the grocery shop, and off we went.  

We came home and I relaxed.  F got changed for his chiropractic appointment and then left.  I spent some time working on a few projects that I needed to work on and answering email and more.  

When F came home it was close to 9 pm, so we didn't have a lot of choice for restaurants.  We went to Kappa Sushi.  It was okay.  It wasn't great and they were out of many of our favourite types of sushi.  Then we went to the grocery store to get a few things for dinner tomorrow.  It'll be pasta again, but it'll be fine.  We can have different pasta sauces too.

We had a relaxing time in the evening.  I worked on things on my computer and finished my book, Mrs. Polifax on Safari.  I'd read it years ago, but bookmooched it a few months ago. I love it!

That's about it for me.  I have a few errands to run tomorrow if the weather holds and I hope it will.  I also have to get my column written very soon.  Sigh. No ideas at the moment on what to write.  I hope inspiration finds me soon! I must go.  Night!