May 21, 2013

Tuesday - humid and sunny

A good day.

I got up this morning a little late and watched some TV.  After that, I read the paper and received F's call about lunch.  He came home for lunch with a bento. 

After he left I did a few more things.  I was just going to get ready to make my lunch when I heard the door again.  Yes, F came back for another visit.  This time, he brought me a drink.  A Gateau Chocola.  It sounded yummy, so I opened it up and took a sip.  Coffee!  Yikes.  The first time I've had any coffee in about two years.  I stopped drinking it because I couldn't sleep.  He knew that.  He didn't check the label, and neither did I.  Silly me.  

F went back to his job and I got onto my lunch.  I had a leftover piece of chicken from last night, and a cucumber on crispbreads, and half an avocado on my lovely sunflower seed bread.  Yum.  One of the nicest lunches I've had in ages.  

I biked to work, making a quick trip through the drugstore and then got to my school.  I set everything up, changed, dusted the shelves and my student cancelled.  Sigh.  I spent her class time in my school, reading old papers and doing other paperwork.  I decided after 6 that as it was still light out, I'd just ride home.

I had a lovely bike ride and came home.  F was happy but surprised to see me as I hadn't called to tell him I was on my way.

After a long while, we went out for dinner to his Chinese restaurant.  We both had "variety" meals.  He had ramen and chahan, I had hoi-koro and fried chicken. I liked the meal a lot.

When we came home, I tried on my dress, a dress rehearsal so to speak!  I'm glad I did as there was almost a wardrobe malfunction, so I'd rather find out about that here, rather than in Kyoto!  

I watched a bit of TV at 11 and did a little crochet too. I'm starting to worry about the amount of wool that I have left.  I'm hoping it'll be enough, but…

Anyway, that's it for me for tonight.  I won't update tomorrow unless something worthy happens, so don't wait up.  I'll be away until next Monday night. Hopefully I'll be off having a great time.  Got to go.  Night!

May 20, 2013

Monday - Muggy and cloudy

A good day.

This morning I got up a little late, but decided to keep to my plan.  I had some of my yummy bread and some yogurt for breakfast (I typed breadfast at first!)

I left the apartment on time and biked over to Machi-kine.  I think I took every wrong turn that I possibly could, but still managed to get there on time.  What was I going to see?  The Way We Were.  I didn't love it, but I did appreciate seeing it.  Streisand was much better than I expected.  After years of watching impersonators or people making fun of her, it was nice to see the real thing.  One of the people in the theatre fell asleep and we could hear his snoring during some of the quiet moments.

After the movie I was leaving the theatre when I noticed some young women asking people to fill in a survey.  I laughed to myself, thinking that they wouldn't bother asking me.  Well, they didn't, but someone else did!  A man stopped me politely and asked his survey in English.  I think he was surprised to hear that I live in Japan.  Anyway, survey about the theatre done, I left and went on my way.  

I did a little shopping and bank visiting, then headed over to the mall. I toured the 100yen shop and then had a tea and a sandwich in Doutors.  I had a lovely Honey and Mint Royal Milk Tea, which is their newest special drink.  It was very nice.  The mint added a little something.  

After my drink, I headed home.  I made good time and got home around 5.  I didn't waste my time though.  I swept the first floor of our apartment building and then I vacuumed our apartment.  Yay me.

F came home around 6 and a little later I made dinner.  We had stir-fried asparagus, salad, cucumber sticks, and chicken.  It was good.  F was quite pleased with it I think.  

After he did dishes, he headed out for a walk and I started packing.  I try to do it day by day, so that I have at least a full outfit for each day, but sometimes it is difficult. I have heard that Kyoto is very hot right now, and since I am not great in hot weather, I have to think cool!  Added onto everything else is the problem that I can't get some of my favourite things to wear clean enough.  Boo!  

We each watched a bit of TV in the evening .  I did some crochet on the couch.  I am nearing the end of my cushion cover and I'm starting to worry that I might run out of wool.  So far so good though.  

Anyway, that's about it for me.  Oh, I'll slip in a picture of my lovely bread.  If you look at it close up you might see some of the sunflower seeds.  It is so delicious!  Night!

May 19, 2013

Sunday - cloudy with rain later on

A really, really nice day.

I got up before 12 today, checked email and even made a few phone calls.  Well, I tried to anyway. There wasn't any answer when I called.  I vowed to try again later, then went back to bed for a little.

We went to Patio in the mall for lunch.  F wanted ramen of course and I of course didn't.  He had some, I had pasta, and we were both pleased I think.  

F had wanted to go fishing today, and so we went.  We came home, took a few minutes to get ready and grabbed our rods and drove to Kamo Port.  We found a couple of spots and threw our lines in, but nada!  Hardly any bites at all.  It started to rain around 5:00 so we chucked it all in and left.  

We drove to Mikawa Mall because I wanted to get some new socks for summer.  We picked some out.  I tried on a few shirts and a skirt in the ladies section, but the only thing that fitted just right was a very casual shirt and I have a lot of those.  Well, truth be told, the skirt was fine too, but I so rarely wear them these days that I couldn't think of a good place to wear it to!

We had a drink in Seattle's Best, then drove back to Tsuruoka.  We had a quick and yummy dinner at Kintaro Sushi and then whipped around the grocery store for tomorrow's dinner and some staples.  I vowed to F that I would make bread tonight while I was at the store.

We got home and I spent about an hour talking to people in my woman's group.  We chatted about a lot of different things and I'm really glad I bothered, even though I am not a good phone person.  

And then, I looked for a recipe to adapt and found one.  Tonight I set up the bread maker for Whole Wheat Sunflower Seed Bread, so I really hope it works.  I used up one of my precious sunflower seed packets!

I watched some TV, F took his bath, I did a little crochet (not during his bath!) and I sorted out the gomi for tomorrow.  Whew!  I was busy tonight.  Yay me!

Tomorrow I should get ready for my trip and might if the weather isn't good. If it is, I might go out for a bit in the afternoon.  I haven't been out under my own steam in a while.  Come back tomorrow and find out what happens, if you aren't doing anything else! Night.

May 18, 2013

Saturday - Warm and sunny

A good day.

I got up this morning and showered, then settled in for The Gilmore Girls.  I did some crochet at the same time and got the four small squares joined together.  Now, I just have to go around them a few million times and I'll be done! Woot!

F suggested that we go to Grado for lunch, so that's where we headed to. I had pork and F had fish.  I liked mine, F wasn't so certain about his.  After lunch, he dropped me off at my school.

At my school I got ready for my class and I read the paper.  I was getting ready for my class, when I felt an earthquake.  Yikes!  It wasn't a big one here though.  A few seconds later, my student called to cancel her class.  Something had come up.  Sigh.

I relaxed a little, did paperwork, then some laundry.  I cleared off a shelf in the closet and threw a few old calendars out.  Finally, I called F and asked him to come and get me.  

We headed over to Komagihara for dinner.  I was hoping to have the buffet, but it was booked up tonight.  We went to the other part and had an okay meal.  It wasn't great!  After the meal, we came home for a bit and then started out again. 

We went to the Machi-kine theatre tonight to see Silver Linings Playbook.  We both enjoyed it.  I know it was a bit "Mental Illness-lite" but the acting was good, as was the writing. Jennifer Lawrence is a good actress and I think she'll only get better.  

After the movie we came home and vegged.  I watched my Saturday night TV and F made bread!  We ate most of it already. It was darn good though.  

Not too sure what we'll do tomorrow. I'm hoping to do a little shopping, but who knows?  Catch me tomorrow night and we'll talk.  Night!

May 17, 2013

Friday - Gorgeous and sunny

An okay day.

I got up when I said I would this morning and took a shower.  We left the apartment just after 10 am.  Woot!  F drove us to the first place on his list but they were all booked up. The second place was presently busy, but invited us back at 11am.  Oh…lucky F.  

Anyway, we went to McDonalds for a drink and then went back to the chiropractor.  For the next 50 minutes I was prodded, pulled and pushed and it felt pretty good.  I've been feeling quite unbalanced since I got so sick last year, and this helped quite a bit. I still have more than a few sore spots though. The chiropractor said that I was quite out of alignment and should go back a couple of times a month.  I'm game, but it is a tad expensive.  It isn't covered by the National health insurance.  

After my session we decided to go and get lunch, but as usual couldn't agree on a place.  I suggested sushi, but F countered with delivery sushi rather than kaitensushi.  So, we did that.  We went home and ordered it.  It was good, except they had put way too much wasabi on it. I had to keep taking the fish off and scraping off the excess wasabi.  And, I like wasabi!  

In the afternoon I got F to drive me to my class.  He had to run some errands too.  I taught my student and we talked about her Italian holiday. It sounds like she loved it!  She brought me back some olive oil soap and some Parmigiano-Reggiano.  I hope I don't confuse the two! 

After a bit of reading I called F and he picked me up.  We came home for a bit, vegged..the usual.  Finally we went to Pacific Airy Heights and had a nice meal.  Well, I did, F complained as usual.  We tried to go to Mr. Donuts after for a drink and snack, but the parking lot was full.  The store was empty.  We ended up at Mosburger and had their new choux-cream mug.  It was okay, not really sweet enough to be a dessert, not really ice-creamy enough to be satisfying.  And now, seeing the website, I realize I ate it all wrong.  How embarrassing!

We came home and spent a fairly good evening at home.  I got F to take some photos of me in my new threads for the convention, but for some reason my camera wasn't co-operating much.  I probably hit the wrong button and then not wearing my glasses just made it all worse.  

Anyway, tonight passed quite well.  Tomorrow I have an afternoon class.  F has to take his mother out to see yet another great-grandchild, but hopefully we'll be able to see a movie in the evening.  That's it for me.  Night.

May 16, 2013

Thursday - Cloudy but warm

An okay day.

I planned to go out today, but didn't during the day.  I got up, did my usual things except I held off my shower until quite late.  I had breakfast and then F called me and asked me out. I said no because I knew he'd be off work on Friday and I didn't need to see him that much.  

I was eating lunch when F showed up with something for me.  Nice, but I didn't really want it.  I had planned to go out, but didn't.  I realized that I had a lot of stuff that needed doing for my trip next week, so I took care of a lot of it.  

When F came home he was grouchy and asking me about what we were going to do tomorrow.  I kept trying to remind him that I had a class to teach in the afternoon.  He wants to take me to a chiropractor but of course hasn't made an appointment.  I asked him if he had and he bit my head off, then made himself some ramen and went to bed.  As we hadn't had dinner yet, that was more than a little annoying.  

I took myself out for dinner tonight.  I'm not going to wait around for him to take me.  It was only Marumatsu, but it was okay.  I had a fairly decent meal and then came home afterwards.  I watched a bunch of TV tonight because I realized that if I didn't watch today's shows, I'd miss them because I have to go to bed early on the night they repeat.  

After a couple of hours of peaceful TV, F got up.  He wasn't bad really.  I tried on my new-new shoes that were redelivered today and they are great!  I'm going to keep both pairs.  Now I should junk some of the other pairs that don't fit very well.  

Anyway, that's it for me.  Tomorrow I hope I have enough patience to put up with F.  I hope that he will have enough patience with me too!  Got to go.  Night!

May 15, 2013

Wednesday - Sunny and warm, with a bit of rain in the middle

A good day.  I woke up at 8 am as I was afraid that the takkyubin guy would arrive and find me in my pj's. I got up, got dressed and went back to sleep.  Evil, but it worked!  I handed over my big box o'shoes when the man came and then stayed up.

I had some lovely French Bread that F had made last night. It was my breakfast, and also my lunch! F did call at 11:20 and asked me to have lunch with him but I said no.  Instead I stayed home and did an insane amount of laundry and even hung up some of the dry stuff!  

I wrote a couple more Postcrossing cards and then scanned them in the afternoon.  I decided to send a Gotochi card to one of the people too, just because.  I ran them off to the post office around 5 pm.  

F came home around 6 tonight and after a few minutes I started working on dinner.  Despite my vow of making a simpler stir-fry, it was still a bit of work.  Oh well.  After I finished cooking it, it was good.  

F and I enjoyed dinner, although he had a visit from the insurance lady during our meal.  Their timing sucks.  

F watched a lot of really bad TV and then I watched a bit.  I like to think mine is better, but I'm sure that it isn't.  

He went to bed fairly early tonight.  It was a pretty good day. We received a wedding invitation in the mail.  I'm hoping to go, but F says that he can't make it.  It's in Canada, and I know it would be hard for him to get the time off.  

Anyway, that's about it for me for tonight.  Tomorrow, I might start packing or doing some printing for my trip next week.  Wish me luck with it please!  Night.