April 29, 2024

 Monday - Hot and Sunny

Today was a different day and it was rather nice. I woke up around 9 again and made a trip downstairs. I went back to bed for an hour or so.  F came back to the room before 10 am and got back into bed. I had set my alarm to wake me up around 10 and then again at 10:30 so that F wouldn’t be angry when we couldn’t get into the restaurants again. Well, I got up, got dressed and then realized that F had fallen asleep!

After a while, I decided to go back to bed for a nap myself. F did ask if I wanted to go out for lunch, but to be honest, I didn’t. I was still rather full from last night. F agreed with me that he was too!

F made an appointment to have a massage later on and in the meantime, we ate the bread things that F had bought us yesterday. We each had a croissant and coffee, then later a cheesy bread thing. 

Around 3:40 we left the house. F dropped me off at S-Mall and I did some shopping and then took myself off to Doutor for a drink.  F showed up a while later but he wasn’t doing that well. He was having problems from last night’s meal. 

After a bit, we left the mall and went to the grocery store. I bought the groceries for the next couple of days. I’m hoping I bought enough!

We went back to the house and I put away the groceries. F gave his mother her bento and then he came upstairs after a while. I was upstairs already.

Around 8pm we decided to go and have dinner. F asked for Nagomi, and I said it was okay, but if they were closed I wanted to go to Cocos instead. Well, we drove by Nagomi and the lights were off, so we went to Cocos. I had a double burger meal and it was okay, F had a fish meal, which he didn’t like that much. We shared an order of fries…Cocos has the best fries!

After our meal, F took me to the grocery store and I bought one more bread thing. It’s nearly the end of a seal campaign from a bread company. They give away crockery if you save enough seals. I’ve already received 3 bowls and I’d like one more. Hopefully, I can go and pick it up after a day or two.

F filled up the car with gas too and on the way back, his odometer hit 10000 km. We stopped  (it was in a safe, non-busy part of the road) and took pictures!

We came back to the house and I came upstairs. F followed a bit later. I went downstairs and took a shower and then came back upstairs.  I didn’t watch any TV tonight, but I did check the recording schedule for tomorrow. 

And honestly, that’s about it. F is sleeping and will have to go back to work tomorrow. It’s only a short week though, he’s off on Friday and Monday too. 

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

April 28, 2024

Sunday - Hot and sunny

I woke up first this morning around 9am when I had to make a trip downstairs. After that, I went back to sleep for a while. Well, I tried to. F came in the room and made noise so I had to try and cover my ears. I finally fell asleep again. I ended up waking up a couple of times and finally got up a little later than usual. 

F wanted me to pick a place for lunch today and I surprised myself by asking for a Japanese restaurant. It surprised and pleased F too. I got dressed and then we headed out to the restaurant. Unfortunately, when we got there, there was no parking left. 

I suggested trying a restaurant in Kushibiki that we often went to in the past. We drove out there, but it too was very busy. Since we didn’t want to wait longer, we went back to Tsuruoka. F wanted to try the soba place again. When we got there, there was parking, but there was a lineup of people out the door. F wanted to get in line and I didn’t as it was full on sun. I can’t handle the sun, especially not at 12:30 in the afternoon. He made me get out of the car and line up with him, but after a few minutes of the line not moving, we decided to move on. 

We went to Kissa Marina and were able to get seats at the counter. A group very nicely took a floor table instead of the counter for us. Neither of us is good at sitting on the floor these days. I had a lovely meal of salmon and mushroom Japanese-style pasta with soup and salad and oolong tea, F had a yakiniku-donburi with soup, salad and an iced coffee.  I liked mine, he said that his was too salty. I did find my soup to be too salty, but the rest was fine. 

We came back to the house after lunch and F sorted out his fishing gear. He went out at one point too to get his mother some food. Around 3 pm I decided that I should really get myself ready for going out so that I didn’t slow things down. I sorted out some clothes that I could wear and changed into them.

About 3:30 or so we got in the car and went towards the coast. F kept driving past his usual fishing spots and we ended up quite far south. Finally, he stopped at a place and we set up. By now, it was around 5 pm.  I let F know that sunset was at 18:31 so we didn’t have a huge amount of time. He prepared the fishing rods and I baited mine and dropped the hook into the water. 

We were there for an hour and a half but didn’t have much luck. The water was extremely clear and I could see the bottom of the harbour. There were starfish on the bottom and I could sometimes see small fish try to eat the bait on my hook!

Around 6:20 I did actually catch a fish. It was tiny and apparently semi-poisonous and is the kind of fish that bites. F told me later he was bitten by the same kind of fish when he was younger and it really hurt! F took the fish off the hook and threw it back in for me. So, that was it. Our fishing trip. Poor F didn’t catch anything. 

We called it a day at 6:30 pm and drove back to Tsuruoka. We discussed where to go for dinner and followed our old tradition of going to the yakiniku buffet after a day of fishing. We were able to get in right away and for the next couple of hours had a huge meal of mostly yakiniku! Neither of us wanted to eat anything else afterwards!

We came back to the house and came upstairs. F went to bed soon after, I’m still up, but am tired too. F wants to go to the restaurant we couldn’t go to tomorrow quite early. I’m not really in favour of that as lunch is later than 11 am in my opinion, but I don’t want him cranky!

Anyway, today was a good day, so I hope that tomorrow will be as well. Come back later if you like and find out what happens. Until tomorrow….

April 27, 2024

Saturday - Sunny and warm, a bit muggy

Today didn’t get off to a good start. I woke up at 6 am and F was gone. I had to make a trip downstairs and the lights were on down there and he seemed to be hard at work making something. I went back to bed after spending a few moments trying to see if I had a splinter in my foot. 

Yesterday, I had felt something in my sock and it turned out that a straw from the tatami had gone through my sock and stabbed me in the foot. I took the piece out and didn’t think much more of it. This morning, my foot hurt. I couldn’t see anything in my foot but thought maybe some rough skin was catching on my sock. I put a bandage on and went back to sleep. 

I woke up next at 7:30 am when F’s alarm clock went off. Was F in the room? Of course not. I tried to go back to sleep. F came back to the room around 9 am and woke me up. He got a phone call around 10 or something and woke me up. Ack!

A little before 11am he asked me if I’d like to have lunch at his friend’s restaurant, the eel one. I said no. The food is good there, but the last time we had lunch, we just got too much food and I wasn’t that hungry. F got awfully pouty then and announced that he wasn’t going out after all. I rolled my eyes a lot and came up with other ideas. I got dressed and then suggested trying his place to see if it was open. I reminded him that we’ve never found it open for lunch on a weekend and it is now Golden Week, so it might not be open at all.  

We drove over to the restaurant but it wasn’t open. He was prepared to be nasty to me over a restaurant that wasn’t even open. We went with my suggestion next, Togashi for yakiniku.

We went to Togashi and had a lovely meal. We basically had the same thing but F had his with a larger bowl of rice than I did. We left the restaurant pleasantly full. 

I said that I’d like to go to S-Mall to visit Daiso and then I’d buy F a cup of coffee afterwards. We headed over there and went upstairs to see Daiso first. I picked up a few things and F got himself some hangers for his pants. We went downstairs afterwards and I bought us some drinks in Doutor. F had a coffee and I had a rooibos tea, an iced one. We relaxed for a while but then went back to the house.

On the way back to the house, I realized that my foot was hurting again. I asked F if he’d mind taking a look at my foot to see if there was still a splinter in it. He said he would. We also made a stop at a new-to-us bakery and bought a couple of huge croissants and a pastry with anchovies and olives on it. 

When we got back to the house, I went upstairs, found my tweezers and had a look at my foot. I could see something in my foot, but I couldn’t really reach it. When F came upstairs he looked at my foot too and after a few contortions of trying to get my foot into a position so he could check it out, he managed to extract a splinter from my foot. Yikes and Whew!

We had a cup of coffee each and had our croissants and then shared the pastry. They were really good and F is already talking about going back there. K came back from her daycare and F went shopping to get fishing stuff and some groceries. F wants to go fishing tomorrow. I’m a little trepidatious, but it could be fun. 

Around 5:30 or so, F made his mother some dinner and then around 6:30, we headed out to the mall. As always, it was a bit after 6:30 before we left, but we did get to the mall at 7:00pm. We bought our movie tickets first and then headed over to the food court. I got a bibinba and F bought himself some yakisoba and okonomiyaki that they were selling off. 

After we finished eating we went to see Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire. It was so silly. I laughed myself silly, enjoyed the heck out of it and was quite happy to hear Canada’s own Loverboy on the soundtrack! Please know that I am not saying this is a GOOD movie, it wasn’t, but it was what I needed to see tonight!

When the movie finished and we left the mall, we made a stop around the corner at Don Qihote. I wanted to get some pasta sauces and while we were there, we picked up a few other things. F got a lot of instant ramen for his mother (or for himself?) 

We came back to the house and I headed upstairs. F stayed downstairs for a while and I have no idea what he was doing!  He headed off to bed soon after he came back and of course, I’m still up. 

I do plan to head to bed right away so I had better get going. Today was a pretty good day, despite not really having any plans for it. 

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

April 26, 2024

Friday - Warmer and a bit muggy

I woke up this morning when my alarm went off. I went downstairs and then came back upstairs and got changed and yes, I did nap a little bit. 

I went downstairs later and took a basket of laundry with me. I put it in the washing machine and made my breakfast and brought it upstairs with me.  I ate breakfast soon after. 

I had a quiet morning and early afternoon. I hung up my laundry and watched a bit of YouTube.

I made lunch a bit later. I had a cheese bagel today which was lovely. I brought lunch upstairs and ate while watching Fringe of course. I watched two episodes this afternoon and they were great. 

After F called I went downstairs to make dinner. I thought dinner tonight was good. We had carbonara with extra bacon, salad and an onion pickle sort of thing that I made. No one else had seconds. I did. Yum. 

I did the dishes and then when I went upstairs took a can of root beer and some ice with me. I watched the last episode of Fringe and it was really good. It’s a bit sad that they had to finish the show, but I did enjoy it. I’ll probably stop talking about it now!

F came up after the show finished and then I went to take a shower. When I came back upstairs I watched an episode of The Reluctant Traveller on Apple TV+ with Eugene Levy. He went to Scotland on this episode and it was quite touching as his mother lived in Scotland as a child.  

Since midnight I’ve been blogging and getting my internet and phone stuff done. 

I’m not sure what we’re going to get up to tomorrow. K has her daycare thing, and there is a silly movie in town, so we might go and see that. you’ll have to come back later if you like and hear all about my Saturday.  Until tomorrow….

April 25, 2024

Thursday - Rainy and cool

Today was an odd day. Last night, I was nearly done with my blogging and late-night stuff when F requested that I come to bed. I’m not sure why. Then he started saying he didn’t feel well and a few other things. I finished up as quickly as I could…ironically, if he hadn’t bothered me I would have been finished sooner!

This morning he did wake me up when he was getting ready to go, but I fell back asleep quickly. I woke up when my alarm went off, made a trip downstairs and tried to do my usual get changed and go back to bed. I did go back to bed, but I couldn’t sleep. After a while, I decided to just get up and get on with my day. 

I went downstairs and made my breakfast. I made porridge again and it was lovely and warming. I’m glad as it was a cold day today. For the news time, I decided to go back to bed to watch the news. I hoped that I’d take a quick nap after the English language news finished. It finished, but I couldn’t fall asleep, so that was a bust!

I got up again and in a few minutes, I went to get my lunch. I came back upstairs with it, ate and watched Fringe. I saw two episodes today, back to back. I’ve been really enjoying seeing it like this. 

F called me after 5 as usual and said he was on his way back, so I got changed and went downstairs to get started on dinner. Tonight I made a new dish, I made warm spicy tofu. I can’t believe that I haven’t done this before because it was quite easy. All I had to do was warm up the tofu by bringing it to a simmer in a pan with water and afterwards dump on a sauce that I made. It turned out well. 

When F came back, he realized that he hadn’t made rice for dinner. I had asked him to make it last night, but he’d forgotten. He went ahead and made it right away. 

He went upstairs and I got on with dinner. For dinner tonight we had the aforementioned tofu, teriyaki chicken, salad and broccoli. It was quite nice and everyone seemed to enjoy it. The tofu was popular and we all put the sauce on our rice too!

After dinner, I did the dishes. It wasn’t too bad as I’d only used one pan and it wasn’t very dirty at all. I got done and reminded F that we needed to go out to get some food. 

We went to Mina again and this time I sort of strongly suggested that F stay in the car. He actually did, so I was happy. I got a few things in the store and paid. While I was doing that, I turned in three sheets with stickers from bread products that I’ve been collecting for the last few weeks. I got three small bowls. They are pretty nice and as long as I can find a good place for them in the kitchen I’ll be happy to have them. 

We came back to the house and I got F to fill up the kerosene tank from our heater and take it upstairs for me. I unpacked the groceries and then went upstairs. Since it was still a little early, I decided to watch another Fringe episode. It led to the death of one of the characters so that was a bit sad, but the episode itself was good. I did a bit of knitting during the episode too. 

I watched the new Rookie spin-off at 11 and I’m afraid I wasn’t too impressed. I quite like The Rookie, but this one just irritated me. I might watch another episode or two to see how it goes and decide if I’ll keep watching or not. 

And that’s about it for my day. F is sleeping tonight, which I’m glad about. Last night he was terribly fidgety and I’m glad that he seems to be sleeping better.

Golden Week starts tomorrow night. We don’t have many plans as F has to work in the middle and we can’t leave K alone for long. I’m hoping there’ll be a movie or two to see, but apart from that, who knows?

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

April 24, 2024

Wednesday - Rainy and cooler

I woke up today when my alarm went off. Hurray! Hubby dearest didn’t wake me up. I went downstairs and then I came back up to the room. I changed some of my clothes and then gave myself a pedicure. My feet were so rough, so I took care of the dead skin and moisturized them. I put my socks back on after that.

I took a nap and went back to sleep for a while. When I got up, I went downstairs and grabbed my breakfast and then came upstairs to eat. I watched the news and also some YouTube. Same old, same old. I did a little bit of knitting today too. I started using the double-pointed needles too. 

I went downstairs a little early for lunch and brought it upstairs. I of course watched two episodes of Fringe and they were good. I watched the news and did some of my computer stuff too. 

F called me after 5 and said he was on the way back, so after a bit, I went downstairs to get started on dinner. Tonight, I did a fairly simple dinner. I heated up hamburgers from the store and served them with salad, pasta salad, fries and I also made some curried tuna and some fried mushrooms. It was quite nice really. 

I finished the dishes after dinner and then the garbage because it has to go out tomorrow. I put the downstairs garbage in the genkan for F to take out and went upstairs to relax and sort out the garbage upstairs too. 

I watched a bit of YouTube and then went downstairs to take a shower. When I finished, I came back upstairs and watched another episode of Fringe while I did a couple of rows of knitting. As usual, when it was over, I turned off the TV.

I watched some YouTube and did some stuff on my computer too. I’ll likely go to bed soon. F isn’t feeling well and is trying to get me to go to bed soon. I don’t really want to though!

Anyway, I’m done for tonight. Come back later if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow….

April 23, 2024

Tuesday - Sunny and warm

F dropped something this morning when he was getting ready for work and he woke me up. Unfortunately, today I wasn’t able to go back to sleep so I went downstairs to use the washroom. F was in there. Sigh. Later, I went back upstairs and got back into bed. I slept quite late again. I had planned to get up a bit earlier today, but I didn’t. 

I went downstairs for breakfast and bumped into K. I was a tad worried because she’d already eaten her breakfast and her lunch. It wasn’t even noon yet. 

I came upstairs and relaxed for a bit. I ate my breakfast which was oatmeal. I decided to make it today and I really enjoyed it. I watched some YouTube and also some news, I did a bit of knitting too.

I made my lunch around 2:30 and brought it upstairs to eat. I actually had brought up too much. I had leftovers from yesterday, my salad and my toasted sandwiches. I couldn’t eat it all. Yes, I watched two episodes of Fringe today.  In the second of the episodes, one of the new characters was killed and it was very sad. I hope that I can get a few more watched in the next couple of days.

F called me after 5 and said he was on the way back. I went downstairs to start getting dinner ready. Tonight we had sausages and roasted potatoes left over from yesterday. I did them all in the air fryer. I also made guacamole and served that with tortilla chips. Everything turned out well, but I was a bit late with dinner.

After dinner, I did the dishes and then went upstairs to change. A few minutes later F and I went out to Mina. Unfortunately, F chose to come into the store with me. I find it so frustrating. When we went through the checkout, I was surprised that there were a bunch of things in the cart that we didn’t need at all. F bought chocolate and cotton buds. I have spare cotton buds at the house. Ack. 

We came back to the house and I put away the groceries. I thought F was going to help, but he didn’t. No big deal really, as I prefer to do it myself. Then I know where everything is!

We went upstairs and I relaxed for a bit. I wrote an email to my bestie because I owed her one, then watched FBI: Most Wanted. Tonight it was about the “people journalists” and a woman who thought her daughter was still alive despite being killed in a mass shooting. It was a decent episode.

While I was watching the show, I did 4 rows of my hat and I put in a new lifeline.  I also tried it on and it’s a little too big.  I think when my hair is longer again, it’ll be fine. I have enough yarn to make another one when I’m finished if I want to do that!

Anyway, that’s about it for me. Tomorrow I imagine I’ll be watching more Fringe, doing some more knitting and maybe cooking dinner too. Doesn’t it sound exciting?  Not to me either. 

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