August 19, 2026

Wednesday - Hot and Sunny

I had a quiet, usual morning today. I woke up, went downstairs and then went back to bed for a snooze. I got messages from F and I noticed that my videos were repeating so I woke up a little earlier than usual and got up. I went downstairs after I got dressed. K had gone out with her daughter. 

I came back to the room and tried to go online. I discovered that there was no wifi. Sigh. I went back downstairs to check that it wasn’t just a location problem. It wasn’t. I sent F a text to let him know and to check if he had paid the last bill. He hadn’t. 

He said he’d try and take some time off work and call the company. I decided that since I couldn’t watch YouTube and I couldn’t watch anything on streaming, I’d work on my column. I did get quite a bit written, but I wasn’t able to fact/detail check as I wrote so I’ll have to spend some time doing that. However, I’m quite happy with myself that I did do some writing. 

F showed up around 1:30 I think. He called the internet company, found out how to pay, and then we had to go and actually pay the bill. We went to a conbini and he took care of that. Then, we went for a late for him/early for me lunch. 

We went over to Gusto and checked out their lunch menu. We both ended up having the same thing. We had their 3 mushroom pasta with salad, drink bar and the daily soup. It was nice. We were in the restaurant for a while, enjoying the air conditioner and the drink bar. 

When we left the restaurant we were on our way home, but F wanted to check out a bakery we like. We went, but there was a customer ahead of us. It’s so small that we have to wait until the other people leave! We only got one thing, a spinach and cheese scone type thing. (It was great, we ate it around 11pm.) Then, I suggested going to a drug store as I needed to pick up something. We got a few things there, including ice cream for dessert tonight.

We got back to the house, F reset the wifi and in a few minutes it worked! Yay. I got about an hour to relax before I had to go downstairs to cook dinner. I chilled and watched the news that I recorded earlier. 

I headed downstairs to the kitchen. As we had dessert and it was so hot, I decided that I was going to take things easy in the kitchen tonight. We had some macaroni salad, salad, cucumber pickle, mini-tomatoes, and sautéd pork. We also had the ice cream from earlier too. It was very nice. 

After dinner I did the dishes and put things away. I was soaked when I finished. It was so hot in the kitchen tonight and honestly, I was miserable. When I finished the dishes I had to do up the garbage to get it ready to go out tomorrow morning. Happily, F gave me a hand with the stuff in K’s room and some of her garbage in the living room. 

Afterwards I headed upstairs, turned on the AC and just relaxed. Around 10:30 I took a shower and then came upstairs to watch Grey’s Anatomy. It was its usual wacky self, some doctor stuff, some patient stuff. 

And that’s about it for my day. It was a strange day but a good one for the most part. Tomorrow I think F should be back to work, hopefully for the whole day and I’ll be working on my column and doing dinner as well. 

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

August 18, 2026

Tuesday - Hot and Sunny

I woke up this morning after my alarm went off. I got up and went downstairs, then came back to the room. I sorted out my laundry and put the basket aside for later. Then, snoozeville!

I got up later and noticed that F had sent me a message, asking if I’d like to go to the electric shop later on. I said sure. We had a long chat about it and he decided that he’d try and take time off later on. 

I started my laundry, and ended up doing two loads today. I hung them up in my room so they could get dry from the air conditioner. I had my breakfast and later on my lunch too. Because F phoned me and said that he was on his way back to the house, I had a hurried lunch and didn’t get to watch anything today. 

When he came back, he was rather grouchy. I’m not sure why. I was finished lunch and was dressed for going out. He said that he thought I would have cooked dinner for his mother. It was barely 4 pm. We had talked about going out after his usual work day and then I would have cooked for his mother.  However he didn’t come up with any plan for our dinner. If he’d said that he’d take me out for dinner (which is what I thought he’d meant originally) I might have cooked for her, but at 3:00 the kitchen was really hot and it was way too early for dinner.

Anyway, we got in the car and drove to the electric shop. F looked at air conditioners and then decided to buy one. He talked to the guy and they set up a delivery and installation for Sunday. Yay.

I bought some ink for my printer as I’ve not been able to get any this year. It’s really needing it. 

We left the shop and came back to the house. I had to immediately go upstairs and change so that I could cook dinner. 

Tonight I did coro-coro steak, steamed broccoli, potato salad, salad and rice. It was quite nice really. 

I did the dishes afterwards and then went upstairs to change. We went to the grocery store and bought groceries of course! We got a few things for dinners and breakfasts…it was expensive as we had to buy rice and F wanted his adult beverages.

At the house I put away the groceries and then came upstairs to relax. At 11pm I watched Law & Order and then some music videos before turning off the TV. 

And that’s about it. I’ve spent the last couple of hours watching YouTube and working on my usual end of day things. I didn’t get any of my column written today, hopefully I can make a bit of a start tomorrow. 

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

August 17, 2026

Monday - Cloudy and hot, muggy

I woke up this morning when my alarm went off. F had another bad night. He woke up when I came to bed, or he wasn’t sleeping…who knows. He got up and went downstairs and then finally came back to bed. I fell asleep after I did my reading. 

This morning I did my usual getting up and going downstairs. Then, I came back upstairs, used my computer for a minute or two and then went back to bed. I snoozed and watched videos until I got up a bit later. I also used the AC for an hour in the first part of the morning, but after it turned itself off, I got hot again quickly. I put it back on. 

I finally got up, dressed and went downstairs for mail and my breakfast. I brought it all back upstairs and then ate. I didn’t do anything that I really planned to do, except I did back up my computer so that is good.

I got my lunch a bit early today and while I ate I watched an episode of Evil. I have one more so I doubt everything will be wrapped up. I’ve really enjoyed the show if I’m honest. 

F called me tonight from inside Tsuruoka, so I had to hurry to get ready. I made it downstairs to the kitchen before he got back. It’s not a big deal if I don’t, but I just like to get some of the kitchen ready. 

Tonight we had chicken pieces which I did in my air fryer, potato salad, cucumber pickles, mini-tomatoes, salad and rice. It turned out nicely and I liked the chicken better in the air fryer than when I do it in the toaster oven. Yay for that. 

After dinner I did the dishes and was finally done before 9pm. I also did up the pink garbage bag with the plastic stuff. It was full! F decided that he’d come upstairs soon too, so I took the ice cream out of the freezer and grabbed some spoons for us. F came up a few minutes later and we ate our ice creams. They were supposed to be dessert on Saturday night, but we ate the doughnuts and then went out instead. K ate her ice cream today before noon, so we needed to eat ours before K got hold of them!

I relaxed upstairs with some YouTube and then went downstairs to take a shower after 10pm. I showered and then came back up to the room. I decided to watch an episode of Sugar. Tonight was really good and really moody with great music in the background. 

So, that’s the end of it really. I just watched some YouTube after midnight and got started on a lot of my end of day stuff. Tomorrow I’ll probably do some laundry and of course there will be dinner again. Sigh. 

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

August 16, 2026

Sunday - Hot and Sunny

I woke up this morning before my alarm. F was downstairs making his mother’s brunch. I went downstairs and then came back up to the room. I spent a couple of minutes on my computer and then went back to bed. I didn’t really get to sleep unfortunately, F came back up to the room and wanted to go for lunch very soon after. It was rather annoying. He’d just eaten I think!

We did go out I think before noon. Today when F asked me where I wanted to go I told him I wanted Indian food. He wasn’t excited, but since that’s how I felt yesterday going to his Japanese place I didn’t care! I wanted, no needed, a no rice day!

We went to the Indian restaurant and ordered. F ordered the special with chicken and cauliflower, I ordered the chicken curry. We ended up swapping because he liked mine better and I liked his better! I love cauliflower.  I liked the meal, I’m not sure if F did. 

Next up we went to the Chido Museum. I have a membership so we didn’t have to pay to go in. Today’s exhibit was mostly about swords and katanas so it was F’s kind of thing, not so much mine. It was fine though. After he was done with the swords, we went to the garden and had a look. It was beautiful as usual, but the pond had a lot of scum on it. 

We left the museum and decided to go for a drink. We ended up at Cafe B-Flat, just up the road from the house. It was nice and cool inside. I had an iced cafe latte, F had an iced Vienna Coffee. Mine was really nice, F said he liked his too. 

We came back to the house after our drinks. F did this thing where he says he wants to go. It’s fine. I decided to go to the washroom first, which I did. When I got back to the table, F wouldn’t leave. He was in the middle of something and it took him about 15 or 20 minutes to get himself sorted. Ack!

Back at the house finally, I went upstairs and relaxed. I spent time on my computer and enjoyed the AC. F came up a bit later and tried to nap I think. 

Around 6:30 we went out to get groceries and bentos. I had suggested going to PAL as they usually have good bentos. Well, not today. They didn’t have very much at all. I did manage to get something for K’s lunch and eventually breakfasts for K and F. I bought a few things, F was disappointed in the sashimi zone and then I discovered they had a party platter available. It had things like roasted potatoes, fried shrimp, grilled chicken, fried chicken, sliced duck breast…it was nice! 

F paid for the groceries and then we drove back to the house. I put the groceries away and then went upstairs to change my clothes. When I came back I started to set the table and groused that K had once again put garbage on my spot at the table. All of a sudden F decided that he wasn’t going to eat. I offered to make him a plate. He hemmed and hawed and then finally deigned to accept that. 

He got his mother up,  and then left. I divvied up the food and we ate. It was quite nice. It wasn’t huge and a salad would have been nice with it all, but I didn’t buy one!

After our meal, I cleared the table and did the few dishes. I made some rooibos tea and then went upstairs again. F went downstairs and did something, ironing I think. I decided to watch a movie. I ended up watching a film called A Good Person with Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman. It was a well-acted film, but a little overlong. 

F came back up to the room and relaxed. After the movie I went downstairs and discovered that F had left some laundry in the machine. I texted him and asked if he’d like me to bring it up for him. He said yes. 

It was now too late to watch something lighter as I had planned, so I turned off the TV and turned to YouTube eventually. 

F went to bed but his stomach is bothering him and he isn’t sleeping. I hope he’ll be okay. 

Tomorrow I’m not sure what I’ll get up to. I do have to cook dinner tomorrow night and I’ll try and do a few things here in the room maybe. I’ve finally started research for my column so maybe I’ll even write a few words for that. That would be good! 

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

August 15, 2026

Saturday - Hot & Sunny

I woke up just after 9 am this morning. F was just back from taking his mother to the Day Centre.  I went back upstairs, turned on the AC and had a nap for longer. 

I got up and went downstairs and took a shower. I so much prefer daytime showers but with K around  I can’t take them. Saturday is the only day I can do it!

F wanted to go to the place he tried to take me on Tuesday. I was not impressed. I decided that I’d suck it up. We drove over, parked and went in. It was busy, but we didn’t have to wait. I had the yakiniku-don. It was okay, but honestly, not great. F had some kind of noodle dish. He seemed to like it. 

After lunch we went for coffee to Komeda. When we were there, we decided to have kakigori instead. On the road to the restaurant today I realized that today is the fireworks day in Tsuruoka. At Komeda, the parking lot was busy and they were telling people that they couldn’t park in the big lot and go to the fireworks area. It would be a hike, but probably some people do it!

Anyway, we waited at Komeda for a table and then decided not to have coffee. We both had Kakigori instead, it was the Acai-mixed one and it was very nice. 

We walked over to MaxValu when we finished to get meals for tonight. I suggested to F last night that we have a modest lunch and then do bentos for dinner. So, that’s what we did. MaxValu was really busy with people buying bentos and special meals so it felt like everyone had the same idea!

We got our bentos and a few other things, then paid and left the store. When we checked out, F did the scanning and it drove me nuts. I kept telling him to give me the heavy things first. He would give me something light and then a carton of juice to go on top of it. It was so annoying! I can’t put the items aside until later as the bag is on a weigh scale and the machine won’t continue to scan. 

We came back to the house and F put away most of the groceries. Yay him. I was surprised to see that there was less than half of a jug of mugi-cha. I did make a new one, but I had a little chat at F to remind him that I told him LAST NIGHT that he needs to make mugi-cha when the bottle in the fridge is getting low. It takes 2 hours to steep.  

I went upstairs and watched YouTube and did some computer stuff while F was downstairs. He came upstairs later and tried to take a nap. 

Around 6 pm I suggested that we start to eat as the fireworks would start at 7pm. We were planning to drive out of town and watch the fireworks from a hill somewhere. 

We heated up the bentos and got some drinks out and ate. F and I had a fried chicken cutlet with rice, K’s was rice with fried chicken I think. We also had some salmon rice rolls that were nice. I had suggested getting some mini-doughnuts at the store and F agreed. We had them…F wanted to leave them until tomorrow but that wouldn’t have worked! They would have been stale. 

We invited K out to join us in the car and she agreed. It took a few minutes before we were ready to leave. It took us a while to find a good place to watch the fireworks, but we finally did. They were great! I do admit that I almost fell asleep in the middle though. They were spacing out the fireworks due to wind and it got a bit boring, staying in the car in the dark. However, the grand finale was amazing and overall, it was worth going out of town to see them.

We came back to the house and I headed upstairs, F came soon. I think K went off to bed, it was after her bedtime!

F basically spent time on his bed, I spent time on my computer. At 11pm I watched FBI and it was fine. 

So, that’s about it. I’m not sure what we’ll get up to tomorrow. We’ll have to do grocery shopping and we’ll see if anything else happens too. 

Come back later if you like and hear about my day, until tomorrow…. 

August 14, 2026

Friday - Hot and Sunny

Last night when I went to bed, F was still awake. Sigh. He was tossing and turning because of the air conditioning. I turned it off when I went to bed, he got up and turned it back on as he was hot. Finally I suggested just opening the window as it was cooler outside finally than inside. I finally fell asleep, but F told me tonight that he didn’t sleep until 5 am. Oh dear.

I woke up around 8:30, I went downstairs and then came back to the room. I sorted my laundry for later and then I went back to bed for a bit of a snooze and some videos! I got myself up later, dressed and went downstairs again with my laundry.

I started my laundry, grabbed my breakfast and then I came back upstairs. I ate my breakfast and when I was finished I went back downstairs to bring my laundry back. I hung it up in the room and then I relaxed for a while.

I got my lunch a few minutes early and brought it upstairs again. I decided to watch an episode of Elsbeth today as I wanted something a little lighter. It’s been a bit of a rough week. 

F called me a bit after 5 pm and said he was on his way back. I changed and went downstairs to start dinner. 

Tonight was an easy one, spaghetti and salad, cucumber pickle and mini-tomatoes. It was quite nice I thought. We all ate and I think we enjoyed it all.

I did the dishes and by the time I was finished, I was soaking. I’d worn a different, slightly thicker shirt and it was so sweaty. With no air conditioner downstairs it is really hot to be in the kitchen now.

I came upstairs with my pop and some ice. I enjoyed it while I watched a few videos on YouTube. I decided finally that I would watch something from streaming so I went downstairs and made some popcorn. 

I came back up to the room and watched an episode of Ride or Die. A lot happened in this episode and it was quite good. There wasn’t as much of Hannah Waddingham though. 

After midnight, I turned off the TV and then worked on my end of day things. That’s about it for me for today. 

I’m not sure what I’m going to get up to tomorrow. Hopefully things will go well. Come back later and find out. Until tomorrow…. 

August 13, 2026

Thursday - Hot and Sunny

I woke up this morning when my alarm went off. I went downstairs and then came back to the room and did something on my computer for a couple of minutes. 

I went back to bed and snoozed and watched videos for a bit. Then, I closed up the window and the door and I turned on the AC. It was already 29 in the room around 10 am. 

I didn’t sleep much today, I watched a few videos on my phone, I snoozed and then I woke up. I got up, dressed and went downstairs to get my breakfast.

I came back to the room and ate my breakfast. Then I decided to do my sewing. I had washed my culottes on Wednesday, they were dry enough to mend today. One of the seams had ripped open. I didn’t know so it was quite a good thing I noticed. I got it sewn up, hopefully it’ll hold!

I went downstairs a little early today to get my lunch. I brought it upstairs and watched an episode of Breaking Bad. It was an odd episode, but a good one. They all are so far!

F called after 5:15 and said he was on his way back to the house. I got changed and a little later I went downstairs to work in the kitchen. 

F got back to the house about the time I was washing things in the kitchen so that was good. We had a nice reunion and then he talked to his mother for a bit. He went upstairs to rest.

Tonight I wasn’t terribly busy, but I planned things that way! I did premade burgers from the store and fries in the air fryer. We had cucumber pickles, salad and also some steamed okra. 

I texted F down around 7 and he got his mother up. We had a nice meal and watched the news. There’s flooding going on in Chiba-ken. I have a couple of friends who live there, one has checked in so I’m wondering about the other one. Fingers crossed she’s okay.

F cut up a melon that we were given for our dessert. It was okay, maybe not quite ripe. I don’t eat a lot of fruit, so I thought it was okay. 

After dinner I did the dishes and sweated a lot. It may have cooled down outside a little, but it was still hot in the room. 

I went upstairs to change my clothes and get ready for going to the store. A few minutes later, F drove me to the grocery store. He was wearing his jimbei so happily he didn’t come in the store. It’s kind of like Japanese pyjamas!

I got stuff for dinner tomorrow night and K’s breakfast. I also bought myself a diet coke, I paid for it separately. I told F that when I got back to the car, but he said I didn’t have to do that!

We came back to the house and I put away the groceries. When I came back up to our bedroom I turned on the AC. I was too hot not to do that. 

I had a quiet evening, I did watch The Rookie at 11pm and it was quite good. The police had a sting to try to protect John Nolan’s wife. 

Since midnight I’ve been working on end of day things and getting ready to go to bed. In a little while I’ll go to bed. I’m hoping my hubby is sleeping already, but I’m not sure. 

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