January 31, 2026

Saturday - Cold and snowy

I woke up this morning when my alarm went off. I went downstairs and then came back to the room. I was tired so went back to bed for a while and slept on. When I woke up later I dressed and went downstairs again with our tank from the heater. F volunteered to fill it for me so I let him! He even took it upstairs for us. Yay.

We talked about where to go for lunch. Neither of us had any ideas but I finally suggested a Korean restaurant across town. F was a bit skeptical but finally agreed. When we went out to the car I was surprised at just how much more snow there was than yesterday. Sigh. Poor F had already shovelled twice I think. 

We drove carefully over to the restaurant and went in. We were the only customers I think and we both had the same thing, the Ishiyaki bibinba set meal. It was really good, but the soup that came with it was so spicy! I enjoyed the meal a lot, F not so much. It was a lot of spice, but I really do like spicy food. I’m not great at really spicy food, but I like flavours!

The roads were awful and the snow was piled up everywhere. I suggested to F that we just buy bentos for dinner and he agreed with me. We went to a nearby grocery store and bought a few things. I was most worried about his mother’s dinner so we got things she’d like.

We came back to the house and relaxed for a couple of hours. F welcomed K back, but didn’t realize that the snowplough had gone through so K had to climb over a snowbank. 

F came upstairs and we talked. We had planned to go to a movie tonight but with the roads and the snow I thought it would be rather stupid to go. However, F said that he’d like to go. 

Around 6:30 we went downstairs and started heating up the bentos and setting the table. F and I had kara-age bentos and we got K a small katsudon. K said that she didn’t want to eat it. She did eat the croquette instead and the gyoza we got. At least she ate. She said she’d have the katsudon tomorrow. 

I washed the dishes and glasses and then got ready to go out. Unfortunately, F had stomach problems. Sigh. I said to him that we don’t have to go, but he said he did want to go. I suggested that he take some medicine and then we should get going. 

We left late from the house so I wasn’t sure that we’d make our show. I checked other movies and there were a couple much later that we could go if we had problems. We made it! We had about 10 minutes to spare, but we bought our tickets and our popcorn and drinks before we went in. There were three people in the cinema, including us. 

We went to see Send Help and I liked it a lot. It was a bit funny and a bit horror, your basic Sam Raimi film then. Rachel McAdams was terrific as usual. 

After the movie we drove back to the house. The roads weren’t too bad, a bit bumpy in places. We came in the house and I watched The Hunting Party and thought it was okay. 

Since midnight I’ve been relaxing and watching some YouTube. F is asleep, but he deserves to get some sleep. 

I’m not sure what we’re going to get up to tomorrow. We’ll have to buy some groceries and probably shovel even more snow! Why did I move to the snowiest country in the world? I have no idea!

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

January 30, 2026

Friday - Cold and snowy again.

I woke up this morning when my alarm went off. I didn’t hear F at all so that was nice! I did my usual going downstairs and then back to bed for a while. I went back to bed and watched a few videos and then went back to sleep for a bit.

I dragged myself out of bed finally and dressed. I went downstairs again and put on my winter coat and hat, gloves and boots and went outside to shovel some snow. There was so much! It was all very fluffy and soft, but I could see that F had cleared off the car before he left. I tried to fix the amount of snow in the parking area. I did fairly well and then went into the house, grabbed my yogurt and went upstairs. I ate and relaxed for a while. 

A couple of hours later, I went downstairs to get my lunch and I looked outside. You couldn’t even tell that I had shovelled snow before. Sigh. I decided that I’d eat my lunch again and go outside after that. 

During lunch I watched an episode of Mobland today. I like the show, Tom Hardy is excellent and well, Helen Mirren is amazing. It’s very violent though.

After the news finished I noticed that I had received a phone call. I didn’t hear it though. I thought it might be my delivery coming so I went downstairs and turned on the outside light. From there I noticed a light out on the road and went over to the door. Sure enough, it was the delivery guy that I was waiting for. I got my box and went upstairs with it.

I came back downstairs and got dressed up again to go outside. I spent about 25 minutes or so outside moving snow again. I got most of the walkway cleared and most of the parking area. I decided to go back inside.

I went upstairs, changed and then came back downstairs to the kitchen. It was fairly warm in there. K had gotten up a little earlier and she had turned on the heater in the living room, so it was getting warmer in there. 

Tonight I made my usual pasta for Friday night. When F came back I gave him a choice of pasta sauces and he chose carbonara. We had that with salad and some local wieners. Dinner was good and it all disappeared! I was hoping I’d have leftovers, but nope. Still, I’m glad that dinner was popular.

I did the dishes and listened to my podcasts. When I finished, I let F know that I was going upstairs and I asked him to stay there for a bit to see if my other delivery would show up. It didn’t. I relaxed upstairs and then around 10:30 F came upstairs and I went downstairs to take a shower. Tonight I made sure to take a towel with me!

When I came back to the room I watched another episode of Pluribus. It was a fairly decent episode, with a lot about the South American guy who wasn’t affected by the virus. While I watched I set up a knitting loom for myself. I think I’m going to try and make a new hat for myself with some of the reclaimed yarn from my blanket. It’s early days yet, but it seemed to be going well.

And that’s about it. F has gone to bed and he’s sleeping. I hate to say but the snowplough is out and about so F will probably have to shovel in the morning before he takes his mother out. 

I’m not really sure what we’ll get up to tomorrow. I’m hoping we’ll see a movie, but that depends on money and weather. 

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

 

January 29, 2026

Thursday - Snowy and cold

Oh, goodness, the snow!  Can I hibernate now?

I woke up early this morning, around 7:40. F had already left for work. I went downstairs and had a peek outside. There was a lot of snow out there. I decided I’d worry about it later. I went upstairs again and went back to bed. F and I texted for a bit and he even called later on and said that he was taking a day off next month. After all of this, I watched a few videos and then fell asleep for a bit.

I woke up a bit later and got dressed. I went downstairs and put on my coat and went outside to shovel snow. I was out there for about 40 minutes. It wasn’t too hard, but the snow was surprisingly deep. 

I came back into the house and got my breakfast. I also started a load of laundry. When it finished, I came downstairs and grabbed my laundry and brought it back upstairs to hang up.

I had a quiet afternoon, but outside the snowplough went by. Sigh. I looked outside and sure enough, there was a wall of snow and ice between our parking space and the road. I decided that I’d go outside around 5pm and try to clear the blockage so that F wouldn’t have to do it when he got home.

While I ate lunch I watched another episode of The Good Fight. I hope I can get the series watched before they take it off. There’s about 5 series that I’m enjoying that are leaving in March. Yikes. 

I went outside at 5 pm and spent a lot of time outside. The snow was quite deep and the snow wall on the road was hard. I moved a lot of snow from all over the yard too. I did get the wall broken down and moved off the driveway. 

I finally went into the house and then upstairs to change into my kitchen clothes. The kitchen was fairly warm as I’d heated it up early on. F arrived a little while later and we had a nice reunion.

Tonight’s dinner was premade burgers and fries. I’m rather glad that I planned something simple as I was quite tired tonight. We also had a little bit of kabocha, potato salad, salad and kimchi. It was good and most of the food disappeared. After dinner, I washed the dishes and put them away, then I went upstairs to change before we went out.

F and I drove to Mina and I went shopping. I got some salads for tomorrow and some breakfast things for F and K. 

We came back to the house and I went upstairs and relaxed. Tonight I watched a couple of shows off the Fire Stick. I watched an episode of Evil and then one of School Spirits. I enjoyed both of them and during both of them, F interrupted me 10 minutes from the end to pay attention to him. It is so annoying when he does that. I also don’t know how he knows to bother me then!

We had a quiet evening in. I turned off the TV, F took a shower. He’s sleeping now. 

Tomorrow I’m making dinner again and I’ll probably have to shovel more snow. Sigh. I’m not sure if it’s ever going to stop snowing!

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

January 28, 2026

Wednesday - Cold and snowy

I woke up when my alarm went off this morning. I debated lying in bed a bit longer, but got up and went downstairs. I looked outside and there was snow everywhere. Sigh. I went back to bed for a while. I dragged myself out of bed later and put on my coat and gloves and boots and went outside. I shovelled snow for a while and cleared most of the yard. The snowplough had been through after F went to work, so there was a snow wall onto the road. I cleared it and it was hardish work. The snow had frozen so it was heavy and some was hard to move. 

Finally, I got it clear enough and then I sprinkled some of the snow melting chemical on the pathway and went inside. I took my breakfast upstairs and ate. I watched yesterday’s Project Runway. It’s a bit meh. Today was the unconventional material challenge and it was fine. I did agree with the winner, the guy made an outfit out of soccer balls. It was cute. The only person who could wear it was a model, but she did look fine. Don’t know who is going home yet though.

I went downstairs later to get my lunch and brought it upstairs. I watched another episode of The Good Fight. It was good. I think it was the first episode of the 5 season and they got rid of a couple of major characters which is sad as I really liked one of them. However, it was during Covid so they might have wanted to go back to Britain or something. 

I went downstairs around 6:00 to start dinner. F had called to say he was on his way. I got busy as soon as I got downstairs, but somehow I still was late getting dinner done tonight. Sigh. I took the leftover stew and added another cooked potato and a bag of mushrooms to it. I heated it all in the microwave and then added a pastry lid to it. I baked it all and it turned out nicely. 

We had the stew with some potato salad and some salad and it was very nice. We all had seconds and seemed to enjoy it. 

After dinner, I got the dishes done fairly quickly. I’d been keeping up with them as I worked so there wasn’t a whole lot to do really. I did up the burnable garbage again and it might have been a good idea that I did. I found a bunch of old calendar sheets that K must have put in the corner. The paper seemed to hold in water or something and since they were against the wall, the wall has a lot of mold marks. Sigh. I cleared out most of the paper. F said he’ll look at the wall on the weekend. 

I went upstairs and relaxed for a bit. F went out to pay a bill and then came back with a present. He bought me a cup pasta thing of clam chowder. I’m not a huge clam chowder fan but I appreciate the gesture!

I went downstairs to take a shower. I took down K’s breakfast sandwich and a bottle to bring up some water for myself. I jumped in the shower, washed my hair and then opened the door to grab my towel…which I had forgotten to bring down with me! Ack! I had to call F on my phone and ask him to bring me a towel. The hand towel in the bathroom is small and unfortunately, quite wet so I couldn’t really use that. 

He was a dear and brought me a towel. It wasn’t the one I was using, but it was clean and I really appreciated the fact that he did!

I dried off and then went back upstairs. I watched The Irrational and it was quite a good one tonight. It was about his girlfriend getting kidnapped. I like the show, too bad that it wasn’t kept around.

And that’s about it. I can hear the snowploughs out again tonight, so it must have snowed more. Sigh. We’re in a really bad weather system it seems and there is just so much snow all the time. It’s also quite cold and unpleasant a lot of the time. Yes, it’s winter, but last year didn’t seem to be this bad.

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

January 27, 2026

 Tuesday - Warmer and sunny!

I woke up a little late this morning. I heard my alarm, I just ignored it! I went downstairs and then came back to the room. I had planned to do laundry today, but when I sorted it, realized that I didn’t have too much yet. I might wait a day or two. 

I went back to bed and didn’t really hear my alarms. It was warmer today too, and sunny in the room, so when I did drag myself out of bed, it wasn’t as punishing as usual! I went downstairs to get my breakfast but first went outside in my Crocs to shovel a bit of ice off the walkway. I didn’t even wear a coat. I was done in less than 5 minutes but it was nice to see the sun, even though it was raining!

I prepared my breakfast and then took it upstairs to eat. I checked the movie of the day but I didn’t need to watch it. I had a quiet day with some YouTube. Around 3 I went downstairs to get lunch.

I was able to turn on the heater downstairs but set it to come on in an hour rather than right away. I made my lunch and then brought it upstairs. I watched an episode of So Help Me Todd and thought it was cute.

F called around 5:30 and I went downstairs almost right away. I was making a cream stew tonight so needed extra time to get it ready. I washed the dishes and F came just a few minutes later.

I worked on the stew. Unfortunately, it still took a while, but I did get dinner on the table around 7:30. The stew turned out quite well and we all had seconds, even K! We got the roux packet at Gyomu a few days ago and I promised to make it for F. We had a side salad and rice with the stew. There are leftovers so I’m thinking I’ll make a kind of casserole with them tomorrow. 

After dinner, I cleared the table and washed the dishes. When I was finished I went upstairs and changed and then F and I headed out to the car.

We drove over to the Mina Shopping Area and went grocery shopping. We got some things for the next couple of days and then paid. F bought a bag of rice tonight so the bill was a bit much. 

We came back to the house and I put the groceries away. We came upstairs and relaxed for a bit. I watched FBI: Most Wanted. Ironically, it was about people pretending to be ICE agents kidnapping immigrants to be used as organ donors. It was an interesting story and I winced a lot.

Since midnight I’ve been watching YouTube and relaxing. I’m not sure what I’ll get up to tomorrow, so please come back later and find out! Until tomorrow….

January 26, 2026

 Monday - Snowy and cold

I woke up a bit early this morning and made my way downstairs. F had already left for work. I checked outside and it was snowing and there was quite a bit outside. I checked the weather forecast and it said that it would stop snowing later. 

I headed back to bed and watched a few videos on my phone before falling asleep again. I dragged myself out of bed later and I dressed. I got my breakfast yogurt and brought it upstairs to eat. I keep the cereal in my room now as it isn’t safe from my MIL. 

I ate my breakfast and then after a little break I went downstairs and went outside. I shovelled a bit of snow for about 30 minutes. I thought I got the parking space looking good and also most of the pathways in the yard. 

I went into the house and upstairs to warm up. I relaxed with some YouTube before going downstairs to make my lunch. I had to turn on the heater downstairs in the kitchen. 

I brought my lunch upstairs and ate while I watched an episode of The Good Fight. Today was all about the Epstein case. It was rather funny in a way. 

F called me after 5:20 or so and said that he was on his way back. I went downstairs to start on dinner. 

Tonight I did toaster oven chicken with a teriyaki flavour, steamed cabbage, salad and a couple of basil flavoured onion cake. Those have been sitting in my freezer for a bit too long. They were good though. 

I was late starting dinner as the onion cakes needed to be “cooked” in the toaster oven. I told F to go ahead and start eating, but when I went back out to the table, neither of them had started! I was a bit sad, but it was nice of them, even though all the food was now cold. 

I did the dishes after dinner and listened to my podcasts. I finished around 9pm and then went upstairs to relax. F came up a bit later and we both relaxed. After 10 pm I went downstairs to take my shower and also I gave F the kerosene tank to fill up. He did his mother’s too so he was busy!

I had a fairly cold shower. For some reason the water wasn’t too warm tonight. I didn’t want to stay in the shower very long! I finished and came back upstairs. As I thought, F hadn’t turned the heater back on after he refilled the tank. I had a chuckle at that!

I decided to watch an episode of Gen V and it was quite good. It was one that moved the story along a bit. I’m hoping that this show will go somewhere!

And really, that’s about it. I’ve been working on my end of day stuff and when I post this, I’ll be finished and off to bed. Come back later if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow….

PS…if you use Angelfire to access this blog, I have been unable to update my posts there for close to a month. It really seems to be down. I’ve read a few complaints and people are angry about it…me too, but I don’t pay for it so….

January 25, 2026

Sunday - Cold and snowy

Happy Robert Burns Day!

I woke up a bit early today and went downstairs, then came back upstairs to the room and went back to sleep. I had a nice snooze until F came into the room in a state. His phone had died and he didn’t know what to do. It was really dead. I helped him by looking up what to do. I checked the internet and tried updating the device using my computer. It didn’t work. I even tried resetting it but that didn’t work either. 

F and I talked about what to do and he suggested going to the mall to see the iPhone Doctor. I was okay with that. We drove over to the mall, which was crazy busy today and went to the kiosk…and it was closed until 4 pm. There was a sign saying that he (I assume) was out on a job somewhere. 

We left the mall and went over to the Indian Restaurant. We had a nice meal there. F had the curry of the day (Aloo Gobi) and I had the spinach keema. We both enjoyed our meals. We both had two naan and that was a bit too much really. 

F paid and then we went back to S-Mall. We went in the door near the IPhone Doctor and I suggested checking to see if he was back. F zoomed off ahead of me and I heard my phone make a noise. I looked at it, and he had called me…with the phone that doesn’t work! I caught up to him and we checked his phone and….it was now working! We were happy, but bemused.

We did a quick Daiso trip, which F left halfway through. He started to feel a bit dizzy so I told him to go and find a bench in the mall. He did that. I finished shopping and checked out. I met up with him and his phone was still working, and working well. Yay.

We decided to go to Doutor so we went downstairs and I bought us some coffee at Doutor. I got him a regular coffee and I got a decaf latte. It was nice. We stayed in Doutor for a while but F wanted to rest. I suggested getting K something from the grocery store for her dinner. F agreed, so we went over there.  We got her some fried shrimp and also noticed the onigiri were being marked down. F grabbed some for his breakfast and his mother’s too. We paid and while we were doing that, I noticed that the Jupiter (Foreign Food Import Store) had closed. NO!! I am so sad about that. I didn’t buy my Worcestershire sauce last time I was there….but also no more Terry’s Chocolate Oranges or nice hot chocolate or teas….Wah!

We came back to the house. F went in the house, I stayed out for a few minutes to move a little snow. F had done a lot earlier but it was coming down again.

I headed upstairs and turned on the heater and my waterpot. I watched a lot of YouTube and then F came upstairs. He said he wanted to go out again to get groceries and have our dinner but it had to be cheap! I suggested going to a gyudon shop and F was okay with that. 

We went over to Matsuya and I had a chicken cutlet set meal, F had a grilled pork set meal. They were both quite good and we enjoyed our meals. We left after a bit and then went back to the Mina Shopping Area. We did our grocery shopping there. F came in with me so of course I forgot to get something I wanted (garlic, coffee creamers) but got a few things for the next couple of days. 

We paid and left. We came back to the house and F shovelled some snow and I put the groceries away. I was supposed to watch Sinners tonight as it was on WOWOW, but I’d already missed the beginning. Luckily I had recorded it so I’ll be able to watch it tomorrow or on another day. 

I came up to the room and turned on the heater. I watched some YouTube and then later watched another episode of Pluribus. I’m really enjoying it. It isn’t the usual TV show. Gotta love Apple TV sometimes (okay, all the time!)

And that’s about it for me. F stayed up a bit too late but seems to be sleeping now. I’m off to bed in a few minutes. Not sure what I’ll do with myself tomorrow, but it’ll be fun to find out. Come back later if you like and read all about my day. 

Until tomorrow….