June 11, 2026

 Thursday - Hot and Sunny

I woke up this morning around 7:20. F was still in the room and was getting ready to leave for work. I got up and made my pilgrimage downstairs. I was about to go upstairs again as F was just about ready to leave. I was able to give him his phone. He’d left it in the bathroom on the washing machine! He would have missed that. 

I went back to bed for a snooze and some video watching for a couple of hours. I got up a bit later, dressed and went downstairs. I took down a load of laundry too and then went into the kitchen. 

I decided I’d start by preparing the marinade for dinner tonight and also an onion boil. I went to get my recipe and….it was gone. I generally keep my most used recipes in a clip on the fridge. The clips were still there, but the recipes were gone. I was very upset. 

I looked around the kitchen and then had a brainwave. I looked in the garbage. My recipe sheets were in the garbage under a local newspaper. K, in her infinite wisdom, had thrown out my recipes. Luckily, today is the burnable garbage day so I had cleaned out the garbage last night and put a clean bag in for the coming week. There wasn’t anything else in the garbage so I fished out my recipes. I fired off a text to F to see if he had any insight as to why she would throw out my stuff. He was as shocked as I was.

I did my kitchen stuff, set up the marinade and prepared my onion boil. I also hung my recipes back up where they belong. 

My laundry was done, so I took it upstairs, along with my breakfast and then hung up my laundry. I ate my breakfast and relaxed with some YouTube. 

For my lunch, I came downstairs and made my lunch. I had a good lunch…leftovers from yesterday’s dinner. I watched another episode of Matlock. It was okay…Honestly, just get to the end of the storyline and then do cases…I watched the news and then I turned off the TV again. 

I went downstairs around 5:50 and got started on the dishes. When they were done, I made the cucumber pickle and then F came back! We had a nice reunion and he went into the living room to see his mother. I started up the air fryer to cook the onion and prepped the mushrooms that I was going to cook. 

Tonight’s dinner was coro-coro steak, cucumber pickles, onion boil, salad and sauteed mushrooms. I think it was nice. 

F finally asked K about why she threw out my recipes and her answers were about as odd as you’d expect. She said that nobody used them….Umm, nope. I used one earlier this week and one today! She also said that she didn’t want it to catch on fire. My recipes are on the side of the fridge, nowhere near the stove or any open fire. Maybe she thinks the fridge will overheat and burn them? I dunno. Anyway, things were quite quiet when I was setting the table. 

Dinner was good and there were a few leftovers. F isn’t eating a lot at dinner…then he has a big snack later on. That isn’t good for him I think. 

I did the dishes and got done fairly quickly. I told F that I was going upstairs to change, but he beat me to it! I changed and then went downstairs, but F took rather longer to be ready to go.

Finally, we were ready to go. We drove over to Mina and I went in. I bought the things I forgot to buy on Tuesday, and a few other things. I was trying to decide if I wanted to buy some ice cream for us for tonight or for dessert tomorrow night. All of a sudden, I saw F coming towards me. He was buying his adult beverage and put it in the buggy. I asked him about the ice cream situation and he agreed that both would be fine. 

We went through the checkout together and packed up the groceries. We came back to the house where F actually carried the groceries into the house. I put most of them away and then we went upstairs.

I had my ice cream (choco-mint) and it was good. I also had some tea and YouTube before I turned on the TV at 11pm for The Rookie. Is it me or have they really stepped up the show this year? It used to be a little goofy, now the crimes are more serious and so are some of the storylines. They also brought back a failed rookie from last season for a visit and their guest star was David Krumholtz. 

I turned off the TV around midnight, turned off F’s light too. I’ve been working on my end of day things for a while and now that I’m just about done. 

Tomorrow I’ll likely do my laundry and try to get ready for the weekend. I do hope that K doesn’t try to toss my recipes again. I will not be happy if she does. Honestly, they are not in the way of anything and I don’t know why she can’t just leave my things alone!

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

June 10, 2026

Wednesday - Sunny but mostly cool

This morning, I woke up when F was getting ready. I’m not sure if I woke up because I’ve been waking up at this time for the last few days or because F made a noise while getting ready. I got up and went downstairs. I didn’t go back to bed while he was still in the room, but I did soon after he left. I watched videos and snoozed a bit, then finally got up and dressed. 

I went downstairs, got my breakfast stuff and brought it upstairs to eat. I also decided to watch the episode of FBI that I missed on Saturday. It was a good one about domestic terrorism. 

I went downstairs around 2:30 to make my lunch. I realized when I checked the fridge that I had forgotten to buy myself some luncheon meat. Darn! Oh well. I took my lunch upstairs and ate while I watched another episode of Elsbeth. It was a Halloween one. 

I watched the news and then thought about getting ready to go downstairs. I took my stuff down and a few minutes later F came back. He’d called earlier but I’d missed the call. We did talk, but he was already in Tsuruoka at that point.

Tonight I was quite busy in the kitchen. I had to wash the salad as I bought a baby-leaf one, make some cucumber pickle and then I had to prep the ingredients for our main dish, buta-kimchi. It went well and I had it on the table just a couple of minutes late. F even took seconds of the main so that was good. K had some too and so did I. There was even enough for both of our lunches tomorrow.

I did the dishes afterwards and listened to a podcast about Rom-Coms. The movie of note was The Cutting Edge which is one that I love. I haven’t seen it in a bit. 

After the dishes, I did up the garbage in the kitchen and then F helped me with the stuff in the living room. I put the full garbage bag in the genkan for F to take out later.

I went upstairs to relax and watched some YouTube. Around 10:15 I went back downstairs and took a shower. It was a relaxing one which was nice.

I came back to the room and watched tonight’s episode of The Copenhagen Test. It was quite good, and wasn’t stupid, which I’m happy about. WOWOW is showing more made in Canada/Canadian shows now which I like. It must be to save a little money!

F went to bed a while ago and does seem to be sleeping soundly. He doesn’t sleep that well these days.

I’m not sure what I’ll get up to tomorrow. I might do a bit of laundry or I might write a letter or more postcards. Hmm. Decisions, decisions!

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

June 9, 2026

Tuesday - Cooler, sunny and a bit rainy at times.

This morning, I woke up when F’s alarm went off. Where was F?  He was in bed beside me but was wearing headphones and didn’t hear the alarm! I woke him up, he turned off the alarm and got up. He went downstairs and then I went downstairs a few minutes later. 

I came back up to the room and didn’t go back to bed yet. I waited until F left for work. I thought it would be rather mean to go back to bed when he’s having to leave for work. 

I sorted my laundry and then I went back to bed and snoozed/watched videos for a while. I woke up later and then got up. I took my laundry downstairs and put in a load. 

I grabbed my breakfast and brought it upstairs. I ate and then it was time to grab my laundry and hang it up. It’s in our room, hopefully drying away!

I had a quiet afternoon. I backed up my computer and watched some YouTube. I went downstairs to grab lunch slightly before 3 and then brought everything upstairs. I decided to start the second season of Departures and it was fine. It was about a crash of a high speed train in the US. I quite enjoyed it so I’ll move that into my rotation until it is finished. 

While I was eating and watching, F called. He said that he’d taken off the rest of the day and was going to go to the doctor. He’s been having problems with his asthma and wanted to see about it. He was heading to the house to change and pick up his stuff for the doctor’s.

F came, changed and then left soon after. I watched the news and then watched the music show I recorded overnight. It wasn’t great though. 

Around 6 pm I went downstairs and started to work on dinner. I was quite busy. Tonight we had chicken drumsticks, potato salad, salad, cucumber pickle and it was all very nice. 

I did up the dishes afterwards, and listened to my podcasts. When I finished that, I let F know that I was done and was going upstairs to change and get ready to go out. 

A few minutes later we got in the car and drove to the grocery store. I went in and did the shopping. To be honest, I forgot a few things and other things I wanted I couldn’t find, but I think it’ll be okay. I got the really important stuff, it’ll work out!

We came back to the house and I put the groceries away. I went upstairs and then at 11pm I watched Law & Order. F went to bed quite early, he’s really tired these days. I don’t think he’s sleeping all that well. 

I watched some YouTube and did my other end of day things. I’m nearly done and I’ll be going to bed soon. Come back later if you like and hear all about my Wednesday.  Until tomorrow….

June 8, 2026

 Monday - Rainy and cooler all day

After our nice weekend it was hard to go back to normal today. Still, it had to be done. F went off to work today and I did my usual waking up and then going back to bed for another snooze. 

I got up later, dressed and went downstairs. I got my breakfast stuff and then brought it back to the room to eat. I had a quiet morning and afternoon. Today I decided that I’d write a couple of postcards for Postcrossing. I ended up doing three over the afternoon. 

I went downstairs around 3 today to get my lunch. I brought it up to the room and ate while watching an episode of Breaking Bad. It’s funny and weird all at once! I followed that up with the news.

Around 6 pm I went downstairs to get a start on dinner. Tonight I made a stew rather quickly. I think it turned out well. I took some ground pork, added in an onion thinly sliced and some mushrooms and new potatoes. At the end I put in a few frozen peas for colour. I think dinner was good. I was a little late getting it done, but doing a stew in an hour is pretty fast!

After dinner I did the dishes and then headed upstairs. F was already in bed, but I requested that he make more rice for tomorrow. He set up the rice cooker. 

Around 10:30 I went downstairs to take a shower. No big deal about that. I did my shower and then came back upstairs. F was bordering on being asleep so I went into my part of the room and watched another episode of Evil. It was quite an odd episode. This is the last season of it and I’m curious how they’ll end it.

After midnight I turned off the TV and started to do my end of day things. I got F to take my postcards so that he can mail them near his office tomorrow. Yay for that. I’m sending to Germany, the US and the Czech Republic. I’m sure the card to Germany will arrive first!

And that’s it for me for today. I’m not sure what I’ll get up to tomorrow. Come back later if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow….

June 7, 2026

 Sunday - Warm and Sunny, a bit muggy at night

Today was another good day. Woot. I woke up around 9:30 and made a trip downstairs. I came back to the room and had a bit of a snooze. Before I woke up, I had the oddest dream that I was out with F somewhere and I ended up sitting next to Ethan Hawke. He was eating fries with maple bacon in them and I asked him how they were. He passed them over to me and invited me to grab a couple! Then, I introduced him to F and a couple of minutes later I woke up!

F and I talked about where to have lunch and then I suggested going to have yakiniku in Tsuruoka. F liked that idea, so few minutes later we left the house and went to the restaurant. It wasn’t too busy so we got in right away. We both ordered the same meal and a few minutes later we were grilling our meat and eating the rest of the included food. It was nice.

After lunch, F suggested going out of the city to the Aquarium. I wasn’t sure it was a good idea as weekends are busy there, but we could park fairly close today and went in. 

Assorted Jellyfish!

As always it was lovely seeing the beasties in the aquarium. We had a nice walk around. It was crowded today, but the people were mostly moving around and everyone was in a good mood. At the end, we just bought ourselves drinks at a vending machine and then headed back into Tsuruoka.

I asked F if he was interested in getting a kakigori and he said he was. We talked about where to go and came up with some ideas. One of the places didn’t sell them, another place was closed, so we ended up at Komeda and I had a kakigori. I tried the Acai-mix one and it was amazing. F had soft ice cream and it was huge, and looked good. 

Acai Mix Kakigori at Komeda Coffee

We left after a while and came back to the house so that F could make dinner for his mother. I came upstairs to rest for a while. When F finished, he came upstairs and we talked about where to eat or what to eat. I suggested a few places and F liked Coco Ichibanya, the curry place. We decided to go there.

We went to the curry place and got the last parking space in the main area. We went in and ordered. F got a seafood curry and I got the handmade chicken cutlet curry with vegetables. It was really nice. 

After our dinner, we headed to the grocery store and bought food for the next couple of days. F came in the store with me but he wasn’t annoying tonight! Maybe it was because I knew what I needed and picked it up. 

F paid and we drove back to the house. I put away the groceries and F made some rice for tomorrow I think. I went upstairs and relaxed for a while. I put on an episode of The Boys, I think the second last one, and then an episode of Eugene Levy’s The Reluctant Traveller on AppleTV. It was a bit meh but I wanted something chill for the end of the day.

I spent some time doing my end of day things and then started to write this. I’ll probably post this and get to bed really soon. Come back later if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow….

June 6, 2026

Saturday - Warm & Sunny

Today was a pretty good day. I wasn’t sure that it would be, but it was. Woot.

Last night F had mentioned that he’d like a keisen-don for lunch today and I said that if we went to Sakata I’d be able to go to the foreign imports store for my favourite tea. Yay. So, I got up a little earlier this morning than I normally would and after I got dressed, F and I drove over to Sakata.

We went to a place at the port, it’s a food court kind of thing, mostly all of the places serve fish. F had his keisen-don, which he liked. I went to another place and had roast beef-don. It was nice, but a little small. Oh, I’m getting ahead of myself…

As we left the house this morning I told F that he’d have to be careful as his back pocket had a huge rip in it. I was worried that his wallet would fall out.  Well, as we were getting ready to leave the restaurant, F discovered that his wallet was gone! Ack. He has a Tile™ in it so he could see where it was. He said it was nearby and the signal was strong. He kind of panicked though. He wouldn’t listen to me at all. I was trying to get him to find an office type place so he could ask if it had been turned in. He didn’t, but a young man came up to him and asked him if he was looking for something. They had F’s wallet. Someone had turned it in. F asked if they needed a reward, but they didn’t. 

F put his wallet in another pocket and we went off somewhere else. At another place in the port, we got some ice cream and sat and ate for a bit. Then, F dropped his wallet outside. Eye Roll!

From the port area, we went over to the new shopping area and I went to Kaldi, the import food store. I got a couple of boxes of my tea, plus another kind of tea, some decaf coffee. F picked up some bifun noodles and that’s about it. We then went to the Muji store and picked up a few more snacks and things. 

We got back in the car and F suggested going for a drink at the nice bakery near Hiyoriyama Park. I said fine, but once we got there, we couldn’t find a parking spot. We drove around a bit, but nothing. I suggested going to Mister Donut instead, either in Sakata or in Mikawa. F chose Sakata. 

We got a doughnut each and a drink. I got decaf cafe au lait, F got the regular one. We enjoyed our drinks and our time. 

We had to get back to Tsuruoka so we went back to the car and drove back. In Tsuruoka, F wanted to go to the craft/sewing store so he could fix his jeans. Not the one he was wearing, another pair. His button on the front came off and he wanted a new one. We got him one at the store. He managed to fix his jeans later. Yay him.  He also changed his jeans so he wasn’t wearing his holey pocketed ones. Double Yay!

We checked out the grocery store in S-Mall and F picked up a bento for his mother’s dinner. We paid and then came back to the house.

I went upstairs and relaxed, F stayed downstairs for a bit and then came upstairs just at the time his mother was due back. Didn’t understand that!

F and I had talked about going to the movie and he said it was okay. So, we left the house around 6:30 and drove over to the Mikawa Mall. We bought our tickets and then went and got our dinner. We both had bibinba and it was really nice! 

We went back to the cinema, bought our popcorn and went to see Masters of the Universe. It was ridiculous and silly and fun. I enjoyed it, F not so much. He thought it was too violent, but I tried to remind him how violent little boys actually are. Anyway, I liked it. I loved the earlier version with Dolph Lundgren so I was probably predisposed to like it. 

We drove back to Tsuruoka after the movie, and went to MaxValu so F could get something for his mother’s breakfast again. I have a little problem with him going to the store all the time, but I can’t tell him not to, or to meal plan. He’s just too darn scattered and forgetful to do it. 

We came back to the house and I went upstairs. F followed after he set up the rice cooker for tomorrow. F’s in bed now and sleeping. I’ll be going to bed soon I think, it’s quite late now. 

I’m not sure what we’ll get up to on Sunday, but we’ll probably have to buy my groceries for the next couple of days too. 

So that’s it. It was a pretty good day and I had a lot of fun. I hope tomorrow is good too. Come back later if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow…. 

June 5, 2026

Friday - Sunny but nicely warm

I woke up this morning when my alarm went off. It was nice that I managed to sleep through F’s leaving. Yay. I went downstairs and then came back up to the room. I sorted my laundry and then headed back to bed for a few snoozes. I watched some videos and then took a shortish nap.

I got up finally, dressed, and went downstairs with my laundry. I did a couple of loads today, now drying in my room. I grabbed my breakfast and brought it upstairs to eat. 

I had a fairly quiet morning and afternoon. When I ate my lunch I watched an episode of Lie To Me. It was fine. I followed that up with watching the news. 

F called after 5:15 and said he was on his way back. He was going to stop at the store to get something for his mother’s breakfast tomorrow. I changed and went downstairs to get dinner started.

Tonight I did my usual pasta dinner. We had some salad, duck breast and leftover veggies with it. It turned out rather nicely. When we finished dinner I cleared the table and then did the dishes. I listened to my podcasts in the kitchen. I finished around 9 pm and went upstairs to relax. I took a late shower tonight and didn’t watch any TV. F was already asleep and I didn’t feel like watching something tonight.

I’m not sure what’s going to happen tomorrow. F has put in a request for raw fish for lunch tomorrow so we might go over to the next city to their port restaurants. I’m not really into raw fish on rice for the first meal of the day, but I might be able to have some roast beef or something. We’ll see. I suggested an evening movie, but I’m not sure if F wants to see Masters of the Universe as much as I do! I told him tonight about seeing the one in the 80’s with my sister. When the camera panned over Dolph Lundgren, both of us gasped! He was pretty hot, even if he couldn’t speak English that well.

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