January 17, 2025

 Friday - Snowy and windy and cold

I got up this morning when my alarm went off and then I went back to bed for a bit. I watched a few videos on my phone and then I napped for a little.

After I got up and dressed, I went downstairs with my laundry and started the washing machine. Then I went outside and shovelled some snow. I wasn’t outside too long, just about 15 minutes or so. 

When I came back into the house I made my breakfast. Today, I made myself some oatmeal. I haven’t had any in ages. When I opened the microwave to cook my oatmeal, I found F’s onigiri in there. Oh no! I texted him and asked him if I could eat them!  We text-chatted for a few minutes.

I ate my oatmeal in the kitchen as my laundry was nearly done, so I didn’t want to go upstairs and then come back right away. After I hung up the laundry, I took my laundry upstairs and ate my onigiri too. 

I put in another load of laundry and set it to dry for an hour after it washed. I went back upstairs and had a quiet afternoon. I watched some YouTube and decided not to watch the movie of the day. 

When I went downstairs to make my lunch, my laundry was nearly done.  I took it out of the machine and then grabbed some of F’s stuff that was down there too. I picked the stuff he needs for work that shouldn’t be all wrinkled. I came upstairs to the room to eat. 

Today I decided to watch an episode of Buffy, The Vampire Slayer. It was okay. I think I’m on the second season now. I only have Buffy till the end of February so I’m not sure how much I’ll see of it. 

I went downstairs to start dinner around 5:30. I thought I might have to go out and do a little snow shovelling. I looked outside and the snow wasn’t deep and it was coming down. I decided not to go out. I started dinner, I washed the day’s dishes and then I waited. I didn’t hear from F until 6:30 or so. He had just got back to his office. He’d had a big driving assignment today and the weather was horrible so he took a little longer. I reminded him that he might want to pick up something for his mother’s breakfast tomorrow. He agreed. 

I turned up the cooking process and when F came back I told him I could have dinner on the table in about 10 minutes if he wanted to relax. He did. 

Tonight we just had spaghetti with tuna sauce, salad and sausages. It was really nice. We had a good dinner and everything disappeared. It was surprising! Usually, when I make pasta there are leftovers, but tonight there weren’t any.

I did the dishes afterwards and listened to my podcasts. When I was done, I told F I was going to go upstairs and that’s what I did. He came up right away too. We had a quiet evening. 

I decided to watch a movie, so I ended up watching something off the DVR. Tonight it was Wanted from 2008 with James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie. It was silly and violent and I enjoyed it. While I watched it, I sewed on a button for F on one of the shirts that I hung up today. I’m very nice sometimes!

And, that’s about it for my day. It was a pretty good one. I’m not sure about the weekend if I’m honest. Tomorrow afternoon we have a meeting with K’s Care Manager but apart from that I’m not sure. 

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

January 16, 2025

Thursday - Cold and windy, now rainy

I went to bed around my usual time last night and fell asleep fairly easily. I woke up when F got up to get ready for work, but fell back asleep quite easily. 

I got up after my alarm went off and did my cheeky thing of going downstairs and then coming back to bed. I was lying in bed watching some videos on my phone and F came in the room. He came to pick up some papers that he needed. We said goodbye. I ended up snoozing for a few minutes.

I got up and dressed. I went downstairs with my winter coat and gloves. I went outside and shovelled some snow for about half an hour. I cleared off the steps and the walkway, made the area around my side of the car a little easier to walk on. I also tried to get the corners a little bit better coming in and going out of the parking space.

I came back into the house and put my breakfast together. It wasn’t a big deal, it was just my usual yogurt and cereal. I went back upstairs and ate and relaxed. I watched the news too.

I had a quiet afternoon. I watched a bit of YouTube and then went downstairs to get my lunch. I completely forgot to do laundry until it was too late! I was watching my show (Major Crimes) while eating my lunch when F walked into the room. He tried to do his important phoning but got only answering machines. He tried to leave a message, we aren’t sure if things worked though.

He left after a bit. I watched the news and a little while later F called to say that he was on his way back to the house. I got changed and went downstairs. I took the kerosene tank from the heater down with me because it was empty. 

I went into the kitchen after I filled up the kerosene tank. I left it on the steps in the hope that F would carry it upstairs for me. (He would!) I washed my dishes, peeled some potatoes and soaked them. I drained the potatoes and dried them, then added some oil and spices. They went into the air fryer. I used the toaster oven to cook chicken and I steamed some vegetables as well. I got dinner on the table a bit after 7. I called F downstairs before everything was quite ready and I got him to carry a couple of things to the table. 

Dinner was good. A lot of things were finished and it was quite delicious. I loved my roasted potatoes. I didn’t overfill my air fryer and it made such a difference. 

I washed the dishes afterwards and tidied up the kitchen, the usual stuff. I listened to a couple of podcasts and liked them. 

When I finished, I told F I was going upstairs and I took a can of root beer up with me. I relaxed and watched a few YouTube videos while I drank my root beer.  F popped out to go to the store and when he came back I went downstairs to take a shower.

After my shower, I came back upstairs and watched The Rookie. It was a bit sad as one of the paired-up couples broke up.

I turned off the TV afterwards and got stuck into my computer stuff. F is sleeping as he has a big driving assignment tomorrow. I’m sitting at my computer listening to the wind wuthering right now. It is very windy. 

Tomorrow I plan to do a bunch of laundry. I need to get it done. I also will be doing pasta again for dinner so that should be fun!  I hope. 

That’s it for me for today. Until tomorrow….

January 15, 2025

Wednesday - Snowy and cold

I woke up when my alarm went off this morning. I made a trip downstairs and then came back upstairs and snoozed longer. F was downstairs cooking for his mother. Somewhere around 10:30 F came back upstairs and went to sleep. I woke up a bit later, snoozed more and then got up after noon! 

I got dressed and waited for F to wake up again and say what he wanted to do today. He didn’t wake up until much later!

Around 2:45, he was still sleeping so I went downstairs and made my lunch. I hadn’t eaten anything all day so I needed something. F came downstairs while I was there and a few minutes later he made himself something to eat I think.

I ate upstairs. Since F was up, I turned on the TV to watch the 4pm news. I kept expecting him to ask me to go out or to do the thing that he took the day off for, but he didn’t. Finally he tried…at 5 pm and of course, the office was closed. I was quite annoyed by that and he wasn’t too happy with himself either.

At 5:45 I got ready to go downstairs and make dinner. Tonight I did a stir-fry and served it with salad and rice. All the rice from yesterday disappeared, so there wasn’t any. I had to use the bachelor pack rice instead.

Dinner was okay. Neither K nor F had seconds. I did, but I liked it! I thought my stir-fry was good. 

I did the dishes afterwards and hoped that F would come in and help me, but of course, he didn’t. I’m not sure what his excuse was. 

I had to do up the burnable garbage for tomorrow so I did that. I reminded F that we needed to go out for groceries but for some reason he went outside before I went upstairs to change. I think he was shovelling a bit of snow, but I didn’t really know.

I went upstairs to change and a few minutes later F came in the room. We left a few minutes later.

I had wanted to go to MaxValu as it was later and I thought we’d have more chance of getting things for dinner. However, F missed the turn off and then said he was taking me to Mina. Okay then. He came in the store with me, which I didn’t really want, but whatever. Today I used the buggy and I did the majority of the shopping. For tomorrow I got chicken and Friday sausages to go with our pasta. Hopefully that will be nice. 

We left the store and drove back to the house. In the parking space, F grabbed my hand and apologized about today. He is having a hard time of things lately. He asked if we could have some TLC time later and of course I said yes. 

We went back in the house and I put the groceries away. I went upstairs and relaxed a bit. It took a while before we synched. We had a nice little cuddle and then I came to my computer and F went to get some food!

And that was my day. It was nearly a complete wash for me. I may do more laundry tomorrow, I still have a ton to do. I may go out and shovel a bit of snow, I’m not sure!

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

January 14, 2025

Tuesday - Sunny but cool

I went to bed a little bit late last night. I woke up this morning when F left, but managed to fall back asleep after that. I woke up properly after my alarms went off. I went downstairs, came back to bed and watched a few videos and while I was watching one, F came in the room. He was looking for his phone. How does he lose it?  It seems to be attached to his hand most of the time! He left a couple of minutes later and I snoozed again.

I got up and dressed. I made my breakfast and then put in a load of laundry. I did three loads of laundry over the afternoon today. There are clothes and towels all over my room now! I also spent a lot of time writing and email and texting my husband. 

I was a bit late getting my lunch up to the room today, so I watched a half hour programme from the Fire Disk. Today it was The Sticky which was quite good and funny. 

F called after 5:15 and said he was on his way back. Earlier today he texted that he was going to take tomorrow off. He has some personal stuff that he needs to deal with. 

I went downstairs to start dinner around 6 pm. Tonight I made hamburgers myself as opposed to buying them premade. I also served some salad, potato salad and some mixed veggies with the burgers. Dinner was good!

I did the dishes of course, cause no one else would do them, then went upstairs when I was finished. F was lying on the bed, fast asleep. He didn’t really wake up at all.

I took a shower at 10:30 and then came upstairs afterwards. I watched FBI: Most Wanted and then turned off the TV. I watched a lot of YouTube!

F has finally woken up and then got himself into bed. He’s back asleep as far as I know. 

I’m not sure what we’re going to get up to tomorrow. F will have to take care of his business, but I’m unsure if we’ll have time for anything else. 

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

January 13, 2025

Monday - Sunny and warm, rainy at night

I went to bed very late last night and so I woke up a bit late today. I went back to sleep after a trip downstairs, but got up around 11. It was a holiday and we had nothing planned, so no worries. 

I got dressed and heated up my water pot but wasn’t able to have a drink. F came into the room and wanted to know about lunch. Of course, he hated most of my suggestions. We finally decided to go to Cocos, but when we got there, the parking lot was completely full. Everyone else had the same idea I suppose.

We ended up at Gusto. It looked a bit busy, but we were able to park and get seated quite quickly. We both had fairly decent meals. I had the mixed grill and F had a grilled chicken dish, we both got drink bar and either rice or bread. I ordered a plate of fries to share and they were nice. 

After lunch, we went grocery shopping. We both went to Izmo and it was okay. I was able to get most of the stuff I wanted, but F came around the store with me after a while. I really don’t like it when he does that. Still, it was fine and he paid for things.

We went to Gyomu Supa afterwards and again, he came around with me. Sigh. It’s not that I buy a lot of junk food, it’s just that I don’t always know where things are so I have to go back and see things. I find it all rather frustrating if I’m honest. 

We came back to the house around 4 pm and I put most of the groceries away. I popped into the loo and then F put the rest “away” except I had to undo a lot of what he was doing. He left my bread on the table where his mother could get her hands on it, he also left her breakfasts for the next two days there….she’d have them eaten by tonight if I didn’t hide them. 

I went upstairs with a few things and then decided to veg out with some YouTube. I relaxed or tried to. F came up and as usual, wanted to know where to eat tonight. Neither of us was ready to eat. That wasn’t important. 

I did suggest sushi, but F didn’t want that. He suggested one restaurant and I said it was okay to try it. Usually, when we go there, it isn’t open. We drove over and the lights were on, but it was closed. We had to move on. I suggested the Chinese restaurant near the bridge near our old apartment. F said he didn’t like the place, but he couldn’t come up with a good place for both of us. We went there.

We looked at the menu and ordered. Tonight we had stir-fried vegetables and mushrooms, yakisoba- F’s usual thing and some kara-age. It was quite nice and even F agreed that he enjoyed it afterwards. 

We came back to the house and upstairs. I really should have taken a shower tonight, but didn’t. I watched an episode of Bad Monkey on Apple TV and enjoyed it. 

And that was it. I had a good text session with my sister. She got her birthday presents finally, two months after her birthday! 

Anyway, that’s it for me. Tomorrow I hope to do laundry and I’ll be back to cooking dinner. Yay me. Come back later if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow….

January 12, 2025

Sunday - Sunny and warmish

Today was a good day. I slept in. F got up and made his mother breakfast and then, he came back to bed and fell asleep. I dragged myself out of bed around 1pm (yes, that late) and F was still sleeping. I let him sleep because I knew he was tired.  He got himself up an hour or more later. 

We talked about going out for our late lunch and F wanted to go to a local Japanese family restaurant. It’s okay, but they don’t have a double door, so when someone comes in, it is cold.  F also complains at times that it is expensive! We went there.  F had ramen and said it was okay but he didn’t like his noodles, but did like the soup. I had their chicken cutlet but without rice or soup. I didn’t want it or need it. It was very nice and came with some macaroni salad and some salad. The salad wasn’t great as they had dressed it with a tomato sauce so I avoided a lot of it.

We ran a few errands after lunch. We went over to the PAL shopping area and went to Daiso first. I picked up some plastic bags for garbage management in the house. Then, we hit up the grocery store. F wanted some things for his mother’s meals and I needed some coffee creamer.  Then, we visited the drugstore for a few things. It was a good idea of mine to go to PAL as everything is in one big shopping area. 

We came back to the house and put away the stuff. I went upstairs and F made something for K’s dinner. I did a bit of YouTube watching as I do and relaxed. When F came up, he asked about dinner, but I wasn’t hungry yet. When we eat late for one meal, it tends to push the other meals back too.

I found a video about the top-selling UK singles of 1974 and watched it, with my headphones on. That was one of the years that I lived in the UK as a child and it was very cool. I knew almost all of the songs. Heck, a whole bunch of them I even had the 45s for!  F heard me singing along to some of the songs and asked if I wanted to go to karaoke. Well, yes, but I was worried about the cost and if we’d be able to get in. F actually phoned in to see if we could get a room, and we could in an hour. So, we booked ourselves a karaoke room for 9pm!

We left the house a bit after 8:40 and drove to the karaoke box. We got in right away and even had dinner there. We shared a few favourites from their menu, had the drink bar and just generally enjoyed ourselves. 

We were there until they kicked us out 4 hours later. They didn’t kick us out, we were ready to leave, but I was a bit surprised that we stayed there so late!

We came back to the house and upstairs. F is quite tired so is sleeping again, I’m going to get to bed in a minute too. 

Tomorrow we’ll have to do the practical things like buy groceries for the next few days and run some last-minute errands for things. 

Come back later if you like and see if anything exciting happens. Until tomorrow….

January 11, 2025

Saturday - Sunny and rainy!

F got up early and took his mother off to her Day Service and I slept on. I woke up a bit later and went downstairs. I met F in the living room and he asked about lunch. It wasn’t even 11am yet! I said I wasn’t sure and came upstairs to get dressed.

A little while later, F came up and asked again about lunch. He suggested going to Fudo, a good soba and tempura restaurant. He suggested going there yesterday, but we ended up going to the fish restaurant instead. I decided to let him go there today too!

We were able to get in and got a couple of seats at a big table. We ordered some soba to dip and also an order of tempura to share. The food was good, but I was still a bit hungry afterwards.

We ran a few errands after lunch. We started at the car dealership where F had his oil changed in the car. We were invited into the store and were given a drink while we waited. That was nice.

After the car was done F paid and we were off. We went to the gas station to fill up the car and buy some kerosene. We brought it back to the house and put it away. 

I went upstairs and relaxed for a while and watched some YouTube. K came back and F made her dinner. He’s a good son!

Around 6 pm we were able to go out. We had a discussion about dinner and decided to go to Coco Ichibanya. We went in and got a table. I noticed that soup curry was on the menu again, so I had to have that! I haven’t had it in a couple of years. As often happens there, the curry wasn’t hot enough, temperature-wise. The spice level was just fine, but for some reason, it wasn’t hot enough. F had a chicken cutlet curry and he said it was good. We both had lassi to drink and that was good.

We went off to the movie theatre in Tsuruoka next.  We drove in but we were about 20 minutes early, so we left the parking lot and drove to the nearby grocery store. F went in by himself and came out with some adult beverage later!

We went to see a film called The Novice tonight. It was an odd one, it was about a young woman at university who became obsessed with rowing. She joined the rowing club and tried to get into a higher group within the club. It was not a fun movie, although I was never bored. I’ve read reviews that compared it to Whiplash or Black Swan. I didn’t really understand the character, but the film was interesting.

After the movie, F was all set to go back to the house. I told him I was hungry so we ended up going to MaxValu to pick up a bit of food. I got myself some chicken, and he got himself some stuff for K’s breakfast and a snack for tonight. 

We came back to the house and came inside. I put away F’s stuff and then I heated up my chicken and brought it upstairs. I had a bit of a feast as I had it with some bread and F gave me some stewed daikon that was nice.

I watched FBI at 11 pm and then I turned off the TV. F and I chatted at times, but I think I am in need of a little F-free time. He’s been around a lot in the last few weeks and I’m not getting personal things done that I need to do!

Anyway, that’s it for me for today. No idea what we’ll get up to on Sunday. Come back later and find out. Until tomorrow….