July 24, 2026

Friday - Hot and humid, rainy

I woke up this morning before my alarm, quite a bit before my alarm. I wonder if maybe F had just left? I made my trip downstairs and then I came back to the room. I basically went straight back to bed. I slept rather later than I intended, but I don’t think it mattered.

I got up, dressed and then went downstairs and started a load of laundry. I also grabbed my breakfast and brought it upstairs. When it was ready, I brought my clean clothes upstairs and hung them up to dry. 

I had a fairly quiet afternoon. Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to accomplish too much today. I went downstairs to get my lunch and brought it upstairs. I decided to watch an episode of Evil while I ate. I only have about 4 left now. 

I watched the news and then waited for F to call me. He finally did, after 5:30. He was going to stop at a grocery store to buy his mother’s food for tomorrow. I suggested he get something for our dinner tonight, but he didn’t! I was cooking, just thought a little something would make a nice addition. 

I got dinner on the table really early tonight. We had pasta with Setouichi Lemon sauce, salad and sliced chicken breast. It was simple, but rather nice. 

I got the dishes done fairly early and then told F I was going upstairs. I relaxed upstairs with some pistachio white chocolate latte and enjoyed that. F came back upstairs and told me that he’d taken a shower. I went downstairs a little later and took my shower. I should have gone last night, but I just couldn’t face it. 

When I came back up to the room I watched the second episode of Ride or Die. It was fun and I’m quite enjoying it. Hannah Waddingham is excellent. I like Octavia Spencer too, but she hasn’t done much yet. I hope she gets in on the action soon.

And that’s about it. I’m not sure what I’m going to get up to tomorrow. I’m hoping that we’ll go and see a movie tomorrow night at Machi-kinema, but it depends on how F is. 

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

July 23, 2026

Thursday - Hot and humid

Last night before I went to bed, I went to the washroom and K was up downstairs. First she went to the washroom, and then she was doing something in the living room. It looked like she was searching for something. When I came out of the washroom the living room lights were off. 

I woke up this morning and did my usual trip downstairs. I came back to the room and went back to bed. I had turned on the AC before I left the room. When I was in bed, I put the timer on the AC so it would turn off after an hour. It was a good idea I think.

When I got up later I sorted my laundry and took a full basket downstairs. I did two loads, one of tops and the other one my new pants. They got hung up in my room. 

I had a quiet afternoon, I got my lunch around 3 pm and then watched another episode of Departure. The plot is thickening!  I like it a lot, I really like Archie Punjabi and some of the other cast. 

I watched the news at 4 and then turned off the TV for a while. F called me around 5:30 to say he was coming back. He offered to bring back some ice cream for dessert and that was a nice idea I thought. 

I headed downstairs around 6pm and got started on dinner. Tonight I did a pork and seaweed stirfry and also prepped some okra which I cooked in the microwave. It was good. We also had baby leaf lettuce and that needed to be washed first too. 

Dinner was good but there were a few leftovers. Oh well, they’re my lunch now!

I headed upstairs around 9 pm. I decided that I wasn’t going to take my shower tonight. I was just too tired. I relaxed on the bed under the AC when I first came upstairs. F came up a little later and we had a bit of a snuggle.

I went over to my computer later and watched some YouTube and then went downstairs before my show. Luckily I went down a little early because K came out of her bedroom and used the washroom first. I spent a bit of time in the kitchen putting a jug of mugi-cha in the fridge and filling up a bottle of water for myself upstairs. 

I watched The Rookie and it was quite good. This season has been quite a bit better in my opinion. 

After midnight I turned off the TV and got stuck into my end of day things. F is in bed. He said he couldn’t sleep, but I did hear him snoring a bit ago. He may have woken up again though. 

Tomorrow I have a bit more laundry to do and I need to do some prep for the weekend. I’m not sure what we’ll get up to on Saturday and Sunday and it makes me a little worried. 

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

July 22, 2026

Wednesday - Hot, muggy, with some rain at night

I woke up with my alarm this morning and got up and went downstairs. I came back to the room and basically went straight back to bed! I did turn on the AC for about 30 minutes and then when it was cooler again, turned it off. I dozed and watched some videos for a a while. I got up before yesterday’s time so that was good!

I went downstairs again to grab my breakfast and brought it back to the room. I relaxed for a bit and then decided I’d write a couple of postcards for Postcrossing. Today I sent to the US and to Canada so that was cool!

F had let me know early on that he was going to be late coming back today. That wasn’t a problem. 

At lunch I went downstairs to get my food and brought it upstairs to eat. I watched yesterday’s episode of Law & Order. I’m still in a quandary about that show. I don’t love it, it’s good, but I’m wondering if it will get better?

I heard from F and reminded him that he had to pick up my new pants at the mall. He said it was okay and then we rang off. 

I went downstairs to start dinner. Tonight I did ginger pork, and I made a spicy tuna/cucumber salad. It wasn’t spicy, but it was good. I also served some potato salad and a salad. Dinner was good!

F arrived during my prep. He’d gone to get gas and pick up some kerosene as well. And, yes, he brought my pants with him. 

After we ate dinner I washed dishes and then did up the garbage in the kitchen and some of the living room stuff. F gave me a hand with some of K’s garbage too, so that was really nice.

F and I went off to the grocery store where I got to go in by myself. Yay! I forgot a few things but I was planning to go and visit a drugstore too, so it didn’t matter. 

F drove to the drugstore and both of us went in. I picked up some dishwashing liquid and then went to the food area. I picked up some pasta (much cheaper at the drugstore), pasta sauce and also some cold meat for my lunches. We also bought breakfasts for F and K. 

After we paid we went back to the car and dumped the groceries. F got in the car and I crossed the road and went to the Post Office and put my postcards in the box. Yay me. I went back to the car and we came back to the house.

I put the groceries away and then went upstairs. F went back downstairs after a minute to watch volleyball and then iron his clothes. It was fine. 

I watched The Copenhagen Test at 11pm. It was the last episode. I was hoping there would be a second season, but IMDb says it has been cancelled by the network. That’s too bad as I enjoyed it a lot. Heck, I think Simu Liu is pretty hot!

And, that’s about it for my day. I’m winding down for the day. I’m not sure what I’ll get up to tomorrow. Hopefully it’ll be fun. Come back later if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow….

July 21, 2026

Tuesday - Cloudy and hot, muggy

F didn’t have a good night. He woke up when I came to bed and probably didn’t fall asleep again. Sigh. He’s not a good sleeper these days.

I woke up when he was getting ready this morning but pulled my eyemask over my eyes and went back to sleep. I woke up later when my alarm went off. I went downstairs and then came back to the room. It was so hot I decided to run the AC for a few minutes. I put it on for about 30 minutes and then turned it off, I did leave my fan going though. 

I overslept today and was a bit upset with my self. I went downstairs with my laundry and did just one load. Today was the third Spiderman movie so I watched that and enjoyed it so much!

When the movie was just about over, I got a text from F to say that he was on his way back to the house and he needed me to go out with him to get some tax information. I wasn’t too pleased on the timing, but whatever. I changed into going out clothes and waited for him. 

A few moments later, he called me to say that he didn’t need the documents anymore as his office had them already and he was just going to come back to the house. He’d taken a couple of hours off work. I asked him to bring me a cafe latte from the conbini on his way and he very nicely did that! It was delicious.

F ended up taking a nap as he was tired and the room was nice and cool. Around 6 pm I went downstairs and got started on dinner. Tonight I was doing burgers from the store and fries from the freezer! It wasn’t complicated but…K had started the washing machine and I can’t use the washing machine and the air fryer at the same time. Throw in the AC downstairs and I was worried that the power would go out.

I had to wait for her wash to finish before I started the air fryer. Oh well, it worked out, but it was a little later than I like.

With the burgers and fries we also had a salad, cucumber pickle, mini tomatoes for K and F, and some mixed vegetables too. Dinner was quite good. I called F down and he was so asleep that he thought it was morning rather than evening! Poor guy. 

Dinner was good, and afterwards I did the dishes. They went quite quickly tonight and soon enough I was able to finish up and go upstairs. F went up a few minutes before I did. 

I relaxed for a while and then a bit after 10 pm I decided to go and take a shower.  I did my usual stuff, got in the shower and turned on the water. It was very hot at first, and then nothing. It got cold really fast and even though I turned up the heat tap, it didn’t get hotter. 

I got out of the shower, wrapped my towel around me and grabbed my phone. I called F and asked him when the last time he’d put kerosene in the water heater was. He said it wasn’t for a long time. I told him that I thought the tank was empty and could he please come and fill it up for me?

F very nicely did come downstairs and fill up the tank. It took a while to get things done though. I was a bit late getting back to our room so I decided not to watch my show tonight. I wanted to give F as much chance to fall asleep as I could. However, he was up and down a lot between midnight and 1 am. 

So that was my day. It was a bit odd and definitely not the usual sort of thing. Come back later if you like and see if tomorrow is a normal day, or another odd one! Until tomorrow….

July 20, 2026

Monday - Hot, humid and cloudy

I woke up this morning before my alarm. F was still in bed and stayed in bed for a while. I finally dragged myself out of the bed around 11ish I think. 

When F came upstairs he was grumpy again and was whining about where to go for lunch. He was such a grump and there was no talking to him and choosing a place we’d both like. I decided I’d just darn well suit myself. I picked Kissa Marina. He was not happy, but too bad. 

We went to the little restaurant and it wasn’t too busy. I didn’t have my usual curry pasta, I had bacon and mushroom pepperoncino. It was quite good. F had the roast beef donburi. He wasn’t too impressed. Sigh. 

After lunch I asked that we go to a clothing store. They sell clothes for big and tall men. Well, I’m not tall, or a man, but I need some new clothes!  We drove over and went in. At first I didn’t find anything that might do, but then I realized that if I didn’t try anything on, I definitely wouldn’t find anything!  I took a few things into a changing room and….they all fitted. Well, one pair was a bit tight, and another wasn’t what I was looking for, so…. I got a pair of pants and a pair of shorts. I’m glad as it has been so hot lately. I asked that they hem the pants as again, I’m not tall. The lady started the work and then came and told us that their machine wasn’t working well today and if we wanted to take them to Mikawa they’d do it for us for free. So, we went to Mikawa!

At the mall we went to Magic Machine and talked to both of the ladies. One of the women didn’t know about it, happily, the other one did. They measured the pants again for good measure. I won’t get them back for a couple of days, but that is fine. F can pick them up after work. 

Since we were in the mall and thirsty, we went to Mr. Donut and had a doughnut and a drink each. I had a decaf iced coffee, F had the cafe au lait. It was crowded, but we did okay. After I finished my coffee, I went to another place and got a boba tea. It was nice, but too expensive.

We left the mall and came back to Tsuruoka. F got some money from a bank machine and then we did our grocery shopping. We went to Mina and I bought food for the next couple of days. I’m not getting too creative over the next few dinners. Can’t really blame me though! It’s too hot.

We came back to the house and put away the groceries. F did his annoying thing of putting a bunch of food out on the table and then waiting for me to put it away. Leave it in the bag for heaven’s sake and I’ll get to it when I can. Food put away, I went upstairs.

F gave K her bento around 6:30 I think and then it was up to us what to do for dinner. F did the same thing he did for lunch, whining about places. The one or two places I mentioned he wasn’t happy about so I finally asked him to drop me off at Gusto and he could go and have ramen as he wanted. Of course he whinged on the way over that it was too late for his favourite ramen places, but you know what? I just didn’t care. I didn’t particularly want to go to Gusto, but I did want the drink bar and I knew I could get something without either noodles or rice there. And I did.

I had to wait about 10 minutes to get seated. I ordered the Smash burger and fries with drink bar. I had ordered mayo for my fries and it didn’t come, so I called a waiter and asked for it. He brought it over without any problems so yay me. My burger was good, and so were the fries. I realized later that my dinner is basically what I’m making for dinner tomorrow night too!  Fumihiko picked me up and seemed slightly happier than before so that was good.

Back at the house F had things to do for tomorrow. I came upstairs and watched some shows off the Fire Stick. I used Apple TV tonight so I watched three things. I watched another episode of Margo’s Got Money Troubles, then Sugar and finally an episode of The Studio. It was bittersweet seeing Catherine O’Hara in it tonight. I enjoyed all three programmes. 

And that’s about it for my day. Since midnight I’ve been watching YouTube and getting my end of day things done. Tomorrow I’ll be getting back to normal hopefully and will try and get things done for the rest of the week. 

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

July 19,2026

Sunday - Cloudy, humid, and hot

I woke up fairly early this morning and got up to take a trip downstairs. I came back to bed a bit later, and a little bit later than that F went downstairs to make brunch for K. 

A while later, F and I went out for our lunch. We ended up at Cocos and had a nice lunch. I had chicken, F had chicken on noodles. I had enough points to get us a free plate of fries, so we had that with the drink bar. I had wanted to try one of their kakigori too, it was a Dubai Chocolate one. F and I shared it. It was very nice, but it did put us over what we should have eaten!

After our lunch, we left, stopped by a post office so that I could post off my envelopes. As we got closer to the house, I suggested going into the grocery store to get K something for dinner and a few things we’ve run out of as well. F liked the idea so we stopped into the store.

Back at the house, F took a nap and I spent time on my computer. I enjoyed myself and I think F enjoyed himself!

We relaxed for a while and then F went down to give K her bento. He said she was enjoying it. 

F did that thing I dislike when it was time to talk about our dinner. He made me pick, whining about how I never like his choices. I do, sometimes. I made a list of 4 places that I was okay with going to and F got to pick the actual place out of those. It worked. He picked the little family restaurant that we both like. However, when we got there, they were closed. Sigh. He picked another place from my list and off we went.

We ended up at Coco Ichibanya, the curry restaurant. I had the handmade chicken cutlet on curry with vegetables, F had a pork cutlet on curry. It was good, but due to me using the tablet to order in English and F needing it in Japanese, I ended up sending my order first. It took ages to come, but I was nearly finished my food when F’s showed up. The manager said it was because the orders were sent separately, but they weren’t sent that that much time apart. 

We came back to the house after dinner. F went a bit of a roundabout way, but it was fine. He basically rested and snoozed, I decided to watch something off the Fire Stick. First up I watched a new show, Ride or Die with Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham. It was a lot of fun really. I’ll watch more!  I followed that up with an episode of Widow’s Peak. I’m still a bit unsure about that one, but I’ve heard it is really good. 

And honestly, that’s about it for my day. I’ve been enjoying a more relaxed day with F. He’s off work tomorrow as it is a national holiday. I’m hoping to do a bit of clothes shopping and also some food shopping for the week coming up. 

Come back later if you like and read all about my Monday. Until tomorrow…. 

July 18, 2026

Saturday - Cloudy and a bit rainy

This was a weirdish day. At least I think so. Read on…

At 6 am this morning, there was a banging on our bedroom door again. K came to check on F again. She was worried about his stomach. He was absolutely fine from last night on! He chased her off.  He did have to get up a bit later to make K’s breakfast for her to get ready for the Day Service. 

I got myself up around 9 am. F had left the house. I went downstairs and then came back to bed. I watched videos for a while and I was just trying to get a quick nap in before getting up and F came in the room! Oh well. A little later I got up and got dressed. I suggested trying the local Chinese restaurant and F was okay with that. 

We went to the restaurant but they weren’t open yet! We killed the next 10 minutes by driving around and then the restaurant opened! We went in and got seated. F had their special of the day, Ebi-chilli, I had a fried chicken set meal. Our meals were good. 

When we finished, F drove me downtown to S-Mall. I got out of the car and went in the mall. I mailed my postcards and then went shopping. I visited the Daiso and bought a few things. I thought I might go and sit in the coffee shop and write a letter so I bought some writing paper and later on I got a new pen too. 

I visited the grocery store and then decided that I’d like to have an ice cream, so I went to Baskin Robbins. I got to have my favourites today, so that was nice. 

I checked out Doutor but it looked really busy. I probably could have found a seat, but I was bored of being in the mall so I decided to leave. I could catch a longer route bus in 5 minutes or I could wait another 20 minutes and I’d be on the bus for less time. I used the washroom in the mall and assumed that I’d miss the closer in time bus. I didn’t. I got on the bus and a couple of seconds it left the bus station.

Then, F called me. He had arrived at the mall to pick me up. I texted him that I was on the bus and that I’d be back at the house in about 30 minutes! I enjoyed the rest of the ride back to the house.

When I got back to the house it was so hot inside. F hadn’t turned on the AC. He turned it on for me. We chatted for a while and relaxed. It was nice and friendly. I went upstairs around 3:30 and then F followed a little later. He snoozed a bit, I was on my computer. I sent him downstairs to welcome his mother back. 

F decided to make dinner tonight. He had received what I call Funeral Food today at the Funeral event. Around here, they give huge bentos to the attendees. He brought it to the house and wanted to eat it. I suggested he give it to K, but he wanted us all to have it. 

For dinner tonight F made cold udon noodles and we had that with the bento food. We split it up fairly well. I didn’t want a lot of the stuff anyway, and I liked the stuff the F didn’t like so it worked out. 

After dinner, I gave F a hand with the dishes and we got them done fairly quickly. I went upstairs and F stayed downstairs with K. He was watching some sports on TV. Baseball I think. Yuck. 

Upstairs I relaxed and watched some YouTube. I wrote my bestie a letter and also wrote a card for my niece who is having a birthday next month. 

F came upstairs and asked if I wanted to go anywhere. Nope. I was sitting around in my pjs! I did go downstairs and I took a shower. That was nice.

I came back up to the room and watched FBI. Tonight was about a bomber being smuggled into the US. It was okay. 

F and I had a quiet evening. We chatted off and on, he snoozed and then I turned off his light. He did wake up, but I think he’s gone to bed. 

I’m not really sure what we’ll get up to tomorrow. I’m hoping that we’ll have a good day, but that does somewhat depend on the weather too. 

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