September 25, 2026

Friday - Cloudy and coolish

I woke up before my alarm this morning then went back to bed. I woke up a bit later and just watched videos in bed and snoozed a little. I finally dressed around noon and went downstairs to get my breakfast. 

I brought up my yogurt and ate it and the cereal. F did offer me some of his udon that he made for him and his mother, but I really didn’t want that.

I relaxed for a while and watched a lot of YouTube. F was downstairs for most of the afternoon. I decided to take a nap around 6pm so I set my timer for twenty minutes and then closed my eyes. I woke up with the time and reset it a couple of times. 

F came upstairs around 7 pm and asked what I wanted for dinner. I suggested bentos again. F said he wanted croissants so we decided to go to MaxValu. We masked up and went over there. 

Getting ready to go to the store was a big thing. I was downstairs and ready to go, but F was upstairs. I heard the noise that his Tile makes so I went upstairs to help. He couldn’t find his wallet. For 20 minutes or so, he tore his part of the room apart. The Tile kept making noise and it kept moving around. He looked everywhere. I asked him if it was in his pocket….it was a couple of days ago. Nope. Not in his pocket.  Then he stood up and went near the door and the noise from the Tile moved. I told him that the sound was coming from him and he checked his pocket. It wasn’t his wallet, it was his car keys. He’d searched for the wrong Tile. 

He popped out to the car to check if his wallet was there and of course it was! I just don’t understand how he can do something like that. We left the house and drove to MaxValu.

F asked me in the car if I would go in and buy the food and I said it was okay but he would have to tell me what to get for his mother’s breakfast. Instead, he decided to come in the store. I reminded him that he could pick up the stuff for his mother and then go back to the car and I could pay. He never did buy anything for his mother’s breakfast. Sigh. He actually got rather snarky with me when I tried to get him to leave the store!

Checking out with F is another weird thing. The store is all self checkout now. For me, it’s quite easy as the machines do English or Japanese. F does his in Japanese but gets confused all the time. Tonight he bought negi in a plastic bag, but didn’t scan it…He rang it in separately, then when I showed him the code had to get the staff to cancel what he put in!

We came back to the house and F hid in the living room. I heated up my food and took it upstairs to eat. I got some mushroom pasta, chicken bars and a cheese bread. I haven’t eaten the cheese bread yet. That might be my breakfast.

Around 10 pm I went downstairs and washed my dishes from the day and then I took a shower. When I finished, I went back upstairs and decided that I’d watch something on the TV, so I watched Loot. It looks like her personal assistant is leaving the show. It’s a little sad, but it’s fine really. 

And that was my day. I’m feeling a lot better, but my temperature fluctuates a lot. My voice is shot and my diaphragm hurts from coughing. 

I’m not sure what we’re going to get up to tomorrow. K isn’t going to her Day Service, we decided to give her an extra week to recover. 

I’m hoping F will feel well enough to go and see EndGame, but it isn’t looking good. I’m already greatly improved, he isn’t. I think his stomach is still bothering him, sad to say. 

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

September 24, 2026

Thursday - Sunny and warmish

Well, today was a bit of a nothing day. I spent most of the day in bed or near the bed. I wore my pjs all day, didn’t go anywhere, didn’t do too much. 

F went to the drugstore early on and got me some medicine. It makes me a bit sleepy so I slept a lot during the day. 

I watched a bit of TV, news mostly then a music video show from Britain in the late afternoon. Tonight I watched the end of season 8 episode of The Rookie. It ended on a cliffhanger so I hope it’ll be on next year. 

F went out tonight and got us gyudon for a late dinner. I was hungry and needed to take some medicine. Most Japanese medicine is supposed to be taken after eating. I did actually win an argument with him tonight. He tried to tell me that the dish I usually order is more expensive than another one….I prefer less rice and more toppings. I pulled up the website and showed him that I was was correct, it wasn’t the most expensive one and it was the same price as another one! Ha!

He’s been very nice to me most of the day. However, his idea of food for when you are sick is very different from mine! Japanese food just doesn’t cut it for me right now! He’s trying, so I’ll give him some credit. 

Anyway, that’s it for me for tonight. I felt better today than I did last night, so hopefully I’ll feel even better tomorrow. F seems quite chipper, but he can’t go back to work this week….doctor’s orders. 

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

September 23, 2026

Wednesday - Sunny and warm

I slept in a bit this morning and it was nice. I finally got out of bed, dressed and went downstairs. I grabbed my yogurt and brought a bowl of it upstairs. I had breakfast and watched a lot of YouTube. 

F didn’t feel well for most of the early part of the day. I texted my friend and said that while my temperature was okay and I was feeling good, I really shouldn’t meet up with her. I’m so glad that I did that!  We’ll try and meet up in a couple of weeks.

I gave K her food for lunch as I saw her when I was downstairs, and when it was time for my lunch I even volunteered to make F a piece of toast. I have my moments! While I ate my lunch I watched another episode of Under the Salt Marsh…it was good. 

Around 5:30 or 6pm F suggested going to pick up bentos. It was fine with me as I wasn’t planning to cook tonight. I masked up and got ready to go out.

F had to find his wallet again (how does he lose it so often?) and then we drove off to IZMO. I went in to do the shopping and I picked up three bentos for us. I got a salmon one for F, a tempura one for K and a filet cutlet for me. I strongly suggested to F that he NOT eat at the table with us. He went upstairs to eat.

K and I had our dinner and it was nice. She didn’t eat all of her bento, but then again, she did get food during the day so she wasn’t as hungry as yesterday. 

I did the dishes and then said goodnight to K. I went upstairs and used my computer for a bit. I realized that my back was a bit achy and I was starting to cough and I now have a temperature. 

I went downstairs and took a shower and then came back to the room and watched Grey’s Anatomy. It was an okay one with Meredith in it. 

After the show I retook my temperature and it went up a bit more. Oh dear. I did rant at F a bit for not wearing a mask around me/in the house. When I have a cold I do because I don’t want K to catch what I have. He doesn’t seem to think it’s a big deal. Sigh.

So, anyway, I’m off to bed in a minute and hopefully I’ll feel a bit better tomorrow. If I’m really under the weather tomorrow night, I may skip my update. Sleep is more important, probably!

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

September 22, 2026

Tuesday - Sunny and warm 

I woke up this morning to a quiet house. F had taken his mother out and they went to the holiday doctor. I got up and dressed and then decided that I’d take a load of clothes downstairs and do some laundry. I think it was a good thing as it was nearly done when they returned.

I hung up my clothes and F came back upstairs and threw himself on the bed. He said that he did have flu. The doctor gave him a lot of medicine, but he basically spent the day in bed. 

I had a quiet afternoon. I had eaten breakfast before they came back to the house, but did go downstairs and made myself some lunch around 2pm. I brought it upstairs to eat. 

Around 4 or whenever F woke up for a washroom break, I asked him if he’d be willing to drive me to a grocery store later to get some bentos for our dinners. He said he would try.

We ended up going out around 6 pm. We drove over to PAL and it was rather harrowing for me. F kept forgetting the new lower speed limits and going too fast for me. He stayed in the car and I went in the store.

I picked up a few bentos for the three of us, and picked up a few other things. I wanted to make sure there was some food for me in the house and also for K. She needs to eat something!

When we got back to the house, F went upstairs to bed and I heated up the bentos and woke K up. We had dinner together and watched the news. I did the dishes afterwards and set up another jug of mugi-cha. 

Then, I went upstairs and decided to watch a couple of shows on AppleTV on my computer. I watched the last episode of Sugar and then the first new episode of Ted Lasso. Both were great. 

At 11pm I watched tonight’s Law & Order. Meh. I dunno. I don’t hate it, but I don’t really love it either. 

My friend in the next town and I may get together tomorrow, but I’m thinking we probably won’t. I’ve felt pretty good for most of the day, but I’m starting to have the feeling that I might be getting F’s flu. He went out tonight without wearing a mask in the car. I did wear a mask, but two masks would be better than one!

Anyway, that’s about it for me. Come back later if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow….(unless I’m sick again) 

September 21, 2026

Monday - Rainy, cloudy and humid

Today was such an odd day. I wish it had been better, but it wasn’t.

I woke up around 10 this morning. I went downstairs and then came back up to the room. I went back to bed and slept for a bit. F came upstairs after a bit and I sort of woke up. I got up and then we talked about lunch. After a while I came up with the idea of the little Chinese place on the other side of the park. If they were closed, we could try somewhere else, but we’d try them first.

We drove over and the parking area was busy, but there was one space left. F parked and we went in. We got a table and looked at the menu. I decided what I wanted quickly. Mapo-dofu set meal. F had shrimp fried rice. We waited a while and our food arrived. Mine was quite spicy, but good. F said that he found his rice salty. I suggested taking some of my plain rice and mixing it into his. He did that and said it helped. Yay.

Lunch was really nice and not too expensive in my opinion. I got rice, mapo-dofu, soup and two little side dishes. After lunch, F wanted to go back to the house right away, but then he decided that he’d like to go to the drugstore down the road from the house. 

We went in and did a little shopping. F got some allergy stuff and I got K some tissues and some TP for the house. I also bought some spaghetti. We left the shop and went back to the house. 

I was upstairs watching my British police drama from yesterday - Cooper and Fry - when F came in the room and started whining that he had a temperature and had the flu. Oh good grief. He was lying on the bed with a bag of ice on his head. I’m afraid that I wasn’t too sympathetic to him. I suggested that tomorrow he try to go to the “Sunday Doctor” in the morning. 

Around 6pm we talked about dinner. He suggested bentos and it was probably a good idea. The bad thing is we would have to go out and get them. I suggested going to MaxValu as they usually have good bentos and a lot of them. F liked that idea, so we masked up and drove over. I did suggest he stay in the car, but he came in with me. I guess he couldn’t trust me with his bento?

We picked up some bentos, some fish for his and K’s breakfast tomorrow and a few other things. We came back to the house and we all had dinner. Honestly, I wasn’t too happy at the idea of having to have dinner with K and F. I’m just getting over my cold and I don’t want to catch something else. 

We ate our bentos, K toddled back to bed after she took her medicine and then I went to the kitchen and did the dishes. I went upstairs again, leaving F with volleyball on the TV. 

Upstairs I watched the last two hours of Cooper & Fry. Many things got settled and the one character that I was suspicious of turned out to be a wrong’un, so yay for me. F showed up, as he always does, in the last 15 minutes to make noise and annoy me!

He whined about being cold, wrapped himself up in his winter quilt and had a bit of a snooze. He’s been coughing and spluttering at odd moments for the rest of the night. I do feel sorry for him, but he doesn’t mask up as much these days as I do. I’m hoping that I don’t catch whatever it is that he has. I wish I had a different room in the house to sleep in. Sigh. 

I also spent a few minutes tonight and booked myself a hotel room next month for my little getaway. I rarely get to do that anymore, but I’m hoping that I can do it next month. I’ll run it past F when he’s feeling better. I’ll need his help both in picking me up and dropping me off at the bus station!

And that’s about it, honestly. It was a strange day. I am glad that I recorded that British drama yesterday as it did keep me entertained. I’m worried about tomorrow. What is going to happen?

Like me, you’ll just have to come back later. Until tomorrow….

September 20, 2026

 Sunday - Sunny and warm, humid

I woke up for the first time around 9 am. F was downstairs and I said hi when I went downstairs. I came back up to the room and went back to bed. He told me that the Social Worker was going to come at 10 am instead of 1pm and was just going to see him instead of all of us. That was fine with me. I went back to bed!

I slept for a while, F came upstairs and woke me up, then left again. I finally dragged myself out of bed later and then chatted with F about stuff. He confessed to me that he’d eaten some of my yogurt. Yesterday we’d each bought a carton of the same yogurt so when we came to the house I wrote our names on the cartons. F said that he didn’t notice my name on my carton until he ate some of it. ACK! I guess I get to eat his then!

We talked about today’s lunch and I suggested something interesting. I suggested driving out to Kushibiki and trying to have Banh Mi. There’s a cafe at the Michi no Eki that sells Banh Mi and Vietnamese coffee. Every time we’ve gone there it has been late in the afternoon and they’ve been closed. 

Well, we drove out there and they were open. Yay! We looked and the menu and both of us chose a sandwich. We went up and ordered and in a few minutes we had our sandwiches. The bread was a lovely crusty bun and the sandwiches were great. F had a local pork bun and I had a local bacon one. They were great! The veggies inside were a little spicy, but overall it was a nice treat. F bought us some drinks from a vending machine. I didn’t have any coffee, I probably should have but couldn’t decide what to order…and caffeine and I don’t get on well.

We drove back into Tsuruoka and went to S-Mall. I was still a tad hungry so we went to Doutor. F wanted ice cream and I had another sandwich and a decaf cafe latte. We stayed there a while and enjoyed ourselves. Later, we bought a few things at the grocery store and then left the mall.

F wanted to go to Gyomu Supa. I was afraid it would be too busy, but it wasn’t bad. I got more cereal, some sunflower seeds and some bagels. F picked up a few things too.

We headed back to the house and I put away the groceries. Then, I went upstairs to watch some TV. Today WOWOW was showing a British Detective show that I was recording, so I decided to watch it to check if I wanted to record it all. I watched the first two episodes of Cooper & Fry and it was pretty good. It starred Robert James-Collier who might be better know to most people as Barrow in Downton Abbey. I watched the first two episodes and then took a break. 

F meanwhile fed his mother and then it was time to feed me! I suggested Gusto and we headed there. However, F did his weird wrong turning thing that he did and I realized that maybe it wasn’t the best choice for him. (He’s still having stomach troubles). I offered to change to keiten sushi if he preferred and of course he did! 

We ended up at Kappa Sushi and had a pretty nice meal. I ate quite a bit more than F did and I wouldn’t let him order anything deep fried. I had some fries, but didn’t share (and no, I didn’t order a big one either.) After our dinner we made a quick trip to the grocery store.

We came back to the house and I put away the groceries. I came back upstairs and watched two more episodes of Cooper & Fry. It was still good. One mystery gets solved in two episodes, but there are a couple of over-riding mysteries too. 

It was after midnight when I turned off the TV and then it was time to do my night time routine. I’m about finished now and then I’ll go to bed soon.

I’m honestly not sure what we’ll get up to tomorrow. If F is still under the weather it really puts a damper on what we can do. I’d love to go out, but it isn’t nice of me to expect too much right now. K is also still a bit poorly. To be honest, I don’t think I even saw her today. F said she is eating but not very much. 

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

September 19, 2026

Saturday - Hot and sunny

I woke up just after 9 am this morning. I went downstairs and then came back to bed. F came back a few minutes later and I strongly suggested he go to the doctor as he was still under the weather. He did.

I watched a video on my phone and then went back to sleep. F woke me up when he came back! 

We decided to go out for lunch but I suggested going for udon as it would give F’s stomach an easy meal. We went to Udon Ichi. We haven’t been there in ages and it wasn’t busy, so it was a good choice. F had meat udon and I had yaki-udon. It should have been fried, but I don’t think it was. It did have fried meat and shrimp so I guess that is where the name came from. It was good, but didn’t feel enough. 

We came back to the house after our meal. Honestly, I was disappointed, but F really hasn’t been well, so I couldn’t say too much. It was a good thing that we did.

A few minutes after we got back, F got a phone call from K’s Day Care place. She had thrown up and had a temperature so F was asked to come and pick her up. They can’t keep her there as it is dangerous possibly for the other oldies there. 

F picked her up and then took her to the doctor. K had gone to her daughter’s on Thursday and now had the flu, so we were worried that K might have it too. (Of course, we only found out that F’s sister has the flu today…we didn’t have any idea otherwise.) The verdict is that K doesn’t have the flu (whew!) and has more medicine to take.

Later on, F asked about dinner. We decided to do bentos for dinner. F is still having problems, I’ve got a runny/plugged up nose and K is sick…not good for restaurants!

F and I went to a grocery store and picked up some food. I got a chicken bento, F got fish, and he gave his mother some chestnut rice. She didn’t eat very much of it before she headed back to bed. 

I washed the dishes and the bento boxes after we ate and then came upstairs. I had a very quiet evening. I watched a lot of YouTube. F came up around 10:30 and then at 11pm I watched The Hunting Party. It’s an okay show. They are trying to emulate Criminal Minds in a way, but it isn’t going dark enough. 

Since midnight I’ve been doing my end of day things, watching more YouTube and just trying to figure out what we can get up to tomorrow. I have no ideas! Some of it depends on how K is and of course, how F is. 

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