March 23, 2026

Monday - Sunny with rain in the late afternoon

I woke up just before my alarm went off this morning. I had received a text from F and the chime on my phone woke me up! Oh well. I got up, went downstairs, came back upstairs and then sorted my laundry. I went back to bed for a snooze and then got up a while later. I overslept a bit.

I took my laundry downstairs after I woke up and did a couple of loads today. I have soggy clothes all over my bedroom now!

I had a quiet day really. I did my usual Monday things like backing up my computer and changing out the towels downstairs.

I had lunch but had a strange thing happen. I couldn’t find my bread. I’m sure that I bought a bag yesterday, but I could not find it in my room. I looked downstairs in case it was left in the kitchen, but I couldn’t find it there either. Luckily I had some bread in the freezer so I used that for lunch.

While I ate lunch I watched an episode of Elsbeth and enjoyed it as usual. I’ve got about 6 left. I hope I can finish it before the end of the month.

Around 5 pm I went downstairs to wash my day’s dishes and made a sad discovery. We didn’t have any hot water. It seemed that F hadn’t refilled the kerosene in the water heater for a long time. I can’t do it because the heater intake valve is high up and I can’t lift up the kerosene tanks. Sigh. 

F called me after 5 pm to say he was on his way back. He stopped at a grocery store to pick up something for his mother’s dinner and lunch. He also got me a bag of bread, which I appreciated very much. 

I changed into clothes for going out and waited for F to get back. When he did, I told him about the water heater and asked him to put some in later. He changed his clothes and then we left. I think he might have given his mother her bento. He did have to get her up to do that. 

F and I drove over to Tacto, the concert hall. We showed our aquarium member cards at the door and went in. We got seats about halfway back from the stage area and I was sitting out in the aisle. I had a really good view, I’m not sure if F did or not. I made a quick trip to the washroom before the concert.

It started promptly at 7:00 and was…odd. The first few numbers were more impressions of jellyfish or something. It was okay, but I wasn’t really enjoying it until I realized that it was the impression thing. The concert ended on time at 8:00pm and then F and I just left. 

I suggested Gusto for dinner as they have brought back their 4 item dinner. It’s a decent deal, you can have 4 dishes from a fixed menu, plus drink bar and their soup are included. F had curry and rice, shrimp and oysters, fried mackerel and rice and I can’t remember his other dish. I had the regular hamburger with gravy, small fries, a steamed chicken salad, and a bowl of kara-age. It was good.  I had been really hungry so I needed a lot of food!

We left Gusto and went to the gas station. F bought some kerosene and then we went back to the house. At the house, he filled up the water heater’s kerosene tank, his mother’s kerosene tank for her heater and I filled up our tank upstairs. I brought down my towel and took a shower. 

When I came back upstairs I asked F to make some rice for dinner tomorrow night and he said he would. He went downstairs and he said he set up the rice cooker. I’m glad! I watched Saturday’s episode of The Hunting Party. It was….okay. I’m still not sure about the show. It’s a low rent Criminal Minds in my opinion. 

After midnight I turned off the TV and got into my end of day things. 

Tomorrow I’ll be back to my usual cooking thing. I’m not terribly happy about that! Oh, I should say that we will be changing internet providers on Wednesday so it is possible that I won’t be able to connect for a while. F is going to be around to “help” but I’m the only one with a working computer here so it’ll probably fall on me to figure it out. Sigh. Last time we changed providers it wasn’t a happy thing, it isn’t this time either as I’m not wanting this. Oh well. I hope my husband knows what he is doing!

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

March 22, 2026

 Sunday - Muggy and warmish

I woke up rather late this morning when my alarm went off. F was still in bed which did surprise me. I went downstairs and then went back to bed for a bit. 

I got out of bed around 11, dressed and just waited to see what F wanted to do. When I woke up the second time, F had disappeared. When I had to make a trip downstairs an hour later I saw F by himself in the living room. We talked about what to do and decided we’d go to an Indian Restaurant for lunch. Yay!

We drove off a few minutes later and ended up at the Indian Restaurant. I had the chicken curry and F had the saag keema curry. I had mine at a spice level of 4 so F changed his to make it hotter. I liked mine that hot, he didn’t like his as much. Sorry, I’ve been building up a resistance to heat, he hasn’t. I had to have a second naan to finish my curry but I couldn’t quite finish it. After our meal, when we were sitting in the car again, we decided to go back to the house and sleep!

I changed my clothes back into my pyjamas and went to bed. F also came to bed but didn’t take off his outdoor clothes. Yuck!  We fell asleep…I ended up sleeping for 3 hours. I got up around 6 pm and went down and checked on F. We talked about grocery shopping and off we went. We also decided to get bentos for dinner tonight…except F had already made rice so he didn’t want to get bentos, he wanted to buy stuff without rice. Sigh. 

He got fish for his mother and himself, I got subuta and picked up some onion rings. I got stuff for K’s breakfast and lunch tomorrow, then dinner on Tuesday. We came back to the house and F immediately started making dinner for himself and his mother. I put the groceries away and then waited until F got out of my way. Honestly, after I heated up my food, I grabbed a little rice and plated my food. I took it upstairs to eat. I couldn’t face sitting in the living room with the TV blaring and F yelling at his mother so I just chilled upstairs.

After I finished I went downstairs and washed my dishes and chatted with F. We realized that we forgot to pick up a couple of things for the house earlier, so we went out again! We just popped over to the drugstore on the far side of the park and picked up some tissues for K, low sodium soy sauce for us and some TP for the house. 

We unpacked at the house and then I went upstairs. I decided to watch a couple of shows and do a little loom knitting. First up I watched an episode of Matlock, then Evil and to change the mood, I watched The Studio. It was quite a good night. 

F headed off to bed after he took a shower and I turned off the TV after midnight. I’ve just been doing my usual night-time stuff. 

Tomorrow night we’re planning to go to a concert so I won’t be cooking dinner. I’m glad for my extended holiday from cooking and cleaning up afterwards. 

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

March 21, 2026

Saturday - Cooler but sunny

Today was a day! I woke up this morning after 9am. I noticed F’s wallet on the table and thought I’d see if I could catch him before he left. However, when I got downstairs he was sitting at the table with K, and they were both eating breakfast. I gave him his wallet and when he stood up to get it, I noticed he was still wearing pyjama bottoms. I asked him when he was going to leave. He looked puzzled and said,”Leave?” I said to him,”It’s Saturday. Don’t you have to take your mother to Day Service?” He looked a bit surprised! Because Friday was a holiday he’d forgotten that today was Saturday and he was supposed to take his mother to go to the Day Service! He phoned them to let them know that K would be late!

I went back to bed and slept a bit longer. After that, I got up and took a shower.  I talked to F to see if he got his mother safely away-he did. I asked if he wanted to go for lunch and he said he did, but couldn’t think of a place I’d want to go. I told him that I didn’t want to go to a ramen place, but apart from that, try me. He came up with a good place and I said it was fine. I so dislike it when he gets whiny and says that I never say yes to his restaurants. I don’t like bad restaurants and half the time those are what he suggests. 

We drove off to Naa and parked and went in. We did change our table as the first one had uncomfortable chairs. F had the smaller lunch as he had already eaten breakfast with his mother. I had pork and fish and it was really nice. 

After lunch, we headed back into Tsuruoka and stopped off at the Kimuraya Bakery factory store. We went in and got a treat for both of us and K too. F got the coffee cups they give out. He had two cups of coffee and I bought myself a bottle of Royal Milk Tea. We used our phones for a bit. I suggested that we make a stop at the nearby hundred yen shop as I wanted to see something. 

Next up we went to the Daiso nearby. I did a little shopping and bought a few things. Nothing was too exotic or special. 

After Daiso we went back to the house. As usual, I headed upstairs and F stayed downstairs for a while. 

K came back to the house and F welcomed her back. He also made her some dinner when the time came.

Around 6:45 or so F came upstairs and we talked about our dinner and if we were going to the movie. F said yes to the movie so I suggested either a gyudon shop or the bibinba place in the mall. He chose the bibinba place which was fine with me. 

We drove out to the mall and we had our dinner first. I got my bibinba and F bought himself some yakisoba and okonomiyaki. After we ate, we bought the tickets. I thought we’d get a free movie ticket tonight since I got one last time I went to the movie, but we didn’t. Sigh. We did buy our popcorn and drinks and when the movie was called, went into the cinema. 

We went to see Project Hail Mary tonight and it was great. I think it might be one of my favourites this year, it’s that good. I might even try and read the book if I can get a copy of it. F even loved it too, which really pleased me.

After the movie we drove back to Tsuruoka and came back to the house. F had to think about K’s breakfast for the morning but I don’t think it hurt his brain too much!

So that was my day. It started with a bit of confusion and ended nicely, with a good movie and a bit of Ryan Gosling! 

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

 

March 20, 2026

Friday - Sunny and warm, torrential rain at night

F had asked that we go out for soba for lunch today. He’d actually asked a couple of days ago so I said sure. He’d also said last night that he’d like to leave around 11:30 so I had to get up before then, obviously!  I woke up this morning before F got up, and before my alarm went off. I went downstairs and then came back to bed. I had a bit of a snuggle with the mister and then I went back to sleep and he got up.

I slept on and did wake up a bit later when my alarms started going off. I got up and did a pedicure and then I went downstairs to see F. We decided we’d leave in a few minutes. 

We drove out into the wilderness around Tsuruoka and finally came to the soba restaurant. It was very busy. One of the features of this place is they have a pickle buffet! Around here, they make pickles out of everything so it is very popular. After we were seated, F and I had the same thing, ten-zaru soba, so cold soba with tempura. It was nice, but personally I missed the protein. One shrimp doesn’t really cut it for me. 

Soba, pickles and tempura in the background.

We left and then went to Komeda Coffee. We went in and stayed for quite a while. I had an iced coffee and it was really nice…caffeine free of course. 

We came back to the house and I went upstairs. F was going to change the water in his fish tank. Oh, by the way, K had gone out in the afternoon with F’s sister, so that was nice for her. While I was upstairs, I watched an episode of Elsbeth. Yay me.

A little before 5 pm I went downstairs and soon after the Day Care Manager came. It was a bit of an odd meeting today. F talked a lot to her, I’m not always sure what he was talking about. We made an appointment for next month. Our choices were a national holiday again or a Saturday…well, considering we have to be back on Saturday for K to come back, I’ll take another Saturday. It’s quite ridiculous in my opinion. I’m not happy that two days of this weekend are dedicated to the old lady who dislikes me.

F made dinner for K and I went upstairs and waited. I spent time on my computer and relaxed a bit. Around 7:30 when F hadn’t appeared to talk about dinner, I texted him to see if he would like to go to one of two possible restaurants. He came upstairs in a few minutes and suggested one of the two places. We went off and had dinner at China House. 

Tonight I had Yurinchi and it was very nice. We seemed to be the only customers so we were fed fairly quickly. F had Liver and Nila again. Shudder. I’m not a liver person. 

After dinner we went to the grocery store and bought a few things. Most of it was for K’s breakfast tomorrow but F and I got ice cream for ourselves for tonight. 

When we came back to the house we put away the groceries and then I filled up the kerosene tank for us upstairs and took it up. I watched an episode of Matlock and enjoyed that. I’m trying to finish as many episodes of these two shows as they will leave my streaming service at the end of the month. I’m having to forget about a couple of series along the way which does annoy me.

F and I had our ice cream quite late, and then he headed to bed. I’m still up of course. I decided I’d try to take my shower tomorrow morning. I personally prefer morning showers but I rarely get to take a shower in the daytime here. 

I’m not sure what we’ll get up to tomorrow. I’m hoping that we’ll go to the movie in the evening, but who knows. F isn’t feeling well these days, his back is bothering him again so sitting in a cinema for more than 2 hours isn’t great for him. 

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

March 19, 2026

Thursday - Cloudy but warmer

Well, I had my usual sort of morning and ended up going back to bed and sleeping a lot later than I planned. Oh well.

I got up, did the breakfast thing and spent most of the early afternoon with YouTube. I treated myself to a couple of cups of framboise chocolate tea. Oh that stuff is good. It’s full caffeine though so I can’t drink it that often.

I had lunch around 3 pm and watched an episode of Elsbeth. Matthew Broderick was the guest star today and it was nice to see him again. 

F called after 5 pm and I went downstairs to the kitchen just before 6. I did the dishes and then F arrived. He bought something for K’s breakfast tomorrow and bought me some kimchi for our dinner! 

Tonight I made Buta-kimchi for dinner. I followed a recipe from Just One Cookbook on the internet but I added some cabbage and mushrooms to the mix. I wanted it to be a one dish dinner, sort of! It turned out really well and everyone seemed to enjoy it. All of us had seconds which is quite unusual. So, we had the buta-kimchi and a salad and rice and it all disappeared!  

I did the dishes tonight and was finished fairly fast. I went upstairs around 9pm and immediately put on my pyjamas. I decided that since I had time I would watch an episode of something. I ended up watching Matlock. It was a continuation from the one I watched yesterday. 

F came upstairs after 10 and I relaxed for a bit then put on an episode of Evil. It’s a good show but I probably won’t finish it before it leaves my streaming service at the end of the month. Sigh.

I needed a palate cleanser afterwards so I put on The Big Door Prize and it was good. I like that show, but it didn’t seem to be very popular. 

And that’s about it. Since midnight I’ve been watching YouTube and getting ready to go to bed. Tomorrow is a national holiday for the Spring Equinox so F is off work. We also have a meeting with K’s Care Manager at 5 pm which irritates me because it means we’re wasting time. I don’t find the meetings very helpful but then again, I don’t know if we’re meeting her or she’s meeting us. Are we being checked or what? I dunno.

Come back later if you like and find out what I get up to on a holiday Friday. Until tomorrow….

March 18, 2026

Wednesday - Sunny and warmish

I had my usual type of morning. I got up, went downstairs and then went back to bed for a bit. I ended up snoozing and then noticed that F had texted me, so I texted him back. I got up, dressed and went downstairs to get my breakfast. 

I had breakfast and then worked on wrapping my friend’s present. I also had to register it online in order to send the package.That was fun but it did go quite smoothly. 

F called to say he was on his way back and then arrived around 2pm. He’d had lunch and wanted to relax for a bit. I asked about leaving the house and F said he wanted to go at 3:30. I suggested we go a bit earlier as I wanted to go to the post office too. 

I ended up having a bit of a lunch as I was hungry. I went downstairs and made it, brought it back upstairs to eat. A few minutes later F asked me for some of my bread. I didn’t know why! He had bought a bag of nice bread from a good bakery on the way back, then ate some of it. I refused to give him any of my bread (I needed it for lunch tomorrow) but did offer him the bread I put in the freezer last week. He took it and toasted it!

We left a bit later than I wanted to. The plan in my head was take me to the post office to mail my parcel, then drop me off at S-Mall before F went over to his doctor’s office. Well, on the way to the post office, F didn’t take the turn he usually does. I asked him if he didn’t want to turn and he said no. Okay then. We got near downtown and I asked him where we were going. He said S-Mall. I reminded him that I needed to go to the Post Office! He did drive me there and happily, it wasn’t busy and I had all my paperwork in order so I was out in just a few minutes. Yay!

F did drop me off at S-mall and then went on to his appointment. I went in the building and got my handbag back. It was brought back today. Yay! I had to pay for it of course, but I am just happy that it is back. 

I went upstairs and visited the hundred yen shop. I bought some stuff for the house, and some stuff for me. I found liners for air fryers which is something that I’ve never seen before. I got a package and I’ll see how it goes. 

I went downstairs and went to Doutor. It was busy in there but I ordered a decaf cafe au lait and found a seat in the corner. A few minutes later I got a text from F and he said he was in the mall. I replied with a note that said where I was and a few minutes later he joined me. He wouldn’t let me get him a drink, but then started asking me about dinner. I reminded him I was cooking again tonight. We left a few minutes later.

At the house I came upstairs and changed my clothes. F relaxed upstairs. I went downstairs and started preparing dinner. Tonight I did a type of stir-fry with chicken and hijiki which is a kind of seaweed. We also had salad and potato salad, plus rice. Dinner got good reviews and there wasn’t anything leftover! K even took seconds which surprised me.

After dinner I did the dishes and listened to my podcasts. When I finished the dishes I got started on the garbage collection. I finished the kitchen and the bathroom, then got F to help me with the living room and K’s bedroom. 

After that, I went upstairs and got my garbage ready to go out. I relaxed for a bit and had a cup of tea. At 10:30 I went downstairs and took a shower. While I was in the shower I cleaned out the drain. It was very yuck! I came back upstairs after my shower and watched The Irrational. It was quite a good one where Alec was in the hospital.

Since midnight I’ve been watching some YouTube and getting ready for going to bed! Tomorrow I might do more laundry and get ready for the weekend. 

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

March 17, 2026

 Tuesday - Cloudy and cool

I woke up a little when F was getting ready for work, but managed to fall back asleep. When my alarm went off I was surprised if I’m honest! I got up and went downstairs, then came back to the room and sorted my laundry! After that excitement I went back to bed and slept on for a while. 

I got up and then went downstairs with my laundry. I started one of the loads and then I went into the kitchen and did some dinner prep. I set up the onion boil and I marinated the meat for dinner. After I finished that, I washed the dishes I used and put them away.

I went upstairs and watched some YouTube and ate my breakfast. I hung up my laundry after each load was done. I relaxed more than I should have, but I also finished my hat. I joined the two ends so that it will stay in a hat shape. I haven’t photographed it yet, but I’ll try and post it when I do.

I went downstairs at 3pm to make my lunch. I was a bit late. I put it together and then I brought it upstairs to eat. I watched an episode of MobLand while I ate. I like it but it is a bit strange.

F called after 5:15 and then I did something a little different. I weighed all the presents that I plan to send to my bestie. It’s one of the things the post office needs me to register early. I plan to get the box ready to send tomorrow, tomorrow. 

I went downstairs and got started on dinner. Tonight I did coro-coro steak, onion boil, salad and curried mayonnaise mushrooms. It was quite popular and everything disappeared. I enjoyed it too, so that was good.

After dinner, I did the dishes and put them away. I listened to my movie podcast and it was very entertaining. When I finished, I let F know I was done and would go and change so that we could go to the grocery store.

F and I left and drove to Mina. Wonder of wonders, he let me go in alone today. I enjoyed that. I bought groceries for tomorrow and Thursday. The store was surprisingly busy and there was a big line up at the cash register, but by the time I got in line it was nearly gone.

We came back to the house and I put away the groceries. I asked F if he’d make some rice for tomorrow. He agreed and offered to make us onigiri from the leftover dinner rice. I thought it sounded nice so I went upstairs. He bought up the onigiri he made and we ate them. They were nice!

At 11pm I watched Resident Alien which was pretty darn funny tonight. I turned off the TV when it finished and then got stuck into more YouTube and doing my end of day activities. 

That’s about it for me for today. Tomorrow F has the afternoon off to go to the doctor again. His back is really bothering him again lately. I asked him to take me to the post office too, so I’ll have to get the parcel registered as well. 

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