September 28, 2026

Monday - Rainy and colder

Well, I thought that F was going to go to work today. He did not.

His alarm went off at 4:30am. For no reason. I woke up, we both did. I did fall back asleep, but then I was woken up several times after that. F got up around 7ish, and woke me, called his office around 8am and woke me up as he called from our bedroom. He went off to the doctor around 9am I think. I stayed in bed for a while, I did get up after 10:30. I dressed and went downstairs.

I got busy. I started tonight’s dinner. I made a stew and put it in my slow cooker. It took a while as I precooked most of the ingredients. I know technically I don’t need to, but I’ve found that it comes out better when I do. 

It took a while, but I finished before 12:30, so I took my yogurt upstairs with me and had breakfast. F came back around the same time too. He’s been given instructions to take another day off so he’ll be off work tomorrow too. Sigh. 

I decided that I would do a couple of loads of laundry today, so I got the washing machine going. I’m glad that I got them done. I have more laundry, but at least I’ll have some clean undies and towels. 

F slept a lot of the afternoon, so I stayed fairly quiet, although I did laugh at a lot of the YouTube and Reels that I watched. 

I watched an episode of Modern Love at 3:30. It was okay, but it was probably my least favourite one so far. I followed that up with the PBS news at 4pm. It was all about the person it always is about.

I took a nap after 5…I just got really tired. I realized that I was busy this morning and I’m still a little sick, so a nap wasn’t a bad thing. I snoozed for about half an hour.

I went downstairs and got started on dinner. Of course, the stew was mostly cooked, but I did add some frozen peas and then made a slurry to thicken the stew. 

I tried to wake up K and I called F down, but they both took so long to come to the table that our bowls of stew were lukewarm. I was not happy about that. K didn’t eat much, but did eat a bowl of stew, actually, F didn’t eat much either. His stomach is still acting up a bit.

After dinner, I did the dishes and put everything away. I listened to my podcasts and then went upstairs afterwards. 

Around 10:30 I went downstairs to take a shower and then came upstairs to the room again. I was planning to watch Ted Lasso, but for some reason it wouldn’t start me on Episode 2 of the fourth season. I decided I’d started Bad Sisters season 2. It’s good, and has Fiona Shaw in it. I’ve liked her ever since I saw her in London on stage. I’m very pleased that she has a good movie and TV career. I’m not sure how I feel about her character in this though.

And honestly, that’s about it. I had a quiet-at-the-house day. I did ask F if we could maybe go out for coffee or something tomorrow as I’m a bit tired of being here at the house all day. 

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

September 27, 2026

 Sunday - Warm and sunny

I slept in this morning. There was no reason not to. We had no plans as usual. I had hoped that F and I would go to the movies in the afternoon, but he pulled a sickie again and wouldn’t go. He complained of having a headache again. It turns out that since he’s been taking his flu medicine, he stopped taking some other medicine. I am not best pleased to hear that. It’s no blooming wonder he has a headache. 

So, basically, when I did get up, I suggested that we assume we were going to the movie and then get our other stuff done early since we wouldn’t have time later at night. F wouldn’t even do that. He decided that his time would be better spent in bed. All afternoon. 

Around 6:30 I told him that we needed to go out and get food for the next couple of days and maybe get some food for MY dinner since I hadn’t eaten yet. F didn’t feel like eating, he said.

I got to go to the grocery store. I live such an exciting life. I’m not too upset, I mean I am basically better but I probably needed a quiet day at the house. I just wanted to go out. The last two weeks have been boring and so unproductive. Sigh. 

I bought groceries for two days. I’m going to go downstairs tomorrow and make a stew in my slow cooker. Hopefully it’ll last for a couple of days so that I don’t have to cook too much on Tuesday. I told F that if he wants to have rice with his meal he needs to set up the rice cooker. If he doesn’t….I’m not doing it. We’re having a little set to about that. I dislike rice. If I never eat Japanese white rice again, I would be fine. F has decided that he doesn’t want to make rice anymore. He’s always been the person to set up the rice cooker. He likes it, he wants to eat it…him and his mother. Why should I make it?

I’m digressing again….

Back at the house I put the groceries away. F gave his mother her bento and took half of it. She probably couldn’t eat it all, but…she didn’t have lunch today so….maybe she could have. I heated up my bento and came upstairs. It was good. I had kara-age with mushroom rice. I was almost impressed. 

I went downstairs and washed my day’s dishes and then came back to the room and decided to watch a movie. I saw The Outrun, a film with Saoirse Ronan. She played an alcoholic who went home to the Orkney Islands to try to get her life back after she hits a low in London. It was good. A little slow, but the cinematography was beautiful and Ronan is excellent.

Since midnight I’ve been back to doing my end of day stuff. I’ll likely toddle off to bed soon. I’m really plugged up and I’m not sure how I’m going to sleep, but I managed the same thing last night so hopefully it’ll work out!

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

September 26, 2026

Saturday - Cloudy and cool

I slept well last night and then got up a bit after 9. I went downstairs and then came back to bed for another hour or so. F got up to make food for his mother and then I got up a bit later, earlier than I usually do!

I was up and at my computer when I started to feel quite unwell. I made a run for the washroom and sadly, had to make a few today. I had a cheese bread from last night, took my medicine. When F came back to the room, he went to take a nap. I took one too. I asked if he wanted to go to see Endgame Encore today but he said he didn’t. All in all, it’s a good thing we didn’t go today. I’m hoping we can see it tomorrow. Fingers crossed we are both up to it. 

Around 5pm we went out to have “lunch”. I was really hungry by then. We went to Gusto and I was probably silly. I had a hamburger and fries. F had a Japanese meal with a chicken cutlet. He wanted me to finish his meal for him, but that really annoys me. I don’t mind trying it, but I’m not a garburator…I eat a lot, but I don’t want to eat his cast-offs. 

After our lunch we went to the grocery store and picked up a few things. I got some more yogurt and coffee creamers, that sort of thing. I also got myself some chicken for later. 

We came back to the house and put away the food. I came upstairs to relax, F stayed downstairs to watch sports on the TV. 

At 11pm I watched The Hunting Party. It was quite an interesting episode tonight with a female serial killer. I’m not sold on the show but it is filmed in BC so I’ll keep watching!

I should get myself off to bed soon. My stomach hasn’t quite recovered, so I hope it does before tomorrow. Tomorrow we’ll have to get in groceries for the coming few days, plus I’m hoping to go and see the movie if possible. A lot really depends on F and how he feels. 

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

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)