June 6, 2026

Saturday - Warm & Sunny

Today was a pretty good day. I wasn’t sure that it would be, but it was. Woot.

Last night F had mentioned that he’d like a keisen-don for lunch today and I said that if we went to Sakata I’d be able to go to the foreign imports store for my favourite tea. Yay. So, I got up a little earlier this morning than I normally would and after I got dressed, F and I drove over to Sakata.

We went to a place at the port, it’s a food court kind of thing, mostly all of the places serve fish. F had his keisen-don, which he liked. I went to another place and had roast beef-don. It was nice, but a little small. Oh, I’m getting ahead of myself…

As we left the house this morning I told F that he’d have to be careful as his back pocket had a huge rip in it. I was worried that his wallet would fall out.  Well, as we were getting ready to leave the restaurant, F discovered that his wallet was gone! Ack. He has a Tile™ in it so he could see where it was. He said it was nearby and the signal was strong. He kind of panicked though. He wouldn’t listen to me at all. I was trying to get him to find an office type place so he could ask if it had been turned in. He didn’t, but a young man came up to him and asked him if he was looking for something. They had F’s wallet. Someone had turned it in. F asked if they needed a reward, but they didn’t. 

F put his wallet in another pocket and we went off somewhere else. At another place in the port, we got some ice cream and sat and ate for a bit. Then, F dropped his wallet outside. Eye Roll!

From the port area, we went over to the new shopping area and I went to Kaldi, the import food store. I got a couple of boxes of my tea, plus another kind of tea, some decaf coffee. F picked up some bifun noodles and that’s about it. We then went to the Muji store and picked up a few more snacks and things. 

We got back in the car and F suggested going for a drink at the nice bakery near Hiyoriyama Park. I said fine, but once we got there, we couldn’t find a parking spot. We drove around a bit, but nothing. I suggested going to Mister Donut instead, either in Sakata or in Mikawa. F chose Sakata. 

We got a doughnut each and a drink. I got decaf cafe au lait, F got the regular one. We enjoyed our drinks and our time. 

We had to get back to Tsuruoka so we went back to the car and drove back. In Tsuruoka, F wanted to go to the craft/sewing store so he could fix his jeans. Not the one he was wearing, another pair. His button on the front came off and he wanted a new one. We got him one at the store. He managed to fix his jeans later. Yay him.  He also changed his jeans so he wasn’t wearing his holey pocketed ones. Double Yay!

We checked out the grocery store in S-Mall and F picked up a bento for his mother’s dinner. We paid and then came back to the house.

I went upstairs and relaxed, F stayed downstairs for a bit and then came upstairs just at the time his mother was due back. Didn’t understand that!

F and I had talked about going to the movie and he said it was okay. So, we left the house around 6:30 and drove over to the Mikawa Mall. We bought our tickets and then went and got our dinner. We both had bibinba and it was really nice! 

We went back to the cinema, bought our popcorn and went to see Masters of the Universe. It was ridiculous and silly and fun. I enjoyed it, F not so much. He thought it was too violent, but I tried to remind him how violent little boys actually are. Anyway, I liked it. I loved the earlier version with Dolph Lundgren so I was probably predisposed to like it. 

We drove back to Tsuruoka after the movie, and went to MaxValu so F could get something for his mother’s breakfast again. I have a little problem with him going to the store all the time, but I can’t tell him not to, or to meal plan. He’s just too darn scattered and forgetful to do it. 

We came back to the house and I went upstairs. F followed after he set up the rice cooker for tomorrow. F’s in bed now and sleeping. I’ll be going to bed soon I think, it’s quite late now. 

I’m not sure what we’ll get up to on Sunday, but we’ll probably have to buy my groceries for the next couple of days too. 

So that’s it. It was a pretty good day and I had a lot of fun. I hope tomorrow is good too. Come back later if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow…. 

June 5, 2026

Friday - Sunny but nicely warm

I woke up this morning when my alarm went off. It was nice that I managed to sleep through F’s leaving. Yay. I went downstairs and then came back up to the room. I sorted my laundry and then headed back to bed for a few snoozes. I watched some videos and then took a shortish nap.

I got up finally, dressed, and went downstairs with my laundry. I did a couple of loads today, now drying in my room. I grabbed my breakfast and brought it upstairs to eat. 

I had a fairly quiet morning and afternoon. When I ate my lunch I watched an episode of Lie To Me. It was fine. I followed that up with watching the news. 

F called after 5:15 and said he was on his way back. He was going to stop at the store to get something for his mother’s breakfast tomorrow. I changed and went downstairs to get dinner started.

Tonight I did my usual pasta dinner. We had some salad, duck breast and leftover veggies with it. It turned out rather nicely. When we finished dinner I cleared the table and then did the dishes. I listened to my podcasts in the kitchen. I finished around 9 pm and went upstairs to relax. I took a late shower tonight and didn’t watch any TV. F was already asleep and I didn’t feel like watching something tonight.

I’m not sure what’s going to happen tomorrow. F has put in a request for raw fish for lunch tomorrow so we might go over to the next city to their port restaurants. I’m not really into raw fish on rice for the first meal of the day, but I might be able to have some roast beef or something. We’ll see. I suggested an evening movie, but I’m not sure if F wants to see Masters of the Universe as much as I do! I told him tonight about seeing the one in the 80’s with my sister. When the camera panned over Dolph Lundgren, both of us gasped! He was pretty hot, even if he couldn’t speak English that well.

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

June 4, 2026

Thursday - Hot and Sunny

I woke up this morning when my alarm went off. F was long gone so that was nice for me, just that he didn’t wake me up…that’s all I meant! I did the usual thing of going downstairs and then coming back to bed. I watched some videos and then snoozed. 

I got up later and went downstairs after I dressed. I grabbed my breakfast stuff and brought it upstairs, I had a nice if late breakfast. I spent a lot of time upstairs in my room today, just watching YouTube and relaxing. 

I had lunch around 3 and watched another Breaking Bad episode while I ate. It was rather a good one. I haven’t decided if I like the show or not. The acting is good, but it’s already quite violent and I think it will get more violent as it goes on.

F called at 5:15 to say that he was on his way back. He was going to change his clothes. I was changing to go down to cook dinner for K when he arrived. I went downstairs and then F came down too. He left for his work party.

Tonight I made a simple dinner, but there was rather a lot. I did premade burgers from the store, fries in the air fryer, some steamed frozen veggies, potato salad, and some cucumber pickle. It was nice and most of it disappeared. 

After we finished eating, I took the dishes to the kitchen and started doing the dishes. F called a bit after 8pm and said that he was on his way home. He did offer to bring me something, but I didn’t need anything. He got back before I finished the dishes!

I finished up and then went upstairs. F came up a little later. We had quite a quiet evening and F went to bed without saying good night. I was sad! I watched The Rookie tonight too. They really seem to have ramped up the action lately. I am enjoying it.

Since midnight I’ve been watching YouTube and trying to do my end of day stuff. It’s taking a while as the internet seems slow tonight.

Tomorrow I’ve got to do some laundry. I’m thinking about going out for a coffee or something if I have time. I’m sure I won’t, but the thought is nice!

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

June 3, 2026

Wednesday - Rainy and cooler

F did not leave his alarm clock on this morning. I woke up around 9 when I set my alarm. I usually get up earlier, but I wanted to change up my alarm a little bit. I went downstairs and then came back up and went to bed for a few more minutes. I had picked my clothes out before I went back to bed so it didn’t take long to get dressed. I had a quick breakfast and packed my backpack. I left the house around 10:30 and walked to the bus stop. I was a tad early, but the bus wasn’t very late today. Yay. 

I got on the bus and I was the only person on the bus for quite a while. I got off at the Sanno Machi stop. I made a quick visit to the post office to mail my letter off and then I went to the drugstore and bought some food for my lunch. I paid and then did a quick walk back to the cinema. I went in and sat in a chair outside the cinema and ate a couple of things, then went and paid my money.

I went to see The Old Oak, a Ken Loach film. I’ve seen a few of his films, they usually have a big social message to them, and this was no exception. The Old Oak was about a small town in England with a lot of unemployment and empty houses. Basically, a large number of Syrian refugees move into the area and the townspeople are not happy about it. The owner of the areas pub and one of the refugees become friends. It’s a simple story, but as usual with Loach’s films, touching. I actually shouted at one point in the film when a woman did something really silly after a disaster!

When the movie was over, I went out to the lobby and bought another ticket for another movie! My second film was Jules/Coming Home depending on where you are from. It starred Ben Kingsley, Jane Curtin and Harriet Sansom Harris as older people who keep bothering the town council to change things in their town. Then, one night, Ben Kingsley’s character gets a mysterious visitor. It was a very slight film, but cute. It did have sympathy for older people who are starting to need to be taken care of due to the onset of dementia. 

After the film, I went out and sat in the lobby for a few minutes. I didn’t want to get to the bus stop too early. I walked over to the bus stop and waited for the bus. It arrived basically on time and I got on. It was a little busy, but I still got a seat. I rode the bus to my stop and got off.

I walked back to the house and at the house I cleared some vines from my solar lights. Lately I’ve noticed that one in particular was just getting smothered by some horrid vine. I cleared them all off and then went in the house.

It was around 4pm so I watched the news and relaxed a bit. I had some tea and around 6 pm I went downstairs and got a slow start on dinner. Tonight I made chicken with hijiki (seaweed). I added in some fried tofu and we had that with cucumber pickle, salad and potato salad. Dinner was good and most of it disappeared. 

Afterwards, I washed and dried the dishes while listening to some podcasts. After I finished, F helped me do up the garbage and I put it in the genkan for F take out later.

I went upstairs for a bit of chill time and then took a shower at 10:30. When I finished, I went back upstairs and watched the new Simu Liu series, Copenhagen Protocol…is that what it’s called? Nope, Copenhagen Test. It was interesting and since it has a ton of Canadian actors in it and is filmed in Canada, I’ll probably keep watching it!

F stayed up a bit late tonight, but is finally asleep. I’m going to go off to bed soon too. I’m thinking that I might need my blanket again as it is quite chilly in our room tonight. I’ll have to dig it out.

That’s it for me for tonight. Tomorrow F has a party after work so it’ll be me and K for dinner. Hopefully that goes okay!

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

June 2, 2026

Tuesday - Hot and Sunny

Well, I woke up again at 7 am because once again, F forgot to turn off his alarm when he got up. He was still downstairs when I went there and we said hello! I didn’t tell him that I was up because of him though. 

I sorted out my laundry and then went back to bed. I watched videos and fell asleep in the middle of them. I would wake up, watch for a few minutes and then fall back asleep! I finally dragged myself out of bed and got dressed.

I went downstairs and started my laundry, then I grabbed my yogurt and brought it upstairs. I did have to hang up a load of laundry before I ate, but it was fine. Both of my loads of laundry are hanging up in the room, and I ate my breakfast. 

I had a fairly quiet afternoon. Apart from the laundry, I also backed up my computer and worked on my letter to my bestie. I was a tad late going down for lunch, so when I came back to the room to eat, I decided to watch the last episode of One Mississippi. It was a good series, too bad there isn’t more. 

I went downstairs around 6 pm to the kitchen. I washed my dishes from the day and cleaned a couple of things around the kitchen. I had prepped the meat earlier in the day, so I didn’t have to work too hard. Tonight I cooked coro-coro steak with some potato salad, salad and then some cabbage. F called about 6:30 and arrived back about 25 minutes later so dinner was a little late.

After we ate our meal, I offered some frozen blueberries with the cream that I bought on Sunday night. F and I whipped that cream so that it was light and airy. I think he was surprised it took that long! Dessert was nice, although F complained that the berries were too frozen. He wasn’t wrong, but I still enjoyed them.

I did the dishes and when I finished them, F and I headed over to the grocery store to get some groceries…what else? I did the shopping and got a couple of things for the next few days. On the way back to the house I got a bit exasperated with F because he wasn’t really understanding what I said. To be honest, it’s happening a lot lately and I’m very frustrated by it. I think he’s just stopped caring about his English and doesn’t listen to me anymore. He doesn’t talk to me very often either so talking to him becomes a bit of a pain in the neck. 

I went in the house and put away the groceries. I headed upstairs and watched an episode of Law & Order at 11pm. The channel put on their music break afterwards and there were two really nice videos, including one from Utada and then the third one was a goth heavy metal Japanese band. It completely spoiled the mood. I understand that people like that kind of music, but why end off the nice pop-y vibe that way?

I turned off the TV and watched YouTube for a long time. I asked F if he would make sure to turn off his alarm before he gets up tomorrow morning. Three mornings being awoken unnecessarily just sucks. 

I’m also planning/hoping to go out tomorrow morning to the cinema. There are a couple of British movies that I’d like to see and I think I can see them both….Fingers crossed. The weather is supposed to be rainy tomorrow so who knows if I’ll actually go. 

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

June 1, 2026

Monday - Hot and Sunny

I was very cranky when I went to bed last night, I stayed that way all night. This morning, getting woken up by F’s alarm clock at 7 am was not a happy thing. I turned off the clock and went back to sleep.

When my alarm went off later I got up, went downstairs and then came back to bed. I did the video and snoozing thing again and it was nice. I got a lot of sleep.

I got up later, dressed and went downstairs to grab my breakfast and bring it upstairs. I had a quiet afternoon and basically started writing a letter to my bestie. She’s written me three that I haven’t answered yet.

I went downstairs later on and got my lunch and brought it back up to the room. I had a lot of stuff that was leftovers from last week. It tasted good though. During lunch I watched an episode of Elsbeth. I wanted to see something a bit light for a change and it fit the bill. 

F phoned after 5:15 and we chatted. I was friendly to him and after a while I went downstairs and got started in the kitchen. 

Tonight I did my usual Toaster Oven Chicken, but I did it in the air fryer. I think it comes up nicer. I also cooked a couple of onions in the air fryer and later on I did some veggies in the microwave. There was a salad as well and some rice that wasn’t very nice if I’m honest. F wouldn’t make new rice last night. We also had a piece of roll cake, tonight it was melon flavoured which was nice. 

I did the dishes and then planned to go upstairs. However, when I came out of the washroom I noticed that F was on a stepladder in the living room vacuuming the air conditioner. I went in and asked if he needed help. He did, so I helped a bit. I tried to put the vacuum cleaner away but ended up causing K’s laundry rack to fall apart. Poor F had to spend about 15 minutes putting the darn thing back together. 

I went upstairs and relaxed for a while. F went out to get something for himself and volunteered to get me some cereal while he was at the drugstore. Hurray for him!

After 10 pm I went downstairs and took a shower. Now, I saw K before my shower and she was up again when I finished. She’s an odd little lady. 

I went upstairs and watched another episode of Margo’s Got Money Troubles. It was all about her mother’s wedding in Las Vegas. I was spotting all the places that I had been so it was fun!

F went to bed while I was watching the show and then I turned off the TV when it was over. I got my end of day things done and I’ll be going to bed soon. 

I’m probably going to get up to lots of laundry tomorrow. I’m so excited! 

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

May 31, 2026

Sunday - Hot and muggy

I woke up at my normal weekday time, but it was the weekend, so I made a trip downstairs and then I went back to bed and sleep. I got up a lot later. F slept in a bit and then got up and made breakfast for his mother. 

Honestly, when I got up, my arm hurt and I just wanted a relaxing morning. I turned on my water pot to make some tea but I just made coffee for F. I knew that he was too whiny to let me enjoy my tea. I suggested going out after 1 pm to try Arpeggio. F was okay with that. But then kept trying to hurry me up. I didn’t really understand why. He had breakfast already today, I hadn’t eaten at all. 

We drove over to the restaurant but he went the long way around. He’s been doing that a lot lately. It annoys me too much. We went in, were seated soon after and then ordered. I had the chicken fingers set meal and F had soboro donburi which looked good but he complained about as usual. 

After our meal, F had to go to a bank machine and then we ended up coming back to the house. I wasn’t too impressed at all. Sigh. We did use the air conditioner in the room…at F’s suggestion and he complained all about it. I dunno. 

We finally went out for dinner and our groceries around 7pm. I suggested Misono and that’s where we went. I had their kara-age without rice and soup. It was nice. F had niku-soba or something and hated it. Honestly, why does he keep ordering noodles when we’re out together? They never meet his standards.

We next went to the grocery store. I did the shopping today which was nice. I like going around the store by myself but a lot of the shop was low on stock. I came back to the car and told F that I got him some onigiri for tomorrow but nothing for Tuesday. Since he was going to pay a bill at a convenience store, I suggested he get something for his Tuesday breakfast. 

He came out with more onigiri. He didn’t bother to listen to me. He says he’s going to keep the onigiri until Tuesday. I told him he might get sick but he doesn’t think so. Sigh. 

Back at the house it just seemed to me that everything he did annoyed me. There’s nothing that I can talk about, but he just annoyed me tonight. I watched some TV, another episode of Evil and then an episode of Loot. It helped improve my mood a bit. 

Anyway, that’s about it for me. I’m hoping to have a quiet day tomorrow and relax a bit. My arm hurts so I hope it’ll ease up tomorrow. 

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