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…. 

May 30, 2026

Saturday - Sunny and warm, windy. Gorgeous day.

I woke up first this morning around 7 am. I went downstairs and then came back to bed. F was lying in bed playing with his phone. Hmm! I went back to sleep and then woke up at about 8:40. F was still in bed next to me, playing games on his phone. I asked him if he’d made his mother’s breakfast yet. He said he hadn’t. I reminded him it was Saturday morning. No reaction. I reminded him that his mother has to go to her Day Service. That got him. He had spaced and thought it was Sunday because he’d taken Friday off. He got up quickly, dressed and went off to cook and get his mother up and dressed!

I got up later around 10. I got dressed and around 11am F and I were almost ready to go to our doctor’s office. We drove over there and F almost made a mistake about which way we drove! It took a while at the office, but after our appointment we had our first Shingles vaccine. Because F is older he gets his for free, mine was a bit of money, but I think it is worth it. 

For lunch today, I suggested a few places which F did not like. He ended up suggesting going to a Chinese restaurant in Yunohama. We went there, after not going to a lot of better places. Sad to say, the restaurant wasn’t great. F had ramen that he hated and I had mapo-dofu which was okay, but was both hot temperature-wise and spice-wise. The Gyoza we shared were quite good. 

We came back into Tsuruoka and went to Gyumu Supa again! F wanted some food for his mother I think. We got some snacks, ice cream for us and stuff for her dinner. We went back to the house.

At the house, we had our ice cream and also some canned coffee that we bought a couple of months ago at Muji. It was nice to spend the time together. 

I went upstairs and F stayed downstairs to welcome his mother back. Upstairs, F joined me around 6 having made his mother’s dinner already. Of course he wanted me to name the dinner place again. I was rather annoyed. He just won’t think of places because he says I always say no to them. Not quite true. I say no to ramen shops and he knows that. 

Finally I suggested going to Gusto but hitting up Yamaya first to get some rooibos tea and whatever we needed. After dinner I suggested going to a drugstore to get his mother some tissues. 

We almost did that!

When we were driving, I noticed we were down very low in the gas tank. It was around 35 km left to drive. Insane! Why does he do that? We did go to Yamaya and I got some tea, but not quite what I wanted. We picked up some tissues there for K and also some brownies that are expiring soon. 

Then, we went over to Gusto. I had the Gusto Smash Burger which was pretty good, F had the mixed grill and complained about the size of the piece of chicken! It was too small for him. 

After dinner, we came back to the house, but F decided on the way that he needed more stuff from the grocery store. We stopped in at the Mihara branch of the grocery store (quite close to the house) and he got some fish and a daikon. 

Back at the house, he stayed downstairs to watch a bit of TV and I went upstairs. I ended up watching an odd Apple TV show called Calls. This was the second one and it was a bit freaky. It’s the second one I’ve listened/watched and it was good. 

At 11 pm I watched FBI and it was good. It was about a serial killer first and then about a terrorist plot in New York. It’s a two-parter so more next week I think. 

And that’s about it. I’ve been doing my end of day things and blogging, getting ready to go to bed soon. I’m not sure what I’ll get up to tomorrow, I’ll probably have to buy proper groceries for the next few days and try to have a good time with my husband. At least I hope to!

My arm is a bit sore from the shot, but it hasn’t been too bad yet. F doesn’t have any pain on his injection site at all. 

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

May 29, 2026

Friday - Sunny but Cooler. Gorgeous day!

I woke up somewhere around 9:30 because F was demanding paper from me. I went downstairs. I came back up to the room and gave him some scrap paper which he still hasn’t returned. He had to call City Hall and then found out later that he really didn’t need to after all!

I wasn’t going to get any rest after a while so I got up and dressed myself. F wanted to leave right away and of course changed his preferred lunch place from yesterday’s. 

We drove over to the restaurant, but all the parking spaces were taken so we couldn’t go there. We went back to F’s original choice, the fish restaurant we like. We had their weekly lunch each, it was sashimi and deep fried oysters set meal. It came with rice, miso soup and some veggies and pickles. It was quite nice to be honest.

After lunch, we went for coffee to Doutor. F gave me some money to charge up my app and then I got us two coffees. He got regular, I had a decaf iced latte that was lovely.

When we finished our drink, we went to Gyomu Supa and I picked up a bunch of things that we needed or wanted. We got potato salad, kimchi, bagels, tortillas, frozen veggies, cereal, mini-cheeses, just a bunch of stuff. F picked up some noodles because of course he did. 

After we finished there, we came back to the house and I put the groceries away. F had suggested ice cream for dinner’s dessert and also this afternoon…I insisted we get his mother some too. It was nice.

I went upstairs and chilled. I even watched the news at 4 pm. F wanted to know what we were going to do about dinner so I told him I was cooking.

I went downstairs around 6pm and tidied up the kitchen. I put together dinner tonight. We had lemon pasta, salad and lemon and herb sausages with milk tea ice cream for dessert. Dinner was good, but as usual, F didn’t eat much. 

I had asked F to help me with dinner tonight either before or after and he didn’t. That was rather annoying since he didn’t work today so there was no reason he couldn’t. Also, while I was doing dishes K apparently wanted more strawberries so F tried to use the kitchen sink to do that in. Umm. No. I was doing the dishes. I honestly don’t know why she can’t wait a minute. Also, no one even asked me if I’d like a strawberry. I usually don’t eat them as I have a slight allergy to them, but they could have offered me some. Or one. 

After I finished in the kitchen I went upstairs. I just left the kitchen and turned off the lights. I was royally annoyed!

I watched some YouTube and filled out a form for the doctor tomorrow. Google Translate is a help. When F came upstairs I asked him to help me with the rest of the form and things were fine. 

I took a shower around 10:30, just a quick one as I had one yesterday. I came back up to the room and watched The Boys. That show…..I think I have two more episodes to go. 

So, tomorrow K is off to her Day Service, and F and I are off to the doctor’s office. We have our first Shingles vaccine scheduled. F gets it for free, we have to pay for mine. 

Anyway, come back later if you like and hear about my day. If the vaccine affects me badly I might skip, but otherwise, I’ll talk to you soon. Until tomorrow….

May 28, 2026

Thursday - Hot and sunny, then rainy and muggy later on

Last night before I went to bed, F was tossing and turning, getting up and going back to bed. It was unsettling. I pick up bad vibes from that kind of behaviour and I really didn’t want to go to bed. 

This morning F got up and even though I wasn’t really awake I talked to him. He accused me of waking him up when I came to bed, but I told him he was awake when I came to bed. Which he was. 

I fell back asleep and he went off to work.

I had a pretty quiet morning and afternoon. F texted me to tell me that his aunt was going to/had dropped off some strawberries and would I bring them into the house. Sure, no prob. Before my lunch, I brought the boxes in to the house. K was very happy to see them.

F also texted me to say that his party was tonight so he wouldn’t be eating with me and K. Okay, that was fine. 

I had a decent lunch. I watched an episode of Matlock during lunch and enjoyed it, but this double-cross stuff is annoying. 

Oh, and before lunch I sent in my column. Done and dusted, hopefully!

Around 5:45 I went downstairs and got started on dinner. F called to say that he would stop by the house to change his clothes and then leave. Okay. He did and then left.

I scrubbed some new potatoes, plated some kabocha salad, and made some tandori flavoured chicken in the toaster oven. I set the table for two people. Then, I got a phone call from F. His party was next Thursday. He showed up at the venue and there was no party! 

I invited him to come back for dinner which he did. I set a third plate and told K that he was coming back. K and I went ahead and ate together and were nearly done when F got back. F had a very small plate of food and wouldn’t take more when I tried to give it to him. 

I cleared the table and was just about to start the dishes when F came into the kitchen to wash some of the strawberries for him and his mother. That was lovely. I don’t generally eat strawberries, but it would have been nice to be asked. F kept getting in my way and was angry at me because he felt I was in his way. Okay. 

I did the dishes when he finished. When I finished, F was in the washroom so I just went upstairs and turned off the kitchen light. F can darn well clean up his crap from the living room. Why should I do it?

I took a shower and then came back upstairs and watched The Rookie. It’s on the Eighth season now! Wow. 

I turned off the TV and started doing my end of day things. I’m not sure what F and I will get up to tomorrow. He is taking the day off. I wish that he had waited but he’s an adult, he’s allowed to do what he wants. 

Anyway, that’s it for me for today. Come back later if you like and read all about my Friday. Until tomorrow….