March 30, 2008 - Sunday

Cloudy.


I want a do-over! I did not have a good day today and I think I really deserve to have another chance at today.

It started last night. I realized after I blogged that I was starving again. I asked Fumihiko if he was hungry, he said he wasn't. So, I got myself a can of sardines and had them on crispbreads. Yummy. Then Fumihiko started making himself some ramen. Huh? He wasn't hungry. Then he announced to me that he wasn't hungry but had to eat to take some of his medicine. Well, if he had said that to me earlier, we maybe could have gone out, even though it was late. I'm not a mindreader after all. He was quite grumpy, so I went to bed around 3:00 or so. I got up around 5 to take a washroom trip and he was sleeping on the couch, lights still on and the TV blaring away. I sent him to bed.

This morning I was sleeping peacefully away when someone's phone rang. It was the car dealership reminding hubby that he should get his oil checked. Why do people call other people on Sunday morning in Japan? There should be a law against it. I got up around noon and after some coffee, we went out for lunch. Fumihiko wanted to go to Simon, a nice French/Japanese restaurant, so we went there and didn't have a reservation. It was just at the end of lunch so we were lucky they let us in. We eventually had a nice lunch but as usual I got the whole menu read to me. I don't need it. I know he's trying to be nice, but much nicer would be letting me ask him if I had any questions. ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH. And then the stupid waitress kept looking at Fumihiko everytime I said anything to her. I asked her to give us more time to make up our minds...in quite good Japanese. She just stood there. Fumihiko had to say something else to her. Then at the end of the meal, I asked for more water, again in Japanese. She looked at Fumihiko to see what I meant. Why do Japanese people do that? Hello? Speaking in Japanese here!

After lunch someone announced that he was going to the car dealership. I asked if I could be dropped off somewhere else. Anywhere else. Much as I enjoy sitting around and drinking coffee, I'd rather sit around in my own home thank you very much. So, we went to one car place. It was busy so we had to wait a while. We had our drinks and Fumihiko started talking about going to another car place to look at cars. HUH?

I not too politely reminded him that I had asked to buy paper for my school 3 weeks ago and we still hadn't done it. I wanted to do that today. Happily he was agreeable to that, and we went to the hardware store where I picked up paper and a bunch of office stationary. We dropped it off at my school and spent a bit of time there. Fumihiko called someone back to set up an appointment for tomorrow night. I'm not very happy about either the time or the day. The day was necessary, but the time wasn't.

After this, Fumihiko proceeded to drag me to two more car dealerships to look at cars. I asked him why he wanted me there. I don't drive and he doesn't listen to my opinions anyway, so I feel sort of useless. The car dealerships themselves were fine, but I just didn't need to be there. We took a test-drive in one of them. The car was okay, but again, I don't really care.

After the third place we went to, I told him I was hungry so we did something that we haven't done in ages. We went out for sushi to a kaiten-sushi place. We had to wait more than 30 minutes to get a seat, but the sushi was good. I ate a lot. I just hope that it agrees with me. I haven't eaten quite that much rice in ages.

We came home after a quick grocery store trip. His highness watched one of the awful TV programmes that he seems to enjoy so I tuned out and watched a bunch of stuff on iTunes. We didn't talk much for hours.

Today I had planned to get a box of books ready and then sent to a friend and then I wanted to wrap my friend's birthday present so I could send it to her. Both things are obviously not important to someone I live with. Sigh. And, I had hoped to go out and buy a present for some friends of ours that just had a baby. But again, not important enough. Not like looking at cars that HE won't be buying for a few months anyway.

If I sound a bit grumpy, I am. Usually we have no plans and that's bad enough, but today was all about my husband. He seemed to forget that this was my day off too, and I had other plans.

Gotta go.