December 29, 2008 - Monday

Sunny and almost warm. Lots of snow melted.

I slept in this morning but before we went out, I put the ingredients together for dinner and threw them all in my slow cooker.

We had an okay lunch at Marumatsu, then went to my school. After a bit, Fumihiko left in a huff and I continued working. I washed the curtains, cleaned the toilet room, washed dishes, cleaned tables and put magnets on the back of the new calendar for the lobby. I also changed around a few of the Classroom English signs to make it easier for students to see them. I was quite busy.

Fumihiko picked me up and we came home. We had dinner which was quite nice. He made sauteed spinach with bacon, and it went nicely with the chicken breasts with veggies that I did.

We didn't have a good evening unfortunately. I'm not sure if it's because of hubby's back/neck problems or because of me, but we've spent part of the evening ignoring each other. I hope things get sorted out because I have the rest of the week to get through and I don't know if I'll make it.

I did take myself out for a walk around the block tonight, just to work off a bit of steam. It was nice to get out, but it was very very dark out there. Tsuruoka doesn't believe in street lights unfortunately.

That's it for me. Wish me luck for the morrow. Night.

3 comments:

Sherry said...

Hope your New Years turns out okay. I am not a big fan of New Years in Japan. Too much time together if you ask me. Stuck with people who I mostly hate and who don't want to do anything but eat revolting food and watch revolting tv shows can really strain things, no?

Kelly said...

Sorry to hear things aren't going well. Have you talked to him about the way he's been carrying on lately? Maybe he's not really aware he's doing it. A couple of times yasu has been like that, and he didn't even realise it.

Though it could be his back too, but still no reason to take it out on you.

Hope today is a better one.
:)

Helen said...

Thanks for the comments.

I know that Fumihiko's back is really bad, and I've noticed that when we fight it gets worse. HE hasn't noticed that though. If I try to tell him when we're fighting he gets angrier and it gets worse.

I think he's so convinced that he's right and I'm wrong when we fight that he won't listen to what I say. He won't even agree to disagree, and I'm not the kind of person to back down. I would be happy to call a truce, but he won't go along with it.

Sherry, yeah seriously, what is it with the New Years here. Stay with people we avoid during the year, watch even more inane than usual TV and eat gross food. Yippee! Or not.

I'm lucky in a way that my MIL and I don't talk. I did just find out this year that I AM invited over there for NY, it's just that Hubby never told me I was. I didn't go, but maybe next year if I want to punish myself for something!