Clear and cool, not cold.
I had quite a busy day today. I woke up early, or rather should I say, Fumihiko woke me up early. Oh well. I went back to sleep for a while.
I got up later and tried to fill up the kerosene heater. Last night before bed I discovered it was nearly empty. I took the tank out to fill it up and discovered that there wasn't very much kerosene at all. Someone was supposed to get us more on the weekend, but didn't. Grr. I took myself back to bed for a while, with a sweater on! There was probably enough for today, so I fired off a text message to a certain husband, requesting more, then dozed for a bit.
I got up when my alarm rang and watched the news and drank some coffee. I showered fairly early, and then did a couple of loads of laundry. It felt good to get it started.
I had an early lunch today and then biked off to the school. My first class today was at 3 pm, so I was there at the school around 2. I vacuumed, dusted and generally tried to make sure the school looked good.
Classes went quite well today. My first student hadn't been for 2 months, so it was nice to see her again. My other classes were fine as well. After I was finished the last one, I cleaned up and called Fumihiko. He came over and called a student's mother for me. We did some schedule shifting and hopefully it will go well in the future. Fingers crossed.
We had dinner in Cocos tonight, and both of us had carbonara. We had different side dishes though. I had a colourful bean salad, and Fumihiko had spinach and bacon saute. It was nice.
We came home and spent a quiet evening in the apartment. Fumihiko watched something on TV, but I had no idea what he was watching. It wasn't overly annoying, but I did ask him at one point if he was even watching anymore because he was fixated on his phone. He's been doing some kind of chat thing on his phone lately and he's getting annoying. He sometimes does it while we're eating at restaurants and that drives me up the wall. I don't even like to watch TV when we eat together at home, unless there's something special on. Don't get me wrong, I watch TV when I'm alone and eating or read a book or even occasionally all three, but I think if we're together it's a bit rude.
So, anyway that was my day. Oh, I also finished reading Odd Hours, the latest in the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz. I like the character of Odd, but I have to say that the series should have stopped at one or two books. I have the feeling that Dean will run the character into the ground and make him boring. There were a few times in this novel where I skipped over the turgid prose.
That's it for me. Night night!
2 comments:
Hi Helen! thanks so much for your wonderful comment on my blog, you are so kind, really. Thank you.
On the topic of heaters we just got a new kerosene one and it is amazing. So economical in that it hardly ever needs to be filled. Our old one was probably only 6 years old but this new one is 100 times better. AND no fumes even when you turn it off.
Also how are you going with your hair/head? I have some shampoo (bought a CASE) do you need any? H&S for sensitive hair.
You're welcome! What I said was true :-)
Our kerosene heater is only a couple of years old and really isn't too bad for going through kerosene. It is more economical than the one I bought when I first came to Japan, 11 years ago. The problem is that at some point it does need kerosene! Someone was supposed to get us some on the weekend but didn't.
Thanks for the offer about the H&S. I think I'm okay. I have been using diluted tea tree oil in my shampoo and it has helped a lot.
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