December 18, 2011

Sunday - Warm and mostly clear. Snow is melting.

A good day. I woke up around 10:30 and set my alarm for 12. I didn’t really think I’d get up, but I did! I went to bed around 5 am last night. I just kept watching TV and was enjoying a Sex and the City marathon.

We had lunch today at Restaurant Futaba. It is on the way to F’s house, so he was reminded of it when he went to visit his mother this morning. He took her shopping as well. I’m glad that he does these little things for his mother since I’m not going to do them!

Lunch was great and then we went shopping. We went over to Musashi and I told F that he had to get lost for the next half hour or so. I wandered around the store and found quite a few things that I wanted to get for his Christmas present. I also found a few things that I wanted for me and my school so I got those too. We both ended up at the cash register around the same time, luckily not the same cashier though. We put our purchases in the car and then went home for a bit.

At home I checked my printer and discovered that a couple of ink cartridges were probably empty, so we went back out to the electronic store to get more ink. After that, we made a quick trip to the mall that turned into a longer trip to the mall. I hacked the hundred yen shop while F shopped in the DVD shop. I wonder what F got me….I have a feeling the initials “HP” may have something to do with it!

We had a drink in Doutors and then visited the grocery store. For the first time ever (I think) I saw a raw, whole chicken in the butcher’s shop there. F was all for buying it for me to cook, but we’d already ordered a cooked one for Christmas day, and it was freaking expensive. The raw chicken cost more than the one the store had cooked! Does that make sense? We drove off to have dinner in a Chinese restaurant. It was one of the places we tried to go last night. It was quite decent food, although we both ate too much.

We followed it with a trip to the MaxValu grocery store. I got the fixings for tomorrow’s dinner, plus had a good snoop at all the stuff there. They had whole chickens and in another first for today, whole smoked turkeys. They only wanted 5000 yen for those. I passed.

We came home after shopping and spent the evening on the couch. F had asked that we watched a dvd so we decided on Fargo. My version is from Canada so it doesn’t have Japanese subtitles, but I think F was okay. He didn’t really like the movie, but then I didn’t think he would. He doesn’t like violent or police related movies. Sadly, Fargo is one on my favourite movies! It had been so long since I had seen it that it seemed new to me. There were scenes in it that I couldn’t even remember. Strange.

And then really, that was about it. F went to bed a bit later than I thought he should, but I can’t really talk. Still, I don’t work tomorrow, so not a big deal. Tomorrow I should make some nengajo and then wrap someone’s presents. I wonder how much I’ll actually do!

Tune in tomorrow and find out! Night.