January 9, 2013

Wednesday - Snowy, with some sun

An odd day.

I got up on time this morning after a pretty good sleep.  I checked email, had breakfast and looked for news on TV but didn’t find it.  I had just changed into apartment only clothes when F phoned and invited me to lunch.  I accepted, and decided that I wouldn’t get a ride back with him. I needed to visit a bank machine so I would have lunch and then go to the machines.  

My plan worked well.  After a yummy lunch at the Chinese Restaurant that F likes, he left to go back to work, and I finished up.  I then walked over to the bank machines, did my stuff and walked home.  It was lovely and sunny and around 0 degrees at the time, so warm too.  At home, I dropped my bag in the apartment and did a little snow shovelling of F’s space and the area around the door.

I had a quiet afternoon.  I watched some TV, I surfed the net and then I watched Miss Marple.  F came home in the middle of it and had a nap on the couch.  His nap went on rather too long as we were supposed to go to the grocery store to pick up food for our nabe. 

We finally went, but it was well after 7 pm.  I was taking back the recyclables and of course he didn’t park in a convenient place.  Since one of the bags was huge, I didn’t want to walk inside the building. I instead carried it to the far door where the bins are.  I didn’t wait for F as I was a bit ticked at him.  

I dumped the milk cartons and let him do the meat trays.  I asked him about the sign on the top of his bin and he was explaining it when I was distracted by a woman standing beside him staring at me.  I looked at her full on.  She tried to ask me what country I was from.  As I was ticked at F still, and was not too pleased to be approached when I was mid-conversation with my husband, I told her to “Go Away.”  She thought I said Norway.  Then she asked me something about snow.  I just walked away.  She might have been a nice person, but her timing was just horrible.  Of course, after that, I didn’t feel very comfortable.  F was no help, he didn’t even talk about it after that.  

We picked up some salmon on sale and some konnyaku noodles, plus a veggie assortment at the store.  We also got some hot drink mixes and then went through the checkout.  

We came home and F put together the nabe.  When it was time to eat I realised that he hadn’t put in the chicken we bought last night, so we had to wait a little longer!  Still, the nabe was good.  I haven’t enjoyed one with his soup base for a long time, but he did nicely tonight.  I did the dishes and then settled in by my computer for a long break!

I did a little crochet tonight at 11 and watched the new season of Private Practice. It was okay. 

And that basically was that.  It had snowed a lot after I came home from lunch and all the work I had done was undone.  I was hoping we’d see a little less snow this year, but I doubt that we will.  Anyway, tomorrow I’m off again and I hope to do laundry.  What an exciting life I lead!  Night.