Wednesday - Cold and snowy
A good day.
We were people with a plan today. I got up around when I meant to, got dressed and then we were out the door a scant few minutes after 10 am, as I’d promised I’d be! We went to the tax office. About 3 stamps from them and five minutes in line and we were done, baby, done!
I offered to buy F breakfast so we went to Mr. Donut. He had their noodle breakfast dish and a doughnut, I had a nikuman and a frank-pie. We enjoyed ourselves and it wasn’t busy. I like listening to the music there.
After that, we went to a bank to see if I could get a cheque that an older relative sent me for my birthday. This cheque was actually a money order, drawn on a Japanese bank in Japanese yen. After about 20 minutes of waiting around, they told us that they’d have to charge me 1000 yen to contact the other bank and then the other bank would probably charge me 1000 or more yen. This for a money order that is for less than 3000 yen. Sigh. It’s not like I can ask my relative to pop down to the bank in Canada and change it. She’s 91 and can’t get around without help.
I was a bit mad after that, but know how crazy banking in Japan is. It’s weird and nothing makes sense about it.
Next up, I got F to drive by NTT to see if their office was open. It was, so we vowed to come back later. We popped home to pick up a couple of things, and then headed back. We asked about changing the billing for the internet to F instead of to me. The man directed us back to our bank. ACK! So we went to the bank and F filled out a form. I’m sure that something will go wrong though!
Next up was lunch. We were going to go to a favourite place, but they were closed, so F suggested the Komagihara buffet place. I was all for it. We went and were quite pleasantly surprised. There were a lot of fish dishes for F, a few meat dishes for me, and a dessert chef working his magic. That was a surprise. We had a pretty good meal, with lovely dessert.
F wanted to have a massage today, so he dropped me at home and went off. I did a lot of emailing with one of my groups and also packaged up 3 envelopes to send. I was reasonably busy!
After F returned, I called one of my groups’ members and tried to get her connected to the group. It took a while, but we finally succeeded. Hurray for that.
F ran me off to the post office and helped me mail my envelopes. One of them was a little complicated as it contained something for a friend.
We still weren’t hungry so we went to my school and preset the heater for tomorrow. I have an early class tomorrow. Still not hungry so we bought a few necessities at the drugstore. We drove around looking for a restaurant to go to and then F suggested Kappa sushi. It was a good idea, since we didn’t have to eat a lot if we didn’t want to.
We got in right away and had a good time.
After dinner we came home and I set up the bread maker for the morning. We’re going to have pain de campagne again. This is my first time making it, so I hope that it is good.
I watched a little TV and spent a lot of time on my computer. I won’t have much time tomorrow so I needed to get things done tonight.
And that was about it. I’m hoping to get to bed soon as I’m rather tired and tomorrow will be busy again. That’s it for me. Night.
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