February 24, 2013

Sunday - Cold and snowy

An interesting day. I slept in as usual, but the nice thing is that F slept in a bit too.  He did get up before me, but that’s pretty much the norm around here!

When I got up, we talked about going out, but I suggested having the pizza that was in the fridge instead.  F baked it for us and we quite enjoyed it.  I liked it a lot.  

After a while of computer usage, I asked F to please start tidying up the tatami room.  Next week there will be the fire alarm inspection and the men have to come in and check most of our rooms. F has all manner of junk everywhere.  I do too, but I know whether I want to keep it or not!

I started in on the tatami room, and then F got mad at me because I was cutting down a box.  When I say I was cutting it down, I only mean that I was cutting the tape so I could fold it down and make it take up less space.  He wanted the box for something, so he taped it back up again.  Gah.  Anyway, for the next couple of hours we did some tidying up.  He finished the tatami room and then started on his changing room.  I tackled my clothes in the bedroom.  I must start throwing things out.  I must.  

Finally, around 6 we started talking about going out for lunch, and then around 7 actually did go out.  I told him he could go to the place that he likes and I hate, but when we got there, the parking lot was full.  Oh darn.  Then he suggested a yakiniku place, so we tried there, but the parking lot was full.  We ended up at Aki, the okonomiyaki place and it was good.  Yum.  We usually swap half of our food with each other, but today, we just swapped a quarter of it.  I liked that better I think.  I had my usual curry and cheese, F had shrimp and kimchee.  Both were good.

After dinner we ran a few errands.  We bought groceries, and then gas for the car.  We came home and in a few minutes, I got busy.  F had asked on the way home for more onion bread, so I caramelised the onions and he made the bread.  We tried putting some of our new rye flour in this time.  Flash forward 5 hours and F took it out.  Something went wrong as the bread didn’t rise.  Oh no!  It smells good, but all that work on the onions….I hope the bread still tastes good.  I didn’t put all of the onions in this time, we have some left over for another loaf.

Watched a bit of TV tonight.  Some of it I didn’t see very well as I was in the kitchen at the stove, but some of it was fine.  F and I watched a bit while we had a bit of a snack.  We had bought some yakitori at the grocery.  That and a big fruit plate.  It was on sale, but the fruit really looked good, and as I don’t usually eat fruit, trust me on that!

So that was my day.  It was good in that parts of my apartment are looking better than they have in years, and F and I got a lot done, but didn’t have any major arguments.  Hurray for that.

Tomorrow is the Oscars…and I shall be faithfully Facebooking them for my own amusement.  Hopefully they will be exciting!  Also, I’ll try cooking again tomorrow night.  If F turns his nose up at my food we’ll probably have restaurant food only for the next month or more.  That’s it for me.  I have an early morning planned!  Got to go.  Night!