December 22, 2018

Saturday - Cloudy and dark

The day started fairly badly but ended well. This morning, my alarms went off at 9am, but F was already gone. I hadn’t slept that well, F was in pain and made a lot of noise when he moved. 

I got up, dressed, filled up the kerosene tank in our room, got my hot water on for drinks, started the heater, and did a bit of running around.  My online meeting was to start at 10 am. F came back around 9:45, still in pain and rather grumpy. He said he was going to stay in the room, which was fine. Then he started moving cans around and making noise. I asked him to stop and he got annoyed at me. The meeting was starting and I was waiting to connect when F stormed out of the room. I went online and said that I couldn’t attend the meeting after all, and hung up. 

After a bit, I went to check on F. His sister had come by and was going to take his mother out for lunch. Lovely! 

I went back upstairs and went back to bed for a bit, as did F. I couldn’t sleep so I got up and wrote some of my nengajo. 

Around 1 F suggested lunch, so we went out. We went to Foodever and both had gapao rice. It was good. After that, we had a coffee or tea at the coffee shop there. We ran a few errands after that.

We went to the sushi shop and put in an order for sushi for Dec 31 for our dinner, got some food at the grocery store and then delivered it to the house. 

F and I were doing fine by this time. F was still in pain, but we were talking and not arguing anymore.

I spent some of the afternoon trying to figure out what to wear. Sadly, some of my favourite clothes are too small at the moment. Finally, I decided on a pair of yoga pants and a black and white polka dot shirt.  For good measure, I wore some Christmassy earrings and then threw on my boa from a few years ago.  

At 6 our taxi came, and we went to The Grand El Sun. It was rather fun at the party. Officially it was a Christmas Beer Hall, but really it was a buffet with a lot of different types of food and drinks. We had some crab, steak (too tough really), sashimi, pasta, Chinese style food and a bunch of other things. For dessert, I had a bit of stollen and then some chocolate fondue.  It was all really nice. F had a couple of beers and some wine to drink, I had a couple of non-alcoholic cocktails before having a hard cider. We left at the end of the party and had had a really nice time.  

Click to make bigger.  F and I after the party.

I am glad the F made the effort to go. In the morning when we were fighting he said he couldn’t go, but he did have a good time. I know that being in public is good for him.  The venue is the place that we had our wedding at, so most of the staff know us.  I was probably their first Western bride, and I spoke a little less Japanese then than I do now, so they remember me!  

We came back to the house and came upstairs. We actually had a nice chat for a while and have been really friendly all night. I watched some of my TV and drank a lot of tea.

I’m not really sure what we’ll get up to tomorrow. I’m hoping to do a few last minute Christmas things and maybe see A Star is Born if we have time.  Come back later and see how Sunday goes. Until tomorrow….