December 24, 2018

Monday - Rainy and snowy

It’s Christmas Eve folks…go be with your friends or family…!

I got up this morning around 9 to watch NCIS and check my email groups. F was in bed for ages. I had told him last night I wanted to leave the house at 10:30.  About 10:25 he was still in bed, so I got in bed and had a ten-minute snooze, then got up again. To do him credit, he did get up and we went off to have lunch.

We couldn’t think of a place to go, so finally I suggested the Daiichi Hotel’s restaurant.  We got there a little early, but they did have some dishes in our budget. Yay. F had a very Japanese meal, the local “lord” family’s chicken and I had pasta. Mine was lovely, his looked good. 

After lunch, I went upstairs and picked up a fruit knife from the hundred yen shop. I’ve been collecting stamps for a couple of months and got this. Woot.

After that, F and I started doing some shopping. I got him to take me to one of the stores that sells foreign food. We got a bit of the stuff I wanted. Some of the food from this store was frozen, so we delivered it back to the house and put it in the freezer. Then, we went out again. 

We went to Yamaya, the liquor shop, and I picked up some sliced meat and some interesting cheeses. I got a few more crackers, F got some beer for himself and I found some sparkling juice for us to have with dinner. 

After Yamaya, we went to the big grocery store and had a look around. We picked up bentos for our dinners tonight and a few other things for lunches and dinner.  

After that, F and I had a coffee in Komeda Coffee and used the wifi. It was a nice little break, even if we spent more time with our phones than each other.

We did a quick and unsuccessful run through the hundred yen shop and then came back to the house. We unloaded the car, loaded up the fridge and then since F and K were both hungry, had dinner. For a change, we all had the same bento so it was nice to just chill for a bit. 

F washed the dishes and the glasses after dinner, I dried. We decided that we’d go to the onsen, so drove out there. F did put together a loaf of bread in the bread maker too. 

We had an okay time at the onsen. I did some crafting and listened to a podcast, after his bath, F sat for a while and watched videos.  I was freezing in the onsen and couldn’t wait to leave. 

We came back to the house and had some of our stollen from a day ago. It was quite nice. Then, F and I opened our presents from my sister and her family. I feel so guilty, we haven’t sent our presents to them yet, but we enjoyed getting our presents!  I got a bunch of kitchen tools, one interesting one being a garlic cutter/shredder.  I also got a pair of pyjamas and a new shirt, plus an Oilers toque.  F got an Oilers cap (think hockey!), a t-shirt and a couple of other things.  

I took a shower and then came upstairs and watched an episode of ER from Friday. F went to bed and I should go there myself. I had hoped to finish my nengajo tonight but didn’t get around to it. One more thing for tomorrow I guess! 

Come back later if you like and see what tomorrow brings.  Will it be a nice Christmas, or a hard one? It might snow overnight, I hope it doesn’t for poor F. He has such a hard time with snow at work. 

Until tomorrow….Merry Christmas!