Monday - Rainy then snowy, warmer
I had a bit of trouble getting up this morning, but I did finally. I went downstairs to cut the bread, but F had already done it. Sigh. It looked all damp too because he didn’t let it dry out first.
I had a quiet morning. I snoozed a bit but got dressed around 9. That was a good thing as K called me down for some mail. She could just leave it on the steps for me, but she summons me down! Oh well.
I had planned to do laundry today, but K did some of her stuff a bit later than usual, so I couldn’t when I wanted to. I decided to postpone it until tomorrow.
In the afternoon, I did finally buckle down and work on my column. I got a lot done. I still have one question that I have to work on. It’s a real quandary for me. I can’t give a definitive answer. I know what I should probably say, but it wouldn’t be my answer.
F called me a little after 5:30 to ask what I wanted to do for dinner. I had no plans and said so. F decided to take us out, so I thought about places to go. Then, he called me back to say that probably he should take his mother to the hospital first. That was fine. He came to the house, got dressed and took her off to visit her mother.
I got ready too. I wasn’t sure where we’d go, but I had a couple of ideas. When F got back he said that his mother didn’t want to go out, so he’d stopped in and got her to buy a bento at the grocery store.
F and I went out to the Chinese Restaurant in Kushibiki. I had a different dish for a change, Mabo-gohan…spicy tofu and meat sauce on rice. It really was spicy. F had his usual yakisoba which was okay. It does have a fair amount of veggies in it which I like. We shared an order of gyoza too. F forgot his phone which I thought was funny, so I didn’t use my phone much during dinner. We chatted a little, but the TV was on so F was terribly distracted.
We decided that tomorrow F was going to make a nabe for dinner, so we’d get the ingredients for it. After dinner, we went to the supermarket and picked up some groceries. We got a few things for dinner and my lunch and a few things for us that we shouldn’t have!
F wanted to make new bread for tomorrow, so he said he’d set up the bread maker while we popped to the house to drop off the food. I requested that he make onion bread since we bought dried onion at Costco. He had forgotten about that and thought he had to caramelize them first! I wouldn’t ask him to do that at night. It takes ages to do it properly!
After F had finished with the bread machine we went out again. We went for a coffee at Starbucks. It wasn’t very busy as it was after 9 pm. We each had a latte and updated our phones and such.
When we left Stabba we bought gas for the car. F wasn’t going to bother, but I reminded him that there have been a few earthquakes lately and he doesn’t want to get stuck with an empty tank if we have another one.
We came back to the house and relaxed a bit. I watched The Good Wife and later American Idol. I have to say that I don’t like the new format. It seems too fast to get rid of two people each time. The other way did take a long time, but seemed a bit kinder!
Anyway, that’s about it for me. Tomorrow I hope there’ll be laundry and an almost finished column at the end of the day! Come back later and see if I manage! Until tomorrow….
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