March 5, 2019

Tuesday - Sunny but cool at night

I got up this morning and watched the news. They announced that Luke Perry, star of Beverly Hills 90210 had died and I was really saddened. I watched 90210 during my first years here in Japan. It was one of the few shows on TV that was in English and everyone I knew over here watched it. I wouldn’t say I loved it, but I liked “Dylan” quite a bit. I had seen Luke Perry in Buffy the Vampire Slayer when I was in Canada and even found myself a copy of the film to watch over here. And I did. It is still one of my guilty pleasures! I’m sad that he has gone.

I was a bit draggy for the rest of the morning. I got up, did my usual making of the bed and getting dressed, then watched ER. I had some coffee this morning, but decaf and a little later my breakfast. 

I took a nap this afternoon, I was just so darn tired. I couldn’t stay awake. I did feel refreshed afterwards though so that was good. 

I had a quiet afternoon, I did bump into K along the way today and we said hello.  I watched a little bit of TV off the DVR, finished up the series Limitless. I quite enjoyed it.

Didn’t hear from F at all during the day and when 6:30 rolled around and there was still no word, decided that I should get dinner started.  I went into the kitchen and started to heat up the leftover stew. I had done a few things in the kitchen when F called to say he was coming back to the house. He asked if he should bring something, but I didn’t think we needed it.

He came back to the house and immediately spotted that there were only two packets of rice. Oh no!  I didn’t mind, said I’d have my stew on bread. Truth be told, I’d rather have it that way anyway. I got everything out on the table, F heated up the rice and dished it up and then I divvied up the stew.  We had quite a nice meal. I put out the kimchi, we had veggies with pasta in them, some of F’s bread with cream cheese on it and it generally got good reviews. 

I washed the dishes as my finger was doing better. F came in when I was half done and offered to take over, but I suggested that he dry the ones in the drainer. I’d already dried some, so it wasn’t too bad. 

Before dinner, I had asked him if he’d take me out to somewhere I could get a pancake as it is Shrove Tuesday. I don’t really celebrate it, but some friends had posted on Facebook about their pancakes so I wanted one too!

After we finished, F and I went out to Gusto and had dessert. I had my pancake with berries and F had a chocolate lava cake. We both had drink bar too. 

Berry-berry strawberry pancake(or something like that).
I gave most of the nasty bananas to F!

We followed this up with a trip to the grocery store for a few supplies. 

We came back to the house and spent a fairly quiet evening in our rooms.  On impulse, I grabbed my college alumni magazine and discovered that someone I had gone to college with had died. We weren’t close, but I knew him and had mutual friends. That’s a little sad too. So, all in all, today was a bit of a sad one. 

I’m not sure what I’m going to get up to tomorrow. I’m thinking about Postcrossing, or reading, or going for coffee, or something like that. Come back later if you dare and see what happens. Until tomorrow….