Wednesday - Hot and sunny
Today was okay. I woke up fairly early this morning, made a quick trip downstairs. I went back to bed and didn’t wake up again until my alarm went off. I had a hard time staying up. I watched the news, but also snoozed a bit too. I dragged myself up at 9 though.
I had a pretty quiet day. I didn’t see K until 5 or so. I think she stayed in bed for a lot of the day. I got three postcards in the mail so registered them. I decided to work on F’s jeans today, So I sewed the second patch on and then did a bit of sashiko sewing in his orange thread. It looks much better than I thought it would.
F texted me a couple of times today. He has taken Monday off work and was wondering about other days too. Thing is, he probably won’t want to go anywhere for more than a night, so what’s the point. Then, when we do go away, we end up arguing, so I’m not sure what the point is anyway. I don’t grudge him days off, just wish that he’d make some real plans to go somewhere.
I hadn’t bought food for dinner yesterday as I have had enough of having to do all of the clean up by myself. When F called to say he was coming back here tonight I suggested going to the Chinese Restaurant in Kushibiki. He liked that idea, and that’s where we ended up. It wasn’t too busy there and we had a nice meal. K ordered Mapo-Gohan, I had my usual black fungus/scrambled egg/pork and veggie dish, and F had his usual starchy yakisoba. We shared an order of harumaki or spring rolls. It was good.
We brought K back to the house and then F and I went to the onsen. He took his bath and I sat in the lobby. I wasn’t able to get my usual comfy chair as there was a guy sleeping in it. He was still there when we left at the end of the night!
When F came out of the bath he used his phone for a bit and asked if I’d like to go anywhere else. I told him I’d like to go to the grocery shop but not the coffee shop. I wanted to be at the house to take a shower before Grey’s Anatomy started. It was close.
We did some shopping and as usual, F got cranky in the store. I was trying to make a meal of things, I found some ginger pork that I thought might be nice and I got some fried rice to go with it. He was ticked at me because I wanted to get that rather than have white rice. I don’t bother eating rice in his house, it’s just a pointless waste of calories in my view. He got snarky at me again.
It’s hard to be around people that constantly put you down and I realized tonight that F has been belittling me and criticizing me every day for the last couple of weeks. I vowed that I was going to talk to him about it, but of course, I didn’t do it. Does he think that living here in his horrible house makes me happy? That I enjoy living in two rooms at the top of the stairs? That I am entranced by the lack of furniture? Bite me.
And yet, when I talked to him later, he was perfectly friendly and nice. I am at a loss about what is going on with him. He’s addicted to using his phone, he complains that he doesn’t get to watch television, but Japanese television is so bad. It is truly terrible. I wouldn’t care too much if the room was set up a different way, but since there is no seating in our room, he’d have to sit on the bed and watch the TV while I’m at the desk in the middle of the two. No thanks. Did I mention there is a TV downstairs that he can watch and his mother tends to go to bed early? I don’t think I’m depriving him.
Anyhoo. This got a bit more personal than I usually get. Not all things here are bad, but they aren’t great ever. Two years in, I’m still not unpacked and I still don’t know where half of my stuff is. Forget using it in the kitchen. My kitchen equipment lives in boxes and I have to unpackage it every time I use it.
Tomorrow might be a better day…I typed bitter at first which is slightly appropriate, but just a typo.
Come back later if you like and see if I am still complaining. Until tomorrow….
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