Sunday - Cloudy and rainy, clearing later
Today was a complete mishmash of things that I really want a do-over. I woke up fairly early today, also got up early too. Well, earlier than yesterday anyway.
F came upstairs and told me that his new credit card for his ETC had arrived. That made me angry and I told him so. I’ve been trying to get him to help me get a credit card in Japan for the 18 years that we’ve been married. He’s either ignored me or given me wrong and incomplete information for the whole time. He thinks it is funny that I have to have a joint card with my sister in another country rather than one in the actual country that I live in. Anyway, that’s an argument for another day.
He got really angry at me and started saying that he’d cut up the credit card and send it back because of me. I don’t know what that was in aid of. I actually have been after him for 5 years to get ETC (the electronic payment system for the highways...you don’t have to pay cash, you just go through the machine and it charges you automatically.) Five years ago I even offered to buy him the machine for the old car but he refused. Anyway, he went back to bed and refused to get up or go out at all. Since I’d had quite enough of that crap yesterday, I decided to do something else. I had a quick breakfast and then went out.
I grabbed my bike and went out shopping. I biked over to a nearby hardware store and had a look around. It’s changed quite a bit. Part of the store is now a hundred yen shop. I bought a few things then went to another hundred yen shop. I didn’t buy anything there! After that, I went to the grocery shop and bought myself some chicken for my lunch, some snacks and found some imported sweet things in the bargain rack.
I biked back to the house. It had started raining, steadily, but I did get back before I was completely soaked. I locked the garage and came inside.
I heated up my chicken and then had a couple of pieces upstairs. F was still in a foul mood, but I didn’t really care anymore. I had gone out under my own steam. Yay me.
It was nearly 2:30 when F asked me if I still wanted to go and see the movie. I was surprised that he was interested. Of course I said that I was.
We went out and got K some food for later. It, the movie we planned to see was 3 hours long, so we wouldn’t be back before dinnertime. We got her some stuff and then came back to the house. F gave her the food and we drove off to Mikawa.
I was really surprised at the change in F. One minute he was mean, rude and cranky, then the next he was all sweetness. It didn’t make much sense to me.
At the mall we got the new movie cards and then bought our movie tickets. Then, we went off to have a late lunch. We both had the kinoko bibinba. I liked it again, and this time I didn’t put a ton of hot sauce in it. Much nicer that way! I don’t know if F liked it or not. It was very hot and we didn’t have a lot of time to eat it.
We got drinks and popcorn. I had asked F to just get a little popcorn because I didn’t want to eat all that much popcorn. There was some mistake, either his or the servers, and he got a huge popcorn. Sigh.
We saw It Chapter Two. I really liked it. It wasn’t as scary or gruesome as I worried it would be. There were tons of jump scares though. Even though I knew they were coming, they still got me!
After the movie, F was a little miserable. His neck was bothering him and he was fading I think. I asked if we could go and check out the men’s department in Aeon for my nephew, to see if the clothes might work for him. I told him quite honestly that I wasn’t planning to buy anything today, I’d talk to my sister first.
We went over to the men’s department and I saw a few nice things that might do, but I need to talk about sizes with my sister first. Also, clothes that work in Japan don’t always work in other places.
I suggested going downstairs with F and having a coffee at Mr Donut and he liked the idea. We went downstairs and had a doughnut and a cup of cafe au lait. It was nice. F was deep into his phone, but I made him leave before 9 pm so that we could walk back to the car through the mall. It’s getting cold outside now.
We drove back to Tsuruoka and came back to the house via the gas station. F did ask if I needed dinner, but I told him it was okay. I had a bit of chicken leftover from lunch.
We came back to the house and I took a shower then went downstairs and made a nice sandwich and had it upstairs. F went to bed fairly soon but didn’t sleep for a while. I think he’s asleep now though.
I have no idea what we’re going to get up to tomorrow. I suggested going to an electric shop as I need new ink for my printer and I’d like to look at getting a wifi booster for his house. I hope it doesn’t start with another argument. I’m getting to the stage where I’m afraid to talk to him. He’s looking for disagreements with me, at least that is how it feels. I also hope to go to a hundred yen shop, a different one!
So that’s it. Come back later if you want to and see what happens. Until tomorrow….
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