December 5, 2019

Thursday - Rainy, snowy and cold

I overslept this morning. I woke up, looked at the clock and didn’t believe it. Yikes. I’ve been doing that a lot lately. I know that I need more sleep, but it’s hard to get everything done before bed.

I got up, made the bed and made the executive decision not to do laundry today. I think it’s an okay thing.  K was nowhere in sight again. I’m worried about her. She’s staying in bed most of the day. I think she’s trying not to use kerosene or electricity, but honestly, she needs to move around a bit or her condition will go downhill.  

Breakfast was eaten, some telly was watched and a nap was had by moi.  I couldn’t stay awake.  After I got up, I decided to do a search for something to wear on the plane.  I think I finally found the things I’m going to wear. I’m going to wash them, probably tomorrow, and then I’ll keep them out of my clothes rotation until the day I leave. 

I did work on my ornaments today too. I didn’t finish them, but I’ve got one ready to join and another one needs the last row done before I join them. I thought I’d try doing a couple factory style!

When F called to tell me that he was on his way to the house I was still upstairs.  I went downstairs, did my dishes and then started on dinner.  I defrosted the frozen shrimp I got last night, started the water on to boil and did a few other things in the kitchen.  After F came back I started the pasta and then brought everything into the living room where I was so hot! I had worn my usual vest plus a fleecy top underneath it. It was great for the kitchen, but not K’s hot room.  

Still, dinner was pretty good. We had spaghetti carbonara with sautéed shrimp and salad. It basically all disappeared! I washed about half of the dishes afterwards before F showed up. I was listening to Canadian news on Podcast.  It was all about Trudeau dissing Trump at the NATO meeting.  I’m afraid I think it is terribly funny. 

F wanted to go to the onsen tonight and I was fine with that.  As usual, I didn’t want to take a bath, but I did want to sit in the lobby and use their chairs to do a bit of knitting in.  That’s what happened.  I couldn’t get my favourite chair, but I got one. I used my earphones, listened to more podcasts and did a bit of knitting. I stopped when I thought I might fall asleep. F came out a few minutes later and we had a nice reunion. He asked if I wanted to go for a drink and I said I was cool with that.  

We left, but before we did, I went to the ladies room.  I gave F the key to the shoe locker we used before I went.  It’s on a stretchy wrist band with a tag. Usual kind of thing. I came back and we got ready to leave.  We got to the locker room and F can’t find the key.  I told him it was probably on his wrist.  He pushed up his coat sleeves and there was nothing there. He searched his pockets, one of them at least 3 times.  He was getting a bit frantic. (He loses things A LOT!) I finally told him to take off his coat.  He did, and there it was ON HIS WRIST. Like I said it was. I only gloated a little. Snicker. 

We came back into Tsuruoka and went to Komeda Coffee again.  This time we both had the cake set and it was nice. We were there for almost an hour.  As we were leaving, F asked me if I needed to go to the grocery store. I said I didn’t really as I didn’t want to cook tomorrow night. I have cooked 4 nights in a row, which is a bit unusual for me.  He said it was okay. I said we’d have to either go out or get bentos.  

We got back to the house and I took a shower. I watched a little TV too, not a lot.  F went to bed fairly soon for a change. He’s tired.  I think the weather is really hard to handle at the moment. It’s cold, but not terribly cold, the snow is threatening. It comes but then it is gone and then it comes back again.  


Anyway, I’m getting long-winded so I should end this.  Not sure what I’ll get up to tomorrow. I really should get out my other suitcase and see how much the two together weigh.  Or something like that!  Come back later if you like and see what we get up to. Until tomorrow….

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