Monday - Cloudy with some rain and snow
I got up this morning to an empty room. I watched the news from the bed as it was quite cold this morning. I had a quiet morning. I should have done laundry but didn’t, I should have moved around more but didn’t.
I barely saw K today. I think she spent most of the day in bed. She got up to watch sumo but was still in her nightwear.
F texted me tonight instead of calling and I told him that we needed to run errands after dinner. He said it was okay and I believed him. He sounded chipper in the texts.
I went downstairs and got started on the day’s dishes. F came back while I was doing that so I sent him off to get changed. I confirmed with him that we needed to go out to the shops and the gas station tonight.
I’m not sure why, but I got quite upset with him. He just has this habit of standing in my way in the kitchen and then getting mad at me when I want to move around. Anyway, I muttered a few rude things under my breath and tried to calm myself down.
I finally got dinner underway. I was making Gapao Rice tonight so I cooked the rice and the chicken, had washed the salad and some cilantro and was trying to figure out how to plate things and how to get things to the table. I was putting the chicken onto the rice when F asked me if I was going to put fried eggs on top of the mixture. I had completely forgotten that I was supposed to do that! Ack. I got him to get me some eggs out of the fridge and I took a small, clean frypan out to start cooking them in. Meanwhile, he cleaned my big frypan, but not very well. I gave it back to him to rewash it because it still had stains on the side.
When we ate, it was all quite nice. I did fry eggs for F and K, I scrambled one for myself because I just didn’t care anymore. Everyone liked dinner. I’d used baby leaf salad for a change and it was lovely. I got started on the dishes and got most of them done, washed and dried. I went to the washroom and then came back to find F cleaning my small frypan and a lake of water on the floor. I’d put water in the frypan so that the egg wouldn’t stick and he hadn’t noticed it. He hadn’t noticed the mess on the floor either. He cleaned it up and then washed the cloth in the basin of soapy water. Then he put my frypan back in the basin. What??? He must have seen my eyebrow hit the ceiling because he did have the good grace to change the water.
After dinner, when I went upstairs, there was F in bed wearing his jacket. No heater on, just in bed. I asked him if he was ready to go out. No. He needed a few minutes. I gave him a few. I came back. Was he ready yet? Bear in mind that we needed kerosene…his mother and I use that to heat our rooms and we hadn’t bought it at the weekend. My tank in my room was nearly empty, and there wasn’t much downstairs. He started ranting about going out at midnight to get some and I told him that wasn’t acceptable since the stores I needed to go to weren’t open then. He mumbled more.
I left him alone for a while, but around 9:30 I tried again. He’d been sleeping for an hour or so, so I was patient in my books! I woke him up and told him that we needed to go out right away as the drugstore would be closing soon. He seemed to be feeling better, so we went out this time.
We made it to the drugstore at about 5 minutes before closing. They were playing the “Get Out” song when we went in. Luckily, I knew what I wanted, grabbed it and went through the checkout. From there we went to the grocery store where I bought a few things for tomorrow’s dinner. I’m going to make a chicken stew so I needed more chicken. We needed rice as well and a few other things for dinner.
On the way back to the gas station, F seemed to forget and wanted to head for the house, but I made him keep going. We needed kerosene and I wasn’t about to let him forget it. He did pick a few tanks up and we brought it back to the house.
At the house, he refilled the hot water tank’s kerosene tank and put the other kerosene away. I put away the groceries and then did up the plastic garbage for taking out tomorrow.
F is saying that he might go to the doctor tomorrow, but I’m not sure if he really will. He doesn’t have a temperature, but he doesn’t feel well. I think it has more to do with him not sleeping well enough these days. Too much computer in bed!
I watched a bit of TV, drank some decaf tea and tried to relax. It’s a bit hard. I had wanted to talk to F about the night he’s away this week, but when he’s doing the fainting couch bit I can’t talk to him.
Anyway, I’m done for tonight. Tomorrow I’ll be cooking a stew for dinner and I’m not sure what else. I hope I’ll be able to do laundry too.
Come back later if you are even more bored than I am about these updates and see what is new. Until tomorrow….
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