Saturday - Sunny and warm
I could tell you I had a great day but I would be lying to you. Sigh. August is a hard month on all of us. It’s too darn hot here.
F and I stayed up very late last night. It was almost 5 when I went to bed, F went to bed at the same time and got up earlier than me. I don’t know how or why he does that.
K went out today with her daughter. She was going out shopping and to have lunch. I thought it was a good idea, as long as she wore a mask!
When it was time to decide about lunch F asked my choices and I rattled off about 4 restaurants. Apparently, they were all too expensive. He likes to go to cheap places. I do not so I am obviously a terrible person who likes to spend all his money. That’s pretty choice. He went on and on and on about how I never choose “good” restaurants and how the ones I like cost too much. [For the record, I’d like to say that the ones I like have lunch entrees around 1000 yen, some have a few dishes under that, some have dishes more than that.] He announced that we should go to a soba restaurant. I didn’t want soba, couldn’t think of much worse for me at that time. Finally, I told him I’d go with him and he said he wouldn’t go. I’m not sure what the point was. He tried to give me a 1000 yen note to go and have lunch with, but didn’t want to take me anywhere. I gave him back his money and went downstairs and had my leftover pasta from Thursday night in the kitchen. I enjoyed it so much more than going out somewhere with him because I got to be alone and he wasn’t there.
I went back upstairs and shut myself into my side of the room. I closed the doors and only went out when I needed a washroom break. It was such a wasted afternoon. I tried to offer him a nice drink but it was all refused…to be fair, not rudely.
Somewhere around 5 pm, he asked me if I wanted to go out. I said I did and we went out for a bit to get a few things for the house. We picked up some eggs and then went to the drugstore for some things like caffeine-free diet Coke and detergent. F decided that we could get bentos for dinner so I chose the best place not the cheap place.
I got a bibinba, but sad to say it wasn’t very good. It was the first not great bento I’ve had from this place. I ate with F and his mother. F stormed off first, washed his own stuff and left me to deal with his mother’s stuff too. How nice of him. I washed the stuff and threw out the miso soup that he’d made me. He never asks if I want it, and I didn’t tonight. I made up some mugi-cha and also some rooibos tea and got those cold-brewing away. It’s a way to cut costs a little and save on all the plastic bottles.
I came back upstairs and started my latest crochet project. I’m making a basket out of three strands of yarn. It is very pretty, but hard to work with because you have to crochet tightly. Also, I noticed that one of my fingers was turning purple. One of the yarns doesn’t seem to be colourfast. Oh no! I’m not sure what I should do. I’m thinking I might want to take it back and start again with another colour of yarn, or make the basket and try to wash the extra colour out before it is used. What should I do? Oh, dear. I think I shall consult my friend Google.
F and I aren’t really fighting right now. He’s feeling quite bad these days. It doesn’t excuse him using me as someone to take out his bad temper on and I’m not really too happy with him. Does he really think that living in this house with his mother is a paradise for me? Nope. To be fair, his mother is usually a lot easier to live with than F is. She just ignores me all the time rather than F ignoring me most of the time.
I have no idea what’s going to happen tomorrow. If he starts up on me I think I’ll see if I can spend the day out and away from him. He needs to miss me a little.
Anyway, that was it for my day. It wasn’t a good one, which is rather sad as they have been good mostly. Come back later if you want and hear what I’m complaining about on Sunday. Until tomorrow….
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