September 7, 2020

Monday - Hot and Sunny

It was another really hot day today. The typhoon that is causing problems in southern Japan is pushing hot weather up here. It has been much too hot for me again.

I woke up early this morning and couldn’t just go back to sleep. I went downstairs and then went back to bed for a bit. I ended up waking up about 2 hours later. Yikes. 

I got up, got dressed enough so that maybe my MIL wouldn’t notice that I had overslept and then went downstairs again. I grabbed my breakfast and then came upstairs and did a few things and then had breakfast.

I had a quiet day, but a good one. I had to use the AC up here, it was 28 degrees at 7:20 am, so I’m not kidding about the heat. 

I watched the third film in the Hunger Games series and quite enjoyed it. I’ve seen it before, but not for ages. It wasn’t the best film though because it was a bit of a time-filler before the last film. 

I also did a little bit of work on my mask this afternoon. I finished one side, next time I’ll try and finish the other side.

I went downstairs to start dinner and do my dishes. I was quite disappointed to see that F hadn’t cleaned the stove as I had asked him to do. He cooks for his mother but leaves the stovetop a huge mess. I have to clean it before I start cooking on Monday so I’m rather annoyed with him.

Today I made chicken with lemon pepper flavouring, stir-fried mushrooms with butter and soy sauce flavouring, garlic rice with some stir-fried mushrooms in it. I also served a salad with dinner.  F came home before I got going, so I told him I thought it would be about 30 minutes and I was about right. Of course, he came downstairs and plunked himself down in the living room and didn’t help with anything. I was rather miffed. 

Dinner did get good reviews. It wasn’t too heavy, it wasn’t too many wild flavours, so I think it went over well. Yay me.

After dinner I cleared the table and surprise of surprises, F came and “helped” me.  He washed most of the dishes. I was both glad and irritated by him doing that. He never washes dishes in a way that makes sense to me and he kept using the cleaning stove sponge to wash the dishes with. He did change when I asked him to though. 

We had a quiet evening upstairs. I tried to spend some time chatting with F but he wasn’t really into it tonight. I know he was tired.

While I was upstairs tonight I wrote a couple of postcards for Postcrossing. One will go to the US, one will go to Germany. I hope to write more tomorrow. Fingers crossed anyway.

That’s about it for me for tonight. Tomorrow I will be cooking dinner again, but I don’t know what else I shall get up to. Come back later if you like and hear what happens. Until tomorrow….