May 1, 2021

Saturday - Cloudy and rainy, with a few appearances of the sun

I went to bed at an insane time last night and didn’t set any alarms for this morning. I woke up all by myself around 10:30, got up and stayed up. Yay me.

F was making his mother’s brunch when I went downstairs which was nice of him. We got dressed after a bit. We also stripped the bed and bundled all the bedding up to take to the laundromat. First up though, lunch.  F suggested a restaurant which I like but I thought it was probably closed. We drove over there and I was right. 

F suggested going to Foodever for the food court and that’s what we did. He went to the donburi place and had Keisen don (raw fish on rice) and I went to the meat place and had gorgeous spaghetti with vegetables and ground pork. It was so good, and everything that last night’s dinner wasn’t. 

After lunch, we went over to our usual laundry place, but 2 of the 3 big washers were being used. We needed at least 2. Oh, dear. I was all for waiting for the other people to come back, but F didn’t want to wait. 

His impatience caused us to drive all over Tsuruoka looking for a decent, not too busy laundromat. We checked about five places, and finally ended up at one that was fairly near F’s house, an older one, but it was still quite good.

We had put our bedding in a couple of machines there and went to the secondhand cd shop next to the laundry place.  I got a couple of CDs, one by the Crash Test Dummies, and one by Barry Manilow. I didn’t have it yet. 

We came back to the laundromat and I received a text message from an old friend in Canada. She told me that a friend of ours from high school had just died. He’d been ill with a brain tumour for a couple of years and sadly just lost his battle. The friend who contacted me even video called me which really surprised me. One of the other customers in the laundromat got upset with me and turned on the TV. That plus the noise of the machines meant I couldn’t hear. I went out to the car and that was better. I could also take off my mask!

We came back to the house after our laundry was done and put our bed back together. F wasn’t feeling well, so we just relaxed for a while. After a while, he started talking about dinner. I wasn’t that hungry and was hoping to go out again, but he suggested ordering bentos. Since we had expensive lunches, I saw the sense in that and agreed. 

I checked their menu and picked something that I’d like. I got F to order it for me and a few minutes later the two of us went off to pick them up. I asked him to let me off at the Gyomu Supa near the bento shop.  

I went in and picked up some frozen tortillas and a few other things. I found instant decaf coffee there, but as I’d just bought some at another place I didn’t buy it. 

We came back to the house with the food and F and I set it out. Mine was cold, probably on purpose so I was a tad sad, but it was okay. F actually washed the glasses and stuff afterwards and I dried them. 

We came upstairs and F basically went to sleep right away. He still isn’t feeling very well. He’s woken up a couple of times but is sleeping now. 

So, that’s about it for me. I watched some Apple+ TV and some real TV and kept myself amused! 

If F is feeling up to it tomorrow, we might go and see a movie. There are a couple of Academy Award-nominated films at the cinema this week, it starts around lunchtime so I don’t know if we’ll be able to go. I hope so!

I hadn’t seen my friend in quite a few years as he was living in Mexico and I live over here. He was a great guy, a real sweetie. He was fun and nice and lived through a bad marriage and then divorce. I believe that he was happy in his second marriage. Even though I hadn’t seen him in ages I always hoped that we would meet up again. I’ll miss being in a world with him in it. 

Come back tomorrow if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow…