May 21, 2022

Saturday - Warm and muggy, rain later on

I woke up early this morning and it’s probably a good thing that I did because 2 seconds later, F’s alarm went off. He was gone, but he’d left his alarm on. Sigh. I went downstairs and then came back and went back to bed. I next woke up a little after 10pm when F came back to the house. 

I got up, dressed and heated up my kettle. I had a cup of tea and offered something to F. He had some coffee. After that, F started to ask about lunch. I wasn’t too fussy today and asked what he wanted. He didn’t know. I suggested rather a lot of restaurants and he basically turned his nose up at all of them while proclaiming that “anything will do.”

I finally suggested the actual restaurant in Foodever and he said it was okay. We drove downtown and went in. We were able to have a decent meal there. He said he liked it…honestly, I don’t care that much now. I had a pork cutlet set meal and it was very nice, F had keisen donburi. 

After lunch, we were busy. We went to the hardware store and picked up a few things. We got some hooks for me and some soda for F and his mother. After we finished in the store, we headed over across the street and went to K’s Denki, the electric shop. We got F a new mouse for his computer and I got a Fire Stick so I can hopefully watch Apple TV on our TV! We haven’t set it up yet though.

I wasn’t ready to go back to the house yet, but F headed in that direction. I was surprised when we kept going. We ended up at Komeda Coffee and spent about an hour there. I had an iced decaf and F had a hot coffee. It was nice to spend some time out of the house.

It was nearly dinner time after we had our coffee, but F had read that there was a Royce truck selling chocolate near a farmer’s market.  Royce, for those of you who don’t know, is a famous chocolate company from Hokkaido. Before we got married, I used to always bring F some chocolate for his omiyagi from Hokkaido when I came down to visit. We drove over to the place and had to get into line!  Because it was closing at 6:00pm and we got there about 5:40, we were finally let in just before 6.  We got a little bit of chocolate and then left.

It was time to think about dinner and F wanted to get bentos from his new favourite fish place. I was less enthusiastic. I don’t like the place as much as he does. Nevertheless, I picked the lunch place, so whatever. We drove over to the restaurant and ordered our bentos. We brought them back to the house.  I chose a tuna and salmon bento, F had tuna with a sauce and he picked a small keisen don for his mother.

We came back to the house and unloaded the car. F got the kettle on and I went upstairs to change and take our shopping up. After that, I went downstairs and got dinner on the table. I’m the one who put out the pickles and put the bowls on the table and got out the drinks…you know. Dinner was fine. I got gifted with the clean-up as usual. It really ticks me off. They always wonder why don’t I want to eat at the house on the weekend…it’s because I have to do all the clean-up afterwards. 

After I finished cleaning up I just came straight upstairs. I didn’t want to talk to either of them. I spent time on my computer for a bit. F came up after a while and I took a nap. I was so tired. F turned on the light on his side of the room and I slept on. Admittedly I had my sleeping mask on, but still!  I got up just before 10 pm. 

I took a shower and then came upstairs and watched FBI. The TV went off after that. 

I’ve had an okay day. I do wish that F wouldn’t be so annoying about lunch. I really like some of our local restaurants but he doesn’t. For me, I spent a lot of today wondering if I have Long Covid taste problems, but then I realized that I live in Japan where food is pretty tasteless anyway. Well, at least the stuff my husband likes is.

Anyway, one more day of this weekend is left. Come back later if you feel up to it and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow….