August 28, 2022

Sunday - Sunny and warm, gorgeous day

I woke up this morning to an empty room.  I went downstairs and came back upstairs and then snoozed a little longer.  I got up and got mostly dressed again.  I wasn’t sure what F was up to!

He came upstairs after 12:30 and we talked about what to do. I knew that F had eaten already with his mother, so I was surprised when he suggested going for yakiniku!  I looked it up and the restaurant closed at 2:30, it was around 1:30 or so and we had to drive a good ways to get there. F said that we should make it. I didn’t believe it, but he was right. We got in about 2 minutes before last order, so we only had half an hour to eat. Honestly, I like the restaurant, but I didn’t enjoy eating that fast. I wish that F would understand that. 

We bought a few vegetables in the attached farmer’s market and then went back to the car.  Near the car, there were a couple of dragon heads on display.  I went and took some pictures!

Close up on the pink dragon!

After lunch, F wanted to go to and buy some nashi. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find anywhere that was selling them. Most places had sold out already. 

Next, F suggested going to a cafe in the mountains, but we looked it up online and they said it was temporarily closed. So, that would be a no then.  I needed a washroom, so we found a place and while we were parked in the car, we looked up coffee shops and F found one.  We went and tried it out. It was quite nice. They normally do lunches there, but we had coffee. They didn’t have wifi and my phone couldn’t really get a signal either, so F and I had to deal with that. It was fine.

We came back to Tsuruoka and bought some groceries and a bento for K. We got her a nice one, and something for dinner for us all tomorrow night. I’m cooking. Yay me!

We visited a couple of drugstores for me as I had asked F to take me to one earlier. I needed some cereal and I didn’t find it in the grocery store. The first drugstore didn’t have any of the right cereal. The second place did have some cereal, not the exact one I wanted, but it was close enough. 

We came back to the house, I put the food away and then went upstairs. F gave his mother her bento and then I’m not sure what he did. I came down an hour later and he was watching TV.  I suggested that we go out soon, and he seemed to agree. I went back upstairs to wait for him. I waited. And waited. About an hour later I went down to find him.  Finally, we left the house. 

In the car, I suggested Cocos and F said okay. I was really surprised. We drove over and went in.  We had a nice meal. F had a burger and I had some chicken with vegetables. We shared an order of fries and both had drink bar. Of course, I was in charge of getting the drinks for us. F had left his phone in the car so we actually talked to each other. That was very nice. Lately F has been addicted to TikTok and he spends all his time watching it. It is kind of driving me crazy if I’m honest. 

After our meal we came back to the house. I came upstairs, changed into my pyjamas and put on an episode of The Mentalist. After that, I watched Project Runway. It was really good tonight.

And that was about it for my day. It wasn’t bad at all today. Tomorrow I’m back to normal life, but I only have a couple of days left to watch The Mentalist before it stops being available. I’m not sure if I can get most of the episodes watched, but I’d like to try!

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