October 12, 2022

Wednesday - Cloudy and cool, a little rain

I woke up early this morning and had to go downstairs. Unfortunately, K was in the washroom already. Maybe I heard her bang the door through my sleep? When I came back upstairs I went back to bed and F was awake. He started asking me what time my train leaves on Friday! It was 6:30 am. I told him I’d tell him later!

When I woke up the next time, F was gone. I overslept a little, and dragged myself out of bed before 9 pm.  I had a quiet morning, I watched the early news on the DVR and then I got up and went to do a load of laundry. I grabbed my breakfast too and then came upstairs again.

I had a quiet morning. I did watch the final episode of the Great British Bake-Off for season 4 and then a few minutes later I watched one of the How-to videos. 

I had lunch and after lunch spent a bit of time on Twitter and Facebook. I discovered that Angela Lansbury had died. That was very sad to read. Of course, I know she was rather elderly, but she was such a class act and I’ve always enjoyed her performances. I’ll miss her. 

Around 3 pm I realized that my friend would be by soon, so I hurriedly changed into some outside clothes and grabbed some stuff and went downstairs. Of course, she was already there!

After a brief attempt to tell K that I was going out with my friend, I left the house. We tried to go to B-Flat for coffee, but it was closed today. Darn. 

We ended up at Komeda Coffee where she had a milkshake and I had an iced decaf coffee. It was great to see my friend and we had quite a deep chat about husbands and marriages and such. All too soon, she had to be on her way, so she brought me back to the house and then left. It was sad to see her go. 

I went back into the house and came upstairs and watched the 4pm news. They had an interview with Geena Davis which I liked and then a tribute to Angela Lansbury at the end.

F called me around 5:30 and I headed downstairs and got a start on dinner. Dinner tonight wasn’t too difficult. I did roasted chicken in the toaster oven and French fries in the air fryer. We had some leftovers from yesterday plus a salad and I made a tomato salad with some balsamic vinegar and olive oil. There might have been too much vinegar!

I did the dishes but there weren’t that many tonight. I hadn’t used any pans, just the toaster oven tray and my air fryer, so I finished the dishes before 9 pm. However, I had to send out the burnable garbage tonight too. 

It took a bit of time, but I got it all done. I put it in the genkan for the time being. I reminded F that we needed groceries so we had to go out. 

We did up the garbage in our rooms and then I took it downstairs with my stuff. I took the garbage to the gomi station and left it there. I thought F didn’t need to be doing that with his bad knees.

We first went to Mina at my request, but they didn’t have anything that I wanted. There weren’t any onigiri, not enough of the right kind of meat and hardly any salads.  I texted F and asked if we could go to MaxValu and he said we could. I just left the store. I did go to the drugstore next to the grocery store to buy a few things for my trip. I got us a couple of bottled teas as well.

We drove over to MaxValu and I went in. They had the right cut of meat, onigiri and salads so that was good. Usually, when I go to Mina in the evening it was a different night, so it could be that they were out of the things I wanted just for tonight?

After a few minutes, I finished shopping so I went through the checkout and paid. I went back to the car.

Our next place to go was the local taxi stand. F will be at work on Friday so I’ll need a taxi to take me to the station. I prefer to go early. F was all for booking the taxi a scant 20 minutes before my train, but I suggested 40 minutes early. This taxi company is the one that drove me to work last year and they didn’t always show up on time. That is so annoying. I’d rather not rush and sweat at the start of my trip.

We came back to the house and I put away the groceries. I came upstairs. Tonight was the first episode of The Walking Dead in ages, but I couldn’t watch it. I have recorded it and will try to watch it in the morning. Instead, I watched Bad Sisters on AppleTV+ and enjoyed that. I like murder mysteries. 

And that was about it for my day. Oh, I did finish the maple leaf and it looks pretty cool. I hope to iron my leaves tomorrow and see what I can magic up for the convention with them.

Tomorrow is the last day before my trip. I have to do laundry and I have to do a final pack of my suitcase that is going with me. It’s mostly empty. 

In all likelihood, I won’t update tomorrow or for the next few days. If all goes well I may update on Tuesday if I’m not too tired, or on Wednesday next week if I am. Don’t miss me too much!

Come back next week and read all about my trip! Until next time….