October 30, 2022

Sunday - Sunny and warm in the morning, torrential rain at night

I went to bed around 3:30 last night, a little bit later than usual, but it was Saturday night after all. I had forgotten to set my alarms this morning, so when I woke up just before 11am I was very surprised! I asked F if there was still time to go to Sakata and he said there was. I got dressed and we set off a little over half an hour later. 

It was a bit hard finding a parking space, but we did. We went to the restaurant and…they were sold out of the dish that F wanted. We ordered other things and they were fine, but…I don’t really see what all the fuss was about. F liked it, but I think he really wanted that sushi. Sigh.

We hit up a drugstore on the way out of town and then drove out of Sakata.  At Mikawa we did go into Nitori and that’s where it started to go wrong.

Nitori had some Christmas trees up on display, but they didn’t have any of the 2-meter ones. F showed me one that he liked. It was a plastic (I mean that literally) tree and was only a foot high.  He meant he liked that style as it wouldn’t shed over the years, but I didn’t. Not only that, but NONE of the other trees had that type of needle. If F liked something, I didn’t. Still, I decided that I really didn’t want a small tree, I wanted something a bit taller. F said no to everything, and I realized that I did in fact want something not in the store. He suggested looking online for it and I reminded him that many times I have asked him to help me do online shopping and he’s never done it. He was insulted (even though it was the truth) and walked out of the store. 

We drove back to Tsuruoka in silence. I was really upset. I wanted a tree last year but we left it too late, this year we actually go shopping in time to get one and they don’t have what I wanted. 

F dumped me off at his house and took off in the car. He wouldn’t even let me get my shopping out of the car. I don’t know where he went but I was very upset. I went upstairs and pouted for a while.

He came back after a while and even came into the bedroom. I asked after our shopping and he went and brought it upstairs. After a bit, he called me over to his computer and showed me a website with some Christmas Trees on it. They were okay, but not great. I suggested looking at IKEA’s website. I found one there that I really loved and we tried to order it, but it’s out of stock. F put his name down to get an email if it comes back in. The first website that he showed me had a tree that was okay but was also out of stock until the middle of November. If IKEA doesn’t get their one back in, I might go with the Japanese one. I’d rather not as it isn’t my preferred type of tree, but we’ll see. Or once again I won’t have a tree and will mope around on Christmas Day. 

After a little while, we decided to go out and do our grocery shopping. By now it was around 4 pm so about time. We drove to the grocery store and F came around with me. I’m not sure if it was a good idea or not. I never seem to have enough time to get what I want when F is around. He’s interested in food that I would never buy. I got chicken wings for tomorrow’s dinner (F doesn’t like them…or so he says) and stir-fry ingredients for Tuesday. I picked up a few other things too, nothing majorly exciting though.

F was all set to go for dinner, but I reminded him that we needed to take some of the food back to the house! It had to go in the fridge. We ended up staying at the house for a while. I finished up a little ornament that I was trying out for myself. It’s very cute!

K didn’t need any food from the store today as she had leftover food from yesterday. She spent a lot of the day in bed. F did get a bit annoyed with her. When we came back to the house, the outside light was off. I had turned it on before we left as I know it gets dark quite early these days. I know she wants to save money, but having that light on is a nice thing for us trying to find the keyhole!

F and I went out again around 7 pm. Our first plan was to go to China House. On the way, F suggested the Kushibiki restaurant. I was fine with that too, but we didn’t go. The last few times we’ve gone, it’s been closed when we got there. China House had its lights on, but…they had closed early. Sigh. 

F suggested another restaurant near our old apartment so we went there. We were able to get in and had a pretty okay meal. F wanted yakisoba. I like yakisoba, but I don’t like shrimp much and starchy sauce not at all. This yakisoba had both. We also tried a new-to-us meal of battered chicken with sautéed veggies, which was okay, but it was covered in a starchy sauce too. Not my favourite. The best dish was one that I insisted on for my veggie count of the day. It was seasonal green veggies in a salt-garlic sauce. It was nice. We were both quite well-fed when we left. 

We came back to the house after our meal and relaxed for a while. I watched an episode of Bad Sisters on AppleTV+ and then turned off the TV. F watched stuff on his phone or computer. I made some microwave popcorn, something I haven’t done in ages.

And that was my day. It was a bit of up and down, the bad weather in the evening didn’t help much. I hope that tomorrow’s weather will be a tad better. Fingers crossed that it is. 

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