January 23, 2023

Monday - Sunny and gorgeous in the afternoon, rainy at night

After a disappointing day yesterday, I wasn’t sure how today would go. When I got up this morning, I went downstairs a little late and then came back and watched the rest of the news from the bed. Usual stuff of course. 

I think I snoozed for a bit, but got up and went downstairs to grab breakfast and the mail. I came back upstairs & ate my breakfast while I watched a movie. Today it was The Numbers Station with John Cusack. I like John Cusack, I wish he made more movies. This one was okay, but not great. Probably too low budget. 

When the movie finished, I went downstairs and went out to check the snow situation. It was a gloriously sunny day and the snow was melting. I moved a bit of it with my snow scoop and I tidied up the yard and F’s parking area for him. I enjoyed being outside in the warmth for a few minutes. 

I came back in, and after a few minutes made my lunch. I came upstairs and ate. I watched another episode of Bake-off and enjoyed the heck out of it. 

Today I worked on my scarf again and actually finished crocheting it! Woot. I got it done just before I went downstairs to start on dinner. 

Tonight for dinner I made guacamole and tacos as well. We had them on tortillas and everything was really good. It didn’t take too long, the longest thing was just getting the table set! I got K up and yelled for F to come down. We had a pretty decent dinner afterwards.

I did dishes after we ate and then went upstairs and tried to relax. However, I didn’t. During the day, F had texted me to say that he’d made a dinner reservation on my birthday and asked if it was okay. I texted him back and said that it wasn’t really because we had decided to go away for a night on my birthday, we just hadn’t booked it yet.

So, after I went upstairs, we booked a hotel for us in Yamagata for one night. It’s only one night which isn’t really enough but it’s all that F can take. We can’t leave his mother alone for any longer, especially in winter. I’m thinking about taking a few nights to myself a couple of months later anyway, when the weather is a bit better!  It took ages to book as we were trying to get a discount travel thing, but it didn’t work. One website said that the discount was over in Yamagata so I couldn’t get it anyway. 

After we booked the hotel, I took a shower and then came back upstairs. I watched some YouTube videos and darned in some of the yarn ends on my scarf. I have a few more to do, hopefully I can finish it tomorrow….

That’s about it really. F seems better, he was tired after work, but not like yesterday. I’m a little stressed out, but when aren’t I?

Tomorrow I’m cooking dinner again and we’ll have to go and get some food from the grocery store for the rest of the week. We are supposed to have a crazy bad storm coming soon, so better stock up I think. According to the weather forecast, it’s going to hit -7°C  tomorrow night. Yikes. That’s cold for this area. 

Well, that’s it for me. All the news that’s fit to print and then some. Come back later if you like and hear about my day. Until tomorrow….