February 21, 2023

 Tuesday - Snowy and colder

I woke up around 8 this morning. The building of the new house close to our house starts early and goes on most of the day. It is so noisy. I can hear the men shout at each other too and it isn’t fun to hear that all day.

Anyhoo, I got up, went downstairs, got dressed and watched the news.  I took a bit of a snooze afterwards but got up and grabbed breakfast. I ate and watched a few videos on YouTube. I realized that I was falling asleep though so I went back to bed for a few minutes. 

Around 2 pm I went outside and shovelled a bit of snow. There wasn’t a lot, but I moved it out of the way. I tend to go outside without my glasses because they fog up and I can’t see, so I saw something in the garden and I wasn’t sure what it was. I refocused my eyes and realized that it was a bird. It sat there for the next few minutes while I finished up and was still there when I went inside. I was worried that it was injured and unable to move, but later in the evening when we went out it seemed to be gone.

There's a little bird there, probably a wild pigeon according to F.

When I came inside again, I made my lunch. I saw K for a minute and offered her the lunch in the fridge but she said maybe later. Okay then.

I went upstairs and watched an episode of The Great British Sewing Bee while I ate. After that, I watched the news and realized that I hadn’t done any work on my column, so I worked on that too. I got about halfway through the career of the actress that I planned to write about. 

I noticed that it was after 6 so I went downstairs and got started on dinner. Tonight I did sautéed spinach again and also cooked some mushrooms from last night. I baked some chicken in the toaster oven and served all of that with some rice for K and F and salad for all of us. Now, of course, F was late again. He didn’t get back to his office until 7 pm and then had to run some errands when he got back to Tsuruoka. He said the roads were really bad too.

K and I ate and a few minutes later, F arrived. I got him to take his food and then I warmed it up for him in the microwave. He ate while I went into the kitchen and did the dishes. It took a while again, but I did finish a few minutes earlier than I did last night. 

We had to go over to MaxValu to pick up a few groceries.  We drove over there and on the way, F asked me how much money I’d like to take with me! That’s an odd question. I’d like a million yen, but I’m not holding my breath for it!

At the grocery store, F gave me money for the groceries and then I went over to the store. I heard a car honk and kept going. Then some young women told me that it was my car. Grr. I went back to the car…remember this was on snow-covered roads and F wanted to take back the amount of money he had given me for groceries and give me less. What the heck? I already told him that I’d give him the change back, why would he want me to come back to give me less money when I could slip and fall?

I swapped his money and wasn’t too pleased with him. Honestly. I went back to the store and did some shopping. There wasn’t a ton of stuff that I wanted tonight, but there wasn’t a ton of stuff that I needed.

I paid at the checkout machine and left. We came back to the house and put the groceries away. For a change, F didn’t go to the toilet and spend hours while I did all the work. He took his stuff and went upstairs.

When I got upstairs with my stuff I came back downstairs and filled up the kerosene tank for our heater, then I came upstairs and started the heater. At 11 I watched my FBI show and then turned off the TV afterwards. I decided to try to update my little iPod, but it doesn’t seem to be working. I can’t get my latest cd to show up on it. Sigh. Maybe it is too old now?

Anyway, I need to toddle off to bed now.  However, I should mention that I will not be updating for a few days. I leave very early on Thursday morning and won’t be back until late on Saturday night. I probably will miss posting until Sunday night if I’m honest. Nobody miss me too much okay? I’m just going to visit some of my friends and explore the big city a bit!

Until next time….