Friday - Drizzly and cooler
My alarm went off at 7:45 this morning so I got up and went downstairs. F was still in bed when I came back. His appointment at the hospital was 8:30, at least that was what he had told me so I wasn’t sure why he wasn’t getting up. He later said that his appointment was at 9 but he was supposed to get an X-Ray at 8:30. As I watched the news, F got dressed and then got ready to leave. He left finally.
After the BBC news finished, I stayed up for a while and then went back to sleep. I’ve been doing that this week and I’m not upset about it. I woke up a while later and got up and finished getting dressed. I made myself a cup of decaf and a few minutes later F walked in the room.
He said that the new doctor recommended surgery and it sounds like he is going to do it later this year. Gulp. It’s a bit scary, but if it helps relieve his pain it’ll be worth it.
We talked about going out for lunch. Usually after his hospital appointments we go to his favourite fish restaurant but I suggested going to our favourite French restaurant in Mikawa. F called to see if we could get in and it was fine.
We drove out to Mikawa, went to the restaurant and had a fabulous meal. I was really just thinking to have their budget meal, but F decided to order something quite expensive, so I did too. We had the same, roasted wild boar as our main dish. We had sashimi and salad, then kabocha soup first. I had a nice crusty bun with my meal, F had rice. I think I won that one! We had our main dish of wild boar. It was…okay. There was quite a bit of fat on it and it was tough. The meat was fine, but there was a bit I couldn’t chew through. It came with some veggies and mashed potatoes. We followed it up with dessert and coffee. I had chocola cake and ice cream and F had a dessert that we weren’t really sure what it was and ice cream. We swapped our ice creams as mine was banana ice cream and I don’t do that!
After our meal we went to the big mall where I went on a sock buying excursion. F went to get some money and then seated himself in the food court and had coffee at Mr Donut. Upstairs, I bought myself 3 pairs of socks, I hope they fit. I’ve been tossing socks out lately as I’ve worn through a lot of them.
I joined F at Mr Donut and had a coffee too. I thought we would leave right away, but F needed something from the stationary section of the store. Then we left.
We came back into Tsuruoka and came back to the house. F wanted to relax for a while.
I heard K downstairs around 6 and suggested that we get her a bento or something but when we decided to go out for our dinner, she had gone to bed.
We ended up going to Gusto, although F suggested a place I really dislike. In the end, I did offer to go there anyway as it had been a long time, but F decided not to go. We went to Gusto instead.
They had a bit of a new menu so tonight F had a pork dish that looked okay, and I had a hamburg steak with chicken Namban. It was fine. I had a small fries too as F said he didn’t want any tonight. I kept us plied with drink bar as well. We ordered a bento to take back to the house with us for K and left after we got it.
When we came back to the house, the lights were on downstairs. F gave K her bento but she didn’t want it. Eye roll. We came upstairs and left K to her own devices.
I spent a quiet evening watching YouTube and chilling out. I took a shower and then came upstairs again.
It really was a quiet evening, a little disappointing if I’m honest. I’ve started making a list of things I need to get F to do before he has his surgery, things that I can’t do because I’m not strong enough or because I don’t speak Japanese well.
One of the last things F said before he went to sleep was that he’d like to go to Sakata to the Port area for sushi in the morning. I have zero interest in doing that. I hate going to the port area and never find the fish to be worth getting up early and driving all that way for. However, I’ve asked that we go to a movie in the late afternoon, so I suppose I should try and make some compromises.
Raw fish first thing in the morning is not my jam. I like it a lot at other times in the day, but for breakfast it just isn’t a thing that turns me on.
So, anyway…come back later if you like and hear all about my day. What do I end up doing on Saturday? Until tomorrow….
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