July 2, 2023

Sunday - Hot, sunny and muggy

I went to bed at my usual time last night, it was good to get some sleep. I woke up a little bit before my alarm went off this morning. I set it for later than usual. I dragged myself out of bed at 10:30 and had a hurried morning. I left the house a little later than I wanted and had to hightail it to the bus stop. Luckily for me, the bus wasn’t quite on time and I made it. 

When I got to the bus station in S-Mall, I walked over to the nearby convenience store and bought F the adapter that he needed. He bought one the day before he went into the hospital and already broke it! It’s just to let him use earphones on his iPhone.  I came back to the mall after this. 

I had lunch upstairs. I tried a new to me restaurant. It was a bit meh if I’m honest, but not terrible. I had ginger pork. After that, I went to the hundred yen shop and grabbed some stuff for F and myself, then went to the bookstore looking for something for him. They didn’t have it. I checked the time and if I finished in the mall in 25 minutes or so I could take a bus back to the house. I whizzed around the grocery store. I didn’t get bentos for each of us, but I did get some prepared food for us. I got a couple of kinds of croquettes and a chicken wrap thing, plus some fried rice. I thought I’d pair that with some stuff I had at the house and it would make a decent meal. I had texted F about his book so he asked me to ask about another author. I did go up and ask, but the bookshop guy said something that I didn’t understand, basically, he didn’t have it. Okay then. 

I just made my bus and as I was just on the bus, I realized that I was on the longer loop bus. Sigh. If I’d waited a little longer I would have been back quicker, but it didn’t really matter. 

I came back to the house and put the food I bought today away, then went upstairs. I had a relax/snooze time for a couple of hours. I went downstairs to feed us dinner around 6 pm. 

I heated up the croquettes in my air fryer and the other stuff in the microwave. I got the table set, I washed the lettuce and spun it in my salad spinner. I love being able to do that!

Dinner was nice. F Facetimed me during dinner but I didn’t talk too long to him. It was a bit sad that I didn’t say much, but I was in the middle of dinner and it felt rude to talk in front of K. She couldn’t hear us of course, but she knew it was F on the phone.

I did the dishes and then came upstairs. I changed into some dry clothes and then joined an online meeting of my women’s group. I was there for a couple of hours. I didn’t say much at first but later on I did a bit more chatting. At 10pm everyone that was still on rang off and it was over.

I relaxed for a few minutes and put my computer back in its usual place. Then, I watched another episode of the Tom Holland drama, The Crowded Room. I’m enjoying it. Tom Holland is a good actor, but I’m not sure about Amanda Seyfried as the shrink. She’s okay I guess. 

I was going to start my blogging when I decided to try something different. One of my browsers has a built-in VPN, so I tried to use Tubi to watch something. I can’t use it without the VPN since Japan doesn’t have access to Tubi. I watched an episode of Miranda and it was hilarious. It didn’t work too well as I think my internet isn’t that strong in this corner of the room, but I could watch the whole thing, even though it did pause a few times.

And that was my day. Tomorrow I’m off to the hospital again as I have to drop off a few things for Fumihiko. I’m sure that my backpack will be full. If I have time afterwards I’ll do a proper grocery shop. I’m not sure if I’ll do the bento thing again tomorrow or not. It’s so darn hot at the moment that I hate to heat up anything in the kitchen.

So that’s it for me. I’m off to bed soon and then I hope to get up at a reasonable time in the morning so I can watch the news and maybe have brunch before I go out. 

Come back later if you like and hear all about my Monday. Until tomorrow….