Sunday - Hot and sunny, bit muggy too
I woke up this morning, but managed to fall back asleep for a while. Still, I ended up getting up before 11. F came back to the room and wanted to talk about lunch. I told him truthfully that I wanted breakfast at 11 not lunch. I don’t think he was impressed.
I suggested a few places to him, one of which was a little cafe that does burgers, and farmer plates using local food. He decided that we’d go there. When we got there, we got a table and looked at the menu. They had a lot of stuff that sounded great, but I quickly decided to have a burger. F had the same one.
It was great. It originally came with a slice of tomato, so I asked them to leave it off. F had his. We had drinks with our food too. I had a hoji-cha latte on ice and F had a coffee. I liked my burger a lot. I thought it was really good, but F didn’t like his very much. I dunno. There were fish dishes on the menu, there were other dishes, so I really don’t know why he had a burger if it wasn’t what he wanted!
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| My burger, sans tomato slice |
After lunch, we went over to Yamada-Denki to price water pots. They had some nice ones, but unlike the other store, there was actually someone nearby to talk to us about them. F ended up getting one for me. He had to sign up for the app and all that kind of thing. It is a very nice one, it’s bright red! It does look very stylish on my desk.
I was thirsty after our time in the electric shop, so we went to Mos Burger and had drinks. I had an iced tea, F had a coffee again! We spent some time there and I read a bit of a book on my phone since F didn’t want to talk to me. Same old, same old.
After the drink we were going to get groceries but we decided that F would go and get his hair cut, something he wanted to do all weekend. I’d go and spend some time at S-Mall. Yawn. F dropped me off. I did a bit of shopping and walking around the mall but after a while I decided to go to Doutor. I had an iced decaf coffee and it was just what I wanted. F came to the mall while I was there and joined me for a bit.
We decided to do some grocery shopping, so we went over to the Mina shopping area. I was surprised to see that Tsutaya has closed. I wonder what will happen to the building.
I had asked to go to the hundred yen shop to try and get a replacement broom for the stairs. F broke mine a few months ago and hasn’t bothered replacing it. I haven’t done the stairs since, so that was an added benefit. I just wanted a cheap broom since I didn’t want to be upset if F broke it again and they are smaller so they fit the stairs better. F wanted me to buy a “natural bristles” brush, aka a witches broom and I wanted a nylon bristles one. He didn’t like my idea so we left the store.
I did the grocery shopping. As usual, F went to the wrong side of the store. I don’t know why he can’t get it through his stupid head that I like to start on the other end and do the veggies last. And, of course, I needed to use the washroom again, which was on the other side.
I went in and did the shopping. I got most of the stuff I wanted and a few things I didn’t want to buy but had to get for K. I paid and took the groceries out to the car. We drove off, I assumed to the house.
When we sailed past the turn off to the house I asked F where we were going. He wanted to go to a hardware shop to get a broom. He went into the shop by himself and came out a few minutes later with a broom. I won’t be using it, so I hope he enjoys doing the stairs again with it.
Back at the house I unpacked the groceries and put them away, bringing some stuff upstairs. I left the water pot downstairs because I wanted to wash it out before I used it.
Around 6 or so F gave his mother her bento but I had to wait until 8ish until he asked if I wanted to have dinner. Not sure what that was about. I suggested either Coco Ichibanya or a gyudon shop. Happily he picked Coco Ichibanya.
We drove there and went in. We got a good table and looked at the menu. I had one of their seasonal curries, a chicken curry, and F had a pork curry with a huge piece of pork on it. Mine was really good, F kept giving me bits of his pork. It was nice and all, but I really wasn’t in the mood. I wish he’d damn well stop giving me bits of food he doesn’t want to eat.
On our way back to the house he asked me if I’d like to go shopping and I asked him what for? It was after 9pm, the only things open were grocery stores and drugstores. I’d already done my grocery shopping and I don’t enjoy it enough to go again. I guess I might have wanted to go to a drugstore, but I didn’t.
Back at the house, he set up the rice cooker for tomorrow and then I opened up my water pot. I used the app on my phone to translate the directions and after I washed out the inside, I put some water in it and brought it up to the boil. I then ran the machine so the water came out and after a bit, dumped the hot water. I brought it upstairs with some water in it from the tap.
The water pot works quite well. I’ll have to get used to how it works which will be a little interesting. Unfortunately, I had asked F to register it for me online and he was such a pain in the butt about it that I’m rather put off. And angry. I mean, he wanted to know the serial number of the thing. It wasn’t on the receipt, which I had already put away. It wasn’t on the box when he went downstairs to check it. It was underneath, on the bottom of the pot. The one that was heavy and full of hot water. I tried holding it up so he could look underneath, but of course, I am much shorter than F. It would have made more sense for HIM to hold it up and let me look underneath, but nope. I suggested using my phone to take a picture of it and that’s what we ended up doing. Honestly though, that was so annoying. I’ve been really stressed all night.
This evening didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to. I hoped to have a relaxing evening and maybe even work a little on my column. Nope. I tried watching my YouTube videos, but honestly one of them was about a festival in Japan and I just couldn’t take the annoying noises so skipped it. I’m having an I hate Japan moment. It’ll pass, it usually does, but right now, I’d really like to take my passport and leave this country. Unfortunately, I can’t since I just sent it in to be renewed. Wah!!
Well, enough kvetching from me. Things will get better, right?
PS…F has restless legs at night and he’s kicking something next to his bed and making a horrid scratching noise that makes me not want to go to bed at all.
Until tomorrow….
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