Sunday - Drizzly, cloudy and cold
Today wasn’t the greatest day. It wasn’t a bad day, it was just frustrating for me.
I woke up a bit late because I didn’t set an early alarm. No big deal, it is Sunday and F had plans of his own for the morning. He was planning to change the tires on his car today and then he had talked about going to the onsen. I thought it was great that he’d made plans for himself. Except, he didn’t do it that early. He did change the tires between 9 and 10:30 but decided not to go to the onsen.
He came upstairs seeking lunch and also bringing some cakes from the memorial service. I made us some coffee and we each had one, then we went out for lunch. The original plan, which I hated if I’m honest, was to go to the Bussankan (the big tourist and souvenir area in Tsuruoka) and have lunch there. I don’t like any of the restaurants there except for the tonkatsu one. The one that F doesn’t like at all. I said it was okay as long as we didn’t have to sit on tatami. We got most of the way there and F changed his mind and decided to go to his favourite soba shop. I don’t mind it, so said it was okay. It was closed.
Regroup. Then F decided he’d take me to a soba place near his favourite onsen. I reminded him of the last (and only) time I went there. There was another table in the restaurant and they had lots of side dishes. When they left, they paid our bill. When we got ready to leave, the restaurant gave us their bill, which was a LOT more expensive than ours would have been. Of course, we didn’t pay that, but it wasn’t a happy thing.
We got in, got seats and ordered. I had hot soba with duck since I often have that at another place. It was tasteless and the duck was tough. I would say that for me, lunch was just a waste of time.
We did a couple of things in the afternoon. Earlier, we had discovered a little bakery that is only open on the weekend. We thought it was a cafe too (Thanks Google Maps) and went in. It wasn’t a cafe, not really. They had two chairs we could use, but would have to go to the nearby 7-11 to get ourselves drinks. We bought a treat each and left!
We ended up at Starbucks for a while to get a drink and relax. I had a chamomile tea latte, F had a cafe mocha. His was a bit too sweet.
Next up we went to the grocery store and I bought the groceries. F came in and got himself some saké which came out of the grocery money. It was a horrendous price to get the groceries today. I wasn’t impressed.
We went back to the house and I put the groceries away. F buggered off upstairs. I wasn’t too pleased about that. I took our stuff upstairs. We relaxed for a while and then F wanted to have dinner. Unfortunately, we didn’t have a big budget for dinner. He wanted more Japanese food…udon this time and I told him flatly that I didn’t want anymore noodles and definitely not Japanese food except for maybe sushi. I suggested three different types of food and F wouldn’t pick one of them. He could have picked anything out of the three or something else, but he wouldn’t. So, I picked Gusto.
We went out to Gusto. It seems like they have given the menu a bit of an upgrade. There was a very nice looking set menu on offer that the waitress called our attention to, but it wasn’t cheap. F said I could have it if I wanted to, but if he wasn’t going to have it too then why would I do that? We were trying to keep to a budget. I ended up with a mixed grill and a bun with the drink bar, F had chicken with rice and the drink bar and we shared an order of fries that were hot out of the fryer. Dinner was quite good.
We came back to the house and F went to bed almost right away. He had the nerve to say to me that he hoped I’d go to bed soon so I would be with him. The funny thing is that he was on his phone during the entire meal and barely talked to me. He had me with him for the hour plus that we were in the restaurant and couldn’t bother talking to me. I told him I wouldn’t be doing that.
I watched another episode of The Devil’s Hour. It was quite a good one, a bit weird. I’m wondering where it is going to go from here.
After the show was over, I turned it off and got onto some YouTube and blogging. So, that was my day. It wasn’t great and I’m quite glad that F is going back to work tomorrow. I’m not looking forward to trying to clean up the kitchen tomorrow night though.
Anyway, that’s it for me for tonight. Come back later if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow….
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