January 8, 2025

Wednesday - Cold and cloudy, snowy at night

I woke up this morning when F was getting ready for work. I moved my eye mask and was blinded by the light on in the room. Eek. I pulled my mask down again and put the covers over my head!

I woke up later and got up when my alarms started going off. I sat up and felt bad. The room started to spin a bit. I felt quite dizzy. I went downstairs and then came back up and went back to bed. I watched a couple of videos and then snoozed.

I got up later and dressed. I wasn’t dizzy anymore. I went downstairs and prepared my breakfast, and brought it upstairs to eat. I mostly forgot about the news, and just saw a bit of it. 

I got ready to go out. I dressed up a bit, packed my backpack, got my keys and Suica card ready and then I went downstairs. My stomach felt a bit odd though. Well, my stomach wasn’t in a good mood. I made the executive decision to try and take the next bus in an hour. It was a good plan.

I went back upstairs and took a short nap. I got into the bed and relaxed for half an hour. I was able to get a little sleep too so that was good. I felt better afterwards so I decided to go. I got ready to go again and this time made it out of the house. 

I got to the bus stop a little early again and had to wait. I got on when it arrived. That was a little difficult as the step didn’t seem to work and the bus was quite high. I got on and the ride was nice and quickish to the main post office. I got in and went to the post office.

Things at the post office went well. The mail section was quite busy so I thought I’d be a while. However, a woman from the back was taking people in line if they had simple things, or if she could help them. I didn’t think that she’d help me, but she came over and I told her my box was going to Canada. She asked if it was EMS and I said no, so she asked, “Small Packet?” I said yes. I gave her my paperwork and said I still had to sign it. She took it off and then when the first counterperson was available, brought me over. The parcel ended up being cheaper than I thought and I signed my paperwork, checked a paper saying I wasn’t sending anything dangerous and I was done there. 

I decided to make a small deposit at the post office bank. I’m on a mission to get rid of my one yen coins so I deposited another 50 of them. Woot. Not a big deposit, but it was nice to get rid of them. I have a lot more sad to say!

I checked the bus schedule and there wouldn’t be one for about 15 minutes. I decided to walk to the next bus stop as it was under cover and with the clouds I was thinking it might rain a bit.  I got to the bus stop before the bus did, about 10 minutes. I decided to just wait. The bus came, I got on and rode it to S-Mall. 

At S-Mall, I checked the bus schedule again for the way back. I would have about 25 minutes in the mall if I caught the first bus back so I decided to do a quick shop in the grocery store. I nabbed a few things and paid from them, then went back to the bus station and waited for my bus. 

The bus was the same one I rode on from the house earlier. There was no step again. Sigh. I got on and was the only passenger for quite a while. I got off at my stop and walked back to the house. Somehow with all the big steps getting on and off buses I managed to hurt my leg. When I got to the house I decided to make a fast lunch for myself. I didn’t have a lot of food. I took a little bread out of the freezer and made a couple of open sandwiches for myself. I went upstairs and ate my late, late lunch.

F called a few minutes later and said he was on the way back. I waited a little while and then went downstairs to start dinner. He got back to the house before I washed the dishes. We had a nice chat and welcome back. 

Tonight dinner was fairly simple and probably not that healthy! We had French Fries, smoked brats, potato salad and lettuce salad that I had to wash myself! It was quite good and most of it disappeared!

I did the dishes afterwards. It didn’t take too long. Then, I did up some of the kitchen garbage and left it in the genkan. We have to get back on the Thursday schedule again, but I just sent it out on Monday so there wasn’t too much.

I came upstairs to relax, then took a shower. Later on, I watched Grey’s Anatomy. For some reason, Katherine Fox has become a pain in the butt and is firing all of the staff. What’s up with her I wonder?

I turned off the TV and F and I chatted off and on. I asked him to make rice. I had asked him earlier to be fair, but I hadn’t reminded him. Then I asked him about making a dental appointment for me. I may have broken a tooth so I’d like to get that seen to. It took a while for him to get the info needed, but he was very careful about it.

F has finally gone to bed and seems to be sleeping. I’m heading there soon too. It was a long day and my leg hurts. I took some OTC pain killers and F gave me a shippu, a kind of bandage with medicine in it that is popular here. I am not convinced that they work, but I’ll try it. 

And that’s it. Tomorrow I probably have an exciting day of laundry and then cooking dinner. Woot. Come back later if you like and hear all about it. Until tomorrow….