June 21, 2025

Saturday - Hot and sunny, a bit muggy


I woke up around 9 this morning and went downstairs. F was out with K, delivering her to her Day Service. He came back while I was still downstairs, but I went back upstairs and went back to bed for a little snooze and video action!


F came upstairs after 11 and we talked about lunch. I suggested going to Sakata to the yakiniku place we like since they have a special deal today. F liked the idea. I also asked that since we’d be in Sakata that I get to go to Kaldi and pick up more of my favourite rooibos tea. He was okay with that.


I dressed and the two of us went off to Sakata. When we got to the restaurant it was quite busy so we had to wait for quite a while. However, the table turnover was quite fast, and we probably had to wait less than 30 minutes. We had a nice meal but F made a bit of a mistake. We both wanted bibinba which was on special. He ordered us 4 of them accidentally. We got two in the beginning and then a waiter tried to bring us two more a while later! We didn’t accept them, and then a couple of minutes later F ‘fessed up to a waiter and they got taken off our bill. Oops. We ordered a couple of plates of meat, some drinks and a little bit of kimchi for each of us. We left a while later and were nicely full.


We drove over to the new shopping area and went into Kaldi. The set up there is different from any other Kaldi that I have been to so it took a while to find the teas and then my tea. I ended up buying 4 boxes. I’m not sure when I’ll get back to Sakata to buy more.


After that, I paid and we left. We drove back to Tsuruoka and to the house. F and I worked on cooling down the living room and getting it ready for the Care Worker’s visit. We got a bit spatty before she arrived, but it all worked out. The Care Worker showed up before K did! There was something at the Day Service about shoes going missing so she was late.


After the meeting, K arrived after a few minutes, I went upstairs. It was so hot in our bedroom. It was about 33 degrees up there. I got the AC on and it cooled down. 


Around 6 F went out and bought a few groceries to make K’s dinner. Then, he made it. We decided that we’d go out and ended up going to Yoshinoya, a gyudon restaurant. It was quite different than it used to be. It actually looked really nice inside. We both had the kara-age meal and it was okay. F found it to be very salty and so did I. After our dinner we got back in the car and headed over to Machi-ne Kinema.


Tonight we went to see About Time, the movie from 2013 with Rachel McAdam, Domhnall Gleeson and Bill Nighy. It was lovely. There weren’t many people in the cinema and we have seen it before. It was just lovely. I got quite verklempt by the end of the movie, just thinking about what days I would want to relive so I could either enjoy them or redo. I think my wedding day would be one! I’d like to enjoy it this time!


We came back to the house and I watched FBI tonight. It was okay. Our room was so hot but it’s been getting cooler. It was a pretty good day today. I’m not sure what we’re going to get up to tomorrow.


That’s it for me for today. Come back later if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow….

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