Thursday - Cooler in the morning, hot and sunny for the rest of the day
I woke up after F left this morning, but before my alarm went off. I went downstairs and then came back to bed and did my thing of watching videos and then going to sleep. I got up a little earlier than I have been lately and went downstairs.
I got my breakfast and took it upstairs to eat. I had a quiet morning and then afternoon. I was a tad tired in the afternoon so I tried to take a nap, but I wasn’t sleeping at all. Oh, the nice thing was that i didn’t have to turn on the AC until later in the morning. Woot. It wasn’t 28 degrees at 8 am today.
I went downstairs a little early to get my lunch. I brought it back upstairs to eat. I watched an episode of Moonflower Murders while I was watching and it was good. It’s Lesley Manville…it can’t be anything but good! She’s amazing.
I watched the news and then after F called I went downstairs to get started on dinner. Well, after yesterday’s dinner, I did something different today too. I made a steam shabu-shabu.
F and I had steam shabu-shabu at an izakaya in Yamagata city and really liked it. Basically, what they did was set up a steamer with a lot of shredded cabbage and then we put our slices of pork onto the cabbage, close the lid and let it steam for a couple of minutes. Of course, you get to eat the cabbage too, so that’s fun.
We also had some cucumber sticks (from our own cucumbers!), salad, potato salad, rice, pork shabu-shabu with a sesame sauce, and steamed cabbage. It all turned out very well. Hurray for that!
Tonight, we did dessert too. F had found our kaki-gori machine earlier this summer and I suggested that we have kaki-gori tonight. It’s still warm enough that we can get away with it. F liked that idea! He worked the machine and I added on the condensed milk. He kept wanting to make them super big, but I reminded him that we weren’t Komeda Coffee, so they didn’t have to be! We took the bowls to the living room and the three of us enjoyed our kaki-gori. We don’t take K out that much so she probably hasn’t had any this year. Ours were lemon flavoured by the way! Quite nice.
I did the dishes but it took a while. There were a lot and I was tired. At one point I noticed that the air conditioner in the living room was off and asked that it be turned back on. I was HOT in the kitchen, sorry about you people sitting on your butts in the living room. I don’t care about ya!
I didn’t finish until just after 9 pm. I suggested to F that we go to MaxValu since my usual grocery store closes at 10 pm. He was okay with that. It was a good thing that I decided to go there. I went upstairs and got changed, I came downstairs and F went to the washroom. He was in there a while!
We drove over to MaxValu and I went in by myself. I did the shopping and picked up quite a few things for dinner tomorrow and breakfast for K and F. I picked up a few things for myself which I paid for.
We came back to the house and I put away the groceries then came upstairs. After a little break, I watched The Rookie. They finally brought the storyline about John’s wife’s ex-husband to the end, for the most part. There’s another storyline going that is interesting too.
Since midnight I’ve been working on my blog and some other internet things. That’s about it now if I’m honest.
Tomorrow I’ll likely be doing some laundry and maybe a few other things if I can get motivated!
Come back later if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow….
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