October 3, 2025

Friday - Sunny and hot!

I woke up this morning after F left for work, but before my alarm. I made a trip downstairs and then I came upstairs. I sorted my laundry and then I went back to sleep for a bit. I did wake up a couple of hours later and got up. I made my breakfast and brought it upstairs. I ate, watched some YouTube and then I ended up taking a nap. I didn’t feel well all of a sudden. 

When I woke up I felt better and I took my laundry downstairs and put it in the washer. While I was waiting for it, I got out my quilt and took off the cover. I decided that I should wash the bedsheet at the same time too. I put them in the machine and relaxed for a bit.

I got my lunch and while I was making it, the laundry finished. I took out the bedsheet and left the quilt cover in the machine. I set up the machine to dry the cover. It’s double so I wanted it to dry a bit faster.

I ate my lunch and watched an episode of Transparent today. It was okay. I’m still not sure about that show. I think I just haven’t watched it often enough to know who is who and what is going on.

I watched the news at 4 pm and then F called around 5:20 or so. Since he was going shopping anyway I suggested getting some ice cream for dessert. He liked that idea but said he’d wait until he was in Tsuruoka to get it. Good plan! Today was so warm that I had to turn on the air conditioner in our room again. 

I went downstairs and started dinner. F came back and he had bought us some ice cream (chocolate mint…yum) and some stuff for tomorrow as well. I made my usual pasta but it was very good. We had garlic pasta with chicken and salad and it was delicious. All the pasta disappeared! 

I should mention that I had a bit of an upsetting day. Nothing terrible really, but when I woke up, my friend that had talked about meeting up with me next week suggested inviting a new person to meet up in Sendai. Oh, and she’d like to go to IKEA. Fine, I said why don’t we have lunch at IKEA and then I can duck out after lunch to do the shopping I need downtown. Later in the day she asked if I’d like to go to an outlet mall. Not really. I need to do most of my shopping around the main station. She let me know that the trip to Sendai was quite expensive (it is for her, in all seriousness) so she wanted to make it worth her while. I get that. I have no idea if she’s going to come after all, but I don’t think she will. Now I don’t even want to go and I’m a bit upset about the whole thing. I really wish that she’d left it the way it was yesterday, where she’d let me know if she could come and that’s it. 

I was trying to explain to F why I was upset and he started cleaning part of the kitchen. That really upset me, so I just turned off the burner on the stove and left the room. I went upstairs and had a little cry. I know it’s stupid, but I just wanted a little TLC from him and I didn’t get it. 

I went downstairs a few minutes later and got on with dinner. F went off somewhere and I got busy. I set the table and cut up the chicken, I cooked the pasta and when it was ready I mixed it with the sauce. 

After dinner, I washed the dishes and then just went upstairs. I did say to the others that I was going upstairs and left. 

I took a shower again around 10:30, I went downstairs and I did a bit of cleaning in the shower. A couple of days ago I was in there in the daytime with my glasses on and it looked horrible. I didn’t do the whole room, but at least I got part of it cleaner!

When I was done, I went upstairs again and watched the season premiere of The Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy. It was all about the Day of the Dead in Mexico and was rather interesting. 

I turned off the TV later and got stuck into my usual evening routine on my computer. Oh, and I did some knitting during the TV show. I finally moved to the bigger knitting needles, which is good because then I don’t have to take everything with me on my trip.

That’s it for me. I’m not sure if I’ll post tomorrow as I might be out late. I’m planning to take my computer on my trip so I might update from Yamagata. Come back later and hear all about my trip. Until next time…..