February 18, 2026

Wednesday - Cooler and cloudy


I woke up early this morning, not as early as yesterday, but early for me. I went downstairs and then came back upstairs to the room. I sorted out some clothes for me to wear when I went out later on and then I went back to bed for a snooze. 


I woke up later and then decided that I should stay at the house and work on my column instead of gallivanting around the city and going to a movie. It’s a little ironic that I had to stay back from a movie in order to write my movie column! I could go tomorrow but the weather is supposed to tank so I’m not really too keen to go now. Oh well, I can stay here and watch The Good Fight or something else. 


I got up earlier than usual for me and went downstairs. I grabbed my breakfast and brought it upstairs to eat. I had a quiet morning and then early afternoon. I actually did buckle down and wrote quite a bit of my column, actually enough that I could go out tomorrow and not feel guilty. I’m thinking about it!


I went downstairs around 3 to make my lunch. I was late as I was writing for my column. K was up and in the living room so I offered to heat up her lunch for her. She didn’t know what I meant at first, but I gave her the heated up plate and turned on both the heater and the light in the room for her. She’s a funny old bird at times. She was watching the Olympics.


I came upstairs to eat and also watched another episode of The Good Fight. I’ve been enjoying the episodes a lot lately, and I have to get them all watched before March 20th.


I watched the end part of the news and a little later F called me to say that he was on his way back. I went downstairs around 6pm and got started on washing dishes and doing prep work. Tonight we had a pork stirfry with seaweed and chikuwa (fish paste tubes), rice, potato salad, steamed broccoli and salad. Dinner was good, but F wasn’t overly hungry and neither was K so there were a lot of leftovers. The good thing is that I get leftovers for my lunch too. Woot. I packed K’s lunch before I served dinner so she’s got enough. 


I did the dishes after dinner and listened to some podcasts while I did that. When I finished the dishes, I started on the garbage in the room. I got that done and then F helped me with his mother’s garbage. He got her stuff out of her room. I tied up the bag and put it into the genkan for him to take out later. 


I headed upstairs for some rest and relaxation. I watched a bit of YouTube and then went downstairs around 10:30 to take my shower. The water temperature fluctuated while I was in the shower so that was a bit unpleasant!


I came back upstairs and talked to F for a few minutes. I reminded him that there is a free concert on Friday night that he had wanted to go to and told him that if he does want to go, we have to plan it now. Tomorrow we’ll have to get food for breakfast and lunch and maybe he’ll pick up some bentos for dinner on Friday. 


I watched The Irrational off the DVR. I was about 15 minutes late to start watching so I watched it that way. It worked well tonight- it doesn’t always work.


So that’s about it. Since midnight I’ve been finishing up nightly things and getting myself ready to go to bed. I’m not sure if I’ll go out tomorrow or not, probably not if I’m honest. It’s a shame as I want to see the film on a big screen, but I need to finish up my column if I can. I’d also like to send a couple of postcards.


Come back later if you like and hear all about my day. Until tomorrow….

 

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