August 1, 2026

 Saturday - Cloudy & Rainy

Today was a bit better of a day than I expected, and yet, some of it was rather frustrating too. 

I woke up this morning around 9am. I try to wait until F leaves with K for her Day Service. I went downstairs and then came back up to the room. A few minutes later I went back to bed for a longer snooze. 

I finally got up and dressed. We had doctor appointments this morning so we drove over to the clinic and went in. I had asked F to help me fill in the paper last night saying that I knew about the side effects of the vaccination and that I wasn’t pregnant or breastfeeding. I’m a bit too old for that! Unfortunately, F hadn’t filled in HIS form, maybe because he didn’t know about it? So, I could get the shot and F couldn’t. Of course, mine was the one we had to pay for. 

I got my shot, we picked up our medicines, and then it was a very late lunch time. It was almost 1pm by the time we finished. 

F had suggested a place he went to recently for lunch. They serve Omu-rice. I was worried that it would have tomato in the rice, but they didn’t. It was more of a chahan than a rice filling he said. Okay then. 

We drove to the restaurant and it was really lined up. F went and put his name on the list and we were 4 groups back, so it would be a while. Luckily it wasn’t sunny as we waited outside for a while. At one point I did remind F that I hadn’t eaten yet today, so as it got close to 2 pm and then later he was annoyed with me and said we could give up and go back to the house (where there was no food that I would want to eat….)

We finally got in and F ordered for us. It took a while to arrive but when it did, it was rather nice. It was quite big…and we ordered a small one each!

After lunch we came back to Tsuruoka and F went to a grocery store. I stayed in the car as I was a tad tired and didn’t want to go out. Then, we came back to the house.

F bopped around between upstairs and downstairs, I was upstairs for most of the time. He came up for a nap after his mother got back. I decided I’d take one too. I took a couple of 20 minutes of snoozes. I did try to suggest F go downstairs and make his mother’s dinner, but he kept putting it off. Finally around 6:30 he went downstairs to cook for her.

I got redressed and waited for F to finish. We finally left around 7:10 and we still had to eat. We set off, and then F tried to go to the wrong restaurant so we had to turn around. We finally got to the gyudon shop. I had curry with a caesar salad and miso soup, F ordered his usual gyudon with an egg and miso soup and pickles. We did have to call the waiter over a couple of times. They forgot my salad dressing and they didn’t give us the free tea they give everyone. I ate all of mine, F stopped halfway and said he couldn’t eat anymore. 

We left. F swore that we could get to the cinema in time. We sort of did. I had told F the movie started at 8pm but it really started at 8:20.  We arrived at the mall after 8. We went into the mall, up to the cinema. We tried to buy our tickets but the point cards didn’t work. We had to buy the tickets without them. F was absolutely useless at telling me what was on the screen when it had a message about the cards. We got the tickets, then went to the popcorn ordering station. F hung way back and then got mad when someone else took “his” turn. ACK. Finally we got our snacks and went into the cinema. There were washroom runs for both of us.

We went to see Spiderman: Brand New Day and it was great. I’ve always been a huge fan of Spiderman and Tom Holland too, so I was predisposed to like it. It was funny, bittersweet and also quite good. The character has been changing a bit and I’m there for it. 

After the movie, we left the cinema and drove back to Tsuruoka. It was about 11:30 when we got back. F went to sleep soon after, I’m up late as usual. 

My arm hurts a bit, but so far that’s all the bad side effect that I’ve had. I’m hoping that I’ll be okay. It was my second shingles shot if you were wondering. 

Anyway, that’s about it for me for tonight. I’m not sure what we’ll get up to tomorrow, it’ll probably include grocery shopping, but we’ll see. Come back later if you like and hear all about my Sunday. Until tomorrow….