August 17, 2026

Monday - Cloudy and hot, muggy

I woke up this morning when my alarm went off. F had another bad night. He woke up when I came to bed, or he wasn’t sleeping…who knows. He got up and went downstairs and then finally came back to bed. I fell asleep after I did my reading. 

This morning I did my usual getting up and going downstairs. Then, I came back upstairs, used my computer for a minute or two and then went back to bed. I snoozed and watched videos until I got up a bit later. I also used the AC for an hour in the first part of the morning, but after it turned itself off, I got hot again quickly. I put it back on. 

I finally got up, dressed and went downstairs for mail and my breakfast. I brought it all back upstairs and then ate. I didn’t do anything that I really planned to do, except I did back up my computer so that is good.

I got my lunch a bit early today and while I ate I watched an episode of Evil. I have one more so I doubt everything will be wrapped up. I’ve really enjoyed the show if I’m honest. 

F called me tonight from inside Tsuruoka, so I had to hurry to get ready. I made it downstairs to the kitchen before he got back. It’s not a big deal if I don’t, but I just like to get some of the kitchen ready. 

Tonight we had chicken pieces which I did in my air fryer, potato salad, cucumber pickles, mini-tomatoes, salad and rice. It turned out nicely and I liked the chicken better in the air fryer than when I do it in the toaster oven. Yay for that. 

After dinner I did the dishes and was finally done before 9pm. I also did up the pink garbage bag with the plastic stuff. It was full! F decided that he’d come upstairs soon too, so I took the ice cream out of the freezer and grabbed some spoons for us. F came up a few minutes later and we ate our ice creams. They were supposed to be dessert on Saturday night, but we ate the doughnuts and then went out instead. K ate her ice cream today before noon, so we needed to eat ours before K got hold of them!

I relaxed upstairs with some YouTube and then went downstairs to take a shower after 10pm. I showered and then came back up to the room. I decided to watch an episode of Sugar. Tonight was really good and really moody with great music in the background. 

So, that’s the end of it really. I just watched some YouTube after midnight and got started on a lot of my end of day stuff. Tomorrow I’ll probably do some laundry and of course there will be dinner again. Sigh. 

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

March 16, 2024

 Saturday - Sunny but windy

Today started badly and never got any better I’m sad to say.

I woke up when F’s alarm went off this morning. He’d already left the room. I thought I turned it off, but it rang again a few minutes later. I think I got it off then. I managed to sleep a little more and then F came into the room and left noisily. I finally got back to sleep…had to get up and went downstairs. I tried to sleep again and managed for a while. F grabbed my broom and swept the stairs. He came into the room and tried to get friendly but it didn’t really work on me. He started to talk about lunch places and started talking about food that didn’t impress me. I went downstairs, came back to the room and sat down at my computer to take my daily medicine and he went off on me. I wasn’t ready to go and he wanted to leave right away. He was going to go and leave me and eat what he wanted to eat. I was trying to take my meds and then I planned to get dressed, it would only take a couple of minutes. F was quite worked up by now and I have no idea what he was on about. Finally, I just told him that he should go and make himself happy. He stormed out. 

I was dressed a couple of minutes later and went to check if he had left. He had. 

I had some toast and then came back up to the room. I ate my toast in the living room. K was away, F was out…why not?

F hadn’t returned by 2 pm so I decided that I would go out. I grabbed my purse and left. I caught the 2:25 bus and went downtown. I went to Doutor and had a sandwich and a cup of decaf. I stayed in the mall for a while. I bought a few things in case I didn’t get dinner later. 

I could have waited a bit longer to catch the more direct bus back to the house, but I caught the second last bus. I was the only passenger on the bus for the entire time I was on the bus. I got back to my stop, got off the bus and walked to the house. 

I let myself in and went upstairs. F’s car was outside so I knew he was around, but I had no idea where. I went and turned on my water pot and opened up my computer and spent some time there. It was a few minutes before 6 when F came in the room and was surprised to see me. He didn’t know I had come back. That surprised me because I didn’t exactly hide. He unfortunately wasn’t very nice, and to be fair, neither was I. He stormed off and disappeared for a couple of hours. 

I went downstairs after a couple of hours to see if he’d take me out and there he was sitting at my spot of the dining table with a huge pile of dirty dishes in front of him. I asked him if that meant they’d eaten already. He said it had, so I thanked him for inviting me to join them. 

Twenty minutes later F came upstairs and gave me an onigiri. That was supposed to be my dinner. Thanks, but no thanks. I took it, thanked him mildly and then when he seemed settled on his side of the bed, I went down and made my dinner. I heated up some frozen pasta and had that. I added on some stuff from the fridge and then heated up a couple of my mincemeat tarts and had them. 

I came back up to the room and turned on the TV. I watched the end of The Flash and then FBI. I turned off the TV after that.

F and I haven’t talked to each other in hours which is good. I have no idea why he was such a stupid idiot earlier in the day. He was supposed to go to the doctor this morning after his mother left for her daycare thing, but he chose to clean his fish tank instead. He isn’t getting a medal for that from me. I didn’t want any part of his fish tank, I have told him our entire marriage that I didn’t want any, so I don’t know why he is messing around with them. He’s spending so much time and money on them and I don’t know why. 

Anyway, that’s about it for me. I’ve had a pretty crap day today. If I’m not here tomorrow night, I’ve most likely gone off to spend a night or two away. I’ll turn up sometime soon. 

Come back later if you want and hear if my weekend got any better. Until next time….

November 12, 2023

Sunday - Rainy and drizzly and cold

Well, today was a crap day. In fact, it would have to improve to be as good as a crap day. Sigh.

I slept in this morning but got myself up and got dressed and waited for F to come upstairs. He had talked about going to the onsen this morning but hadn’t slept very well so I didn’t know if he’d gone or not. 

He came upstairs and just started demanding I tell him where I wanted to eat. I really didn’t want to eat anywhere at that point and said I had no idea. He announced that he was going to go out and have ramen in that case. I wished him a good lunch. I really didn’t care at that point. He almost dared me to complain about it, but I didn’t. If he wanted ramen, he could go and have it. I wouldn’t be going. 

I went downstairs a couple of hours later and got myself some frozen pasta out of the freezer and heated it up. I took it upstairs to eat. It wasn’t great. It was a long time past the best-before date and it had freezer-burn so…. After a bit, I went downstairs and asked F if we could go shopping because we needed groceries. He said yes. I went upstairs to get ready, he came up and got ready to go out. 

We got in the car and immediately he started to demand that I tell him where I wanted to go. I really didn’t care, just a grocery store. Any grocery store. I finally suggested Mina and then I said to him that it didn’t matter anyway as they were all equally bad. I never can get the things I want here anyway. He stopped the car and demanded I get out. I did. We were only around the corner from the house so I walked back and he drove off somewhere.

I was ignored for hours and when I tried again to request that we go out for groceries he told me that it wouldn’t be until after dinner. Of course, I was not invited to have dinner with them. 

Around 7 he came upstairs and asked if I was ready. I wasn’t quite as I’d just started a drink. I drank it as quickly as I could but it took a little. Finally, I was ready. When we got in the car F asked where I wanted to go and I told him I’d like to have dinner first. I requested Cocos so he drove me over there and dropped me off. He wouldn’t come in with me. I went in and had an okay meal. I had a small plate of fries and the chicken Jambalaya. It was okay. After I ate, I paid and left. F was nowhere to be seen so I had to text him. He said he was close and he arrived a minute later. 

I asked him to take me over the road to the Pal shopping centre. I could get groceries and then go to the drugstore next to it. I went into the grocery store and got a few things for dinner for the next couple of days. I’m quite sure that F won’t show up for dinner tomorrow, but so what. If he doesn’t, then we’ll have it for two nights in a row. Yum. I’m doing tacos. 

After I paid with F’s money I dropped off the stuff in the car and told him I was going to the drugstore. I picked up some stuff for myself and also some detergent for him and his mother. If she runs out, she uses my detergent and just upends the bottles, she doesn’t measure it and uses too much. 

When I got back to the car from the drugstore, F was nowhere in sight. He’d gone into the grocery store, probably to use the washroom. He did show up a couple of minutes later. We got in the car and drove back towards the house. I asked F if we could stop in at the little grocery store near his house. I hadn’t been able to find sour cream and I was hoping they would have it. As it turns out, they didn’t. I bought some more yogurt for myself, so I’ll probably strain the yogurt in the fridge and use that instead of sour cream. I was planning to use it for two different meals this week.

Back at the house, I got out of the car and F stayed in the car for a while. I unpacked the groceries and then went upstairs. I was ignored when F finally came back and to be honest, that was fine with me. The only thing that annoys me about him when he’s in a “MOOD” is he plays his horrible apps loudly on his phone. It forces me to wear my headphones and listen to other things!

He’s off to work tomorrow and I have a ton of things to do. I’m feeling very overwhelmed at the moment and I really didn’t need F being an idiot all day. He knows what is on my mind and I think he just doesn’t care or is too selfish to think I might be upset about stuff. 

Well, I’m out of here on Friday for a few days. It’s a shame that I can’t leave sooner. I am very much looking forward to getting away. 

Tomorrow I hope to do some laundry and packing of my suitcase. I have a lot to do, so come back later and hear if I get it done. Until tomorrow….

June 17, 2023

Saturday - Hot and sunny

I woke up earlyish, went downstairs and then went back to sleep. I overslept my alarms and dragged myself out of bed around noon. I was worried because F had an appointment at 2 so we needed to have lunch soon. I got up, dressed and after that went downstairs. I gave F a hand cleaning out his car as today was the trade-in day. I took a few things out of the car and so did F. He did most of the stuff, but then again, it was his stuff. 

We finally finished and got in the car. At that point, I was interrogated about where I wanted to go. When I asked F what he wanted, he of course said ramen. I pointed out that he’d had some with his mother this morning and he said he wanted more. I got out of the car at that time, grabbed my stuff and went back into the house. F drove off.

I went into the kitchen and grabbed my yogurt and cereal and went upstairs to eat. I hadn’t quite finished when F came back. He tried to give me some chocolate ice cream, but not in a nice way. I gave it back to him, also in a not-nice way. There was a bit of back and forth and then F escalated it. I ended up throwing the chocolate ice cream in the garbage. 

He left in a while to go to his dentist. It was lovely not to have him around for that. He was supposed to go to get his new car at 3 pm, so I assumed that he had gone straight from the dentist to the car place. However, he showed up back at the house around 4 pm with his old car. He had been at the dentist all the time. 

He wanted to go to the car shop but I told him that I didn’t need to go with him. He asked me to go. I did. We got most of the way there and he couldn’t find his phone. I loaned him my phone to call the car dealership and then he turned around and went back to the house. He went into the house to look for his phone, I phoned his phone and then checked the car. It was in the car. He’d hidden it in a bag. I let him know it was there and then we went off.

We went back to the dealership and F had to do a bit of signing and checking things and then F and the salesman went off and did a breakdown of the features of the car. I got to stay in the dealership. Luckily I had my phone and I did some reading. 

Finally, we were able to leave. F and I drove off and decided to get K a bento. We drove off across the city and on the way F decided that he had to go back to grab a bag that he’d left in the old car.  We went back and got it. F stopped at a closer grocery store and got a bento for K. I got a bag out of my purse for him to take in the store, but he emptied the bag on the back seat. It was full of empty bottles, and coins and they were now all over the back seat of the car. I made F go to the store by himself. 

He dropped off the bento at his house for K and then we went off for dinner. F asked me where I wanted to go, so I told him. I wanted to go for Indian food. F said he didn’t want that. I told him it was fine, I’d prefer to eat by myself anyway. He drove me to the restaurant and as I got out I asked if he’d come back to pick me up later. He said no, so I said that I had better get back in the car. He then agreed to come back. Since we didn’t know how long I’d be, I said I’d text him when I was done.

I went into the Indian restaurant and had a pretty good meal. I had some chicken and naan and some sag chicken curry. It wasn’t the best Indian food ever, but it wasn’t Japanese food and it tasted good, so I was happy. When I finished, I texted F and said I’d be in the nearby drugstore. I paid and left the restaurant. 

I saw F’s new car in the parking lot right away and then I opened the door and told him I was going to the drugstore. I asked him if he needed something and he said no. I went in, did a little shopping and then got back in the car.

F drove back to the house and we didn’t speak. I don’t think we’ve spoken all night. It’s fine with me.  I took a short nap and F went downstairs to listen to his phone. I’m very glad as the noise was horrible. After a few minutes, I got up, made a pitstop downstairs and then came back upstairs to watch CSI: Vegas. It was okay tonight. It was interesting to see that the actress from The Bold Type was playing the daughter of Catherine Willows. 

I turned off the TV when the show was over and after a bit, F came back upstairs. He went to bed and is sleeping for the most part. 

I had hoped to go to a movie today but as usual these days, F’s crap took up all the time and we couldn’t go. I doubt we’ll go tomorrow, so I might go out to the mall on Monday or another day if I can move myself. 

I don’t do well when F demands that I tell him where I want to go for lunch or dinner because I’m basically picking a place for both of us. He hates the places I want to go and I hate the places he wants to go. Since prices have been going up lately, there just aren’t a lot of good, cheap places and to be honest, I’d rather have a great lunch somewhere and a cheaper dinner. Lunches tend to be cheaper but F doesn’t see it the same way. He still believes in ¥500 ramen and thinks it is overpriced if it doesn’t cost that. 

I’m not sure what is going to happen tomorrow. If F is being an idiot again I’ll hopefully grab a bus and get out of here for a few hours or longer. I don’t deserve the treatment he’s been dealing out lately. I’ve done my darnedest to help him throughout his knee problems but I make a convenient target for his ire. I’m tired of it if I’m honest. 

That’s it for me for tonight. Until tomorrow….

June 5, 2023

Monday - Sunny and warm

F woke me up this morning because he couldn’t find his glasses. That was fun. I got up, and stayed up for a while. I watched the news and watched my usual BBC news. 

Then, I went back to sleep. Unfortunately, F woke me up again when he came back to the house around 9 am to waste some time. He brought me some ice cream, which of course I didn’t want at that time of the morning. He left after a while.

I got up, went downstairs and grabbed my breakfast. I brought it back upstairs to eat. I had a quiet morning. I felt a bit out of sorts, tired and draggy and a bit under the weather. I took a bit of a nap. It didn’t help that much.

I grabbed my lunch and brought it back upstairs. I ate and also watched a silly reality show off the Fire Stick. It was meh.

F called to say he was coming back around 5:30.  I finally went down to start dinner. K was bopping around cleaning, so I tried to stay out of her way. I washed my dishes, cleaned the stove and such. 

I got started on dinner. I thought it was a good one tonight. I did a hot mushroom marinate, frozen veggies heated up, fried garlic pork and a shrimp pilaf. I thought dinner was pretty nice. We had salad too, of course. I called F down, K did her usual sitting and not eating until F came downstairs. I just started. I was still feeling not great.

F sat down and then started saying that he didn’t want pilaf, he wanted to have plain rice. I told him that I bought the pilaf specially and I liked pilaf and didn’t like plain rice. Then he started in on me about how I should like it. Whatever dude. I’ve eaten enough plain rice in my life, I think I know if I like it or not. He went off and made himself some white rice and brought it to the table. I had told him I would never buy pilaf again. I can’t see myself doing that. I just won’t eat rice again. His mother was very happy to eat the pilaf, I have no idea what the heck his problem was.

I got to do the dishes and the cleanup as usual. I spent a bit of extra time in the kitchen because I didn’t want to go near my husband. When I finally did go upstairs he seemed surprised that I didn’t want to talk to him. He went downstairs and disappeared for hours. 

Around 11pm I went downstairs and took a shower. While I was brushing my teeth, K came in the room. I guess she didn’t notice the lights on in the room? Grr. 

I came back upstairs afterwards and F didn’t. He didn’t come upstairs until well after 1am. I’m not sure what is going on in his head. He’s off work tomorrow to go to see his surgeon again, and I was sort of supposed to go with him, but I don’t plan to do that unless something changes between now and then. 

Anyway, so that was my day. I’m hoping that I’ll feel a little better tomorrow, and I hope that F will stop being a twit. I don’t need this crap. I still don’t know if I’ll be able to go back to Canada this year because of his surgery so I’m rather upset and put out too. 

Come back later if you like and hear if I’m whining again. Until tomorrow….

January 22, 2023

Sunday - Snowy and cold

I woke up this morning before my alarm. I got up, went downstairs and discovered that the Takkyubin guy had already been and tried to deliver our package. When I went upstairs F was awake and I told F about the failed delivery. He immediately wanted to call and have the package redelivered. I didn’t understand why. We hadn’t made any plans for the day. He started demanding I tell him when it would be okay to have it delivered. I suggested tomorrow between 6 and 8 pm as I’d be downstairs and could answer the door. He suggested between 2 and 3 today. I told him I didn’t know where we’d be as we had to do some shopping.

The next thing I knew was F calling the shipping company again and asking them to redeliver the package and if we weren’t in to put it on a bench and to cover it with a container that F left outside.

I was really annoyed with him for that. There was no need to have it delivered today, it’s a really cold day and there was the possibility that it could freeze.

He got very angry at that, decided that he wouldn’t go out, wouldn’t get up and he went back to bed. He stayed there for most of the day. 

I thought I heard the delivery person ring the doorbell, so I went downstairs. I was correct. He’d put the box where F told him to so I grabbed the box and brought it inside. I didn’t realize, but F ordered 9 bottles of distilled water….I was expecting 6. I could barely move the box, let alone take it up the stairs to our part of the house. Ack. 

I had to open the box and take out some of the bottles so that I could carry the box upstairs. I really wasn’t too happy with F just then. I’m strong, but carrying 18 litres of water at once is something I’m not happy about. 

I tried to get him to get moving later on and even to get up to feed his mother, but he wouldn’t. I was so annoyed. He not only wasted his weekend, but mine too. 

I had a very late breakfast in the afternoon and watched a couple of things on my computer from WOWOW on Demand. I caught episode 6 of Yellowjackets and the first episode of Supernatural. I’m not sure if I’m going to watch all of Supernatural, but I could if I wanted! I did some crochet in the afternoon too. I’m working on my scarf and I’m close to finishing it. Unfortunately, I had to rip out all the work I did in the afternoon.

Around 6 pm I made another appeal to F. We needed to go grocery shopping and I was hella hungry. He finally roused himself. We got dressed and went downstairs. He gave his mother the bento that she hadn’t eaten yesterday for her dinner and then we went out. Of course, we had to clear a lot of snow first because there was a lot around the car.

I had suggested going to Coco’s, but on the way F talked about going for yakiniku. I was fine with that, but when we went to the yakiniku restaurant we wouldn’t be able to get in until 8 pm. It was around 6:30. F said no, and we went to Coco’s instead.

Coco’s was fine tonight. We were seated right away and both ended up ordering the same thing, soup curry. We also had appetizers. I ordered calamari and F ordered red scorpionfish! It was decent. We had drink bar too and I kept us plied with drinks.

When we finished we went to the Pal Shopping Centre and did the shopping. I went into the shop and F stayed in the car. I got the groceries we needed, at least I hope I did, paid, and then came back to the car. We drove back to F’s house. 

When we got back, F rushed into the house and straight into the washroom as usual. Sigh. I unpacked the groceries and sorted out the things I needed to take upstairs and leave downstairs. 

I went upstairs and a little later F came up too. He spent most of his time in his room watching TikTok and I spent most of my time in my part of the room watching YouTube videos and crocheting. I think I’ll be able to finish my scarf soon and then I want to start a scrap blanket. I have a lot of yarn scraps and odd bits of yarn that I’ve bought for projects that I don’t need, so I might as well use them up. I can always start it and finish it later as I get more yarn. It’ll help keep me warm!

So that’s it for me. I’m beyond annoyed at F wasting all our time today. I know that he is in a lot of pain, but the thing is that he was such a complete jerk that I stopped caring. He knows that there are three things that I have been asking him for help with since last year and none of them were accomplished. He was also supposed to book something for my birthday in a couple of weeks and hasn’t to my knowledge. Well, I think I need to start planning my own trip and just say I don’t care what he does at that time. After all, last year he gave me Covid for my birthday and I had to cancel all of my plans, even the ones that included him. I don’t want to do that this year too.

Come back later if you like and listen to me whine some more! Until tomorrow….

August 21, 2022

Sunday - Hot and sunny

I woke up at my usual time this morning, then went back to sleep. Didn’t seem to be a reason why I shouldn’t.  F wasn’t there for much of the time.

I got up around 11 and was up for a little while. I wasn’t spoken to at all so I decided to go back to bed. I had dressed, I was now in shorts and a t-shirt. I slept for another couple of hours, then got up again. F also seemed to be awake then. I was going to ask him if he’d take me out before 3 pm, but he didn’t move. A few minutes before 3 he finally asked if I’d like to go out. I told him I would like him to drop me off at a certain restaurant, which he did. 

I went into Cocos and had a fairly nice, if late lunch. I had a baked potato and a chicken steak. Of course, I added on drink bar as I was horribly dehydrated. 

I stayed in the restaurant a really long time. Finally, I decided that I had to shake a leg so I paid and then walked over to the shopping area across the street. On my way to the hundred yen shop, I saw F’s car. Hmm. There was no message from him. That’s okay. 

I did a big tour of the hundred yen shop but didn’t feel like buying anything then. I left. When I came out, the car was gone. Oh well. I went into the drugstore and did a bit of a tour. I saw a few things that I wanted to buy, so I did. I noticed that F had texted me five minutes beforehand and said that he was waiting for me in the Cocos parking lot. I texted him back and said that I was in the drugstore and I’d pay for my things and meet him outside. I paid and went outside. No F. I texted him to see if I had to go back to Cocos. No answer. I walked back to Cocos. No F. I finally called him. No answer. I decided to walk somewhere else, but then F called me. He said he was now back at the house and couldn’t answer the phone because he was driving. Hmm. It is a valid reason, although he must have left just after he texted me. I asked him to come back and pick me up, which he did.

We went back to the house and stayed there for a long time. I didn’t bother talking to anyone and they didn’t bother talking to me. I did ask F at one point if he was going to buy food for him and his mother for tomorrow. He said he was sick and couldn’t do it just then. Around 9 pm he asked me if I wanted to go out. I told him I did. 

When we got to the grocery store, he came in with me. I don’t think he understood that I am not planning on cooking tomorrow. I grabbed a basket and I suggested that he get one too. He didn’t understand until I spelled it out for him. I told him that I wasn’t going to cook for him or his mother tomorrow so HE had to go and get food for himself and his mother. I was there to get food for MYSELF. He threw an F and left. He went back to the car. I followed him to make sure that he wasn’t going to just leave me there. He said he wouldn’t. 

I did my shopping. I grabbed a few things for lunch and my dinner for the next couple of days. I went back to the car. I got in, and then F went into the shop. He was gone a while, but not as long as I was. Oh well.

When he came back, we came back to the house. I put my stuff away, heated up my dinner and came upstairs with it. I had a pretty quiet night. I did watch Project Runway at 11:00 but I turned off the TV when it finished. I did a bit of my crochet during the show. It’s growing fairly well, which is nice. 

Around midnight, I went downstairs and washed the dish and the cutlery I used. I came back upstairs and started blogging. 

I’m quite sure that F has no idea why I’m angry with him. I find it really strange that at no point has he asked me what is wrong. That’s on him though.

Tomorrow I’m not sure what I’m going to get up to. I’m debating going out or just staying in and getting things in order. You may have to come back later and find out what I get up to. Until tomorrow….

August 20, 2022

Saturday - Cloudy and rainy

I woke up fairly early again, I went downstairs and when I came back upstairs, so did F. I was rather surprised as I thought he’d gone to the doctor’s office. He had, but the doctor’s office still wasn’t open yet. I guess he left later, I had fallen back asleep. 

When my alarm went off later, I got up and got dressed. F came back a bit later. He had scheduled a massage for himself so we left the house around 11:30. It turned out to be a little late as the traffic was crazy.  F dropped me off near S-Mall and I went in. I had a light breakfast and then did a little shopping. 

After an hour and a bit, F called me and said he was done. Then he started talking about going for fish for lunch. I had no interest in that, I didn’t really understand what he was saying. The mall was noisy and F was mumbling again. He drove to the mall and I jumped into the car. He said that he wanted to go to the fish restaurant in the old Mr. Donuts. I don’t like that place. Usually, the waitstaff is terrible and every time I ask for something to eat, they don’t have it.

We ended up going to the restaurant at the Bussankan.  We both had tonkatsu and it was pretty good. F complained a bit about the price. Sigh. It wasn’t that much and it doesn’t seem to matter how often I remind him about prices at the moment, he doesn’t remember that things cost more money. 

After lunch, we decided to go to the Tsuruoka Art Forum.  I was really interested in their exhibit at the moment. It was called Enlightenment and featured 4 artists and lights. Some of it was really cool. The Art Forum is on two levels so we asked that F be able to use the elevator to go up to the second floor. Happily, they were okay with that. Some of the exhibits/displays were very cool. Some were just okay. I’m not sure which artist made this one, but the room was full of lights hanging from the ceiling. They were at different lengths and it was quite an amazing feeling being in the room. Outside the room, they asked that people be careful with bags and hair accessories in case they got caught, so I took my bag off my back and carried it. It was a good thing I think!

Here are a couple of pictures for your viewing pleasure!

After going through the Art Forum, we needed a drink. We were going to go to one place nearby, but they had closed early. Oh no. F took us to Starbucks and we both had frappuccinos. The store was busy, but we were able to get a table. We spent a bit of time there and then went off and grabbed a bento and something else for K. We came back to the house and F gave the bento to his mother.  We came upstairs and relaxed for a while.

The Fireworks in Tsuruoka started at 7:30. Unfortunately, it seemed like the rain began five minutes after that. We watched a bit from our window but decided that we really should go and get something to eat. F wanted to go to an unagi place, but I reminded him that the last time we went to his place it was expensive and not up to his standards. He then suggested a gyudon place. I wasn’t happy but said I’d go. They sell unagi too. He then wanted a ramen shop but I put the kibosh on that!

We drove to the Gyudon shop and had a couple of types of gyudon. As expected, F didn’t have unagi. Neither did I, but I never planned to.  I had a lemon and garlic gyudon. It wasn’t great. F didn’t like his much either. Over dinner F was watching videos, as usual, only this time, he called the person on his screen his “TikTok girlfriend.” I said, “Excuse me?” and he said it again. “She’s my TikTok Girlfriend.” I didn’t take his “joke” well. I didn’t say much at the time, but once back at the house I haven’t bothered to say very much to him at all. He’s been tweeting to at least one of the girls he watches and even had the nerve to tell her that I thought she was beautiful. Umm….what? I’ve no idea who she is. Apparently, she sings on TikTok…I have no idea. 

I took a shower after we got back to the house and a bit later watched some TV. I know that F thinks this is a big joke and so funny, but I don’t. 

No idea what I’ll get up to tomorrow. I have no idea if F and I will have a chat about this or not. Guess you’ll have to come back and find out. Until tomorrow….