April 23, 2024

Tuesday - Sunny and warm

F dropped something this morning when he was getting ready for work and he woke me up. Unfortunately, today I wasn’t able to go back to sleep so I went downstairs to use the washroom. F was in there. Sigh. Later, I went back upstairs and got back into bed. I slept quite late again. I had planned to get up a bit earlier today, but I didn’t. 

I went downstairs for breakfast and bumped into K. I was a tad worried because she’d already eaten her breakfast and her lunch. It wasn’t even noon yet. 

I came upstairs and relaxed for a bit. I ate my breakfast which was oatmeal. I decided to make it today and I really enjoyed it. I watched some YouTube and also some news, I did a bit of knitting too.

I made my lunch around 2:30 and brought it upstairs to eat. I actually had brought up too much. I had leftovers from yesterday, my salad and my toasted sandwiches. I couldn’t eat it all. Yes, I watched two episodes of Fringe today.  In the second of the episodes, one of the new characters was killed and it was very sad. I hope that I can get a few more watched in the next couple of days.

F called me after 5 and said he was on the way back. I went downstairs to start getting dinner ready. Tonight we had sausages and roasted potatoes left over from yesterday. I did them all in the air fryer. I also made guacamole and served that with tortilla chips. Everything turned out well, but I was a bit late with dinner.

After dinner, I did the dishes and then went upstairs to change. A few minutes later F and I went out to Mina. Unfortunately, F chose to come into the store with me. I find it so frustrating. When we went through the checkout, I was surprised that there were a bunch of things in the cart that we didn’t need at all. F bought chocolate and cotton buds. I have spare cotton buds at the house. Ack. 

We came back to the house and I put away the groceries. I thought F was going to help, but he didn’t. No big deal really, as I prefer to do it myself. Then I know where everything is!

We went upstairs and I relaxed for a bit. I wrote an email to my bestie because I owed her one, then watched FBI: Most Wanted. Tonight it was about the “people journalists” and a woman who thought her daughter was still alive despite being killed in a mass shooting. It was a decent episode.

While I was watching the show, I did 4 rows of my hat and I put in a new lifeline.  I also tried it on and it’s a little too big.  I think when my hair is longer again, it’ll be fine. I have enough yarn to make another one when I’m finished if I want to do that!

Anyway, that’s about it for me. Tomorrow I imagine I’ll be watching more Fringe, doing some more knitting and maybe cooking dinner too. Doesn’t it sound exciting?  Not to me either. 

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

April 22, 2024

 Monday - Sunny and warm

I woke up this morning when F’s alarm went off at 7:00 am. Sigh. He was long gone to work or an onsen. I had to wake up enough to turn off the alarm, and then I was able to get back to sleep after that. I overslept from my alarm, but no harm done really. 

I got up eventually and made my breakfast. I brought it upstairs and ate. I watched some YouTube and some news… same old stuff. After a bit, I watched the news from the bed and then I turned off the TV and had a snooze for a few minutes.

I went downstairs a bit later and grabbed my lunch. When I came upstairs with it, I watched Fringe of course. I watched two episodes in the daytime, and they were really good. 

F called after 5 to say he was on his way back, so when the episode I watched was over, I went downstairs to get started on dinner. 

Tonight I made air fryer chicken legs with boiled new potatoes, salad and spinach. I thought it was really good, but F hardly had any food at all. K had a bit, and so did I but I was a little upset. 

I did the dishes afterwards and then went upstairs with a can of root beer. Unfortunately, my root beer is almost finished. I have the feeling that some other people have been helping themselves to it. Grr. 

I spent a bit over an hour upstairs on YouTube and then went downstairs to take a shower. I took down some fresh towels and a bottle for water for upstairs.  After my shower, I was in the washroom when I heard a lot of noise. F had come downstairs to use the washroom and K got up to use the washroom. Luckily I didn’t spend too much time in there!

I went upstairs and asked F to bring up my bottle of water for me. I started watching Fringe, another episode today too. It was good. Now in the series it is set in the future and it’s a little odd, but I like it. I think I have eleven more episodes to watch before the end of the month.

And, that’s about it for me. Tomorrow I’m cooking dinner again and I’ll see about doing other things during the day. I’m pretty sure I’ll watch some more Fringe too!  

Come back later if you like and hear all the fun from Tuesday. Until tomorrow…..

April 21, 2024

Sunday - Hot and sunny

I slept in this morning and it was lovely! I woke up first around 9 am, made a trip downstairs and then came back and went to sleep again! Around 11:30, F came up to our room and suggested going for lunch. He had a couple of good ideas for places to go.

We went to a cafe that we only visited once before. It’s a cafe that serves mostly curry, it was nice. I enjoyed our lunch, F wasn’t so sure!  We both had the hirekatsu curry. I had mine with a lassi, F had hot coffee. 

After lunch, we picked up a bento for K’s lunch and brought it back to the house to give it to her. I came upstairs and changed my jacket. It was quite warm and I was wearing a warm jacket today.  

F and I drove over to the nearby park and went to the craft fair. The fair was probably great, but I was rather annoyed at my husband. He would look at stuff that I had no interest in, and every time I stopped to look at stuff he had no interest in my stuff! The best thing would have been to split up and then meet later, but neither of us suggested it.  We didn’t buy anything so it was rather a waste of time. 

After the fair, I suggested going to Komeda Coffee and getting something to drink. We haven’t been there in ages so that’s what we did. We were seated quickly and decided to have the cake and coffee option. I had the iced caffeine-less coffee and a cafe au lait layer cake. Yum.  We spent a bit of quiet time there and just relaxed, then went and did our grocery shopping. 

F came in the grocery store with me and it was okay. He does have the tendency to make me go down aisles that I don’t need to go down, which is a bit annoying!

We paid for the groceries and I packed them. F only brought in a small bag, so I had to use one of my own shopping bags. Oh well.  After our shopping, we hit up a drugstore for F and then came back to the house. 

I put the groceries away and headed upstairs. F was supposed to give his mother some dinner, but he didn’t for a while. We talked about where to go for dinner, but it took us a while to go too. Our first choice closed early so we went to Kula Sushi.

We had an okay dinner at Kula. It isn’t the best sushi there, but I enjoyed most of it. I did have some that I didn’t like much. F won a prize from the lottery system…I think he’s going to put it on the fridge!

When we left the restaurant, we walked over to the  drugstore in the parking lot and I bought a few things there. I bought a drink for both F and I amongst other things. 

We came back to the house and I came upstairs. After a bit of YouTube catching up, I fired up the Fire Disk and watched an episode of Fringe. While I watched Fringe, I did some more work on my hat. I have started decreasing for the top! Woot. After that, I tried to sign into Apple TV+, but it wouldn’t open. I ended up watching an episode of The Big Bang Theory. It was fine.

And that was my day. It was quite a good one, but I did a lot of walking and my legs aren’t too happy with me. Sigh. 

I’m not sure what I’m going to get up to tomorrow. Come back later if you like and find out. Until tomorrow….

April 20, 2024

Saturday - Warm but muggy

Today was an odd day, but it wasn’t terrible. Hurray for that. 

I dragged myself out of bed this morning and got dressed for going to the Doctor’s office. We got there on time but were honestly almost the last people seen! The good thing about sitting in the waiting room is that I got a lot of my book read.  I’ve been keeping Jennifer Weiner’s The Breakaway for reading in the waiting room. It does mean that I don’t read it for a while between appointments. 

We picked up our medicines and then we had to decide where to eat. Before we went out, F mentioned that he wanted to change his car tyres but couldn’t loosen some of the bolts. He wanted to take his car to the dealership so that they could undo the stuck bolts for him. The car dealership is next to Cocos, so I suggested going there for lunch.

We went to the car place and F asked them to undo the bolts for him, and that we wanted to go for lunch. So, we did and they did.

Cocos was a tad busy at first, but we did get seated right away. I ordered for us but something went wrong! I was supposed to order spicy Caribe chicken for F with large rice, but what came was plain chicken with a bun. I had planned to get that at one point. My order was fine, I had a burger with a bun. I think I was checking to see if I had ordered my bun correctly and I may have deleted F’s order. Oh dear. It  didn’t seem to matter to F and he ate it anyway. I would have been rather annoyed, but he was fine.

After lunch, we picked up the car and went back to the house as K was due to come back soonish. F stayed downstairs and he changed the tyres on the car. I watched YouTube upstairs and then took a mini nap.

F finished and then went downstairs to make his mother dinner. I suggested using one of the packets of food that I bought for just such a situation. 20 minutes later he came upstairs to tell me that he made her a bunch of other things because he couldn’t find the packets. He didn’t look properly! I took him into the kitchen later and showed him. Eye roll. 

He did have a bit of a snit fit at me which I didn’t think was called for. He decided he wasn’t going to the movie tonight and he wanted to have ramen. I told him it was fine, he should go and have his ramen and I would go and see the movie alone on Monday. A couple of minutes later he said he wanted to go to the movie. 

Thus began our attempt to find a decent dinner. I had suggested a Chinese restaurant nearby. F liked the idea, but then went with an idea to go to a more expensive dinner. However, when we got there, it wasn’t open. Then, I suggested another family style restaurant but it was busy and the parking was full. So, he decided to go back to the Chinese restaurant. We got there. It was busy and they said we couldn’t be seated for 40 minutes. It was already 7:00pm and the movie started at 8:00pm. F asked me if it was okay and of course I said no. 

We ended up at the same gyudon place we went to last week. However, we both ordered meals this time and they did arrived in decent time. I had chicken breasts deep fried and F had pork. It wasn’t a great meal, but it was okay. 

We ate our meals and then zoomed off to the cinema. There were more people watching today’s movie de jour than last week, but it still wasn’t too crowded. The cinema was darn cold though. We went to see First Cow and it was good. It was a little slow, but I enjoyed learning about this time and place. 

After the movie, we went to MaxValu to pick up some food and snacks. I tried to find something at the deli that I wanted, but there wasn’t anything. I did pick up a couple of things at the bakery. 

We came back to the house and I went upstairs so I could watch FBI. It was a decent episode. Then, the TV went off and I got stuck into YouTube and blogging. F stayed up a bit later than usual, but is sleeping away now. 

I’m not sure what we’ll get up to tomorrow. I have to do all my usual shopping stuff to get ready for the week ahead. I’m hoping that we’ll have a bit of time to goof off or at least enjoy each other’s company. However, the earphone does seem attached to F’s ear, so I’m not sure that will ever happen.

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

April 19, 2024

Friday - Cloudy, rainy and cooler

I woke up before my alarm this morning, I went downstairs and then came back upstairs and got changed. I tried to go back to sleep for a while, but the housebuilding nearby was really noisy and I just couldn’t fall asleep. I ended up getting up a bit earlier than usual and watching the news on TV. 

I grabbed my breakfast and tried to decide if K was still at the house or if she was out (I think she was in). I came upstairs to eat and then a bit later, I took a nap. I did manage to sleep for a few minutes and woke up feeling refreshed.

I made my lunch around 2:30 and then came back upstairs. I did watch Fringe today, two episodes, and they were fabulous. One of the episodes that I watched was like it was from a different series…it took the story and turned it on its head.  I was blown away. It worked, but wow!

F called around 5:15 and said he was on his way back. He wanted to stop at a grocery store to get things for himself. He asked if I wanted anything so I suggested getting something for dessert. 

I went downstairs and got started on dinner. F came back and had bought some ice cream for us all. That went into the freezer. I asked him if he wanted me to cook right away or if I should serve dinner at 7 pm. He said right away, so I got on with dinner. We had pasta with a store-bought sauce, ham and salad. We also had the ice cream that F bought too. 

F didn’t like the pasta, but I did. I did the dishes and they didn’t take too long tonight since I’d only used one pan and just a few plates. I went upstairs when I was finished.  

I was working on my knitting when F came up and asked if I wanted to go out. Nope. He offered to take me out for karaoke but that surprised me a bit. I was planning to take a shower in a bit so I didn’t want to go out! 

I watched a bit of YouTube and then went and took my shower. When I finished I came upstairs and watched an episode of The Great British Sewing Bee. It made a nice change!

F went to sleep a bit earlier. I’m a little sad. He’s spent the evening as he does, with an earphone in or a pair of headphones on. I have things that I want to talk to him about but I refuse to talk to him about important things when he’s only listening to me with one ear. And, he’s always only listening to me with one ear. When he bothers to listen at all. 

Well, that’s about it for me for today. Tomorrow we have a doctor’s appointment and I hope that we’ll go and see a movie at Machi-kine in the evening too. 

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

April 18, 2024

Thursday - Warm and sunny

This morning was a tad odd. F dropped something while he was getting ready and it woke me up. I looked at him and he apologized and I went back to sleep for a while!  Then, I woke up and went downstairs. I came back to the room and it was still early. It wasn’t even 9 am yet so I got partially dressed and went back to bed. I overslept of course, but so what. 

I got up finally, finished getting dressed and then went downstairs. I took a load of clothes downstairs with me and put them in the washing machine. I did two loads of laundry today and it was about time! I have damp clothing all over our bedroom now.

When I went downstairs to make my lunch, I remembered that I was supposed to make ginger pork for dinner so I set it up. I grated some ginger, added it to soy sauce and then I put it on the pork slices. I put them back into the fridge and finished making my lunch. 

I went back upstairs and ate lunch. Of course, I watched an episode of Fringe. After I watched the news, I watched another episode of Fringe and it was good too. They killed off one of the variations of a character so it was a little sad. 

I went downstairs around 6 pm and got started on dinner. Tonight I did ginger pork, with salad, guacamole, leftovers, potato salad and cup soup. I enjoyed it, I’m not sure if everyone else did too or not.

I did the dishes afterwards and then I went upstairs. F and I got ready to go to the store and he informed me that he was coming into the store with me. Oh well. He’s allowed to, I just knew that it would take longer and cost more to let him in the shop. And it did!

We came back to the house and I ended up putting away the groceries. I went upstairs and at 11 pm I watched The Rookie. I think it was the last one of the season and it was good. It left a few cliffhangers too.

I turned off the TV after the show and got stuck into my computer. I did have a little chat with my BFF though. That was nice. She’d received her birthday present and liked it too. Woot!

And that’s it. We’re sliding into the weekend and I’m not sure what is going to happen then.

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

April 17, 2024

Wednesday - Sunny and warmish

I woke up early this morning. It was around 7:30. F had already left for work. I went downstairs and then came back upstairs and went back to bed. I thought I’d get up early, but I ended up oversleeping again. Sigh.

I went downstairs, grabbed breakfast and then came back upstairs to eat. I watched some YouTube and also the news on TV. 

Later on, I went downstairs and made my lunch. I brought it upstairs and ate while watching two episodes of Fringe. I did a little knitting too when I finished my lunch.

Today was a bit interesting since K didn’t spend all day in bed. She was up for most of the day. Every time I went downstairs I could hear her TV.

I went downstairs around 6pm and took some plastic bottles down for recycling. I’ll have to send the bag out next week. I got started on dinner. F came back a little bit later and we had a nice reunion.  

Tonight I did roasted vegetables with the nice Costco wieners/sausages and a salad. I was annoyed at F and K since both of them were plunked down at the table waiting to be served. Sigh. I did a couple of batches of veggies in the air fryer and they turned out very nicely today. 

After dinner, I did the dishes and happily, they weren’t too bad. I had done a few as I was working before dinner, so there weren’t as many as there could be. 

When I finished the dishes, I did up the garbage in the kitchen and also in the bathroom. I put the full bag in the genkan and then went upstairs. 

I relaxed for a bit but then did up my garbage in the bedroom. I left the bag for F to put his stuff in. 

I went downstairs to take a shower and took a towelket downstairs with me to wash. I wanted F to show me how to use the dryer function on the washing machine. He did, so I washed my towelket and I’m drying it now too. K was up and waylaid F on his way to the washroom. She thinks that she grabbed the wrong coat from her Saturday Day Care thing and was all upset about it! Eye roll. 

I took my shower and then came upstairs and watched another episode of Fringe. Yay me. I hope that I’ll be able to finish the series before the end of the month. I’m more than halfway through the fourth season so I’m getting there. 

I did more knitting too. I’m nearly at the time when I have to change to the new double-point needles. Woot. I’m a bit nervous. It’s been a while since I used double-pointed needles. 

When I turned the TV back to the DVR from the Fire Disk, I discovered that there had been a big earthquake down south, in Oita. I think everyone that I know in the area will be okay, many of the ladies had posted on Facebook.  There wasn’t going to be any tsunami, thankfully. 

I spent the rest of the evening watching YouTube and getting ready to blog. I’m off to bed as soon as I post this. Well, I’ll probably have to hang up my towelket first if it isn’t dry, but that’s okay too!

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