August 29, 2007 - Wednesday

Hot and sunny, a bit cloudy in the evening.

I had an okay day, I guess. I slept in a bit late, but as I didn't have any plans I wasn't too worried about it.

When I got up, I did some laundry and also started tonight's dinner. I made a really nice tomato sauce and browned the pork roast. It all went in the slow cooker at 12 or so.

I did a lot of vacuuming today too. I kept sucking things up and getting the nozzle stuck though! That was annoying. For example, did you know that a pop bottle cap will get stuck in the hose? It's true. I vacuumed most of our rooms and I thought the apartment looked much improved. Then, I tackled the mound of stuff that had been growing next to my computer. Yes, it's my stuff but I have nowhere to put it. Or maybe I do but I'm just lazy! I threw out a lot of stuff, and generally had the living room looking better.

I had planned to go out, but didn't. I was a bit disappointed at myself for that, but thought it wasn't necessary. By the time I finished housekeeping it was getting later and it started to look duller outside, like it might rain at any moment.

When Fumihiko came home, he didn't notice how much nicer the apartment looked, nor did he notice the lovely smell coming from the slow cooker. I called him on it and instead of saying something nice to me he complained that when he cleans up I never notice. Ummm. When? He told me that he cleaned the toilet room on Sunday. I honestly didn't see a difference. I think we have different standards of what clean is. I noticed that when I tell him I did something, he usually responds by saying that he did it last time or that he does the same thing at times. I think it's just his little fantasy. I was home all day by myself, didn't talk to anyone. Would it really have killed him to say, "Wow, dinner smells good?" or "The place looks good?" I guess so.

We went out for coffee because I wanted to get some stuff at the mall, then we came home. We ate dinner and it was good. Hubby decided to have some rice with his meal which was fine, then he added on some spicy fish eggs. I thought it was quite rude. I'd asked him to pick us up something else in the grocery store when we were there but he said he couldn't find anything. So, he came home, ate half of my food, plus a bunch of other stuff. That was supposed to be enough for me, but not for him.

I did the dishes tonight as he pulled a "I'm mad at you for being mad at me" routine. A bit later he asked me to go to a drug store with him to pick up some stuff. I went, feeling better about him, but by the time we got home I was upset again.

He ended up going to bed fairly early. It's probably a good thing. He's got an ingrown toenail and he's even grumpier than usual.

I've written quite a bit tonight, but I edited a lot out again. It sounded really negative. I don't mean it to, but on a day like today, when I tried so hard to make our apartment nicer, and I get slammed, it's really hard not to be negative. I considered going away for these two days that I don't have classes this week, but decided not to because of money concerns. However, I really wish that I had now.

Anyway, tomorrow I have decided that I will leave the apartment come hell or high water, and I might not come back until late! Probably kidding because there really aren't really places to stay out late in this city.

I gotta go now. Things are okay. I'm listening to Virgin Radio from the UK on my computer, and I'll go to bed fairly soon. I'll talk to you tomorrow night. Night!