July 16, 2008 - Wednesday

Hot and muggy.

Although I had originally planned to go out today, I didn't. Nope. Stayed in all day. I got up early enough to check the news, or as it was today, the lack thereof. Sigh. Some "All Star Game". Right. Chalk me up as a non baseball person please!

I went back to sleep quite honestly. I got dressed after a while and did a few things around the house, but not much. It was so hot and humid I just didn't feel like moving much. I kept postponing going out, and then I decided not to bother at all.

A bit before Fumihiko came home I took a shower. Trust me, it was necessary!

When Fumihiko came home we had some iced coffee and he got ready for his meeting. He was quite nervous about it. Basically, this is the year that "we" are in charge of the apartment building. As my Japanese is pitiful and I have a really snarky attitude about the whole thing, Fumihiko gets to do all of the work. That's what all of the printing has been for. To complicate things more for my dear hubby, this is also the year that the prefecture in its wisdom (or not) has decided to charge its tenants a fee for parking. Poor ol' Fumihiko has been stressing out about how to work it out fairly. In an 8 family apartment building, there are 12 parking spaces and 14 cars. Hmm. We only have one because I'm a bicycle rider (although we do have 4 bicycles between us...three are mine...shhh-don't tell anyone.) One other family has one car, but the rest all have two. That means that 2 families have to pay for two parking spaces...Don't quote me on the math here. I'm getting dizzy just thinking about it.

It took almost an hour for this meeting and when it was over, my hubby came back in. He was sweating and mosquito bitten. They'd had the meeting outside!

I cooked dinner, which was okay tonight. We had chicken wings with blue cheese dressing dip, onion salad, spaghetti with broccoli cheese sauce as a side dish, plus coffee. It was all quite nice. Not one of my best efforts really, but good.

Fumihiko went over to his mother's after dinner. He took one of my bicycles to store over there. Now we're down to 3 here. What a relief! When he came back, he did the dishes. (He told me not to do them, honest.)

We had a nice quiet evening at home. Fumihiko is now snoozing on the couch, but it's quite late. I really should get him moving off to bed.

Tomorrow I'm back to work, and I'm thinking that if it's really hot, I might go over to the school a bit early and start the air conditioner on a lower power. I probably won't though as I'm sure I'd rather stay here.

That's it for my day. Interesting but quiet. I'll talk to you tomorrow night. I'm off to bed. Night!

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