October 15, 2008 - Wednesday

Sunny and rainy, very rainy. Thunderstorms at night.

Today was a better morning, although this morning the doorbell rang instead of the phone. ARGH. At 7:30 I'm trying hard to sleep.

I got up at a reasonable time this morning and drank coffee. Lots of coffee! I was really sleepy. I decided that I would try to go to the mall and have lunch at the hotel, so I had a reason to stay awake.

I managed, but the weather changed and there was torrential rain outside. I decided to wait a bit. Just as suddenly as it started, it stopped again.

I bicycled off to the mall just before 1:30 and made good time. I went in and had my lunch at the hotel. I didn't have a huge amount of time before it closed, but it was enough for me. I read my Chatelaine, a Canadian magazine that I brought back from my trip. It was nice to get a dose of Canadiana.

I did a little bit of hacking around the mall, but I didn't buy much. I got a thing for Fumihiko to put his license in and a pair of magnetic earrings at the hundred yen shop. I bought some bagels for breakfast tomorrow morning.

When I was done, I decided to do something a little crazy. I rode off on my bike to Mr. Donuts and had a milkshake. I knew that they had them from our visit this weekend, and frankly I was craving one ever since. It really wasn't that great, but it was okay! While I was reading and drinking it started to pour down again. And, there was thunderbolts and lightning (very very frightening me) too. I waited until the storm had abated a little, then set off home by bicycle. I did get a little wet, but by the time I was near my apartment the rain had stopped.

At home I changed into drier clothes and watched a bit of TV. That was nice. Fumihiko came home sometime after 5:30 and we chatted for a bit.

Fumihiko requested that we go to the okonomiyaki restaurant tonight and I said it was fine, if we could go to the DVD store and rent some DVDs for my project. So, that's what we did. We had very good okonomiyaki, one cheese and one with shrimp, then went over to Tsutaya. I ended up getting 5 DVDs. Hopefully I'll enjoy them all. In all likelihood though, I probably won't like all of them!

We came home via a grocery store that was on our way home, not our usual one and while we were checking out the produce section I discovered some things that looked like light and long pumpkins. I asked Fumihiko if they were spaghetti squash. He didn't know, but said the info posted in front of it said that when they were cooked they had long stringy bits inside. Aha! Sounds like spaghetti squash to me. When I was reading my Chatelaine this afternoon it had a little blurb about how to cook them. I had to buy one. I'll check it out either tomorrow or Friday to see if it's good. I haven't had spaghetti squash for years.

We came home and watched Bad Santa with Billy Bob Thornton. It was funny, but so crude. The language was shocking, but the story was hilarious! Fumihiko even got a big kick out of the movie too.

That was about it for my day. Fumihiko went to bed after snoozing on the couch for a bit. I'll go soon. I have a few things to do first.

Tomorrow I'm back to work and I'm going to be a bit busier than usual. A Saturday student is coming tomorrow as she can't come at her regular time this week. I have to go to the school earlier than normal for Thursday.

Got to go. Night night!

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