Saturday Kuniko had to go into work, and since I am unemployed it didn’t feel like anything special to stay home all day. There isn’t much to tell you about. I worked on unpacking all day, did some laundry, and made one shopping trip.
The shopping trip was to get some super sunlight-reducing curtains for the bedroom. The morning sun seems to shine right in and heat the place up early in the morning. Luckily I found some good curtains that looked like they’d do the trick. I had a little trouble with the dimensions – the kanji for height and width were some that I hadn’t seen before. Luckily when I got them back and hung them up they look fine.
I bumped into one of my ex-students with her mother on the way back. I said a quick hello in Japanese and greeted me back and kept moving. I used to be surprised how often my father, an elementary school teacher, would run into ex-students. I now seemed to be doomed to the same fate.
I bought some upscale groceries on the way home, and made a big avocado and ham sandwich for lunch. I washed it down with an Australian beer that I found in Vivre (Victoria Bitter) and then went on cleaning up the house.
It went like that for the rest of the day until Kuniko got home, and then I served up a cold salad for dinner and we sat and talked about each other’s day. We had to drive to Saty and drop off the mistaken furniture – they took it back, embarrassed, and didn’t so much as offer us a parking voucher. Kuniko bought some fabric for her tea ceremony event on Sunday, and also we got a DVD, even though we don’t even have a TV.
We gave our TV to Brenda, so now there is a great big hole in the living room. Actually, there are two holes – we gave away our sofa, too. We sit on the floor in the empty living and stare at the corner. To rub it in, we’ve got a whole rack of DVDs to watch, but nothing to watch them on. We had planned since before our wedding to get a new TV after we moved, and we’ll probably get it soon after we get back from our vacation. We both want a plasma TV, and the prices have been falling recently so it might be a good time to get one. Big, big, big!
Since I’m going to be doing not much at all over the next week or so, I’ll fill in the time by describing the new neighborhood, instead of describing in detail what boxes I unpacked lately. I like the neighborhood, and there are some really interesting things to write about.
