Monday, October 02, 2023

Good morning 1002

 

A new week has started. Yuki is at home. He looks fine. Hi took garbage out as his usual mission. 

Today we are going to go to a second shop with my reminisced goods and Yuki’s books which he read in hospital.

In the afternoon I will go to a clinic to talk with my doctor about my sluggish. 

For a while we enjoy “usual” days .

Sunday, October 01, 2023

lunch diary 0930 short version

 

Yuki was released temporally yesterday. And now he has gone out to play tennis.

When he left home, he said "I will play tennis shorte time than usual". But he hasn't come yet. 

On the other hand I am not  feeling well. As soon as we came back home, I felt very  executed. So I went to bed earlier than usual. Today I am awake, but I am spending laisily. I have no fever. So this sluggish probably comes from two things. Anyway Yuki came back so that I'm relieved. And before his rehosptalization we try to avoid being caught by corona and Flu (Ful is getting spread little by little), it makes me nevous. Moreover the next hopstiatlizaion makes me anxious. 

Relief, tense, and anxious come together. It makes me feel not well.


Well, yesterday I had chai tea latte at Starbacks in the hospital. It was the first time for me to order custmized tea.

light syrup, all milk, and extra hot. 

I thought light syrup means less sweetness, but less "chai syurp". So the tasete is almost hot milk.

Have you ordered such a customized drink?

Saturday, September 30, 2023

Good morning 0930

 

My garage sale at a cafe was finished. Most of the items were sold. As we (including the cafe owner) expected, tableware is left. I am going to take them to a used shop.

Today Yuki is released temporarily. In 10 days he is going back to thehospital to start his cancer treatment. 

Next week I am supposed to go to Tokyo to visit our mothers, but I canceled it. It is the same day when Yuki and I are going to talk to his doctor about his radiation treatment.  

Anyway today’s lunch we are going to eat outside somewhere. (Additionally yesterday I had lunch at Karaku cafe)

Friday, September 29, 2023

Good morning 0929

 

Today it is the last day of my garage sell at cafe Karaku. In the afternoon I go there and take unsold goods back to my home, then of course I will,discard or take them to a used shop.

Yesterday an interesting thing happened at hospital. Yuki’s room is in the eight floor. I take his laundry and books to a lounge on the eighth floor (there a lounge on each floor) and talk with a nurse handing over them. There coincidentally I met my friend who is also my hairdresser. Of course both of them were very surprised. In her case her friend is there. Her friend has no family in Tochigi, so she supports her. She understood my situation. 

Then we went to Starbucks in the hospital and talk for a while. Yuki came down to buy his coffee, so three of us talked for a little. He also knows her. 

Well,  basically visitors are not allowed to see patients in the wards. But patients are allowed to buy something at Starbucks or a convenience store in the hospital. So my friend and I “coincidentally “ saw Yuki. 


Thursday, September 28, 2023

Good morning 0928

 

Today I have to go to hospital to check my cholesterol. I have already my medical report which I got from my annual  checkup last month. ( from the checkup Yuki’s tumor was found.)

The value is still high, but compadres three months ago not so change, just still high, so I won't take medicine. 

Anyway in one hour I will go out.

The hospital is different from Yuki’s one. My hospital is not so bigger than him but it is not a clinic. So it is crowded.




Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Good morning 0927

 

Yesterday I weeded. The amount was three big plastic bags of 45l. I did too much. So I went to bed very earlier than usual.

According to Yuki’s morning report today he has CT  exam. Then his main treatment plan is scheduled. 

At hospital morning starts very early. At 7 am, a nurse  comes, checks his temperature and condition, and tells today’s schedule to him. 

Yuki says “ I have visitors (nurses and his doctor) everyday more than usual.” (Well at home, he has seldom visitors because he is always out)



Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Good morning 0926

 

It is getting cooler. I am wearing a long sleeved shirt.

It is a usual thing, but this season hot weather continued. So I feel “finally I need long sleeved clothes”, though my friends of the gym still wear short sleeved clothes.

Morning coolness or lonely morning makes me depressed. I should go to the gym in the morning. 

My  mission in the afternoon is buying some book Yuki requested this morning (just a few minutes ago) at a used shop, taking them to the hospital and bring back back his laundry. His cancer treatment has not started yet. 


Monday, September 25, 2023

Good morning 0925 lunch diary shortversion 0923

 Good morning. A new week has started. Yuki is still in hospital. His pneumonia was cured. So, his next treatment is going to start. It must be tough.  



I wonder if I should go to the gym in the morning.

Friday, September 22, 2023

Good morning 0922

 

The procedure of Yuki’s pension finished. It was our big concern. We are relieved. 

Today, Yuki’s birthday. It is too bad that he is not here. I might buy new iPad for him to use kindle app, though he is not so interested. He prefer paper books and magazines. 

Additionally he took his old iPod with lots of music and rakugo(traditional Japanese comic story telling)
When he is not so good, listening to something makes him calm, and easy to sleep.







Thursday, September 21, 2023

Good morning 0921

 

Today I am going to a pension office as a substitute of Yuki. 

Finally Yukika pension will start. Concisely while he is 64, he receives part of his pension. When he becomes 65 he receives full pension. 

On our schedule we were going to the office together, then celebrate for finishing the process of pension documents having dinner outside. 
 Yesterday I got a letter of attorney from him at the hospital.

He has no fever, no coughing. Probably from next week his treatment will start. To tell the truth his pneumonia makes him weaken, though I think(hope) he keeps enough physical strength.

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Good morning 0920

 

Yuki was officially diagnosed with lung cancer. He is still in hospital. After his pneumonia  completely gets over, its treatment starts with anticancer drug without being released.

Fortunately or unfortunately I am busy in processing documents. Now patients in the hospital prohibit to go shopping in the hospital. So I take some magazines an d  spare sets of clothes (pajamas and underwear). I can’t see home directly, but anyway I constantly go to the hospital.


Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Good morning 0919

 

Tuesday has come. In the evening finally family meeting with a doctor is held. Anyway I have no fever. If I have a slight fever in the day, it is caused by my anxiety.

These days I take my kimonos apart. I hesitated to do the first one. But once I started, I can take others apart smoothly. 

A friend of my gym changes them into casual clothes. 

Taking apart it, washing, and ironing, there are some steps. And I hand the kimono cloth to my friend. Of course sewing has many troublesome steps.

Monday, September 18, 2023

Good morning 0918

 

This week has started, though it is a holiday today. 

Yuki is still in hospital. Tomorrow evening we are going to talk with his doctor. What happens is going to happen.

I hope the meeting will be hold on schedule.

It was going to be hold last Tuesday. But Yuki was suddenly hospitalized with pneumonia. So it was postponed. 

In the second half of the week at a floor in the hospital some patients were caught by corona virus. Luckily or unluckily Yuki is in a private room. So he is all right.

When he was told to be hospitalized , we hoped to be in a shared room (thinking of his condition and fee). But it was a sudden hospitalization so shared rooms were full. When a shared room was vacant, he was going to move there. But some patients were caught by corona virus, he enjoys his private room. But it got difficult to go to the first floor to buy something at a convenience store or take a coffee of Starbucks. (In the hospital there is a Starbucks).


Anyway today I stay home by myself. 

Sunday, September 17, 2023

lunch diary 0917 Short version

 I am spending this three-day weekend lazily, and absent-mind.

However in the morning I made juice of  which is growing in my garden.







Friday, September 15, 2023

Good morning 0915

 

Yuki is still in hospital. Than we expected he seems to be in hospital longer. The result of blood check is getting better. 

On the other hand my mother is getting better than we expected. She “drinks” thickens food if she likes. And she she clearly denied  food she doesn’t like. According to my daughter she. Is tough picky. Well it doesn’t start recently. It is her character. So she is all right, though we don’t know when aspiration pneumonia happens. 

In the morning I will go to the gym.

On Japanese calendar, we have three-day weekend. I have no plan.

I was going to see a friend for the first time in 30 years. She lives in Osaka, now she is in Tokyo for a while. So she was going to visit Utsunomiya here. But because of sudden Yuki’s hospitalization I canceled. I might talk with her on video phone. 

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Good morning 0913

 

Yuki is fine, but has still fever. 

Than he expected it is cool in the hospital. I took two sets of long sleeved pajamas, but they are not enough. I have to go buying new ones and take them. (Usually he doesn’t wear long sleeved pajamas expect think ones for winter, so he doesn’t suitable pajamas at home. )

According to him, a  chest pocket is necessary, and if is can find sporty type is better.

I think a set of long sleeved normals pajama with a chest pocket is enough. 

Anyway the period he has to be in the hospital seems to longer than we expected. 

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Good morning 0912

 

Yesterday it was a long day. We got to the hospital about 10:30 AM. And I got home past 7PM.

Yuki caught pneumonia and was hospitalized yesterday. He looked not so bad. He didn’t have high fever. But his blood test was not so good, and his lung is weak. So doctors were thinking, the they suggested him to be hospitalized.


Unluckily he had to cancel play golf onWednesday.

He was going to attend the the golf with taking medicine. 

Anyway for about five or seven days he has to spend with no-alcohol.

Here in Utsunomiya Ipswich’s big hospitals are not admitted anyone including family to visit patients who are hospitalized. So I just take his underwear or magazines constantly. —— not constantly, probably. Anyway today I have to take some. He can buy underwear at convenience store in the hospital, but it is very very expensive. 




Monday, September 11, 2023

Good morning 0911

 

This week has started with full of anxiety.

Yuki was able to join the concert yesterday. After that he told his members his health problem. It was a sad thing, but he seemed to be relieved because feeling less responsibility. 

Anyway today we go to the hospital. Our first schedule was going to the hospital tomorrow. 

Before going to his hospital I  go to a clinic to be prescribed medicine for headache for me. 

In the morning it seems to be tough.


Sunday, September 10, 2023

Lunch diary 0909 short version

 


It is Sunday. Yuki  is going to join a concert. 

However—-

To tell the truth he has still a fever and it is controlled by fever reducer.  He doesn’t catch coronavirus thought he did confirm by an exam kit at home. We call to the hospital and asked advice every two days. It might be a  side effect of PET-CT, but it seems too long. We are going to the hospital next Monday. At a clinic near of my house, they prescribe fever reducer. 

The hospital says that if he gets into bad condition including bad coughing, come there as an emergency patient. 


Actually I don’t want him to join the concert today. But he seems that it might be the last official concert for him. I know it. In autumn some concerts are scheduled. But he can’t make sure if he is able to join them. 






Friday, September 08, 2023

Good morning 0908

 

It is raining. Yuki has no choice but staying home because of no tennis. 

Yesterday I called the hospital about his fever. It seems to be a side effect. So they said to take fever reducer. 

Thinking calmly it is usual thing. But such a thing makes me uneasy. And from of now such worry things are more. Can we get over?

About my garage sale at cafe owner said some of my collection sold. I am really happy to hear that. I could give good retirement stage for my collection. 

Thursday, September 07, 2023

Good morning 0907


 Yesterday Yuki had a positron emission tomography - computed tomography examination. Than he expected it got a damage to him. He has a slight fever. he is all right. Today  he cancelled playing tennis. And we were going to go on an overnight trip to Gunma prefecture which is next prefecture to see our daughter's group exhibition  on Friday. We canceled. These days  he had to start taking detailed examinations suddenly. It seems to make him tired than he expected. This Sunday he joins a big jazz concert. It is very important for him, so we don’t go out far for his health.
Of course he does house errands as usual.He took garbage out as usual this morning. 

Wednesday, September 06, 2023

Good morning 0906

 

This is my breakfast. Today Yuki has another detailed examination, so he has to skip breakfast. In 30 minutes I drive him to the hospital. 

After his examination, it is our lunch time. I wonder which restraint to go.


Tuesday, September 05, 2023

Good morning 0905

 

Yesterday’s rain was terrible. Some roads near my house were flooded. It was reported on TV. 
We canceled our plan of yesterday’s afternoon and stayed home. 

Today it seems to get hot again. 
I am going to the gym in the morning. 
Yuki is going to get a hair cut. 

When our new washing machine was settled, the electrician advised me to have a check of  the faucet. I should call a plumber near my house. some unexpected errands often happen these days.

Monday, September 04, 2023

Good morning 0904

 

Monday has started.

It is rainy. So it is cool. 

Today we are going to a shopping mall. There is a senior life advice center to revise our budget plan and life. Consultation is free of charge. Then we are going to take LRT.  We will just go to the last stop and come back by LRT.

The last  stop is the company Yuki user to work. 

Sunday, September 03, 2023

lunch diary short 0901 short version

 


It is Sunday. Yuki is playing tennis in this scorching daytime. 

A new washing machine has come.

There might have a trouble of the water tap. I need to call a plumber next week.

Like us, our old has needs more care.




Friday, September 01, 2023

Good morning 0901

 

September has come. Our new stage of retirement life has started. 

Today Yuki is admitted to hospital overnight for having lung biopsy. 

We are relieved because for these two weeks we aren’t caught by cold and corona virus. Yesterday in the evening we had a call from the hospital, they confirmed us if someone has a fever or been caught by corona virus.

In the afternoon I will go to Karaku with my collection. They are displayed for one month, I hope someone buy some of them. 

On Sunday in the morning a new washing machine comes while Yuki goes playing tennis.


Thursday, August 31, 2023

Good morning 0831


 It is the last day of August.

Yesterday I was going to the gym, but I didn’t. 

I thought after I changed a contract of our utility paying, I was going to the gym. 

It seemed to be able to do it on the net. But it wasn’t accepted on the net. So I called to the customer service. They were busy, I had to wait for a long time to get  through to them. The time to talk to them was short. 

Today I go to the gym in the morning.


Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Good morning 0830

 

September comes in two days. These days my brain and emotion often stop working. I seem sometimes to be spaced-out.

Unusually yesterday evening I was sawing. I use Mg chips for deodorizer when washing and bath-salt when taking a bath.

Without thinking sewing with needle makes me sometimes relaxed.





Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Good morning 0829

 

Can you see the chicken nuggets on the plates? They are KFC chicken nuggets. 

The main of yesterday’s dinner was KFC fried chicken. The chicken nuggets are the rest of them. 

Yesterday the date was 28th. 

2 is pronounced ‘ni’.  8 is pronounced ‘ha-chi’

The connected sound of them is ‘ni-wa(ha)’.

On the other hand chicken is ‘ni-wa-to-ri’ in Japanese. 

The first two two sounds of them are the same. 

So on 28th they sell a  special pack with four pieces of chicken and four pieces of chicken nuggets ina good price. I hope you understand my explanation.

Monday, August 28, 2023

Good morning 0828

 

Too simple! Yuki has already gone fishing.

September is just around the corner. We will go with the flow.

This weekend Yuki is going to be admitted to the hospital overnight and  have lung biopsy. (I learned  word recently from my friend. ) It  is the first time for him to be admitted to the hospital in his life. 

Though we don’t live in a big city like Tokyo. But here Utsunomiya is one of a big providence cities. And luckily a big hospital is near our house.  So going to the hospital is not so big burden.

Our elder daughter T’s works are displayed in Takahsimaya department store in Shinjyuku, Tokyo. Luckily one of them sold.

After Yuki comes back, we will go shopping nearby. The lid of our bath tub got broken. And we need new bamboo brooms for gardening.



Sunday, August 27, 2023

Lunch diary 0826 short version

 

Yesterday LRT (kind of a street car) started operation. 
We participated in the ceremony. 

It was the first time in 75 years for a new street service to be operated.
For two of us, it was the first time to see the ceremony, and will be the last time.
It got a good memory.




Friday, August 25, 2023

Good morning 0825

 

It is. Friday. Since we went to hospital one week has passed. We have spent every day as usual on the surface. Nothing special begin yet. 

Yesterday I changed a family contract. As I expected Yuki’s identification was needed to do it. Depends on our situation we will revise our lifestyle little by little. 

Though it was planned, we bought new washing machine. It will come in 10 days. I wanted a bigger one than current one. But the door to the place where the washing machine will be placed is too narrow to let the machine go through. Our house is old liege us. Our house doesn’t suit to new style. 

The size doesn’t change, but it is all right. Anyway new washing machine will come. Thanks for the longevity of the current washing machine.



Thursday, August 24, 2023

Good morning 0824

 

Humid days have continued. Luckily I noticed my point of a shopping site has reached to get a massage  for almost free. So I decided to get a massage today, and I will add some money to extend the time, instead of going to the gym.

There is a saying “little by little! A little becomes a lot”, isn’t there?

Yesterday we went to a telephone office . Until then to get more service our contract of iPhone was family contract. This time we changed our contract to ourselves. We have some family contract things. We are going to change them little by little.



Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Good morning 0823

 

I forgot to take a picture of today’s breakfast.Yesterday we went out in the afternoon. On the way home we dropped by a bakery and had these bread there. 

Today I go to the gym. A friend of gym gave  my kimono a makeover into a dress. Today I Am going to get it.

Additionally yesterday “I” went to clinic I regularly go, told the situation which suddenly appeared to the doctor, and got a prescription of pills for anxiety  and medical Japanese kanpou(herb) .

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Good morning 0822

 

There is nothing special today. It is a regular day.

Yuki goes playing tennis in the morning,  updated his drivers license in the afternoon and go practicing his band at night. 

I will stay home in the morning instead of going to the gym.

Coincidently, I have got an opportunity to sell my collection (seasonal goods and tableware) at Karaku. The owner offered one table to sell them. The things will be displayed next month. I constantly try ty discard or give the things we won’t use and minimize our life style. It is a good opportunity, but it is too sudden. I can’t make up my mind to let lots of things  at once. Well, if they are not sold, I will take them to a used shop and let them go.


On the other hand my worry is getting bigger and bigger. 

Additionally my mother who is in hospital has started eat some things by herself.

Monday, August 21, 2023

Good morning 0821 lunch diary short version

 

A new week has started. For two of us a new stage has started.  Fortunately or unfortunately we could put our mind from our brothers’ troubles. We won’t be able to help them with nursing our mothers. 

Today  we go to hospital. Yuki has another detailed examination.



Friday, August 18, 2023

Good morning 0818


 Yesterday it was a long day. We visited both mothers. Next Monday I will go to Tokyo again. 

Today I  accompany ? go?with Yuki to a big hospital. Unfortunately his health examination turned up some abnormalities (including lung). Though I don’t need to go with him, but I will go with him instead of going to the gym. 



Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Good morning 0816

 Obon vacation was over.  We are back on track? Partly our usual days have started. Yuki goes playing tennis today. I spend lazily at home without going to the gym .

Tomorrow we go tot Tokyo.  

My mother is hospitalized now. The day before yesterday she was taken to the hospital. The symptom is “aspiration pneumonia”. Now she is all right. She is able to talk. Some troubles are solved, and new troubles occurred. Anyway the burden my elder daughter who lives next to door seems to be more heavier.

She doesn’t need to bear such a burden. It should be my burden. She said that she can’t leave her  grandmother alone. I understand her feeling. What I can do is to appreciate to her. 


Sunday, August 13, 2023

Lunch diary 0812 short version

 



This is lunch diary of the last week.

Last night four of us saw these fireworks from a window of our house. Today our son-in law is going to join us.


Friday, August 11, 2023

Good morning 0811




Obon vacation has started. Yuki’s tennis is off. The gym I exercise is off.  Are we free? Luckily (thinking positively) our daughter’s family come. Our busy obon vacation will start in six hours. Yuki is vacuuming their room now. 
 

Thursday, August 10, 2023

Good morning 0810

 

Now it is sunny. According to the weather report it will be cloudy or it will rain in two hours. It is unstable weather today like yesterday.

Today I am going to spend all the day lazy without going to the gym.  I might organize tableware which are kept in upper shelves.

Wednesday, August 09, 2023

Good morning 0809

 

Good morning. One by one we handle our mission in August and finish.
Though suddenly I decided to visit my mother yesterday, she is “still” fine. However it is really hard to take her aging and weaker more quickly than I expected. Because of this scorching or her old age , anyway she lost her appetite and she lost her weight quickly. She seems to show people surround her how to “wither away “ naturally. 
When I was 20 ,  y grand aunt who lived next to our house died old age. My mother was nursing her . In my memory I user to visit her at least once a day after school. And constantly a doctor visited her. I remember that one day the doctor said “she will pass away today”. I don’t remember after that. But anyway she passed away naturally.
At that time I was young, I was alway with her and she was my grand aunt so I took her death naturally. 
It is only one experience to  know of old age at home.


Tuesday, August 08, 2023

Good morning 0808 & troubleshooter 0803

 Good morning. I decided to visit mother today. I go there alone by train. In an hour I will leave home.











Troubleshooter  08/03

I am in my 60s, I have no friends.

I am a homemaker in my 60s. I retired from work three years ago. My husband still works. We have two children and they are already independent. Since I was young, I haven’t been good at communicating with others. It was troublesome to become friends with other mothers like me. I realized that I have no friends when I reached my 60s. After I retired from my work, I joined hobby circles or voluntary groups. I got some acquaintances but I don’t think they are my friends. People around me seem to go for lunch sometimes. I can exchange small talk but I can’t be anymore closer to them. And no one has tried to be closer to me.

My husband and me are a happy couple. We enjoy driving when my husband is off. 

Probably he will pass away earlier than me. If it happens, it is said female friends are the most important and most dependable. I don’t know how to make friends. I’m worried about my lonely old age.


Adviser (a philosopher) 

You seem to act alone up to now. Of course, you had your family so you didn’t feel loneliness to act alone. And you seem to feel troublesome to associate with others. I think you don’t need to force yourself to make friends. You imagine a lonely situation without your husband. I think if you can enjoy your own time yourself, you might not feel lonely.

Modern German philosopher Schopenhauer takes lonely free time positive. He says “To live alone is the fate of all great souls.” When I read his philosophy, I feel naturally that it is wasteful to force to spend time with others. It is a strange feeling. If you really want to talk with a person, or to do something with a person, it is another story. But if you want to distract your mind from your loneliness, you try to associate with others, it is wasteful of your old life, isn’t it? 

At least Philosopher Schopenhauer valued his time alone and he accomplished his great work.  What is interesting is that when a person lives attractively, naturally others get close to him or her.

Your worry should disappear when you make your policy clear, which is “how to live your life as who you are “.

Which do you choose, to force to make friends, or to take your alone life positive?

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I think many Japanese women seem to be worried about the definition of "my friends" including me.


Monday, August 07, 2023

lunch diary 0805 shortversion

 


A new week has started. Is it hot again?


I keep discarding 10 things once a week. 

Friday, August 04, 2023

Good morning 0804

 

Today I have our haiku club meeting. Probably I get review (criticize) . Anyway I will devote my self based on their advice, though I sometimes get discouraged. 

Tomorrow Yuki and I get an annual health check. 

We have already finished breakfast. I should leave in one and a half hours.

Thursday, August 03, 2023

Good morning 0803 troubleshooter 0728


Good morning.  It is a hot day again. Yesterday coincidentally I got cucumbers . In my house I had already cucumbers. So totally they got a lot. I decided to make pickled cucumber with soy sauce. I did it then I delivered some to some friends including the person who got me the cucumbers. It was a really busy and fulfilled day yesterday. 

Tomorrow I have a haiku meeting. So today I have to polish up hikes which I will show tomorrow.





 Troubleshooter 0728

“get-together” : I have a trouble when I have to talk about things I’m not familiar with

I’m a man in my 50s and a public servant. The other day a welcome party was hold for a new coworker who was assigned to the department I belong to. The participants sat at two tables separately. Our group had a lively conversation. The topic changed into anime, then I couldn’t join their talking and I felt isolated.

Looking back, since I was in elementary school, all I did was studying. When I faced to entrance examination to high school, I went to cram school on weekends, and I succeeded. I studied hard at high school, so I could enter the university I wanted to go. Nowadays I feel that I am losing something more important than studying.

I have few friends because I didn’t do anything but studying. When I held my wedding party, I had a trouble who were invited to my party.

How do I act when everyone starts talking about some things which I’m not familiar with at get-together. I get really disappointed. I want to overcome this feeling.


Adviser (a professor) 

You recalled your bad memory about relationship when you felt that people left you out because you couldn’t catch up with their topics at the welcome party. However, you could enter the university you wanted, you have a good job, you are happily married. And moreover, you want to be in the center of the conversation. What an unnecessary worry!  

Your question is how you will behave in such case. Probably you think that; good relationship needs a kind of skill. If you study harder and acquire the skill, you don’t feel such isolation. 

My answer is that; you don’t need to change. You feel you can’t join the topic of the conversation, but it doesn’t mean people around you leave you out.

You don’t need to play the role you are not good at. When the topic is unfamiliar to you, you just sit there and smile. You make the isolation feeling to yourself, saying more correctly your pride makes you feel isolated. Until the topic changes, you can observe the others, or you recall your good memories. You should be easygoing. If you look easygoing, no one feels that you are lonely.


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When I read this article I recalled Yuki in his 50s.

When he was in his 50s, he was the busiest in his businessman's life, and probably  most fullfilled or had most troubles.

On the other hand our dauhgters left home (not indepenedet becasue they were college students), so he got free on weekends. He started playing golf.   He resumed music live performance on Saturday nights. Looking back, I think he started to prepare for his retiremnt life witout working, though he might haven't realized that at that time. He made other relationships without coworkers. When he became around 60, he didn't worry whether he continued working or not (even though we had finacial worry.) His coworkers  in the same generation have worrked what they would do after retireing their work. So most of his friends continued working. And now most of them retired when they became around 64. 


Wednesday, August 02, 2023

Good morning 0802

 

A sunny and hot day has come back.

Yesterday I organized a closet where I put seasonal decorated things. There were some materials for kids’ English lesson. I asked a friend who sill has her own English class, though shoe is older than me. So I will send them to her adding something more.

 I am thinking to let hina dolls out. But I  can’t discard them. I know at some shrines they hold a burning ceremony for dolls. Though I hesitated or postponed to do it because of the cost. But it is about time to do it. 


Tuesday, August 01, 2023

Good morning 0801

 

August has come.

Last midnight we had terrible thunder. I woke up. Yuki was asleep.

 And now we hear thundering though it isn’t rain. 

Yesterday I went to the gym. I am wondering what to do today. And just now Yuki’s tennis is cancelled.

I might to discard 10 things of this week at home.

When I talked with my friend the other day, we realized again “simple is the best. 

It has just started raining.