Feeling Blah

 Not a good way to start a new month!

Yesterday, Mikey took me to Hannah's. I wanted to take Hannah shopping. She has two weeks of teacher training. She'll be at a junior high school from 8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. The school is a 20-minute walk from her apartment. I know she'll be too tired to think about shopping, so I thought I could take her and get her some stuff to last for the next 10 days or so. We managed to get a lot of meat for the freezer, some vegetables, fruit, milk, yoghurt, and bread. At least she doesn't have to worry about meat; the other stuff she can pick up at the convenience store near her apartment! Also, she has to make obento, a lunch box, every day! This was today's.

Hannah's obento

Unfortunately, I got sick.  The air conditioner in the car doesn't work very well. It's about 50 minutes from here to Hannah's, but the air conditioner only worked for about 20 minutes. We had the windows open, but hot air blowing doesn't really help. Then driving around the city made me even hotter. We got back about 5 o'clock, I slept for an hour, hoping I would be okay, but I was so exhausted that I went to bed at 10 o'clock. This morning I woke with a headache and feeling nauseous! I made lunch, but couldn't eat. I've spent the day in my room, with the air conditioner blasting, just sleeping! I feel a lot better, but rather upset that I lost the day, but I guess no choice!

There's a lot I want to do this month. One is to do a deep clean. I feel that I haven't been doing too much cleaning because of the heat, but I need to deal with the cat smell. One YouTube channel I watch is a Japanese lady, in her 60s, who has 8 cats. Her videos talk about her daily life, finding peace in her area, and taking time to cook or bake. Nice, simple, slow life. Her house always looks clean. In the latest video, she talked about how she cleans every day because of her cats. She has to sweep up the litter and then vacuum the area. Simple thing, something I know I should do, but somehow got put to the back of my mind. So I need to start, no more excuses! I want to get students, but I can't imagine having anyone visit the house at the moment!

Also, we are having lots of little visitors!  I found this in the kitchen the other morning. I think the cats got it!

Poor thing!

Not nice to see first thing in the morning!

And just for a laugh, this was on the soda I got Mikey yesterday.

The story of the hare and the tortoise

I don't know if you can read the story, but it says that the tortoise won because it drank this soda!