New Year's Day

Pried myself out of bed. Apparently Walmart will be open today, but the weather will be freezing rain to snow, so I'm staying in. It's a day for puttering around the house. Oh, and I want to watch the Harry Potter reunion special on HBO Max.

Got us all fed. Zara got overexcited and knocked two cans of cat food into a sink full of water. Luckily, the cans weren't open yet. Mimi is waiting for me in my, er, her bed.

Napped. Had lunch. Went back to sleep for 3.5 hours. I don't know what's with me, but I have dark circles under my eyes. Fed the long-suffering cats, who should have been fed two hours ago.

Ugh. Snow on top of ice outside. I gingerly got soda out of the car. It's going to be cold tomorrow (high of 21 F and low of 5), so it won't melt tomorrow. I have salt though.

Talked to Mom. She sounds and is feeling better. She got the dishes done. She really likes some maple cookies that I gave her in her gift basket for Christmas.

Studied Italian. I have a lesson tomorrow. I'm doing loads of exercises, which help, but I'm getting impatient with them. Okay, I studied past tense and the imperfect tense. I bombed on future tense, so I'll get up early and study it tomorrow morning.

I didn't have time to watch the Harry Potter reunion show, but I'll watch it tomorrow.

Ready to Hibernate

It just occurred to me that listening to opera would be a good way to work on my Italian. I should look for my CD of La Bohème. Does anyone have other operas in Italian that they recommend?

I got up early to study future tense in Italian. It went better this time. I need to make flash cards for irregular verbs.

Italian went well. I'm getting better at guessing what words might mean, so I'm learning from context. Excellent. Soon I should start reading in Italian. Oh! I have Italian Short Stories for Beginners on the Kindle!

I spread some snow and ice melt on my stairs. The additional snow is giving better traction on the stairs though.

Mimi came to find me, and now we're taking a nap.

Got the garbage out. It's cold out (14F). I know that seems balmy to some of you, but to me it's cold. I need to keep my faucets running tonight.

I'm sitting with Miss Zara on my lap. Apparently she thinks that it's cold and wants body heat.

I looked for a camera bag with a slash-proof strap for Rome (when I go there). Found one.

I watched the Harry Potter reunion show. I thought that it was excellent. It makes me want to watch the movies again. Oh, Zara watched with me! Well, she napped near me.

I'm looking at Freeletics AI personal fitness training, but I need to wait until I got paid to subscribe.

I rescued the soda out of the car so that it doesn't freeze. I have the water dripping in most of my faucets, except for the kitchen one because I need to do dishes first. I guess that I'm ready to hibernate :)