Monday

I have an appointment for tomorrow to get my car's headlight fixed. Yay.

The uni has a free series of webinars on financial planning, so I signed up. Can't hurt and might help.

I was mulling over adding a trip to Germany onto my bucket list. (Like I need another trip on my list!) I'd like to see Berlin, Munich, and Heidelberg. During World War II, my dad was in a camp for displaced persons near Munich. When I was in high school, he talked about taking a trip with me there, but I freaked because of the Nazi thing and most of my friends were Jewish. But my LJ German friends are cool! I asked him if he wanted to go there now, but he said that it would be too much trouble. Whatever that means. I ordered some library books about Berlin, Munich, and Germany.

I looked at a Rick Steve's tour of Germany, but it is mainly pretty castles, and I kind of want to sit with my mixed emotions and tour the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and a concentration camp as well as "pretty castles".

That led me to learning German, but whoa, I need to pull myself back. I'd need to study more Italian first before adding something else. (Although German would be a good companion to Italian because it's very different.) What can I say. I love languages. Maybe I could just play with German on Doulingo for the time being.

Hmm. They're predicting a winter storm from Tuesday night through Thursday night with snow up to 8 inches. I wonder if I should cancel the appointment to take the girls to the vet on Friday. (I moved it back a week.) I might not be dug out. I also wonder if I should ask my mower guy to clear the snow.

Took a nap and slept through until morning.

The Calm Before the Storm

It's raining cold rain. Brr. I hope it stops when I need to go out to get the headlight fixed.

I'm waiting impatiently for the Omicron surge to be over so that I can get my hair cut and my passport renewed. Patience, Adrienne.

Learning German is really calling me. I don't know why. Maybe there's something that I need to learn in Germany? But I want to study Italian consistently every day before signing on for something else. I found some free German lessons online. lenine2, what German instructor did you have? Were they good?

I installed some apps for train tickets in Europe.

I got on the list for snow removal after the big storm. Yay. By the way, the forecasters have said up to 12 inches of snow. Yikes.

On CNN: "More than a dozen HBCUs get bomb threats on the first day of Black History Month". Yikes. There are so many creeps in this country! Sometimes I wonder if it's hopeless. And: "2 Chicago synagogues were vandalized over the weekend as anti-Semitic incidents have US Jewish communities on edge". Oh crap.

You never know about people. The car repair place was full of people without masks and was playing NASCAR on TV. Well, it turned out that the woman at the counter loves reading and likes librarians, and we had a discussion about books. I have to admit that I was surprised.

My headlight is now fixed. I picked up more library books. And I have money to pay the mower guy to remove my snow-to-be.

The earlier discussion on dadi's journal about how well she speaks English made me think of reading LJs that are written in Italian. I found a couple that post fairly often (after having to figure out how to do a Directory Search!)

Piano class went okay. My teacher suggested that I work on not hesitating between measures or phrases, so I have a quest! Something to work on!

I published my new Medium article, a day late because I didn't get up from my nap last night. But I'm back in the groove.

I spent about an hour with News in Slow Italian, listening, reading, and making flashcards, so I get a green star on my calendar. I also did some German on Duolingo.

Now I'm trying to figure out what to clean or organize to get a gold star :) Maybe I'll clean out the office.

It's going to be weird to wake up to snow.