House Cleaner

The BBC has a story about buying old houses in Puglia, and in it, a guy was speaking Italian. It reminded me how much I like listening to Italian. I understood part of it.

Got up early. Threw myself together and fed the cats. Mimi, apparently, is sleeping in.

Well, crud. I couldn’t find my purse anywhere. I finally remembered that I brought it into the music room, but by that point, it was too late to go to the DMV. I’ll go tomorrow, unless I go this afternoon.

Zara is eating Mimi’s food.

I priced used MacBooks because my piano teacher recommended one, but they’re too expensive for me. Hmm, I might wind up needing both my digital piano and an acoustic piano because I think that the digital piano has MIDI capabilities. (That is, you can download what you play onto a computer.)

Turned the sprinkler on on the lawn again. Sunday has a fall fertilizer that I might get.

I've got a house cleaner! She's unfazed by the boxes (and thinks that the place will be "so neat" when I get done organizing it) and she likes the cats! I just need to get cash for her and the pet sitter tonight. (She just met with me today. She's cleaning tomorrow.) She also said that she was available to help me organize. I might ask for her help with my clothes.

I might have to get some grass seed because I don’t see any seed although they said that they overseeded. Sunday has one for patchy lawns, which I have. (And a third to a half of the lawn is weeds, so I need to figure out what to do about that.)

I feel a little like I’m in battle: Adrie vs. The House. I hope that I’ll be victorious. Okay, I ordered grass seed. I ordered a brand that has clover in it to be more hardy.

I tried the AI for Italian in Makes You Fluent, and it would talk over me. I deleted my account. I tried LanguaTalk, and it was much better. Speaking is HARD though! But it's what I need to do. Did my grammar (verbs) work.

Practiced piano and singing. I'm thinking that I'll take the music with me and practice at rest stops and such using a faux piano on my phone. It's not perfect, but I need to spend more time on it.

And I've run out of steam and need to get up early to go to the DMV.