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Oh good. After the men's skating tonight, there isn't any skating until the 12th. I need to get a lot done in the meantime.

I studied a little German before I went back to bed.

You can order anything online. I was going to send my mom a check for some money that I borrowed, but couldn't find my stamps. I ordered stamps online to be shipped to me. They're year-of-the-tiger stamps, which should be fun. I'll be happy when I get to Champaign and have a post office that's open later and with self-service machines.

I'm saving boxes for my move next summer, and one had crinkly paper in it. Mimi is having a great time playing with the paper.

I looked into apartments in Berlin out of curiosity, and wow. Expensive. How can anyone afford to live there? Though the apartments that you can get to from English-language sites are pricey. I wonder if there's a Craigslist for Berlin? Yes. And it has some more reasonable apartments.

I'm going to stay home tonight except for getting the mail. And I'll get stuff done when I'm not watching skating. Which reminds me I need to do laundry. I wound up watching the snowboarding.

Got the mail, and now I have all three German books (yay). It's sleeting out. Started laundry.

I missed the very beginning of the skating because they started it earlier than they said that they were going to, but I saw Nathan Chen win gold. I might watch the interview with him after the news, but what can he say besides, "I'm glad I won and I'm glad it's over."

I just had a brainstorm. I have a case of Hill's k/d food that Zara won't eat. I could sell it on eBay! Or Facebook Marketplace.

I decided to run my rent check over tomorrow after Italian and stay home today. I need to be home when the delivery person is shopping at Aldi in case there are substitutions. And as a bonus, it will be warmer tomorrow. (It's 11F now. Ugh.) And I'm doing a load of laundry, so I'll wait to take my nap until it goes in the dryer. I want to wear my warm and cuddly "The sloth is my spirit animal" sweatshirt! I'm working on my current box while I'm waiting.

Oh great. Cat fight. At least I can break it up with just my voice.

Napped and woke up before my alarm. Ate lunch. Mimi is being obnoxious and has taken over Zara's current favorite spot.

Threw myself together because I have a German lesson tonight. Made Italian flashcards while I was waiting for my Aldi order to be completed.

Put away my groceries.

Watched more ice skating. it wasn't as impressive as yesterday except for one of the woman skaters from Russia. I downloaded pictures from LJ while I watched.

Talked to Mom. She still hasn't talked to her oncologist yet. She's feeling better from the transfusion. She's looking for a good mop. Does anyone have any suggestions? I found a microfiber O'Cedar mop on Amazon that looks good.

Now I'm tired, but I have to wait for my German lesson. It's at midnight, which I prefer to having it back-to-back with Italian. I've been doing nighttime chores and getting climbed on by a cat (Zara).

German went okay, I guess. She had me reading things without giving me a pronunciation lesson. I promptly found one on the Web after the lesson. I booked another lesson and will see how it goes.

Hmm. I'm hungry. I guess that I'll eat and do the dishes and crash.

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.