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The Woman in Gold
Jan. 20th, 2019 11:10 pmWoke up at 10 AM. Went back to sleep. Woke up at 1.
Kitty drama as soon as I got up. Mimi and Zara were chasing each other and batting each other. They sounded like a herd of elephants. I told them to cut it out. Surprisingly, they listened.
Forgot to put coffee in the coffee-maker. Way to go.
Studied Spanish flashcards while drinking my coffee. Pondering how to say "My cats don't like each other. They fight." in Spanish. Need to look it up.
Zara is hanging out on my lap. Apparently my lap is more cozy than the fuzzy blanket.
Now I'm thinking that maybe I should shovel the driveway tomorrow. It's supposed to be warmer, and I need to run errands tomorrow.
Took a nice nap with Mimi. Woke up before my alarm went off, and couldn't fall back asleep, so I guess that I had enough sleep. Put on my cleaning sweats.
Had a bite to eat.
Apparently some people were stuck on a United flight for 14 hours when it had to make an emergency landing in Newfoundland. The plane couldn't take off again, and there were no Customs people in the airport overnight, so they had to stay on the plane. I don't know why they couldn't have gone into the airport if they couldn't leave. They ran out of food, and someone brought them Tim Horton's though. Yay, Canada. Finally, another plane arrived with food that was able to take off.
Speaking of airplanes, I forgot to mention that Mom was worried about the TSA situation when I fly to San Jose. I'll get to O'Hare airport three hours before flight time, but if things are really bad, that could be a problem. I can get to San Jose airport really early because I'm taking the red-eye. Mom thinks that the government shutdown will be over by then though. I hope so.
Decided to wash some towels and rags, charge my cordless Bluetooth headphones, and soak a litter box while I watch a movie. (It would have been more efficient if I started everything but the litter box while I napped, but I didn't think of it.) I'll switch the laundry part-way through. Emptied the dryer. I don't know where all the pads for my steam mop have gone. I bought six, and I'm down to two. Need to buy more when I get paid, I guess.
Zara is on my lap again, which is slowing down the process.
I watched The Woman in Gold. It's a true story about a woman who tries to get some paintings stolen by the Nazis back from the Austrian government. The movie got lukewarm reviews, but I was riveted. There's one scene in which the woman says goodbye to her parents before fleeing Austria that had me in tears.
Something like that happened in my family. When the Russians invaded Lithuania, my grandmother, two of her sisters, and their families fled the country. My grandmother's youngest sisters stayed with their parents. My grandmother never saw her parents again. My great-grandmother and great-grandfather were sent to Siberia.
After the movie, I filled the clean litter box and cleaned the kitchen and bathrooms, except for the floors. Made dinner. I have homework to do, but I'm going to go to bed early and get up early because I need to get up early for class on Tuesday.
