days_unfolding

Well, I woke up at 4:30 AM, which is not how I planned to spend my birthday. I planned to sleep in. But I'll go back to sleep after I eat something. (I took a vacation day at work. A couple of my colleagues emailed me that that sounded like a good idea. Those people are SO nice.)

I can't believe that I'm 59. Yikes.

The girls were hungry, so I fed them early. Did I forget to feed them yesterday?

Zara's so sweet. She was lying on my arm, and I told her that I needed to go post yesterday's post, and she went up on the counter. Thanks, Zara.

I'm trying to lie down, but my legs are cramping. I took some ibuprofen but am waiting for it to kick in. It did, and I napped until 10:30 AM. I had a weird dream that there was a ride that was a conveyor belt that went through my house and outside. I put weird stuff on it. I took a bath on it too. When it was full, I left it going for a while, and then I freaked and started pulling stuff off of it. The townspeople wanted to get rid of me.

Got up and ate lunch. I'm trying to decide what to do now. I might want to run out to get more diet root beer, so I need to do laundry. And then I'll get the Great Courses videos set up and start watching the one about Italy.

I watched three videos about Rome. It's kind of heavy on Roman ruins that don't interest me that much, but I'll keep watching. The part on Venice is supposed to be especially good. I think that I need to buy the transcript because it goes fast. It just occurred to me that the subscription should include some courses on classical music that I had wanted to see.

Yikes! It's gray and windy and the weather forecasters are saying there will be a snow shower! It's early snow if true. Oh! That was for Madison! They're saying rain here. Yep, I see drops on the window.

Got the clothes in the dryer. I might take another nap. It certainly is gray out.

I keep finding more Great Courses that I went to watch. There is one about Becoming a Great Essayist that interests me.

Napped for a half-hour with Mimi. My clothes are dry, so I think that I'll throw myself together to get more diet root beer and a notebook to take notes for the Essayist videos. And I want to create a binder for Italian. I have a binder but need some three-hole punch paper. And a three-hole punch because I can't find mine. Hmm, I should bring my bag of plastic bags to be recycled too.

I did an offer for the cowl-neck sweatshirt that got accepted.

Read for a while. I decided that I'd rather go to Walmart tomorrow. I found some notebooks to use for the Essayist class. I tore the office room apart looking for my three-hole punch, but didn't find it. I need to clean the room out.

I did one video from the Essayist and one from Italian. I think that I want to make flashcards for the past participles. After I make pizza.

The pizza was a flat pizza (from the Home Run Inn), but still really good. I have more left over for tomorrow. And I had some frozen yogurt. Now I'm in a food coma.

Eeek! The forecasters ARE saying a little snow tonight!

I created Italian flashcards based on the Great Courses Italian lesson. Now I'm yawning. I've had enough of the Great Courses for tonight, and I think that I'll just go to bed.