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It just occurred to me that listening to opera would be a good way to work on my Italian. I should look for my CD of La Bohème. Does anyone have other operas in Italian that they recommend?

I got up early to study future tense in Italian. It went better this time. I need to make flash cards for irregular verbs.

Italian went well. I'm getting better at guessing what words might mean, so I'm learning from context. Excellent. Soon I should start reading in Italian. Oh! I have Italian Short Stories for Beginners on the Kindle!

I spread some snow and ice melt on my stairs. The additional snow is giving better traction on the stairs though.

Mimi came to find me, and now we're taking a nap.

Got the garbage out. It's cold out (14F). I know that seems balmy to some of you, but to me it's cold. I need to keep my faucets running tonight.

I'm sitting with Miss Zara on my lap. Apparently she thinks that it's cold and wants body heat.

I looked for a camera bag with a slash-proof strap for Rome (when I go there). Found one.

I watched the Harry Potter reunion show. I thought that it was excellent. It makes me want to watch the movies again. Oh, Zara watched with me! Well, she napped near me.

I'm looking at Freeletics AI personal fitness training, but I need to wait until I got paid to subscribe.

I rescued the soda out of the car so that it doesn't freeze. I have the water dripping in most of my faucets, except for the kitchen one because I need to do dishes first. I guess that I'm ready to hibernate :)

I looked into Dinnerly (yeah, I'm me-tooing), but they require a minimum of three meals per week. In looking at the meals, I found two per week that interested me. Oh well. No, actually, I've found some more that interest me. Need to think about it. Plus, I just ordered ingredients for some meals on Walmart Grocery. I did order Dinnerly. It's more reasonably priced than Home Chef. And there's a week delay, so I can make the meals that I planned next week.

Crap. A Home Chef meal made it through my skipping orders. I guess that I need to cancel some of my groceries. I just put a "pause" on my account.

Eufy has arrived. Zara checked out the box, but decided that it was too small to be a good perch. She's back on the desk chair box.

Zara is funny. She eats part of her food, goes away and grooms herself, and then comes back and eats the rest of the food. (And then she'll groom herself again.) Wouldn't it be more efficient to eat it all in one shot? Then again , "cats" and "efficient" don't go together. Now she's doing a third go-round with the food.

Zara was off of the desk chair box, so I took out the parts. No assembly instructions. Bah. The manufacturer said that they'll e-mail me the instructions, but I haven't gotten them yet. Got them. I'm going to nap first and then assemble the chair.

Well, this is interesting. Apparently my Italian lesson is scheduled for next week, not today. More time to study....

Had a nice nap. Ate. We had a kitty squabble over the desk chair box, which is now on its side. Both of the girls were in the box, and hissing and growling ensued.

I'm trying to find out why I wasn't able to auto-pay my rent, and the Web site said that "ePay isn't enabled for my property". But I've used it before though. Sent an e-mail to the property manager. Paid some bills while I was at it.

Can't get the side arms of the chair on. I'm taking a break. It turned out that I had the arms on the wrong sides. Finally finished assembling it. I'm going to say on the review of it that it would help to have two people assembling it. I kept on wishing that I had a third arm.

Need to clean up after the assembly, but I need to rest. I also want to assemble the treadmill tonight, but I need a break and a few choice swear words before I begin.

I'm sitting in the desk chair, and oh, is it comfortable. it's almost worth all the hassle assembling it.

I can't face assembling the treadmill tonight. I think that the plan is to feed the girls, eat, and watch The Marriage of Figaro on the Met channel. Oh, and do some aerobic dancing, also on the Roku. I'm pondering how I lived without a Roku.