days_unfolding

I forgot to mention yesterday that Mom said that she didn't feel up to going to Florida (specifically Disney World), which I kind of figured. She was wondering about her walking. I said that she could use a scooter, and she said that would make her feel old. So yes, my mom said that I could use her frequent flyer points to go to Oregon. That's cool. She also said that she has a lot of British Airways frequent flyer points, so I could use them to get to Italy.

Woke up with my alarm at 9 AM and decided to go with it because I need to study.

Studied Italian. I didn't do very well on some exercises, so I need to go through them again. After my finals. Studied programming.

Italian was a little frustrating. My teacher threw a lot of new stuff at us. I need to study hard after I finish my programming classes. Developing more vocabulary in Italian is one of my summer goals.

My brain will repeat music or languages. Right now, it's repeating Italian.

Took a nap with Zara.

Oh crap, there's a frost advisory. I don't have anything to throw over the plants. I can put plastic bags over the plants. I might look for a drop cloth at Dollar Tree though. Wait, I can use garbage bags. No, I ran out and got soda and a plastic drop cloth, which will be a lot easier to throw over and take off.

Put out the garbage and covered the plants. Studied programming. Ate dinner. Studied programming.

I took my programming final. It was hard but not impossible. Now we'll see what happens. One down, one to go.

I don't have time to do my sewing homework tonight, so I'll do it during lunch tomorrow.

Hmm. I might wind up priced out of Eugene as a potential retirement place, but I still want to check it out. I'd probably have to live in a condo. Salem is more affordable (and also closer to Portland for shopping, airport, etc.) And cool--there's a bus from Salem to the Oregon Coast. Not going to take it this trip, but good to have for a place to live.

Did some more investigating of the Oregon trip. I'm still not sure if I'll check out some 55+ communities near Portland or not. I'd need to rent a car though. (See Tampa paragraph.) I don't want to take the train to Eugene on the same day that I fly in though. So I'll probably take an evening flight. Amtrak keeps sending trains and buses to Eugene all day long.

Hmm. When I count the cost of bus tickets to O'Hare and paying to park the car, flying out of Peoria looks better and better.

I thought about going to Tampa, but I need a car in Florida to check out retirement places. There's a shortage of rental cars right now and people are paying $100s a day. So no.

My stomach has been upset all morning, so I took a 1/2 sick day. Don't know what's going on. Slept a long time. Didn't get up in time for piano class. Feeling shaky. Ate something. Now I'm logged onto work to go through email.

Done with work. I'm going to go practice for a while and go back to sleep. Still really tired.