The Calm Before the Storm
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.