Four Seasons in Rome
I'm wondering if I should set up the space heater in my bedroom. I guess that I'll see if I can do without it, but I'll take it out of the box in case I decide that I need it. I brought it into the bedroom, but then I remembered the electric blanket. That should keep Zara and me warm. Zara loved the electric blanket. And I didn’t wake up during the night cold.
The cats think that the kitchen counters and table were cleared off for them to walk on.
I finished my current 44 Scotland Street book, but I don’t have money for the next one. I guess that I’ll start on the Italy books. Appropriate because some characters in the Scotland Street books were just in Italy. Oh! I forgot about a credit card, so I can get the next book and I will be able to ship the CPAP. I’m having problems with the card on Amazon though. I tried to order some magnets elsewhere and the charge didn’t go through. I’ll have to contact the card company.
Hmm. I’m wondering if I should stay home today because I have another return, but I need my new printer ink to process it. It’s supposed to come today.
I put Mom’s magnets on the refrigerator last night. I love how the kitchen is taking shape; it’s my favorite room in the house. I want to get a couple of magnets with conversion charts for cooking and put them on the side of the refrigerator. I’m looking at magnets with quotes on them and saw the “Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end” and started crying. I’m not okay. The anniversary of my mom’s death is also coming soon (April 11th).
Some people knocked on the door to tell me about “a party in honor of Jesus’s death”. I was a little cranky and told them that I had been lying down.
I looked for a Great Books group locally but no luck.
I’m trying to figure out where to put the urn with my mom’s ashes until I get to Chicago to inter them. I guess that I’ll leave them in the bin that they’re in.
I had a nice nap. I dreamed about a guy with whom I was friends in high school. I had a crush on him, but he liked me as a friend. Then he was in the hospital for a long time, and I called him every day because being in the hospital sucks, so then he decided that he wanted to go out with me. But I was interested in a mutual friend by that point. Apparently they had a discussion about which of them got to go out with me, but I wound up dating the mutual friend. (And I wound up marrying another mutual friend!) Anyway, in the dream, I was writing him a letter, telling him what was going on.
Zara napped with me and is being cuddly.
I got the Daily Look box.
I went looking for one of the Italy books, and wound up with Four Seasons in Rome. I need my reading time! It’s good. Residents are insisting that Rome is the most beautiful city in the world. More beautiful than Paris, I wonder? The book reminded me that I need to spend some time with a tourist Italian book. I found one! I want to study a page a day. I need index cards. Berlitz has an app, so I’ll work with it first.
My goal is to get to a point where there are only book boxes in the living room. I also want to empty the hamper in the bathroom so that I can use it as a hamper.
Oh crud! The ink order says “Payment revision required!” I guess that I’m not getting the ink today. Maybe I should just throw myself together and go to Best Buy. Or Walmart.
I took a nap while my hair was drying from my shower. Zara napped on my legs.
The mixer that I bought from Aldi is broken, so I’m looking at used Kitchen Aid mixers on eBay.
Went to Walmart with a little trepidation because one of the articles that I read about withdrawing from my med said not to drive, but it was okay. I got my printer ink, some food, and index cards.
I have stuff to do, but I’m tired. I wrote up some Italian flash cards to study; I now know how to say “Where is the ATM machine?” in Italian. It’s a start. I need to dig up the info from my first Italian teacher about directions. I’m also noting down places from the Rome book that I want to see.
Some of my classmates in a group project want to meet tomorrow, so I should respond to them. Then I think that I’ll go to bed.
I told Zara that her legs will atrophy if she lies on the bed all the time. She says that she'll risk it.