This, That & the Other

Ummm, if you think you have seen this before, you have. This is what I wrote this morning and somehow it became one of those entries which are spread so far across the page that they are unreadable without a lot of effort. So, I  copied it to the clipboard and put it as a new entry. I will delete the other after I have read the notes!EDIT:  My last book for Italian II arrived this morning. It is a book and CD called Viva Voce: L’Italia autentica in tredici interviste which means Live voice: Italian in thirteen interviews. I was really surprised to get it today even though the person I talked to when I ordered it said Saturday or today. It came by UPS who, apparently, do deliver on holidays! I heard the dog upstairs {Izzy} barking and thought, "That can’t be the mail!" but when I went to the back door, there the package was — tucked between the door and the screen door! {runs off to organize world-wide fireworks and dancing in the streets since this is the book I thought I might have to order from Italy!}

Italian Phrase of the Day: Mi sederò dal fuoco e leggerò. I am going to sit by the fire and read.

My comment on this: Non abbiamo il focolare così Fred e Io non sederemo dal fuoco. Ma leggeriamo. We do not have a fireplace so Fred and I are not going to sit by the fire. But we are going to read.

My leg/hip feels absolutely normal this morning. However, I have to confess that I did "cheat" a bit and take a naproxen sodium pill last night. This is the generic Aleve and it works much better than acetominofen which is what I usually take. However, my doctor told me that Aleve is hard on the kidneys and he suggested that I switch to acetaminofen {damn, I have got to find out how that word is spelled if I am going to keep using it! } because I only have one kidney anyway. The generic Aleve works well and I only have to take one a day but since I need to take it every day, I don’t want to make the one kidney unhappy… So, back to the drug-whose-name-I-have-difficulty-spelling starting tonight!Well, I had lots of plans for today but they all involved getting into my car and driving. But it is snowing hard here, and unless I have to, I don’t drive in snow. I don’t have to get a case with a clip for my IPod today so, I will have to switch to things I can do around the house, and, of course, there is no end to those! Since Fred is a person who thinks ahead about the the weather, he went to the grocery store a day or so ago knowing that this snow was coming. We may run out of milk {because I keep making yogurt! } but I can slog up to the drug store to get that if we need it.

Talking about  yogurt, I am seriously considering buying this.

It is, apparently, an easy way to make yogurt cheese {called cutely "yochee"}  I like cheese but I have pretty well given up on cream cheese because of the high fat content. And, yes, I have tried the no-fat version, and frankly, it is disgusting! And if I find we don’t like it, well, we have spent a huge $15! I remember my mother making some kind of a cheese stuff with a dripping cheesecloth bag tied to the faucet and dripping all day into the sink. Anyway, I have put this on my wish list and next time I plan on giving myself a little treat, I will include it with whatever I choose to give myself!

It is interesting how my feelings about treating myself have changed. When I was a single mother living from paycheck to paycheck, if I bought myself something just for me, I felt hugely guilty because I was taking money away from the necessary and never-ending bills, And, for some considerable time, after  my last kid moved out and I had sold my house, I still felt guilty when I spent money on stuff for myself just because *I* wanted it. But now I not only buy myself things from my Amazon wish list when I want to treat myself, I am seriously, {and I mean VERY seriously} not only considering a trip to Italy, but a couple of weeks there in a total-immersion-learning-to-speak Italian trip. But I will write more about that as my ideas develop or as I feel the need to sort them out.
Ok, now I am off to do Italian grammar and do a few things around the house…

QUOTATION FOR THIS MONTH: If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. — Marcus Aurelius

Until later….