Weird Weather & Other Things

• Today has been a very weird day weather wise. When I got up this morning, it was raining and snow was melting. (And there was much rejoicing! }Then the temperature dropped and we had sleet which was followed by snow. {Boo! Hiss! } In the sleet stage I went out on the deck and discoverd very quickly that I did NOT want to drive to Burlington even to get a massage so I called Beth and canceled. I apologized because when I have to cancel, I try to do it on Saturday but I had no idea the weather was going to be so bad until it started being this bad! She called me back and we have rescheduled for next Sunday.
• I have done nothing today. And I am not apologizing for it. It quite often happens to me that if my plans for the day are foiled, I do nothing!
• I have just bought two little study guides that run on the Kindle. The first one is Italian Vocabulary and the second one is Italian Common Phrases. The opening page has the words or phrases divided into groups. One can open a group and study them. Next there is a multiple choice test where one is given the words or phrases and given a choice of four possible answers. I cannot tell you what the other two ways of studying are because I haven’t tried them yet.  I think one is flash cards and the last one involves using the very small keyboard! I am actually surprised how much I remember. I don’t think this would be a good program to learn Italian from scratch because there is nothing about pronunciation at all.
• I had the SAD light on for an hour this morning and I have it on now for 30 minutes since it is afternoon. I don’t really appreciate how bright it is until it goes off and I am looking at everything under a normal light.

I am grateful for:

1. Fred making pancakes for lunch.
2. my new hoodie  which says "The angels have the phone box!" If you are not a Dr. Who fan this will make no sense to you.

"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