Bits and Pieces

It is snowing again! It is very pretty and doesn’t seem to be settling on anything except the snow that was already there. I am tired of snow.
Today I have a physical therapy appointment at 2:30 this afternoon. Normally I try not to get afternoon appointments because my energy level is down at that time,  but I changed this one because I thought at the time my eye doctor appointment was this morning. Instead, it is on Monday so I have already changed my physical therapy time to the afternoon for that day. It is not since I have become Officially Old that I have been so vague about dates. I have always been like this. When I was teaching, I had a date book in which I wrote everything down and that I checked every morning. Now I am retired, I usually put my appointments, which are mostly doctor appointments, in my calendar on my computer and I try to remember to check every evening!
I have two sticks to help me walk straight but I only use one of them at a time. One is a pretty purple flowery one that folds up and that I bought to use on the plane when I went to Italy. The other is a big sturdy metal one that my neighbor got for me from the local recycle place. The second one is the one I use most in the snow and ice we have been having recently. Anyway, these days I am trying to walk around the house without a stick but unless I am concentrating in keeping my butt muscles clenched, I tend to lurch a lot. So, when I use the stick–either stick–I park it in a corner of wherever it is that I am going. So, this morning, I used the heavy stick to walk to the kitchen. And what did I see in the corner of the kitchen? Why, the purple stick propped up against the wall! Right now both sticks are propped up in the corner of my work room!In how-am-I-doing-in-class news. I pretty well got it sorted out which verbs took avere and which took essere in the past tense  {passato prossimo} before I went to class on Thursday. The bad news in that there are also verbs which take either depending on whether they are used as transitive or intransitive verbs! {Insert deep sigh here!}

QUOTATIONS:

"Step by step. I can’t think of any other way of accomplishing anything."

Michael Jordan

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

Bertolt Brecht, 1933