Lists

What I have done or not done today:

• I finished decorating the tree. Fred put about half of the decorations on the front of the tree yesterday evening  and I did the rest of it this morning. {I did the back yesterday.}
• I didn’t go for an early walk. My walking partner called me at about 8:15 and said she was going to have to stay on and work.
• However, I did go for a walk down to the library later in the morning. It was cold and spitting sleet and a bit of  snow but it was not much–just the occasional spit!
• I slept for about two and half hours after I had lunch.
• I did not do any Italian. However, I did print out information about the movie review I have to do. This will not take much time because we are to write tthe 200 words in English. I also have some grammar work to do.I will get dug into all of this tomorrow.
• I wrote a real, snailmail letter to someone.

What I have planned for tomorrow:

• a snailmail letter to the shut-in lady I write to
• Italian homework. I will do my 200 words {in English–a doddle!} on the movie "Bread and Tulips." and also do the grammar. I may also start on the five-page paper I have to do on my teaching of the fourth graders. {I got their evaluation sheets in the mail today– very cute!} I tend to do a lot of prewriting in my head and I have been thinking about it…
• I have a massage scheduled at 1:30 tomorrow.
• I need to clear off the dining room table and get the floor in there swept. {I am not saying it will get done tomorrow but knowing I need to do it is the first step in getting it done, right?}

Things I need to get done in the next week:

• wrap a present for Fred. {His other one has not come yet but I got email saying it was on its way!}
• decide if I want to spend my 13th cost-of-living teacher-pension check, which I get on the 15th, on prepaid massages for a year {as I usually do} or put it into my going to Italy fund… At the moment, I am thinking of a compromise which is to buy 12 massages instead of 24 and put the rest in the Italy fund. I need to talk to Beth {masseuse} about this. I have this feeling that she may be giving up massages since she got hurt hitting a deer a few months ago. I don’t ask but I have this feeling I am her only client now and that perhaps she is only taking me every two weeks because I paid in advince for 24 massages. {She gave me a very nice discount for doing this.}
• start getting the ideas for my oral report and my five-page paper down on paper. Oddly enough, I am more worried about the five-page paper in English than the oral report in Italian!
• Get a room or two cleaned thoroughly.
• clean the refrigerator.
• Talk to Nichole about the email about an italian conversation group. It meets at the Big Library in Burlington every two weeks {I think} and she is there every month. I NEED to get out and talk in Italian but I am not sure I can do this as yet…

Until later….