Much Better This Morning!

I am better, MUCH better today! Last night Fred and his daughter and their family went out to eat at a new place {for us.} I opted to stay home because, although I was feeling much better by then, I wasn’t totally sure if leaving the safety of my own bathroom would be a Good Thing. And I was going to cancel my massage for today but I felt so much better last night I didn’t. I ate two slices of bread and a banana yesterday all day.

Right now I am sitting in my art room typing away and E., Fred’s 17 year old granddaughter, is at my art table painting away! She is in her first year of art school and is really enjoying it. She has only just started this year but brought her portfolio with her to show me some things she has been doing. Right now she is painting a jalapeno pepper in different lights at different times of the day!

I just got a package from Amazon which contained {NO! NOT the text book–I finally gave up on them for that and have it ordered at alibris.com} a really nice easy Italian reader and a book of Italian verbs in all their conjugated glory! I have to say here that I really like conjugating verbs in English and I have no doubt that I will feel the same about Italian verbs! I know, I am weird! There is just something about the orderly way of doing a conjugation that pleases me.

Today I have to:

• find my still life that I did over the summer and pretend I did it this weekend. No, actually I am not going to lie about it!  In fact, Pam knows I did it over the summer but I am going to touch it up. Pam also knows that these Italian classes are taking up a lot of my time.
• go for a massage this afternoon.
• get Fred to put anti-itch cream where I have been bitten in a lot of places by something! {If there is a mosquito or a flea in the area, it will head for me! And they always bite me in the middle of my back where I can’t reach the itch!}
• go over my Italian homework  {you know, the homework I busted my butt over because I thought it was due Tuesday } because I now know that in a couple of places I put the word for cardinal number when it should have been the ordinal… Actually, I may do this on Monday afternoon after art class since it is not due until Tuesday.

Until later….