So, Here is Monday {Edit Again}

EDIT SOME MORE!!!!
    è    <—-SEE? —–> perchè  
 YESSS!!!  This is exactly what I need and it comes from the editing tool bar and is right next to the smileys! So, thanks very much to the person who told me about this. {pb reader} And I seem to remember that someone told me this before but since I have the attention span of a gnat…

EDIT: Ok, I tried run/charmap and System tools/character map but the problem is , I have Widows 98 and neither of these work for 98! Any other suggestions? Italian Phrase of the Day: Non dimentichi portare i sue guanti. Don’t forget to bring your gloves.

My comment on this: No, non dimenticho portare il mia guanti perchè le tempo è freddo d’hiver a Vermont. No, I won’t forget to bring my gloves because the temperature is cold in the winter in Vermont.

Note:  There is supposed to be an accent over the e of perche and the e before "freddo". I can do this in Word but have no idea how to do it in Open Diary! Anyone know?

I came back here to the work room to write  the Italian bit at the top of the page and left the coffee to make and the toast to brown.  Ok, note to self: If you want your raisin bread toasted, it is a good idea to make sure the toaster is plugged in before you leave the kitchen!

Yesterday I had a massage and deliberately chose not to walk all day. I have next-to-no pain this morning. This doesn’t mean I won’t walk today. I have one medication ready at the drug store and Fred has a couple, too, so I will walk up there to get them. It is raining and sleet/ice is forecast {or was last night–I haven’t looked this morning} so that may be the sole extent of my walk. However, it occurred to me that part of the physical pain I have been feeling lately in my muscles may be because I took my nasty smelly-but-supportive inner-soles out of these shoes and have not replaced them. These are shoes I only wear in the winter because they are 11 wide and I wear heavy-duty thick,  warm socks during the winter. Getting another pair of supportive inner soles would be a good thing to do when I go to the drug store today, yes?

I am getting a tiny bit irritated with American Express. I am a person who pays her bill on line and in full every month before it is due. I recently got a second credit card which accumulates flying miles rather than points. On the original card, I could pay any time during the month and not have to wait until the "official" ending of the month when I got email to remind me to do this. I charged something to the new card a week or so ago and the site will not let me pay until the official closing day. Very annoying! I guess they hope I will forget and run up interest charges. Ha! No way!  I have put a reminder in red letters and in capital letters on my daily pop-up calendar! But apart from this, I actually like Amex a lot. When weird stuff was charged to my account, THEY were the ones who called me and asked if I had charged this, and they were excellent about taking the charges off and getting me a new card.

OK, list for the day:

• do the morning Italian. I know exactly what i need to do– the two exercises where I got a lot wrong yesterday! I LOVE books that have the answers in the back. La prof encourages us to check our answers and correct them. She says that we need to indicate in some way which assignments we have used the answer page for because that helps her know what she needs to emphasize in class,. I use an asterisk * to indicate those I either corrected or had to look in the back before I could decide what I was being asked to do! And also, she says she gets very suspicious when all the answers are always  right!
• see if I can put the new bird feeder together or if it requires Fred’s tools and expertise . I opened the box this morning and out slid a plastic envelope with screws in it!
• walk up to the drug store for medication AND a pair of supportive inner-soles for these shoes.
• get some laundry done
• change the sheets
• maybe go for a second walk? A lot will depend on the weather. I don’t mind walking in rain but I am not going to walk in freezing rain.

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….