Hello Friends and Familia!
This morning greeted me with a lovely surprise when I looked out the window to find a fresh layer of snow covering the streets, despite a calendar that said March 9! I'm told this isn't normal. Which is normal, because wherever I go, it seems that it's always "the longest winter ever," or "the coldest day of the year." Ha. What doesn't kill ya, right?
The last few weeks have been the opposite of exciting, because I've been kind of sick with a flu-ey type illness that turned out to be a textbook case of mononucleosis. Yep! Lymph nodes hanging out, and I'm sleeping about 20 hours a day. I compare it to the life of a lazy cat, who sleeps in a cozy little ball all day, and wakes up only to stretch and meow and eat some Fancy Feast.
Mono has been interrupting my daily life, in that I can't really play volley, and in fact I can barely ride a stationary bike at the moment (I call myself an athlete!??!?!?). Therefore, I'm struggling to find other things to take up my time, and I've been relying on a steady stream of movies and some pbs.com programs (Antiques Roadshow! woohoo!) to keep me busy.
I know this is probably not what anyone wants to read about, so I'll lie in this last part, just to satiate anyone's hunger to live vicariously through a gal in Europe who doesn't let mono run her life:
Today I'm going to eat a baguette with cheese for a late breakfast in a quaint cafe, then I'm going to walk up a narrow cobblestone street lined with skinny colorful apartment buildings, and I'll round out the afternoon by playing chess with an old Italian man (he's going to win). I'll have a dinner of goulash and knoedel, and then I'll fall asleep to the sound of a man playing Mozart in the apartment next door.
That sounds like a great day!
Love you guys, miss you!
XOXO
Anna
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