Everybody is back at school. We all had a lovely week of visiting for Thanksgiving. We went to Oak Lawn on the day itself, and Chicago on Saturday for brunch.
On Wednesday we went down to Da Loop to look at lights and take pictures for our Christmas card. I don't know if we got any that were good enough, but we'll try to make do.
Tuesday was the Mrs.'s 50th and she got a lot of nice greetings. She got some lovely cards, a nice dinner at Morgan's, a fruit bouquet, a cupcake cake, a promise of cleaning ladies, and tickets to a Wolves game in December.
I grew a mustache for November, but as far as I can tell no one donated money in my name. I'm going to keep it until the end of the week. I'm still hoping for it to really come in.
I'm afraid I'm not nearly as far along in my Greek as I had hoped to be. I think a lot of that has to do with my not having found a daily language partner. What I need (what is recommended) is someone who will treat me like a parent treats a two year old. We all know two year olds who talk but no one can understand them besides their parents. Instead of correcting a child who calls a theater a, "peuter" they say, "Yes, we can go to the theater and see Frozen again" (turns out that child thought that movie screens were giant computer monitors and was trying to say "computer" but we knew what she meant).
I am much further along than I've ever been, and I still have a month. I'm going to have to redouble my efforts, and the Mrs has promised to help (though her patience wears thin quickly).
On Wednesday we went down to Da Loop to look at lights and take pictures for our Christmas card. I don't know if we got any that were good enough, but we'll try to make do.
Tuesday was the Mrs.'s 50th and she got a lot of nice greetings. She got some lovely cards, a nice dinner at Morgan's, a fruit bouquet, a cupcake cake, a promise of cleaning ladies, and tickets to a Wolves game in December.
I grew a mustache for November, but as far as I can tell no one donated money in my name. I'm going to keep it until the end of the week. I'm still hoping for it to really come in.
I'm afraid I'm not nearly as far along in my Greek as I had hoped to be. I think a lot of that has to do with my not having found a daily language partner. What I need (what is recommended) is someone who will treat me like a parent treats a two year old. We all know two year olds who talk but no one can understand them besides their parents. Instead of correcting a child who calls a theater a, "peuter" they say, "Yes, we can go to the theater and see Frozen again" (turns out that child thought that movie screens were giant computer monitors and was trying to say "computer" but we knew what she meant).
I am much further along than I've ever been, and I still have a month. I'm going to have to redouble my efforts, and the Mrs has promised to help (though her patience wears thin quickly).
