Monday, February 07, 2011
We didn't get to sleep until after 0200 in the morning so we slept in until around 1000. Most of the service members, to include my husband, had the day off because the Super Bowl didn't begin until Midnight here. I woke up feeling so stiff and my back really hurt. I think it was because I was on my feet for so long, I did a lot of bending, reaching, and lifting and I'm paying for it now.
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| Me in Tuscany |
After I took a long hot shower and did some stretching, we decided to drive to Breuningerland and buy Matt some cigars. While we were there we stopped by the grocery store and I checked out the wine selection. I found a bottle of red wine from one of the towns we visited while we were in Italy last December. The town of Montepulciano, where scenes from the film "New Moon" were shot, is a beautiful town in Tuscany, Italy and is known mainly for their outstanding wines. Our favorite was the "Vino Nobile di Montepulciano" which can run about $20-$30 a bottle. The wine I found wasn't Vino Nobile, but it was from Montepulciano so we picked up two bottles for 10 Euro and headed home.
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| Montepulciano |
When we got home, I sliced up some apples and baked some Brie in the oven to enjoy with some pretzels and our wine while we watched several episodes of the television show, Community and just spent the rest of the day hanging out together.
I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. ~Bernard Berenson
To seize the day you have to be positive and think that good things are coming. I'm taking a Spanish course at UNCW that will help me complete a certificate that will allow me to teach Spanish in college. Am I thinking about quitting my current job? Not at all but it's always been a pattern in me to think about the future as a place where possibilities can happen. When I lived in Mexico, I studied English. Did I have to? No, but I still did it. When I got a job in the US I decided to do a Master's program at ECU. Did I have to? No. I didn't need to walk in the cold going to my classroom or spending a summer at Greenville. I will continue planning and working for the future. After the course I'm taking now, I just need to take one more course. It's going to be tough. It's a writing course. I can't write pages and pages. I feel nervous but 10% in me think that I will be ok. That's enough to keep me going. I hope this is what I needed to write in this blog :)
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