OH MY GOD I’M TIRED!  I’ve been working full time at the school and haven’t stopped for a minute.  I still haven’t seen a contract, the schedule is only now getting settled, we have 400 plus i-pads to enter into the library on-line catalog, teachers keep asking us to pull stacks of books for their classrooms I'm teaching and prepping for 11 classes a week and I’m old!  I was feeling like I needed some exercise and alone time so this past Tuesday I went to a trial session at a yoga studio not far from our place.  It is not Romi’s yoga!  Evidently it is a progressive sort of thing where you start easy sessions in the autumn and slowly work up to the sort of stuff I’m accustomed to by spring.  We spent a lot of time “breathing deeply” and “holding our big toes”.  The older couple who run the place are something else.  She must be well into her 70’s and has a killer figure.  She can do things with her legs she shouldn’t be able to do.  Looks like one of those contortionists from the circus.  He looks like Gandhi; tiny, bald, brown with wire-rimmed glasses.   I haven’t decided if I’ll go back.  Though it was very relaxing I don’t feel it has much in the way of exercise for me.  Plus everyone was taking it a bit too seriously.  I went with an Irish girlfriend and we had a hard time not laughing.  Especially when we were told to stare “meaningfully at our thumbs”.  (later that same evening...) I went back.  I decided to give the other instructor (him) a try.  It was even more of a waste of time.  A few stretches, lots of talking about our inner energy and third eye, then a full 15 minutes sitting cross-legged listening to a recording of a guy saying "oooommmmm".  After a while I lost the feeling in my foot and had to stretch out.  I took the opportunity to peek at everyone else in the studio.  The instructor, who taught the whole lesson with his eyes closed, had put on a white hooded sweatshirt and was sitting cross legged on a little platform.  He looked like Yoda.  I don't think I'm going back.

Last night we had our first dinner at the Grandparent’s house.  Sadly my mother-in-law, always a very enthusiastic cook, is losing her touch.  While in past times her dinners were appetizers and salads, 2 or 3 vegetables and a meat, last night’s dinner was all protein.  There was salami, sliced ham for appetizers and sausage and stewed beef for the main dish.  There was a tiny bit of spinach and a couple peas.  Very strange.  I think they’ll be coming to us more and more.

Grace has another exciting adventure coming up!  She is going to Monte Carlo with the same friends who took her to Switzerland last winter.  They leave on Friday after school and return Sunday evening.  I’m spending the weekend gardening, cleaning and hopefully walking.  GP and I are going out to the wine region for dinner with friends Saturday night.  This is the annual dinner that wiped me out for a week last year.  Think I'll try to behave this time.  I'll skip the Limoncello.  xxoo me