Voici les nouvelles

Gotta work on les francaises, as we are going to see Les Miserables this weekend. (Kevin said he is going to be "tres miserables" if our excursion to NYC goes poorly. Don't you even laugh at that joke.) Of course, the play itself is not in French, but he and I were just saying that we had to read it in French for our high school classes and he does not recall any of it, so I was giving him the recap. Post-Pius, I got ambitious and asked for the Victor Hugo version for my own reading, but the sheer size of that tome totally intimidated me. I will conquer it someday.

Anyway, just wanted to post some news on our lives. School starts next week, so I am devouring my pleasure reading right now. I just finished Freedom Writer's Diary, on which the movie is based, which is very good and a quick read (great for potential teachers) and am now about a third of the way through The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory. I love historical fiction, and after my trip to the UK in my teens, I am fascinated by the English royal tales. She does a great job and I would encourage any of her Elizabethan-era books (I heard some of the others are not so great).

Our kitchen project is currently in a holding pattern due to some family trials. My dad's mom, Gram, has been very sick since the day after Christmas and in the hospital. We've had some scary moments where it seemed a foregone conclusion that she would pass on, she's been on a ventilator for the entire time and has recently had a colostomy. The doctor's are saying that she is fighting and there's a 50% chance she will pull through. She has had a lot of precarious health issues in the past few years. Send your prayers to her and my family that they may have peace and comfort, whatever the outcome.

Also, I have just endured my first day of physical therapy for what was diagnosed as bursitis in my left shoulder. I really can't pinpoint what the heck I did to incur the same affliction that inhibits AI, but I have been ordered to ice it up and have some PT. Today I learned basically some stretches and exercises that I have to do on my "off" days and I go back on Friday. I have been seriously lacking in my gym attendance as of late due to holiday craziness, so I was surprised when the therapist asked me if I worked out a lot. I said, "I try, but it's 2 times a week, if that." She said, "You have muscular arms!" I almost laughed out loud! I guess when you mostly see stooped old ladies with quad canes, even my lunch-lady flab looks like Arnold.

Jusqu'à la fois prochaine!