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February 2019#3
On the last day of February our visas for Czechia arrived! Holy crap. We were both stunned. And today we have just finished ordering plane tickets and reserving an AirBnB apartment for two months. We leave March 19th, so in only two weeks. However, we are only going for two months, because i1) t was waaaaay more expensive to book a one way flight and 2) E decided he didn't want to leave the house empty for longer than two months and, 3) we will both need to come back and stock up on meds. So we will come back for a week or so and then pack up again and go again until probably the beginning of August. So less than 6 months instead of a full year, and hardly worth all the nonsense about the visas ... but at least we are going at last.
Otherwise February was a long, dreary, and very cold month. I think the university closed three times in Feb for icy conditions, and it's truly been a very unpleasant month, much colder than normal, and much colder than Prague has been, which is truly weird. The month was made more unpleasant by E having one of his periodic freak outs about work and his career, and my own rather deep funk following an unexpected letter from my Aunt.
My Aunt is my father's sister, and we keep in sporadic contact, maybe 2-3 letters a year. She sent me some letters and photos that my father gave her to send me. They were from my mother, dated 1972/73 and begging my grandmother to allow her to come back to the states. There were also two letters from when I was a newborn, dated July and August of 1967 (so clearly I was born in June or July, not September), assuring my father that all was well and how much she loved him.
So I didn't do much in Feb except try to survive. No socializing. Just work and then come home and numb myself with a book or Netflix and maybe some whiskey laced hot chocolate. It was too damn cold/icy to meet my walking goal (although I did better than expected, coming pretty close). I did meet my ab workout goal of 8 workouts in Feb (I actually managed 9). And I didn't create anything although I spent a fair bit of time plotting out some ideas for writing projects. But hey. It's March. And I'm going to Prague in two weeks!
Otherwise February was a long, dreary, and very cold month. I think the university closed three times in Feb for icy conditions, and it's truly been a very unpleasant month, much colder than normal, and much colder than Prague has been, which is truly weird. The month was made more unpleasant by E having one of his periodic freak outs about work and his career, and my own rather deep funk following an unexpected letter from my Aunt.
My Aunt is my father's sister, and we keep in sporadic contact, maybe 2-3 letters a year. She sent me some letters and photos that my father gave her to send me. They were from my mother, dated 1972/73 and begging my grandmother to allow her to come back to the states. There were also two letters from when I was a newborn, dated July and August of 1967 (so clearly I was born in June or July, not September), assuring my father that all was well and how much she loved him.
So I didn't do much in Feb except try to survive. No socializing. Just work and then come home and numb myself with a book or Netflix and maybe some whiskey laced hot chocolate. It was too damn cold/icy to meet my walking goal (although I did better than expected, coming pretty close). I did meet my ab workout goal of 8 workouts in Feb (I actually managed 9). And I didn't create anything although I spent a fair bit of time plotting out some ideas for writing projects. But hey. It's March. And I'm going to Prague in two weeks!
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Alas, we are leaving Prague May 21 and coming back home for a week or two. However we shall be back, so hopefully we will find a date to meet up. We may come to England for several days as well - I'm particularly keen to visit the Lyme Regis area as Mary Anning is a quite a hero of mine, and of course there is London to explore, which I never have done.
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It would be great to meet up if and when you come to London! I will let you know what our dates are when I know them, but that will be some weeks yet.
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At any rate, I am definitely looking forward to Prague. I'm glad to hear that you look forward to reading about my adventures. I sometimes wonder if it's worth posting, but knowing at least one person looks forward to reading is encouraging.
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And WTF, aunt? Why now?
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