My cousins Lyanne, Carlos and Carlito came over to see my house today, which was way cool. I don't see enough of them and it was good to see them and the baby for a few hours. The baby is getting way tall and running all over the place and is such fun to play around with. He was playing the piano today which was quite funny and he kept running back to the studio room to just keep looking at it. His mother is also a pianist and so we're both hopeful that when he's older he'll take interest! At least today was a start!

Yesterday we had a nice experience. We went to a French restaurant/bakery for lunch and had such a delightful meal. Actual French people run this restaurant and some of the customers were even speaking French and it was like being in another part of the world for a short while. A lady in my French class told me about someone in Sarasota who gives French tutoring to a small group of people at her home on Mondays and I'm totally interested in continuing my study of this language. It seems like I've picked up French like three times now. I realized recently that my interest in this language extends to when I was about eight years old. My father realized this at the time and brought me home a little French for travelers book and some French records to listen to and I was just enthralled. I took it for three years in high school. Everything I learned, I learned from Ms. Bresciani, my freshman year teacher who left the following year. She was replaced by a moron. So I never learned anything again in that class. This year I've done so well in my class at school and I feel like it would be a total waste if I didn't somehow continue. I may ask to attend one of these Monday gatherings to see what it's like. Perhaps I'll be able to learn to speak French with more confidence. I can work around the grammar beautifully but at the restaurant yesterday, I couldn't bring myself to order in French even though I knew perfectly well how. As you can tell from this last paragraph, I'm not in agreement with boycotting French things, dumping out French wine, not eating French food or returning the Statue of Liberty. I feel like our country is being very juvenile by even suggesting such stupid things.

I feel like I need to write that I was a total jerk to my husband this weekend. A total jerk. I apologized to him for it. I broke an agreement you could say and I was extremely only-childish. I temporarily lost my good sense this weekend. I hope he forgives me for it.







Martha at 9:45 PM