Lazy Sunday.

I was looking forward to today. Sundays are going to be my lazy days, which pretty much means no hiking and nothing mentally taxing (like databases); keeping up with this blog is taxing enough, but I also enjoy it enough to want to spend time on it.

Today was a good one.

So, first off, I slept for 11 hours last night. Love that. I woke at 6:45, but knew I wasn’t finished. I slept until 8:40. Delicious.

Then I moved on to coffee and calligraphy. My latest challenge is the stem stroke. It’s tough, but it is also quintessential Engrosser’s Script, the movement from hairline to shade and back to hairline. Ash told me to just keep doing the stem stroke over and over again until I have built muscle memory. This is today’s attempt. Not “there” yet. Lazy strokes for my lazy day.

Then I moved on to my conversation class with Hola Spanish! Again, I highly recommend it. Today we discussed our favorite movies and series in Spanish. I have acquired a great list. Then we watched movie trailers and were asked to answer questions, which we should have learned watching the trailer. Ha!! One of the great things about this class is that many others feel the same as I do. We get some of it, but not all…that’s why we’re here. We start out in one big group and then break into small chat groups to “try” to answer the questions.

This little guy is the neighbor dog. Reminds me of Cookie. I don’t know it’s name. It just wanders around here now and again.

I guess I’d better pack. We are leaving for the beach tomorrow. The beach is called Las Lajas. The “we” is Betty, Nancy, Kathy, Herta, Gloria and me. Gloria is a maybe. She’s not feeling well today, so she will be tentative. I was a little hesitant to go because I was worried about the heat, but I have been assured it’s not too bad. I have quite un-fond memories of being in Pedasi (one of the beach towns) a few years ago with Dan. I could not tolerate the heat. However, there was also no air conditioning. I am assuming we will have air conditioning at the hotel in Las Lajas. Worse comes to worst, I will have Nancy take me home. She is reading this right now and saying, “Right.”