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Hmom left this morning for Romania. It seems she will be going there to see a doctor and then heading to Hungary (maybe to see her husband) then returning to Athens. She should be back next Monday or Tuesday. So she cooked enough food for one week. The freezer is jam packed with various containers (I assume of potato related meal options) but she made enough jam to last the three of us close to a month. When Mag went to the grocery he bought me a whole baked chicken – that should do me for the week. Hmom had made me some rice the other day & I still have 1 serving left (I had one for lunch today) and there are items that I have been told I am free to prepare for myself. Suddenly I want the pre-prepared food of my Hmom. No, I’m kidding – I have no problem making myself a rice/pasta dish – since the difficult part (the meat) has been taken care of. Even if I run out of chicken I can still make do with the lentils in the cupboard. Essentially: I’m set for the next week until she returns to oil up some food for me.
For all my talking smack about her it was kind of strange to wake up this morning and not see her fussing about the house & taking care of SZ. I can’t really say that I missed her – since that’s just not very much in my nature. Let’s call it a feeling of omission – something was missing – not that the thing was missed. AHA! She wasn’t there and it was just a lil strange – but I was quite all right with it. The apartment is big enough that, because SZ is stationary, I have run of the place and it’s like having my own apartment; with 2 big ‘old balconies! The only thing is that I can’t run about naked – I’d rather like to be able to do this but – I was born with clothes on & the girl does have eyes. But it was just the two of us. For a moment, when I woke up, I got scared because I thought that Mag had taken the day off (or worse: the week off) to care for SZ since her mom would be away. Thank God it turned out that it was just the toilet running. He was at work; Hmom was en route; and we were the two princesses in the palace. (That’s how I felt, anyhow.)
Other than that, my day began quite normally. We got the lesson started before 9:10 (since the goal was 9am) and I had my cereal (not cucumbers and hotdogs) as I tutored SZ. We reviewed her exam and began the lesson on Articles: a/an/the. We got thru the a/an section and she called for a time out so we took a 3 hour break.
She slept, ate and did whatever else. I took the laptop out to the front balcony to soak up the sun. I finished the medical story & I ‘threw a lil sex into it’. She seems to be quite attentive & alert once the lesson involves men, kissing or things of that ilk. She like the stereotypical quiet ones is anything but. I also did more of my own work, but I was so giddy to have the place practically to myself that I was singing and grinning much of the day.