Swamped

I haven't been online much this week. I am really swamped at work getting ready for our biennial (is that the word for once every 2 years?) inspection by our regulators. It's a Very Big Deal. Lots to do to get ready.

Plus we are all recovering from a strange bug - GI symptoms, muscle aches, fatique. No fun. Thanks to that we were kind of forced to have a quiet and restful weekend at home, at least. We got a few things done. I finally, years late, managed to clean out the aquarium. We have a grand total of 1.5 fish left. I say 1.5 because one of the fish looks like its on it's last fin. The trauma of the cleaning will probably finish the poor thing off.

This weekend is the Feast of the Annunciation, so we have liturgy Saturday morning and then Saturday evening is Emmelia's 1st violin recital! She's just going to get up (hopefully!) and play one rythym on the E string with the group. I hope it goes well! Actually, I hope she just gets up to play. She's so shy sometimes.

The weekend after that my baby turns 2. I can't believe it! We're sort of having an "un-party" - I don't really believe in 2nd birthday parties. We're going to bring food and cake for coffee hour at church on Sunday (her birthday) and then probably splurge on some calamari at Carabba's afterwards - it's a family favorite.

Assuming the inspection goes well, I'll be back to my normal schedule in April. By the way, I got a "B" on my Russian midterm! I'm not complaining. Given how many classes I've had to miss due to work and illness, a B is pretty good. This week we are learning vocabulary for food and finally learning the instrumental case. Now we'll be able to say: "That soup is made *with* chicken" or, since it's Lent, "with cabbage."