Monday

Quiet all afternoon. Then I ate at Jalisco's late afternoon. I did not eat much ---- flour chips and queso. Had a nice visit with JS. They were set up for a huge group when I left. Wished I could have stayed to see who they were! Hope they tipped good!

Swedish class tonight. Last semester we had 30 people in class. This semester around 10. I actually enjoy it more with less. We get one on one attention. We get to speak more and ask more questions. Tonight we practiced some simple sentences, like Hello and How are you. Listened and talked along with a CD. And then we had to write a short paragraph. We wrote what we could in Swedish and words we did not know in English. Then we looked up those words. I actually learned 2 new words. Good!

Warm today. I am sure I have lost the winter that never was. Makes me sad. I have the opposite of seasonal affective disorder. I get depressed in summer, not winter. I do not think that matters to anyone but me.

My pain is a little less today. Hands getting worse. Scary. I hope my next life here is much better. And that I remember how bad this life was.

On Sunday a good friend gave me a special gift. A photo collage by a local photographer. And on of the photos has another good friend in it. I am so thrilled with it! Must get it framed!!