getting ready

I am going to the Middle East on Friday. It is fun to write words like that in a blase manner, I must say! Because really, it is an amazing thing to just pick up one day and go off to Egypt and Jordan, which is what I am going to do on Friday.

I just got off the phone with a friend from Jordan who I was calling to make sure she had gotten my email, would be there, and that I could stay with her. Jordanians, lovely people, tend to be short on communications of this type. I was fairly sure I am going to be fine, and will have a surfeit of places to stay, but then again you never can tell these things. She tells me that there is no reason whatsoever to stay in Amman and come up the day after, so I suppose I'll save myself the trouble and money and do it that way. She gave me directions *laugh* which I remember, although boy! I can tell I have not been speaking arabic, because when she went off in a hurry, I was lost. But it will come back to me. Maybe I'll manage after all to listen to those CDs I got to refresh my memory. Maybe I'll go buy a CD player so I can take them with me.

It is cold today, and all week--bitter, icy cold, but no snow. Cold enough to not want to go outside at all if possible, forever. It is nice to have a cat to curl up with. Which reminds me, great news, he is off insulin!! My poor kitty has been very unhappily getting two injections per day, but the vet has pronounced him able to go off insulin as long as he stays on the special food. That is a relief.

So check back; I am going to post here whenever I get the chance from overseas. I am sure the first time will be from a fancy 1st class lounge in some airport. My father keeps reminding me that I am to use them.

low battery, got to go.