we are learning spanish. started on a whim, while planning our trip, having read that in a city like v where we are visiting, that not everyone will speak english. duolingo it is. it has been fun, learning a totally new language, a lot like english, but all the gendered words! frustrating at times.
my reading has come to a right stop since maybe a month ago? we are watching succession of course, marvelling at it. even signed up to that streaming service just for that show. before that i highly enjoyed glory - it was a guilty pleasure, i feel i shouldn't revel in a revenge drama so much but i did, i did enjoy it. we are watching the last of us now, but beef we started and i felt it was almost too close to home - not only the seething rage under the surface - i identified with the ali wong character - has enough but is tired of working, being the bigger breadwinner, the pressures thereof - expected to curb that rage. her words were like they were taken right out of my own mouth.
we took a road trip out west for easter break. visited gardens, japanese and decidedly not. the latter garden - owned by a wealthy man and private sections only open certain times of the year - was quite lovely, despite the cold weather. i wished the peacock would have displayed his tailfeather, i wished there were more hydrangeas in full bloom, the maze less muddy, but overall it was probably worth the visit.
now all i look forward to is june.
