Scanning, shredding, cutting

Friday I finally got to stay home and relax. I slept fairly well, but woke up early. I walked down to get a haircut at 8:30am. At the end, my barber, Francesco, asked if he could give me bacietti (kisses on the cheek), which is very common among friends here. By about 11:30am, I was falling asleep, so I took a nap, which ended up being over two hours. Even though I have almost no more cold symptoms, I am still pretty weak and tired and am starting to get worried whether I will be well enough to travel by Tuesday.

I spent a bunch of time in the afternoon scanning a pile of docs that Dee left for me. Slowly I am also putting the apartment into shape, throwing some stuff away and putting away other things. I walked down to Conad to get some more Gatorade. In the evening I used box cutters to tear down a bunch of cardboard boxes, big and small, that we had accumulated during our mission. No sense in filling up all that space for the Motts.

Somebody visiting from Canada somehow got my number and called to ask if the temple visitors center was open. I was pretty sure that it was closed until after the dedication, but she said that they had been told back home that it would be open. She wasn't very happy with my answer, but I couldn't think of whom she could call to verify. After a while I realized that I could ask the Hydes, a senior couple assigned to the visitors center. Sure enough, it was closed as I suspected, so I called the lady back and gave her the definitive answer.

I was able to get to bed fairly early. I didn't talk with Dee during the day, but we did message quite a bit. The temple dedication this weekend will be great, but I can hardly wait to get home.