Sunday, November 25, 2018

Life with Fiorella

Nature rules. Whether or not Fio gets a full night's sleep depends on whether or not Sonia Dog needs to go out in the middle of the night. When Fio wakes up every morning depends on when the resident cardinal decides to start sharpening his beak on the dining room window.
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Fiorella has finally realized why she has such trouble with electronic devices--because she doesn't like to follow directions. From childhood on, she has preferred doing things HER way.
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OMG! Fio just remembered the telugu word for book--which is pustakum, if you wanted to know, and it was all because Humana sent a guy with an Inidan surname over to the house for a home health check yesterday. Fio greeted him in Telugu, Hindi, and Malayalam and asked him to take his choice, but it turned out he was from NEPAL--the first person Fio has ever met from Nepal. Fortunately, he also spoke Hindi so Fio let loose with ap-ka-se-heh, which she didn't even know she remembered. Of course, she was bouncing around the rest of the day with the idea that her lost languages might be recoverable, which apparently stimulated her Telugu brain overnight. (The reason "book" was the first to fly up from the dustbin is that Mr. Krishnamurti commented on all the books on the front- room shelves.)
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To continue the story, Fiorella's medical check-up went just fine. She even passed the memory test-- rice, table, money--which was to her mind a readaption of the memory test her primary care physician gave her last year--table, apple, penny.
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"You don't multi-task, do you," Husband said to Fio the other day when she asked him to turn down the TV volume because she was trying to write a column. Dumbfounded, Fiorella didn't answer. Multi-tasking is Fio's life. She is a woman. 

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