Back to (our new) normal

We both have been neglecting the blog lately.
I don't know Tom's exact reason (he has only been back for a week/busy with work/still jet-lagged are all possibilities) but I think for me it's because the adventure part has kind of worn off.
We have adjusted to life here.  We know that things that take no time at home take weeks here but will, eventually, get done.  I've been trying to change a lightbulb since November.  Seriously.  Now I need to change four of them, but you don't want to hear about the school's maintenance staff, or Tom's frustration with not being allowed to just fix things ourselves.  I'm used to my job, and we've invested a bit more time and money into making our apartment feel like home.  Trips to Ikea hardly count as adventure, though.
I did try to go skiing once, on a scheduled cross country ski trip with 24 students, only to ski around a loop track made on a golf course because there was no real snow.  The students were almost all beginners and had a blast;  I was bored after the fifth time around the short loop and ended up reading a book.  Adventure?  Not so much.
This week things have begun to pick up.  The kids are acting up at school (curfew violations, plagiarism issues, and drinking) and Tom found a drunk on the cliffs today (I'll let him tell you about his first experience with Italian police).  There is supposed to be snow in the mountains now, so when we try to ski again it should be a bit more interesting.
No news from us is good news, but as the days get a bit longer and we get closer to spring, we plan to get out of the house more.  Pictures and interesting stories will follow!