See you soon

Sometimes when people close their shop or business for vacation, they put up a sign like this. It might mean that they have really gone fishing, but it's also come to mean that the person will be gone for a while but is coming back.

I'll be back in Barcelona on July 4th.

There may be some fish involved in my travels, although I probably won't be catching them myself...

If you've contributed a guest post, I'll be in touch with you about when it will appear.

Have a great few weeks and thanks for everything!

Yuki's mouse

One of my favorite students has two cats and they have a lot of mice. I've never met these cats but I feel close to them in any case. These cats are possessive of their mice, and their balls and other toys, and they like to hide them around the house. Do they ever find them again? Maybe not. But they know they're there somehow.

The possessive is almost always made this way: Yuki's mouse. We don't say the mouse of Yuki. People would understand us, but it wouldn't be the best way. We say, David's blog. My sister's house. My daughter's shoes. My best friend's wedding.

The plural of mouse is mice. I don't know why. Yuki's mice are hidden in many places. In this way she can always have another one, Yuki's new mouse...

I look forward to seeing you soon

Look forward to is a phrasal verb which means to anticipate something with pleasure. If you think about it, the sense here is of looking ahead, at something in the future.
The use of it in the title is a typical way to close a business email, similar to "I look forward to hearing from you." We use this in business all the time, and it's a good one to have ready when you're writing emails.
But we also look forward to things like holidays, celebrations, times with friends and family, romantic moments. We look forward to seeing people we haven't seen for a while.
The idea is that when we think of the thing which is going to happen, we feel happy.
We can also use the negative, as in "I have a dentist appointment and I'm not looking forward to it!"
Living in the present is great! But it's nice to look forward to things too.
So, what are you looking forward to?