Monday

Well I'm feeling pretty good. I slept for 6 hour straight last night, which was the most consecutively and totally since the surgery. Because my nose is stuffy from the surgery, I can only breath through my mouth and it gets so dry it wakes me up after about an hour of sleep. But it's getting better. I go to the dr. on Thursday to get it all cleaned out - I'm looking forward to that!

I'm starting to get bored here at home. We're preparing for our neighborhood garage sale on Saturday, so I have a whole pile of things in the hallway to price and prepare. But, I don't much want to do that. I have a books to read, movies to watch, and I want to do some knitting. I also have about 25 baby lilacs that my lilac bush made over the winter to dig up and give to friends. Up until now, I couldn't lean over and do the digging, and I probably shouldn't be doing it today. But the urge to get outside is going to hit soon. I think I could go to the gym and walk on the treadmill - no lifting or water - but walking would be good. I might take Chloe for a walk around the block today - that would be a nice gentle start.

I finally got video of Ben's haircut this morning ... will post it later today, along with Alek's. The video camera is downstairs, and I don't feel like walking down and back up right now. Yes, three days of resting has made me incredibly lazy in addition to bored!

Gary and I went to see Spamalot yesterday at Memorial Auditorium. It was very funny. Definitely contained the highlights of the Monty Python's Holy Grail. Made me want to rent the movie - it's been awhile since we've seen it. After talking about renting movies, Gary and I had the brilliant idea to let the boys watch GhostBusters last night. Remember how funny that movie was? Well, it turned out to be a pretty bad idea ... Ben was crying in the middle because he was so scared, and then he had to sleep with us. Alek couldn't go to sleep because he kept thinking about it. I had forgotten that they all smoke all the time in the movie - wow, how times have changed. I had thought smoking was out of the mainstream movies by the mid-80's, but they were puffing in every scene, which of course we then had to talk about endlessly. The boys have watched both National Treasure movies and loved them ... I thought GhostBusters would have been tamer than those.