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That's how I've been feeling all day today -- like I'm wrapped in a blanket of fuzziness. I don't feel in the least bit "sharp" or even awake.

Still, I managed to clean up the kitchen island, which had about 3 or 4 days' worth of stuff accumulated on it, you can only imagine it! And, I finally cleaned out the hall bookcase (threw out something like 8 old phone books) and now I have room for all my cookbooks, sheet music, and craft books that were piled haphazardly on top of it. AND I finally cleaned out the plastic chest-of-drawers that I got at Target before school started last year (the 2002-2003 school year), with 3 drawers, one for each kid's work... it was still full of last year's school work! So I chucked most of it, and was able to put away all this year's schoolwork, which had been piled haphazardly all over my desk.

If you are imagining that my house was just a series of haphazard piles, you would be right! It's amazing what the prospect of company will inspire me to do. I mean, I've had friends and my in-laws and now my Mom here, and I didn't mind them seeing my piles of papers and whatnut. For some reason I wanted it all gone, gone, gone before my old colleague gets here.

I need to bake, as I am rapidly eating my way through the last of the chocoloate peanut butter zucchini bread in the freezer. I don't feel like moving, though, so I doubt I'll do it tonight. I do need to take the meat for the chili out of the freezer, though... maybe I'll just leave all the cooking till tomorrow. It's not like anyone's expecting anything.

The house is suspiciously quiet. DH is watching the Patriots on the big TV here in the family room. Mom has disappeared into her room to read or knit or whatever. I'm here on the puter in the family room. The kids are all upstairs watching Star Wars Episode I (ick, but their choice), each with a big bowl of popcorn, on the kinda big TV in our bedroom. I spread out the neat sheet (waterproof blue blanket thing) on the carpet in front of the TV and threatened with dire things if they trash the room.

So, DH is watching football in peace (he gave the kids their baths before dinner, when Mom & I were at church -- he's so smart!), I'm typing away here, and the kids are enjoying the special treat of watching the TV from Mommy & Daddy's room AND popcorn, and each has their own bowl, too! Are we terrible, or what ? Hey, it's the playoffs!

Now I'm realizing I have a little sinus pressure. Maybe I'm coming down with something, that's why I feel so out of it... oh well, I'll just have to wait and see. I'm already taking like a pound of Vit C every day, I can't possibly up it!

Yesterday, Brian Boucher of the Coyotes' broke an amazing record by posting his 5th consecutive shutout. When you consider that 2 months ago the guy wasn't even practicing with the team (he was the 2nd backup goalie), it's even more amazing. I saw the interview with him after the game last night and he just is the nicest guy. It's really nice to see such deserving people do so well.

I hope for selfish reasons that they stay on top of the game because DH just bought tickets for us to go to the Dallas Stars game on Jan 31... hope DS2 is more comfortable around his Gramma by then. He's being fussy and not letting her do anything for him if I am around. I think it might be because last time she was here I went for my surgery, so I was away at the hospital, and then I was out of commission for a while. He may be worried the same thing is going to happen. We also think he's growing because he's been eating like a truck driver, !
You know what? I'm not even going to think about it now! As I like to say, "I'll jump off that bridge when I come to it."

The thing that keeps me upbeat after the holidays is planning our summer vacation. I started today by just looking at the calendar and mapping out some dates. I need to talk to my friend in VA and see when she will be home and her kids out of school, I'd really like to visit her this year... I need to be healthy to pull it off, though! I'm just going to plan on it, and make sure that it happens. I just have to hang on for, what, 5 more months? I'm actually feeling pretty good except for the getting-tired-easily thing. I'll bring it up with my endo when I see her in February, but I doubt she'll adjust my meds. It doesn't feel like that kind of thing. I guess we'll have to see.