Last night I got a good night's sleep. It happens so rarely anymore that it's exciting to wake up and find that (1) the clock reads a post seven a.m. time and (2) I feel like I've actually slept. Yay for sleep! I still woke up a couple times, but that's much less than usual.
Oz put the new carpet pad under the sitting room rug so it's all cushy. This carpet has never in all the ten or more years it's lived on my floor had a proper pad, just a thin rubber non-skid pad and a few old scraps of felt carpet pad. Now both my big rugs have thick, downright sybaritic felt pads. The cats will miss having those comfy rolls of carpet lying on the couch like a kitty-cat playground and napping platform (the pads arrived just before Christmas), but they'll adjust.
At physical therapy yesterday, I picked up a hard foam roller so I can get therapist-grade pain at home. In theory, as my muscle tissue softens up, this will hurt less. Another benefit to having a roller at home is that Oz can use it too. When I was rolling out my IT band (ow!), he came into the room and said, "So, do they make one of those with spikes and extra hard spots?" "Yeah, that's the advanced version. Ow!" Once he was rolling on it, he said, "Owie! Maybe I'm not ready for the spiked version."
Other excitement for the day included buying hippie milk. I picked up a quart at the natural foods store the other night because my inorganic milk from the hormone-injected cows was about to reach the sell-by date. This morning I had some and I have to say, the organic milk is much better tasting than the inorganic milk. Much fresher. You'd think the industrial stuff would get onto the shelves faster, but no, the hippie milk I got today has a sell-by date in February. Maybe that's why it costs twice as much? I suppose we should vote with our dollars and keep buying it. Increasing demand will eventually lead to increased supply and lower prices. I think. I haven't cracked an econ book since I had to take econ.
Wow, this entry has taken a long time to write. I need to get ready for bed and find out if I can get two nights in a row of good sleep.
406 words | December 29, 2006 11:32 PM | Real true story