Why hello, faithful blog readers. Two days in a row! No, ladies and gentlemen, your eyes do not deceive you. I'm once again on the bedroom floor, under the full spectrum lamp, breathing in the humidified air. M is stealing closet hangers. I'm about to settle down with a book. I'm not wearing pants. Life is good.

So today was a decent day. I realized, this morning come around 6:30, that A) I haven't woken before five since Christmas morning, I think, and B) I've pulled in ten hours of sleep every night since then as well. Maybe I'm learning how to relax, although, honestly, I don't like saying things like “I don't know how to relax” because, well, that statement sounds whiny and stupid. After I woke I ate breakfast and cruised the net until M left to set up her new room at school. The boys played video games while I started cleaning upstairs. This meant, mostly, that I threw all of M'd crap into the hall closet and cleaned our room. At 9 the boys started cleaning their rooms and did a great job, much to my surprise, I must admit, so they were allowed back on video games around 10AM. I hit the gym until 11:30 or so, showered, devoured Trader Joe's ravioli, and left, after M returned, for Kohl's (candles, 10 buck gift certificate) and Michaels' (DBT poster frame). M and the boys left for the Y pool in the afternoon. What did I do then? I don't remember. I think I read a little bit and channel-surfed since the television, for once, was open. Later M, T and I watched another Castle. T and I visited the quiet library, too, and I framed and hung that DBT poster near the basement entrance, where the Degas sculpture photo was until that, for reasons still unexplained, fell from the wall. So today's been productive, really, or a good mix of productive and vacation-y. Tomorrow I have to form that mouthguard and call the dentist for a January appointment. I need to get out of the house more, too, and as the boys will probably have friends over all day, and everyone's sick of each other, otherwise, the opportunity is present. I could drive down to the art museum and check out the design show before next week's closing. Or I could get hooks for bathroom towels, since the cheap ones I purchased last summer fell already. I'm trying to be careful with money but we've spent next to none over break so I'm ok with bathroom hooks. I want to hit a coffee shop and go through the poetry as well.

Ok, that's it for now. I need a lunesta and a book. Oh, did I mention the sun was out all day? I love grey days but I feel like I'm getting away with something basking in bright afternoons through late December. No complaints. Off to bed.