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I am now getting to be so good at Sudoku I can solve all but the hardest puzzles with only writing down the correct numbers and not writing down any little \”these numbers could go here\” numbers.

I\’ve also really been enjoying doing logic puzzles. The type where \”There are five brothers who each live in a different style of home on a different street in a different city and each have a different job and by these clues can you figure out who has what?\” Then in cryptic words one learns that Harry doesn\’t have the Victorian house and the Actor doesn\’t live in on main street but does live in the ranch style house. The logic behind those puzzles is much the same as the logic behind a sudoku puzzle. By using the rules of \”if x is z then x cannot be y\” one can learn such interesting things…

And as for houses… Well, the morning after my previous post Mom decided that we probably should stay where we were. I then thought \”Oh it looks like we won\’t be moving after all. Why did I think we were so close to moving?\”. But now I know why again. None of the final choice houses were perfect though all had elements that we liked . Mother\’s desire to have a beautiful home is quite real and that is why we may still move. At the moment Mom(And Dad, and me, and so forth) is thinking about building. Yesterday Dad and Mom looked at empty lots in beautiful neighborhoods and Mom started looking at house plans.

Apparently Mommy was so interested in house plans that despite having gone to bed and lights out she couldn\’t sleep and thus, around 2:00 in the morning she got up and began looking at house plans online and contemplating them and printing them.

I know this because I also was awake at that hour. My not being asleep then was caused by other factors but when I heard the printer going my first thought was \”How late did I stay up?\” as Mother definitely gets up before I do. After looking at the time I decided to investigate and see just who was printing at that hour and found it was Mom, so I joined her.

After looking and discussing for about five minutes or so I fell in love with one of the house plans she had already selected that had the most beautiful walk in closets!!! After we both decided that was our favorite and oh how wonderful Mom spent the next hour and half looking to see if there were any houses she liked better and I spent the time thinking about how I\’d furnish my two bedrooms that the house plan would allow me to have.

We finally stopped around four in the morning. I\’m usually awake at midnight and lately I stay awake until one but four is a very late hour for me. Still, at four in the morning Mom really liked that house plan. And right now, more than twelve hours later, Mom still likes that house plan. If it lasts until tomorrow then I will begin to think even more seriously about how I\’m going to decorate my rooms:)

Now, on another subject. Why was I awake at two in the morning? Well, around Friday or Saturday I started feeling sick. I felt weak and a bit dizzy whenever I would get up. I was very inclined to stay in bed so I did that with a little bike riding. Sunday morning(Yesterday) I was scheduled to run camera at our church. I was hoping I\’d feel well for that but… Suffice it to say I quickly rushed to Mom and Dad after the service and earnestly requested them not to make arrangements to dine out as their daughter was feeling most unwell and desirous of being at home in her own bed as quickly as possible.

Personally I think I must have the most wonderful parents in the whole world. They actually cancelled the then in process lunch plans and took me home with a stop for a little milk on the way. The last time I got sick like I was then we did go out to eat and sitting at a table made everything so much worse. So this time I kind of got off easy.

As soon as I got home I considered it time for some pain medication so I\’d feel better. I pulled out the most reliable pain deadener I knew about, my laptop computer:) Really, it\’s a great pain remover. In between the internet, DVD\’s, and computer games while I\’m using I\’m practically unaware that my insides are not happy and that things could be better with the world in general and my stomach in particular.

So that was what I was doing at two in the morning… I hadn\’t used it solidly all day though. I think I took a nap at some point and I know I got up at least twice to eat something and I read a bit in books. At four in the morning though I was able to go to sleep without much lying awake in bed thinking about how sick I was feeling which was why I\’d been using my computer that late.

I certainly haven\’t been doing much writing lately. I\’ve thought about it moderately often but so far not much has shown up.

However, I have written a post and now perhaps it is time to transfer to other things as post writing is not so fascinating that I don\’t think about my stomach regions and if I weren\’t much better today this would probably have been a shorter post.

In my family we talk about a lot of things we never end up doing. But some of the things we talk about we actually do. But not all. You may have noticed this in the quantity of stories I\’ve started and not finished.

One of the things that have been talked about a great deal is Moving. This discussion used to bother me whenever it was brought up as I did not wish to leave the house I was born and live somewhere far from Walmart and our church, but as time went by I began to see that we probably wouldn\’t be moving. Mommy also did not want to live on a ranch in Texas, even if the acreage was measured in square miles, or old chemical factory\’s, or giant mills, or old historical houses with infestations of lady bugs, or… And the list goes on.

So for the past few years when Dad would mention tracks of land available I would merely smile, nod my head, ask how far from Walmart, and forget about the whole thing. A few weeks later(or often sooner) the subject would be dropped. Once and only once did Dad actually make an offer and then it was just for a new building for our shop and all ended up coming to nothing. And so could happen again but this time…

We are not looking at remote locations or biohazardous wastelands or old mills, or… I can\’t even remember the rest. Typically though it\’s just large tracts of land close to no where. It\’s only been biohazardous wastelands twice or so. But I digress.

Today I rode with Mom and Dad in the car as we went to meet a real estate agent. Dad is looking very seriously at new building for our business and the looking is very serious up to the point that he is actually doing the paperwork for the offer and so forth. The wheels are rolling and I think we are closer to moving than we have ever been before. But, it is not the business arrangements that are making me feel this, oh no.

Back to meeting the real estate agent. We drove through a very elegant neighborhood up to very elegant high class house. It had a three car garage, next to an immaculately gorgeous golf course. We entered the beautiful front gateway into the most beautiful house I think I\’ve ever been in with the possible exception of the Biltmore and the palaces I toured in Europe (but not all of those). Every detail of the architecture was dazzling, and surprisingly a bit elvish in flavor which I naturally liked very much. The doors were archways and though the feeling of the house was not castle I loved it at once.

The master bedroom suite was magnificent. It had it\’s own sauna and exercise room. It had a HUGE closet with wood shelving instead of the standard white metal stuff. And that\’s just the beginning!

But what I liked was when I went up the elegant grand staircase and entered the bedroom immediately on the left and decided that that bedroom would be mine if we got that house. It had its OWN bathroom connected to it, and it only. The bedroom had a stunning view of a lake and trees on the golf course. And it was BIG!!! And the closet was possibly twice as large as mine, not huge, but ample. I liked it a lot. And in the large bonus room there was a video projection screen!!! I really liked that house. And Mom did too. And that is why we are closer to moving than we have ever been before. I\’ve never seen Mom so excited about a house. Well, not until we went to the next house on the list… And then the one after that.

In all we visited seven houses. While we were in it Mom really liked House Number 2. I loved it, it had a beautiful large bedroom with a closet that made the closet in house number 1 look like a mouse hole and the cool thing about that bedroom was that it was connected to a bathroom which was connected to another bedroom that had a closet that made the previous closet look small and as there were two other bedrooms upstairs those two bedrooms would therefore be MINE!!! MINE ALL MINE!!! I was ecstatic. True, the house wasn\’t gorgeous like the previous one and was the interior walls were painted a sickly yellow and the surroundings were pretty boring but heh, TWO HUGE CLOSETS!!! I loved it. And for a while Mom did too but it was not to last…

The next house we drove out on a road that looked like it was no where. Then we turned off onto a driveway that led us to a grand and castle like house. It\’s situation reminded me a bit of Wayne Manor though the approach much shorter, the house style was totally different and I don\’t think it had subterranean caves infested with bats, and the bat of course. Still, it was beautiful. And then… The real estate agent couldn\’t find the key! This beautiful castle like house that I was dying to know what my bedroom would be like in itand the key was no where to be found!!! It was quite an emotional experience. However the reason I\”m mentioning it is because something heroic (sort of) happened. We went around the back onto the lovely veranda and peered in the windows. The door to the screened in porch was open and we entered to look in those windows at the beautiful kitchen/dining/living/great room that met our eyes. We paused in front of the side door that led into the tantalizing kitchen. And there it seemed our journey would stop. With sighs of regret, tears of lament, and groans of utter despair we were about to turn and leave when the brave and heroic Elizabeth (Me) boldly reached forth her hand to the door knob, turned it, and found that the door was not locked. With such cries of rejoicing did we enter! With such outpourings of delight did we finally find ourselves inside that beautiful home! And, of course, it was all due to me!!! Muhahahaha

Um… Something weird seemed to have happened to that last paragraph. It seems to be overly dramatic. Anyway, after I found that the door was unlocked we went in. The down stairs was gorgeously beautiful. Very open and very like the Biltmore(A HUGE mansion of great elegance for those of you who don\’t know). In style. I liked it. True, the master bedroom suite didn\’t have a sauna or exercise room but it had his and hers closets of semi great magnificence.

Eagerly I rushed to find the staircase that would lead me to the upstairs bedrooms so I could find out what my room would be like in this house. I went up the charming little stair way that looked like it would be a great challenge to make a grand entrance from as it was tucked away out of sight and had a turn halfway up and wasn\’t positioned so that the descent could be noticed by anyone who wasn\’t standing directly in the hallway in front of the stairs.

Once I reached the top of the stairs I was pleased to find a charming little sewing room. However, as it was much to small to be my bedroom I went to the next room. It was a bedroom. I was not ecstatic about it. I went to the connecting bathroom. It opened into the hall. My face fell. I looked around. There was only a shower and no tub. I didn\’t like that. I looked at the closet. It was not what I would call large. I was disappointed and no longer was that house my favorite though it was still in the top three as we had only visited three. I looked at the large bonus room which was the only other room up there and thought \”No where is Andrew going to sleep?\” And the only logical answer to that was in the big bonus room which didn\’t have a bathroom and therefore he\’d be sharing with me and I didn\’t like that bedroom in the first place and NEXT!!!

And Mom LOVED that house! Oh how she liked it. And I think it was about then that I learned both she and Dad didn\’t like house number two (the one with the HUGE glorious closets) and they really liked house number three. Fortunately for me Mom had wisely packed some cheddar bunny snack crackers and I was therefore able to munch and prevent my blood sugar level from reaching a point where I would have burst into tears. Though really, I liked House number Three and if the upstairs had been what it ought to have been I really would have loved it.

The next three houses… Um, personally I think the less said about them the better. They were… boring. Most had glaring color problems. None had connecting bathrooms into the bedrooms! They all had a problem, and Mom didn\’t like them. We did breifly consider house number six but it was forgotten just as soon as Mom entered house number Seven.

At this point in the game I was desperate. It seemed like it would be house number three and I didn\’t like that bedroom! This was my last chance for a bedroom I liked!!! Quickly I darted about the house looking for the stairway up. House number three had a better staircase for grand entrances. This house\’s stair case was hidden behind a door in the back part of the house and it was only after I opened just about every other door in the house that I found it. But once I did, and once I climbed it, and once I saw what was at the top of it hope once again rose in my breast. For at the head of the stairs were two doors. One led to the storage room and the other led into a large room with it\’s own bathroom and large closet!!! I was delighted. Now that the possibility of having two bedrooms connected by a lovely bathroom was no more and I seemed doomed with an ugly bedroom I didn\’t like finding this place seemed wonderful. I really liked it and told Mom so.

Then I took another look downstairs with Mom. In one area of the were two bedrooms in kind of a nook of their own. Neither connected to the bathroom but there was a full bath there in the little hallway and it was kind of a separate are from the rest of the house. And both bedrooms had LARGE closets!!! So I decided I\’d trade with Andrew (Andrew wasn\’t there by the way and therefore had nothing to do with the arrangements). He\’d get the upstairs, I\’d get those two bedrooms and closets. One of the bedrooms would be furnished very elegantly and I\’d keep my real clothes in that closet and the other would be my \”messy\” room or craft room though still with a bed in it and I would keep my costumes, formal dresses, and wedding gown collection in that closet. I liked the arrangement as it still left me with a bathroom to myself. Not as nice as house number two but that house was now out of the picture.

By this time it was late and I was hungry. I was beginning to not feel well so after steering everyone towards the exit I headed towards the car while Dad did a last walk around the house. And guess what was growing in the undergrowth of the woods surrounding the house? Posion Oak!!!

On the way to the restaurant Mom began further discussion of House Number Three and what about Andrew and where would the exercise machines be as well as everything else? In the end this plan was mentioned. Andrew would get the ugly bedroom as he had to have a large bed being very tall and not able to fit on a twin size bed(I think he sleeps diagonally or something). The exercise machines would be in the common bonus room along with a bunch of other stuff. And that left me with the sewing room!!! The charming LITTLE sewing room… I was not happy. But I still clung to hope, Mom could change her mind yet again or we might not move or that ranch in texas might be for sale again or… Wait, there are delightful cheese fries in front of me with ranch dressing to dip them in and a glass of nice cool milk for me to drink and never mind about houses, Its time to eat!!! We had a good dinner at a restaurant on the lake. I was kind of being overly dramatic agian. I wasn\’t hugely upset about house number three but I wasn\’t very happy about either.

Then… It happened. After driving to see how far House Number Three was from the new shop building Dad was very seriously considering Mom decided to drive to House Number One and see how far that one was. It was four minutes closer. Once again Mom saw the charming neighborhood just like the ones she\’s enjoyed driving through for years. Once again Mom saw the beautiful grandeur of the magnificiant house. Once again I thought of the beautiful bedroom I liked in that house… And the video projection screen… And the upstairs refrigerator… And the beautiful veranda… And my own bathroom… And the beautiful view…And the beautiful decorating details… And… I quickly began mentioning all of these things to Mother along with just about everything else I could think of that might make her change her mind and pick House Number One as her chosen favorite.

Fortunately for me Mom was already leaning towards House Number One, it was four minutes closer than the other one, and she really liked it. We were presumably driving around to see what the area was like and Mom had Dad drive by that house, very slowly mind you, at least three or four times. We even stopped the car for a bit to look at it. So, in the end, when we finally arrived home it was House Number One that Mom was thinking about. It will be interesting to see what she\’ll be thinking about tomorrow morning. It will also be interesting to see what sort of bedroom I\’ll have six months from now… Will it be in House Number One, House Number Three, Somewhere Totally Different, or still in the same bedroom I\’ve been in for years in the same house I\’ve lived in since I was born in that house?

Anyway, there you have most of what we did today. Much was talked of but even now we still may not move. But then again… With the way Mom is talking, we just might. Mom really likes the idea of living in a nice elegant house. So, we\’ll see. Personally, I\’m glad it\’s house number one. I still love house number two but I think I\’d prefer house number one. I\’d really like house number three if it weren\’t for the fact that there really isn\’t room for both Andrew and Me in it, at least not comfortably. And… I think its bedtime for me. The decision is not up to me and everything is in God\’s hands.

Oh… That reminds me. While we were in one of the three houses I didn\’t mention much I was feeling tired, sad, and not very happy about the idea of moving. I was starting to worry when I noticed a picture on a wall. It was a Bible verse. I wish I could remember which one now but I can\’t. It had something to do about \”Let not your heart be troubled\” but I think it wasn\’t that one and went on for longer but it was very comforting and I felt that it was no accident I noticed it just then. It is indeed all in God\’s hands and he will take care of us. So now it\’s time for me to sleep and not worry.

Oh!!! I was nearly forgetting. Something wonderful happened tonight!!! After looking at the houses we stopped by the house of some friends of my parents. As we were leaving the lady of the house (Not going to mention names just in case she would mind having her name posted on the internet) came out and carrying an outfit. Mom got out of the car and the lady explained that this was given to a friend of hers who can no longer wear it and if Mom would like it and it fit her she was welcome to it. The important thing about this outfit was that it was made from a special \”ultra suede\” fabric, had cost $600.00 and looked it… I mentioned to Mom that if it didn\’t fit her perhaps I could try it on…

At home Mom tried on the outfit. The jacket fit almost perfectly but the skirt was on the snug side. So I got to try it on! The skirt fit me perfectly though the jacket was a bit loose but it was the first time (to my knowledge) I was wearing a $600.00 outfit so I smiled and pulled on my $25.00 boots that I thought would go with it and walked about like a fashion model and told Mom \”I\’m from Milan Dahling\” like Edna Mode might have said it. I had fun. And currently the very fashionable ultra suede matching jacket and skirt are in my room:) I think the outfit would match House Number One quite well and would be the perfect thing to wear when walking down that grand stair case. At least during the day time. Evening it would be time to pull out my formal dress and ball gown collection…

So someday, when it doesn\’t look like it\’s going to rain and its a special occasion I\’m probably going to wear a $600.00 outfit somewhere:) Oh, actually it will be more like $625.00 when you add my boots… I do have a pair of retail $95.00 shoes that I got on massive clearance for $15.00 but I think that this suit beats the shoes in eliteness:) I\’ve never yet worn the shoes, I think I\’m saving them for my wedding day as the match perfectly a dress I already have that I might possibly wear but isn\’t likely as I\’ll probably get a new dress instead of one I bought at the Thrift Store but the shoes but the shoes might match the new dress or some other outfit and… Something like that.

And now it really is time for me to go to sleep.

That typically means either A. I am very very very sick. B. I am on a trip where I am very busy and away from power outlets. C. My computer is broken. Or D. I am dead. This time it was none of the four previous options. I am glad that D. has never yet occurred. You see, I thought I would give my eyes a break and try to regain my powers of mental thought so I quit acting like Andrew did when he was recovering from being knocked out to have his teeth removed. It was obvious at first which one of us was less mentally alert(Andrew) but as time went by the distinction became less obvious. So for that and other reasons I decided to be a good little girl and actually do something other than play games and watch movies. On Saturday I read \”Whatever happened to Penny Candy\” which is a book about inflation and other such monetary things. I also gathered together some other books of mental stimulation that were about educational subjects. Sunday was my first day of NO computer. NO computer whatsoever all day that day… And I wasn\’t sleepy for my Sunday afternoon nap. So I did what any bored individual will do when removed from computer usage, I read. And I read educational books. I read and tried to figure out lateral thinking puzzles, I read about sewing, I started reading quite a few books and gathered together some educational reading. And, most impressive of all, I solved a VERY HARD!!! Sudoku puzzle. I knew of three 1\’s and three 3\’s but only of two of the other numbers and yet I solved the puzzle!!! Talk about brain work…

Today I got to go to the library and I checked out numerous books of the educational brain using types. I got two historical fiction novels and books on cross stitching, ribbon work, quilting, beading, and other various things. And today I finished reading the Lateral Thinking Puzzles book, and also a book I checked out from the library on Babysitting.

The book on Babysitting was checked out because on just about every weekday morning my little niece Emma Grace comes over before breakfast and doesn\’t leave until around lunchtime. And it is my very reluctant duty to watch her during part of that time. It wasn\’t until recently when we learned that she liked to watch the Muppet show that I actually began to enjoy her company. But now, I really like her when she sits still in my lap with her bottle and stares at the screen in front of her. I feel so close, so bonded, with her that I\’ve almost felt sad sometimes when her dad comes to pick her up. Almost.

Playing with her isn\’t as fun as watching kids DVD\’s with her. She has a tendency to enjoy games of crawl away and lately walk away and enjoys long promenades about the house. It\’s not quite the sort of play time I enjoy as my attention span with her toys is greater than hers and I also am very concerned about what trouble she is going to get into. Usually Mom is very nearby but today I was left in the house alone with her. Fortunately nothing much happened. She did not choke. She threw up only a little and is was more like, after being displeased with the flavor of what had come from her bottle, the contents of her mouth dribbling out and fortunately none of it landed on me nor did her diaper need changing that I knew of. She didn\’t want to watch Richard Scarry\’s ABC video so I took it out but after a bit of moving about and her trying to open drawers and play with things in the kitchen I decided to see if I could get her to watch something. As she was tired of the kids DVD\’s with songs and I couldn\’t leave her down stair\’s alone while I grabbed a DVD from my collection upstairs I took out one of the DVD\’s already out on the table. Andrew had been watching Star Wars: The Phantom Menace so I put that in.

It probably is a good thing that she wasn\’t interested in watching it. On thinking about it it might be too scary a movie for a little girl. She did occasionally glance at the screen is passing while she was walking about the house, typically when an alien was talking, but it never held her attention for more than a few seconds. It wasn\’t holding my attention either so I soon took it out. I then decided that it was time for the best of the best if I wanted her to be still and watch so I brought out the Muppet Show. She quieted down wonderfully and let me hold her as \”It\’s time to raise the curtain. It\’s time to light the lights. It\’s time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight!\” and despite not having a bottle we were quite comfortably settled. The Muppet Show is certainly high on my list of attention getting entertainment for toddlers. And I like it too:)

So there you have it. I am currently trying to improve myself and learn new things and not turn my brain into absolute mush. I wasn\’t going to use my computer at all today but I really wanted to write a post documenting my progress and as I was pleased with said progress I have allowed myself access to my computer even though this means that after I finish writing this post I\’ll probably still be using it for a little while. But anyway, I went almost two days without it! And as I enjoyed reading the books I\’ve been reading (Well, maybe not the mouth to mouth and heimlich maneuvers in the baby-sitting book) and I want to actually do some of the crafts in the craft books I checked out I hope to be able to use my computer in moderation, and primarily for writing/learning purposes, while spending the majority of my waking hours in purposeful, useful, mentally stimulating, or aerobic activities.

And I can tell from the length of this post that I have missed my computer. I want to just use it, use it, use it, and it feels sooooo nice to have it where it belongs. I\’ve missed it… Anyway, there now is a nice long post on her now and as writing a post seems to be one of the computer using loopholes my brain created for me I may be writing a few more posts than usual on here. But don\’t count on it. I\’m notorious for not holding true to purposes but I\’m trying to work on that.

I was just writing on a new story! That is quite exciting as it\’s probably been at least a month since I\’ve done any serious writing. My fingers don\’t quite type so well as they used to so I need to practice my typing.

I was playing with my new expansion pack for The Sims 2 and I wanted to create a business that sold robots. Naturally I decided to create a special household to run the robot shop and there was an outfit I\’d downloaded that I thought would be perfect to dress the members of the household. It was a very star wars/military looking outfit so I did an all female group called R-Force to build the robots and run the shop. They are all wearing the exact same outfit but they all have different hair styles and looks to them. And of course eight different names. When I built their base the story line for them started forming in my head and it got further developed as I got each of them a job in addition to their robot building/selling work.

The story goes something like this, a bunch of experts or very talented young women who aren\’t quite experts yet have been assigned to create the ultimate robot. THis robot is supposed to be able to give expert medical treatment, prepare delicious foods, pilot space ships, fight with expert precision in close combat, do maintenance work, and a whole lot of other things. However, the budget for the project is quite small to at the suggestion of one of the members of R-Force they are running a gift shop in their base\’s lobby selling small toy robots and some of their early prototypes perfected into moderately good specialized working models.

This was all, of course, inspired by the Robot Crafting table in the expansion pack that lets you build toy robots, cleaning robots, hydro robots(puts out fires and waters the flowers), munchi robots(serves food), attack robots(escorts off premiss unwanted visitors), and I think I forgetting one or two. However in that game the ultimate robot is Servo though he doesn\’t pilot space ships. Anyway… I\’m glad I got an idea for a new story. it could be interesting. So far I have settings and characters but not a whole lot of plot. However, with good enough characters and setting, a plot should be coming forth as soon as I really work on but as it is la and I need to go to sleep I think I\’ll work on that tomorrow. Hopefully I will. I\’m notorious for starting stories one day and not working on them the next. Anyway, bedtime:)

Hi! I’m writing down some recent events of note and significance to me.

Saturday was quite fun. I went to CompUSA and bought a new expansion pack for The Sims 2 called Open for Business. I’ve really been enjoying having my Sims have businesses and going shopping at said businesses. Simulated shopping can be very enjoyable and doesn’t cost anything. Well, aside from the initial price of the expansion pack it doesn’t. I also went to Dollar Tree on Saturday and got a pair of earrings that I just love! They were only a dollar but they look the earrings one can find in stores for $15 to $30 dollars that look like they ought to be priced for $1.00. They are dangly and very large. I do not have another pair of earrings like them. I got them just for the fun of getting them and I may not really wear them much because they are quite large(the longest dangly part reaches to my shoulder) and I don’t really have an outfit that matches them(They are primarily gold in color with light blue plastic gems/beads at the ends) but they are different and therefore fun.

Sunday(Easter) we went to the early sunrise service at church. Normally we go to the 10:30 church service which means I get to wake up at my normal time of around 8:30 to 9:00. Sunday I was awake before 6:30 which was highly unusual for me.

On Monday I realized that I’d been watching WAY to much online television lately and that just lying in bed watching online TV was not getting anything done and was turning my brain into mush. So I decided to not “just” watch TV but to knit while I was doing so and so I knitted a beautiful purse with a shoulder strap and a neat woven texture. I did it in one day and it took many hours to do so technically I really didn’t decrease my TV watching, but at least I had a purse to show for it!!!

On Tuesday I woke up early again for I was accompanying my family to the orthopedic surgeon’s office. My brother Andrew was having his wisdom teeth taken out. I was pretty sleepy, primarily due to the early hour of raising and the late hour of my going to sleep due to finishing the purse of the last paragraph. I kind of was in a sleepy trance all of the way there and while I was at the waiting room. Andrew meanwhile was put in a definite trance because he was knocked out completely for the surgical removal of all four of his wisdom teeth.

I was not there at the time of Andrew’s awakening but he was talking randomly (even for Andrew) and very incoherently (which was strange) and was certainly not all there mentally. He was taken to the car where he settled down and sort of slept all of the way home.

Once home a new problem developed. My brother John had come to see how Andrew was and while he was talking to Dad he noticed that one of my Dad’s eyes was very blood shot and didn’t look right… Mom made an appointment with the eye doctor and I was instructed that I might be head nurse by myself for a while. With a brother who was quite himself and who was bleeding into gauze that would need to be changed every half hour or so and who could not feel his mouth to do this himself very well I was not particularly happy about the situation. I have a weak stomach. However the day was saved in the shape of my brother Daniel who drove over and sat in the living room with Andrew and me while Mom and Dad were away.

No emergencies occurred but it was kind of weird when, out of complete silence of several minutes duration, Andrew said, “Uh hu” and when I said, “What” he said, “Yes, I should have taken the left turn there”. Apparently he thought we were driving in the car. Later when he felt more awake he sat on the couch and I put Star Wars in. He read the Star Wars title as “Happy Easter”. It was a rather different afternoon… But he perked up a lot when, at his request, I put in a movie about race cars. And shortly after that Mom and Dad came home and Dad’s eye was pronounced to be pretty much okay and nothing too serious. So all was well and I was able to resume my knitting and watching online TV. I started knitting on another purse while watching Andrew.

Today I finished that purse. It’s white and the other was green. I think the first one looks better than the second. I’ll probably be knitting a third one soon. Today was notable in that I’ve actually done a lot of reading and non computer things today. Well, a lot for me. I glanced over a book about the Bill of rights. I read “Whatever happened to Penny Candy” which is an excellent book explaining economics. I got about half way through a lateral thinking puzzle book with guessing correct answers on most of the puzzles. AND on top of that I’ve written a post on my website today! That’s a good sign:)

So am I done with mushing my brain up with computer games and TV shows? Probably not. But I’m hoping to be doing some other things in the near future and put my TV show watching to good use while I’m doing it and perhaps even write some TV shows of my own. I’ve gained a lot of story ideas and characters by all of this and hopefully soon I’ll be putting them to use:)

And it only took me two hours:) Recently I’ve taken up solving Sudoku puzzles. I’ve probably successfully navigated about 10 now, primarily easy and very easy with one one moderate. So a “Hard” one was indeed a BIG thing!!! It is such an exciting accomplishment that it deserved a post and here the post is.