Coasting

[copied from dland]

Is it Saturday? Sunday? New Year's Day? It's all the same to me. Although I picked up the dry cleaning today and went to the mall -- yet again -- so I guess that makes it Saturday. Although the mall will be open on Monday and I have to go back for something else, so it's all the same to me.

Other than the returns at Macy's and talking to an Apple genius about K's iPod, my only accomplishment of the day was taking down the little Christmas tree, the one I keep in the family room with miniature glass ornaments on it. I also have a bunch of miniature Hallmarks, as well as some Hallmarks that move and light up, but I guess they're in the basement somewhere; I didn't look for them last year or this. That gives me two more days off to get the big tree taken down. I may try to get to the gym tomorrow morning (they're only open until noon tomorrow) and then I'd have the afternoon to get it done. Or Monday. Oh wait, I have mall business on Monday. Tomorrow, then.

The thing that is really bothering me is something I shouldn't talk about because it's another person's thing, but briefly, and if you've read this for awhile you may get more, but a dear friend's little granddaughter was supposed to have spinal surgery on Wednesday and I haven't heard anything and it's worrying me. The baby and her parents were flying to a hospital in the midwest to have this done, and the friend has gone down to where they live in the south to stay with their other child. I don't have her cell number or the number there; she had said she would call or email me when it was over. I'm concerned, but they are also very private people, so I'm hesitating to call the friend's daughter, who lives here in town, but I think if I haven't heard by Monday, I'll call. I know that on Tuesday, people in school will ask me about it, the few who know, and will call the daughter, and I'm thinking that the call might be better coming from me. But I'll give my friend another day or two; hopefully, she's just overwhelmed with the stress of the situation in general, not to mention looking after her grandson, who was expected to start walking this week, and she hasn't been able to sit down and write or call. Nothing worse than that. Great success and no complications were the expectations of the surgery, so she's just busy, right? Okay, I got that off my chest.

Otherwise, I've had Law and Order: Criminal Intent on all day since there's a marathon. It's not my favorite L&O and I've probably never seen a whole episode of it before. I saw one before where there was an Orthodox Jewish family and someone ordered the murder of the wife, who was a convert, but I fell asleep before the end so now I don't know who did it. Anyone? Lindsay? It's not SVU, but I thought I'd take a shot. (There's an SVU marathon on tomorrow, btw, and the last episode I've never seen is finally going to be on. Another series at 100%. Yes, folks, this is the excitement that is me.)


WATCHING L/O: CT :: ENTRY #1335