So Here's How It's Going

So far, I am not achieving my main goal for this summer, which is not to be sick like I was last summer.

Hmm.

I have the eye infection, which is improving, but I'm pretty sure I have a sinus infection, too. I won't go into the details, but I'll tell you, I wake up every morning and the first thing I think is that I wish I was in someone else's body. Okay, I'll go into the details, some; I'm not stuffy and the pain is manageable, but my teeth hurt and there is a characteristic unpleasant taste in my mouth/smell in my nose at all times. So, ick. I'm going to the doctor Wednesday for a blood pressure check -- that's been good, at least -- so I'll ask her about this, too, although I think a visit to Harry Katz The Sinus Man is in my near future.

I watched the movie Waitress over the weekend, which I like very, very much. I highly recommend it.

I went on a fruitless search this morning to the Japanese stores in Edgewater for some bento supplies; on the way back I tried to find a store I had seen listed online which was in a completely different part of the county, a part I'd never actually been in before. Also fruitless. A huge waste of time. The only good thing about it was getting to listen to more of the song countdown on the radio.

My fun for the day was going out to buy a new baby gift. Someone the Hubs works with (whose Polish wedding we went to last year) has just become a new daddy, which is exciting, and my standard new baby gift is books, so I had a fun visit to Barnes and Noble this afternoon. It was even more fun because these are books for the mommy, too, who is educated in Polish but has only been learning English since she arrived last year, so I think she'll enjoy them, too. Here's what I got:

Goodnight, Moon
Where the Wild Things Are
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Green Eggs and Ham
The four books in the Nutshell Library, which are
Alligators All Around
Chicken Soup With Rice
Pierre
One Was Johnny

It's very Sendak heavy, but hey, I love Sendak above all children's author/illustrators, so there you are. I wasn't going to get Harold, but I saw a nice paperback edition of it on the counter where I was sorting all the other books, so I had to get it. Goodnight, Moon is a board book; I also saw a board book edition of The Snowy Day, so I got that for myself because I love it and don't have it on my special children's book shelf. (Although I'm thinking now that the edition my kids had when they were little is on the other bookshelf, behind the little couch. Ah well. You can never have too many fine books.) The whole trip made me think again that it would be nice to work in the B & N children's department when I retire, but clear thinking reminds me that it would not. I'm not up on contemporary children's books, and I wouldn't want to work Saturdays, which they want you to do. (And Sundays, I would think, if we ever give up the Blue Laws here that keep the stores closed on Sundays.)

So I did knock off two things on my actual list of summer projects, which were to buy the books, and to file the last few months worth of house papers. I haven't started the basement yet, which I'm not bothered about. I have the turntable to hook up to the computer, but then I'm thinking that I can't even get to the record albums until I do a little basement work. Maybe next week.

Therapy tomorrow morning. All ready.

WATCHING FRIENDS :: ENTRY #1799
SUMMER BOOK #3: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon