A Few Ounces Lighter

I had surgery last week to have my nerve stimulator removed. If you're not up on the details, here's the quick version: the stimulator's wires were slipping and causing pain, I was sick of not being able to practice yoga, and the stimulator was no longer helping me headache (now I wonder if it ever did).

The neurosurgeon said that this was "the easiest surgery ever. That's probably true for him, but the recovery is more difficult than I anticipated. The surgery was on the 12th and I spent the rest of the week drugged up on Vicodin. This week has been rocky too, but I haven't had to take painkillers and have returned to blogging on The Daily Headache.

Fall arrived in Seattle while we were away. I'm loving it. I have to get through another winter before I'm sure, but I think that I may actually like our gray, rainy winters. Hart, in contrast, is quite unhappy. In fact, he's worried that we have fundamentally different weather preferences -- that's makes choosing a place to live tough.

This weekend will be low-key. We'll spend Saturday with our friends Kelly and Rob. The plan is to do nothing specific -- just hang out kind of like we did with our friends when we were teenagers. We'll talk a lot, cook (and bake a pre-birthday carrot cake for me), and maybe play games or watch movies. We're really looking forward to it.

Here's a gem from our friend Maylynn's blog:

"O's [who's four] explanation to E [who's two] regarding why I asked her to try sitting on the potty a bit longer: 'Maybe the pee is putting on its shoes and coat.'"