I actually slept in until 11 am this morning! Of course it wasn't like I slept for 14 hours straight.  I was up several times during the night and in the morning for bathroom and 'change of venue' and medicine.  That 'change of venue' meant that I slept in my bed, in the recliner chair in the front room and in my 'green' chair in our bedroom.  My night seemed quite restful despite all of that changing going on.  I knew that I needed to stay home from church, but that didn't keep me from wondering if I wasn't sick enough to stay home.  I had a couple of small moments when I felt okay enough to figure that I should have gone, but they were quickly replaced by strong feeling of 'un-wellness' and downright being sick.  Right now I am feeling that again as I have been enjoying the family and our time together.  As soon as they left and it got quiet again I noticed all of the discomfort and yuckiness come back and over take my body.  I am also very tired all of a sudden, and find it hard to even think about anything but some medical treatments and rest and sleep and quiet and close my hurting eyes.  As badly as all of that sounds it was that good for the previous 4-5 hours.  I know I don't always appreciate them as I ought to, but I do while they are here, and then it continues to foster 'units of pleasure' just thinking about what was and what will be in similar occasions in the future.  That's from my LDS hedonistic philosophy that I learned in college.  Remind me to explain it to you sometime.

They gave me my birthday present tonight.  It was in a book form and had the pictures and some entries.  I will enjoy it forever and will try to figure out which one on the front cover is me!

I would very much like to continue with 'my book' but that will require me to be well and not sick.  I don't think very well when I feel sick as I do right now.  So task # one is to get better.  Then I hope to review and record and continue with that book project.  I continue to ponder on it and appreciate it as a very good idea and one that I really want to do.  And the importance of that is only heighten by the family hanging around as they have today.