Post Ankle Surgery Day 1

This is the kind of day I dream about during the school year.  I'm lounging on the bed, the dogs have snuggled in.  I have a diet pepsi in easy reach, a murder mystery on the nook, my laptop nearby and best of all, not feeling guilty.

I'm sure by tomorrow this sitting around will start to get old.  By Saturday I'll probably want to go somewhere just to get out of the house even though it'll mean dealing with crutches.

But I'm not going to think about that.  I'm going to try and enjoy one guilt free day of relaxing.  I just need to ignore the fact that I haven't had a shower today and that the pain pills are making me nauseous.   :)

Seat Belt Assignment

My son had to complete a seatbelt assignment for driver's ed.  He had to watch cars and record each passenger as male/female/child and restrained/unrestrained.  He had to get in 30 cars.  I took him errand running with me and he sat in the car while I was in the post office, etc...  Final results?  Just over 25% of the cars he saw had unrestrained people in them.  Really?  I never would have guessed that so many people didn't wear seatbelts.  At least none of them were children.


We got down to the last car, we were in a Walmart parking lot and I parked next to a 20 something girl who had just gotten in her car.  We figured he could watch and see if she put on her seat belt and he'd be finished.  So we waited while she:
put her hair in a ponytail
put a headband on her head to hold back the strays that didn't fit in the pony tail
tried a different headband
did something that looked like change her bra (I wouldn't let my son look)
I think she slipped off some sweats that were over shorts, but I didn't want to look too closely (once again, I made my son look away)
change her shoes
fussed a bit with her make-up
And I'm not sure what all else because we were trying not to look too much.  We spent a good 10 minutes waiting for her to leave so he could write down if she put her seatbelt on or not.  She didn't, but was that because she doesn't wear a seatbelt or because she wanted to get away from the crazies in the car next to her?

Got Cheese?

I'm feeling like having a good whine right now.  However, since it's mostly of my own making (a complete lack of motivation is a major contributor), I'll skip writing up the details.  I just hope it's the short days and cold weather that have me acting like a slug.  That would mean it'll get better without any effort from me.  (Spoken like a true slug huh?)