Narcotics can certainly take the spunk out of you!

We woke this AM and Mary asked for oatmeal. I prepared it for her and immediately after she ate, she went back the her lounge chair and slept some more.

I left at 11 while she was still sleeping and visited the dry cleaner, our plumber's shop, bought some low energy lights for the stairwell and then found and bought a light bulb changing pole. The two flood lamps in our stairwell burned out this last month and I had no idea how to change them. I stopped at the rental place on Los Gatos Blvd and they suggested buying a lamp changing pole. Amazingly, ACE hardware had such a beast so I purchased it. And, it worked!

When I got home, Mary had showered, changed and fixed herself one of the frozen thingys I purchased last week. That made me feel better about going to back work next week. I can do breakfast before I go and get home to do dinner. With frozen thingys, she can feed herself. And she does agree that hot meals do seem to be easier on her stomach.

We finished the Thin Man movie series last night--Nick and Nora Charles. Today, while I was out running errands, Mary found an NCIS marathon on one of the cable channels. She watched a whole bunch of NCIS episodes, I wandered off and did some household tasks. When I did join her later in the afternoon, I realized she was sleeping as much as she was awake.

Mary's day tends to be wake--breakfast--nap--shower and dress--lunch--nap--watch some TV and nod off frequently--late afternoon snack--more TV--eat dinner--more TV--to bed. She is eating just about anything I can prepare and generally can hold the food down although there are exceptions from time to time. I talked to our neighbor Lillian today, and as we discussed, the narcotics certainly keep our girl down--knock the spunk out of her!

On a final note, as I changed the light bulbs with the light bulb pole, I found a resident on our ceiling. I have no idea what kind of spider this is, but as you can see in the blow up, it has very distinctive markings. You can click on the picture to play the three photos or click on the link at the bottom to visit our on-line album.