I’ve had a headache for days.  It’s interfered with my sleep, I haven’t enjoyed things I usually do, and it happens every time it’s going to snow or rain.  The worse it is, the worse the weather will be.  And if it’s a slow-moving system, the headache can last and last.  The weather forecast here is finally predicting snow, but I was predicting it days ago.  It feels as if someone is pressing his thumbs into my temples, and trying to pry my skull apart with fingers down the center of the top of my head.  Even with painkillers, the pressure is there, and I can feel my pulse pounding in my temples and ears.  This stupid snow isn’t supposed to start until tomorrow or Saturday.  The headache won’t fo away until it does.

On Friday, hubby was working from home, so I went out to see “Brokeback Mountain”.  I’m glad I didn’t try to get him to come along, and I wouldn’t have even thought to bring the kids.  I really enjoyed it, and I was astonished at how good Heath Ledger was.  It did take a while to get moving, but there was very good reason for that – it needed to be that way for  the story to be effective.  It was really powerful, and had a lot more going on than two cowboys in love.

After that, I headed over to Circuit City.  We’d finally decided to splurge on the big TV.  Now, I don’t know why men distrust my superior spatial relations perception – hubby has questioned me for almost 18 years, and I’ve been wrong about what size something is exactly twice in all that time.  The guys at the store came out and looked at the van and immediately said it wouldn’t fit.  I told them it would, I’d put a refrigerator in there the day before.  They shook their heads, but I insisted, and it slid right in, and the top corner just touched the back windshield.  Sheesh.  So we got it home, watched a couple of special effect intensive movies and reveled in the joy of having a new toy. 

So, of course, that got us to thinking about how ugly and uncomfortable the miscellaneous furniture odds and ends were, and we saw some things we liked the look and price of in an ad, went out and sat on things, came home, measured, and I went out and ordered a nice sectional today.  It was a major shock to the system – it’s the first time we’ve ordered furniture instead of picking it up from IKEA in ages, and I’d forgotten about the 6-8 week delivery turnaround.  Woe is me!  Of course, it does give us time to fix the drywall in the ceiling that was ruined by the roof leak before the new furniture arrives, so I guess that’s a good thing.