Rockin Saturday night

Tonight Terry and I are both doing things we love. He's at the Mets game, and I'm home watching the Giants (New York, not San Francisco) while purging the clutter from underneath the kitchen sink. I derive an abnormal, and likely diagnosable, amount of pleasure from organization. Couple that with Giants football (even though it's pre-season and I'm really missing Tiki), and I'm in heaven.

I've been coveting this amazing sliding shelf that my mother already bought at Bed Bath & Beyond. I got it today and could hardly wait to get home and put it together. Those white slats slide back and forth so you can accommodate the sink's drainage pipe. It doubles the storage space in that cabinet in a way that makes me so happy. (If you want it, order it here.)

I also bought a snazzy looking thing to hold all those plastic bags that seem to take over like a giant ball of tumbleweed. It will hold up to 50.


It's hard to top a Saturday night like this.

Coolest sofa bed I've ever seen

Check out this sofa bed I found on unclutterer. It doesn't look like it would be comfortable for anyone over 5 feet, but it might be good for kids' sleepovers. And who cares if it's comfortable? It looks fabulous!

Hello From the Impatient Patient

Hey, guys! A quick note from Joanie. I wanted to thank everyone for your good thoughts - they pulled me through. No kidding - Terry brought me the comments to the posts and read them to me out loud at the hospital every day and every night, and it was so amazing.

As Terry mentioned, I'm home, so that is a big step. I'm feeling exponentially better each day (although I am working off a pretty small base!), so it won't be long before I'm able to talk to you all. For now, I feel like one giant, raw, exposed nerve laying on the couch trying to minimize all outside stimulus. Every noise, light, vibration, sensation, is magnified by about 1,000 inside my head, so I have found talking - and particularly talking on the phone - a bit hard to manage right now. But it won't be long......

I will write more later to fill you in on some of the more bizarre aspects of this unique experience. I feel like a lot of interesting things happened to me. Truthfully, this will probably become the part of the blogging experience where I become the only person reading my postings ;)

Stay tuned - tomorrow brings a whole new agenda: daytime TV.

xxxxxooooo

jv