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Came through surgery just fine. deepbluemermaid got me home safely and I spent the rest of the day either napping upright on the couch or asleep in bed. Broken sleep, but that's to be expected when on codeine and changing the ice in the pretty halo headband every three hours or so.

Yesterday, I managed to be awake and relatively alert for two hours at the longest. Spent the rest of the day napping in bed. Eventually had longer gaps between using/refilling the pretty ice halo headband as one of the sides leaked noticably more than the other. One less codeine to sleep than Thursday night.

Today I was awake for the morning; up bright and early around 8.00am, even. Read a book (which I am going to have to reread because my concentration is shot), and have been dozing for most of the afternoon. The bits when I am awake I've been watching my way through season four of M*A*S*H.

I've been mostly eating KFC's potato & gravy and (and, not with) scrambled eggs. Definitely don't want to be eating anything more solid yet. The potat & gravy is finished, but there are plenty of eggs left and cans of tomato soup...

That just about does it for being awake, I think.

thesane and her fiancee are visiting us for the weekend, so it the improvement in weather was just in time for lots of walking around the city, although thesane may have preferred rain, as there is not proper rain in Christchurch. After a relaxing morning and sleeping in, we ventured out to shop. Well, look at things anyway. Bello, the men's shoe store, the bead shop, the wool store, sherazad... nothing was purchased. We bought lunch and an ice cream, and that was about it. Later, thesane bought a bag. However, we identified some shiny raised sequiny things that I can use on the sampler instead of importing pailettes from the US, and found crystals the right shade of peach/pink for the dress, although thesane has to work out how many she needs first.

My knee kinda aches now. I soaked it off Thursday evening, and found that although the strapping was a bit tight and very annoying, it was also helping and taking it off hurt in the same way (but not to the same extent) as taking the strapping off my hand that time when I broke it. The physio is quite pleased with how it's healing. The strapping has been replaced, somewhat looser this time, and it will stay on until next Thursday when I go back.

I also go to see the oral surgeon next week. Went to the dentist last week and was told that of my four wisdom teeth, only one of them is in a condition to keep and since there's no room in my mouth for its pair to come through, there's no point. I will get them out sometime next year; I don't have time before Christmas.

We had our team Christmas function yesterday. It involved going to the house of one of the partners, eating lots of food and general relaxing. Secret Santa happened and my person (people, since one of my lawyers emailed me from Sydney to say please buy his for him) seemed quite happy with their present. My Secret Santa gave me an incredibly trashy looking Mills&Boon by Emma Darcy (her 100th Mills&Boon book!), which was the cause of much teasing about it being too steamy for me. Having read it - and it really is terrible - I think I am going to take it into work and hand it to someone, saying it was a bit too much for me. Unless one of you lot want it, of course, in which case, feel free.

Wedding sampler has been started; the motorbike has been sold; the sun is shining; the days are long, but the work is not hard. Not at the weekend, anyway.

I don't feel too sore after the weekend, which is both a good thing and unexpected. I'm still not fond of running on soft sand, as it kills my ankles, but I had a very good time and even managed not to get sunburned!

Today I got to the gym at 8.15am to do a fitness test, had McDonalds for breakfast for, like, the first time in a year, went to the dentist (one filling) and back to the gym again for a session with a personal trainer. Next meeting is at 7am on Wednesday, which will be the test run for what time I can get there and knowing how much time I'll have in the morning before work.

I'm sorta looking forward to it. Not the getting up early so much (as if!) but the results I anticipate and am working towards.

Denist gave me all sorts of instructions on how to brush my teeth properly, cleaned them, gave me a filling and told me that my bottom wisdom teeth should really come out since there isn't comfortable room for them in my mouth. At $200 each, they can wait. The topical anesthetic wore off and my jaw aches. I'm also vaguely hungry, having only eaten a slice of bread since breakfast.

Bought Jaran by Kate Elliot today. I first read this book back at high school and thoroughly enjoyed it. Saw it once or twice in the ensuing years but never got around to purchasing it. This time I did. Now, if only I could manage to obtain the next three books in the series, of which I have never actually seen a copy.

Am so glad that I don't have to go to work tomorrow. And if I wasn't telling D. what I ate today and tomorrow on Wednesday, I'd have something sweet, chocolately and unhealthy. Le sigh.