Today I stayed home sick.

Called in at 8:00 and said I was going to be home today, got up at 9:00 and had a bowl of cereal. I still could barely keep my eyes open, so naturally I thought about coffee. My very next thought was, ‘What I really want is sleep, not coffee.’ so as soon as I finished my cereal, I went right back to bed. Slept until 1:30 in the afternoon, and I feel much better for it.

Then I got up for real and made French toast. And I’d like to take a minute to say that a day in which you get to have breakfast twice is like an evening that has two completely separate and beautiful sunsets.

After that, I spent the day working on a new MySpace site, doing three loads of laundry and cleaning my apartment. I did the dishes and vacuumed and seriously cleaned the living room. I even took apart, cleaned and vacuumed the heater vents. (The heater vents!) They were pretty nasty and full of dust and gawd-knows-what else. Quite an improvement, I must say, but it made me realize that I’ll need to get a new vacuum soon. Mine’s kinda starting to show its age.

Tonight is the first time my friend Susan (who’s an amazing flutist) and I are having a rehearsal for this tango band we’ve been talking about starting for ages. Neither of us is in a hurry, and we’re both super busy, but we both love tango so much that we want to do something with that love. So she’s going to play flute, and the occasional baritone sax, and I’m going to play accordion, and the occasional cello. We’re looking around for arrangements, and creating a few of our own, and it’s going to be a blast.