Zzzzz...

It's been a very not-much sort of weekend, here. Friday night I fell asleep on the couch in front of a TiVOed preseason baseball game, and eventually staggered up to bed around 11:30. Saturday morning I woke up at 9, when curiousangel's alarm went off - still tired. He went off to help geekchick move, and I settled in to enjoy having the house to myself for the day. Around 2pm, I lay down on the couch to read and instantly fell asleep. Until six, when I woke up, still exhausted.

I felt a social obligation to go to the church auction, so we did. We placed low bids on a bunch of things in the silent auction, and racked up to a ridiculous extent. I mean, I don't see how they raised any money with this auction, because we got: two passes to a local winery's wine-tasting-and-music festival, for $7; four tickets to concerts of our choice at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, for $12; and a funky, baroque, milk glass punch bowl with eighteen cups, for $23. We also splurged in the live auction and bid a bit too much money on lunch with two Unitarian-Universalist state representatives, which includes being their guests at a legislative session. It was fun.

Then I - yes - went to sleep again. And slept for more than nine hours. And I'm tired now. It's all very strange. I don't feel sick, I just feel like I could sleep for the rest of my life and I'd still just be beginning to catch up.

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curiousangel got blood test results on Thursday, and his cholesterol is sky-high. Our doctor prescribed a statin for him, but we're also researching lifestyle changes. We, because my diet isn't very healthy either, and because I cook for both of us, and because these changes tend to be easier if someone else is going through them with you.

So: exercise. More fruits and vegetables, whole grains, olive oil, and fish - which comes at an inconvenient time, given that half of the fishes we would normally eat have been banished from my diet because of mercury. (And of the remaining allowable fish, shrimp is high in cholesterol. There goes half our favorite fish dishes. And it's so easy to keep a bag of frozen shrimp in the freezer, and thaw a couple of handfuls for dinner. Well. Never mind.) Less red meat, less fast food, less fried food. More grilling and broiling. Strange new products like Benecol.

Fortunately, a lot of my recipes and cooking techniques are already relatively low in fat. And summer is a good time for marinated chicken breasts on the grill, and so forth. And exercise will give both of us more energy, and make us happier. Plus, of course, it would be worth any amount of deprivation and inconvenience to keep curiousangel healthy. We're lucky he has the opportunity to make these changes now, before there's been any serious damage to his health.