I have had two really amazing gifts this week.

First
My family sent me a video. When I spoke to them all on Thanksgiving I told them that my favourite part was the 10 O’clock Turkey Sandwich. After the huge meal in the afternoon, around 10 you’d start to feel a bit peckish – nothing to big, just something. So grab one of wonderful home-made rolls and put a nice thick layer of Miracle Whip and a nice chunk of room temperature turkey and … wow. Heaven.

I waxed lyrical about this sandwich to my Mom, Dad and Blanketgirl in turn. I dream about this sandwich. The turkey to make this sandwich cannot be bought. The beauty is that it has been sat out since lunch cooling.

So my sister said they’d all have a sandwich in my honour and take a photo. I waited a day or two and then got a link instead. They’d made a video of them having the sandwiches and I got to see them and hear them and it was amazing. They all look so wonderful and I miss them so much right now.

And damn those sandwiches looked good.

Second
A package arrived for me today. My first response is always to try to remember if I ordered anything. I haven’t lately so of course I asked Weasel if she’d got me something, again no.

Opened it up and it is the entire Planet Earth DVD box set – the really amazing fancy BBC one narrated by David Attenborough [whom Weasel loves].

My friend Kharn sent it to me! I got goosebumps! I’ve never ever ever ever had anyone do anything like this for me before [as a friend I mean]. He basically said it was early Christmas and wanted to help me feel better if he could. Amazing.

Both of these have given me such a lift.

Not about gifts
In other news, I finished my course of antibiotics yesterday and I delighted by having some egg nog. I wasn’t allowed milk/yoghurt within X number of hours of the antibiotic so I just avoided them rather than counting. Anyway, last night around 4:45 I woke up and my ear was discharging again. I haven’t had any discharge since I went to hospital. So Weasel’s been on to the doctor and I’m back on the antibiotics tonight. I am not going back to hospital if I can avoid it and I don’t want to take the risk. Also got a prescription for the six pills I was missing. So medicine-wise I’m on track.

Things I did today that maybe I shouldn’t have

• dried my hair
• tidied up the kitchen counter
• did a few dishes [only like five, but still]
• folded all the dried clothes
• put the towels/pillow cases away
• tidied away the last of the pile of stuff from the hospital
• took all the clothes in the lounge back upstairs

Things I did today that were awesome and definitely worth doing

• started my day with V8 and orange juice!
• sewed the buttons back on my gloves two years after they came off
• fixed two bras
• caught up with the downloads of three shows
• placed a grocery order
• watched a few episodes of Firefly
• finished the last collected volume of The Sandman again