YAWN! Chilly today, isn't it?

First, the important news. Josh is moving on to the next text for the St. Louis County Police - a written reading comprehension exam. He did great on his physical test, with the exception of the run. He was supposed to run a mile and a half in 12 minutes, but he was 30 seconds late. They thought he did well enough, though and his next test is on Feb. 4th.

To take the physical test, Josh took the first half of the day off at work. He had his vacation time approved, so everyone knew he would be gone....but they didn't assign anyone to actually cover his absence. So there was a huge mess when Josh got back to work, and ended up staying late, and going in early today. And they fired another person. Sadly, it was not the one Josh asked them to remove from his department.

So, Josh had a weird day.

Our day was weird, too, with Josh coming home in the middle of it, but not at the end. But Josh brought me baked potato soup from St. Louis Bread Company. Yummmmmmmmmm. Love that stuff. When he came home the second time, we watched Surrogates. Some of you might know that I've been looking forward to that movie for a long time. Probably too long, as it was sort of mediocre. Still fun to watch. Really, it wasn't at all like I expected from seeing the commercial. Actually....the story I thought it was going to be was better. Theirs was a tad trite.

I also saw a Sherlock Holmes movie lately, starring Rupert Everett. It didn't get great reviews, so I wasn't disappointed, but it was kind of a shame. He could have played Sherlock Holmes brilliantly, but the script wasn't great. It was somewhat of a departure from he original character (although nothing as bad as the one Robert Downy Jr. one looks), but even worse than that, the story wasn't a Sherlock Holmes story. It was like they tried to squish Holmes into a 90's murder mystery, and just changed the costumes to make it work.

I'm not having a great time researching the kids' athletics.

Today, more housework and more photo projects and some taiko... Not feeling the greatest. I had a rough night. Grant had a bad dream, so I was in his room for a while, and Abbie got out of bed twice to come and fetch me. I think the first time it was because she was cold. Anyway, one of my ears is "swimmy" today. Hope I'm not getting sick again. Enough, already! Besides, I am required to have and be lots of fun tomorrow night.

Tomorrow night is Josh's birthday party/Rob's last available night in the country. As is typical with Josh productions, it is the day before, and we still don't know what the heck we're doing. He even waited until this week to get the sitter. Well, it worked. The kids will be staying the night with Josh's sister Sarah.

The chicken didn't thaw out in time for dinner last night, so we're having it today instead.

I started to read Pride and Prejudice, but put it back down. I guess I'm not in the mood after all. And did I tell you I'm reading Harry Potter to the kids? Abbie usually walks off to play by herself, but Grant is really listening to it. We're not very far. Only Diagon Alley so far. And I have been told I should read N-Space by Larry Niven. Any thoughts?

I haven't heard from Brother lately. I don't know his schedule, so I'm always afraid to call, lest I should wake him. And he's getting a new computer, so he's offline for a while.

Well, since I do have plenty to do, maybe I should start now. Bleh. Oh, well. Off we go. Have a wonderful day. (Wish it were warmer, but at least it's sunny!)