A Good Day

A landmark evening. First of all I slept in my bed with my wife. It’s not what you think… we’re not talking biblical knowledge or anything. But the simple pleasure of sleeping with my wife. What was landmark was the fact that I slept through the entire evening, until about 09:30, without any coughing attacks and without having to get up in the middle of the night. I would cough every now and then throughout the night but it was more than bearable. I woke up stunned and pleasantly surprised.

The morning was reasonably tense as we were all preparing the departure of my in-laws for the airport just after noon. They left on time, got to the airport early and apparently their flight went well.

As I had received the last accounting information I needed from my account I spent most of the afternoon working on our very, very late tax declaration. It was a great feeling to finally finish that, sign it and get it in an envelope ready to go tomorrow.

Dinner went down well and I’m definitely starting to enjoy ice cream again for dessert. Another landmark, to the great pleasure of my British wife, was that I was able to drink a cup of tea after dinner. Not only was it not painful but I could actually taste the tea and it was quite enjoyable. I should be cured within a week as any Brit can tell you that a cup of tea will cure anything… probably even cancer. One only has to watch the BBC for a day or so to realise. They have tons of medical programs (Casualty, Doctors, Holby City, …) and in each it doesn’t matter what the patient is suffering from, and sometimes even the health specialists, everyone needs and gets a “cuppa”.

In the evening Jess and I sat around and watched Swordfish which I had rented from DVD Fly. I needed to watch it so as to send it off and get my next allotment of films. I thought it would be too violent for Alex and therefore we should watch it without her. I was wrong. From a genre point of view it was standard Joel Silver-produced action thriller stuff. However great actors (John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, …) having a great time. It was definitely worth it. But it should have been one of our family Friday evening fun flicks.