A good day...
...Though it didn't start out so well: I woke up at 5 am with cramps, probably ovulation cramps. Took a painkiller and went back to sleep, dreaming that my father came to visit with a coterie of nurses. (Signs of being worried about him, I suppose.)
I woke up properly about 8:30, and went for breakfast at Ikea with maaseru and maaboroshi. The breakfast was fun and they were crowded. maaseru bought furniture; I bought a cutting board for $2.99 and a packet of Scandinavian Potato Chips.
Then I went to work cleaning up the place - real, serious decluttering. Remember my New Year's resolution to get rid of one thing daily? I haven't been doing very well. Three or four things a week, maybe. Not good enough. I made up for it today, probably by a factor of three or more.
Then I made Four Happiness Pork for dinner, and about 4:30 pm my friends arrived for a video-party: Sandi, Pat, Lyn, Beulah, Sheila and Harry. We watched the Torchwood episode "Day One" - everyone except Harry had already seen episode one - and then we watched The Sarah Jane Adventures, followed by more Torchwood: everyone enjoyed "Ghost Machine" so much they didn't want to stop, so we watch "Cyberwoman" as well. In honour of the Chinese Year of the Pig, we wore read (well, some of us did) and everyone brought Chinese food - which made it all the more fun to see them eating Chinese food in "Day One", just like we were. I particularly liked the Chinese salad that Lyn brought, and Harry brought a kind of tea I'd never had - Balsam Pear Tea. It was delicious.
It feels like a long day, now, but it was a good one. The only bad part: I lost my favourite winter gloves somewhere in Ikea. They must have fallen out of my pocket. Unfortunate, but not disastrous.