Happiness is…

Both boys have had a major fix to their obsessions over the past couple of days. Yesterday, the long awaited Lego Club magazine arrived and obviously, Lego Lover was thrilled. Earlier in the day while the Games Fanatic and I were at his Dungeons and Dragons group, I espied a copy of this same magazine and was wondering where LL’s copy was. In fact, it arrived in the mail the same day. The next few hours were spent poring over the new Lego catalogue and describing the next sets on his list to buy.

Today was a momentous day for our Games Fanatic because the very long-awaited Super Smash Brothers Brawl came out. Guess who was at the store quite early this morning to get a copy? I was tucked into a warm bed at the time while the Scientist made the early morning trip with him. Lego Lover was also enthusiastic about the game. so much that I had a battle when I enforced a long break from play today. Normally, we don’t allow video game play very much during the week but made an exception today. Tomorrow, the rules return to normal.

As for me, I didn’t find myself feeling particularly great today due to what must be some sort of stomach bug that has been bothering me for a few days now. I ended up taking a couple long naps, one late this morning and the other in early evening. I suppose this means I will struggle to fall asleep now…Or perhaps my body just needs all the extra sleep and will happily snooze when the time comes. The Scientist must also be feeling out of it because he went to sleep quite early while I was napping earlier.

I did manage to emerge from the daze enough to prepare a Malaysian fish curry tonight. I had to improvise with a Thai red curry paste and added spices this time because I couldn’t find one of the ingredients. It would have been really good except that the coconut milk was so thick I watered it down and it just wouldn’t cook down. It tasted fine but the fish had gone mushy by that time.