Continuing the rest, Sarah and I ate leftovers for dinner and watched Little Miss Sunshine. Great movie -- well worth the hype.

Saturday I felt better. We stayed in during the morning doing some cleaning and trying to move stuff out of the study. It's hard giving up a whole room. I don't think we have a lot of stuff, but relocating that stuff in the study is proving to be a challenge. We left the house at lunchtime to run a few errands (Linens and Things and Target) for some organizational materials. We grabbed some Taco Bell, then headed to my office. It was a wreck from my hectic, sick week, so Sarah helped me clean and organize it a little better. We then walked to the Colliseum for the Winthrop-Coastal basketball game. It was too exciting for my tastes. Winthrop was up by 10 at the half, but allowed Coastal back into it and ened up eeking out a 2 point victory.

After the game, it was back to the office for a bit (we had left the car there anyway) to finish up the cleaning. We then went to eat at Si's Pizzaria. Don't go there. We've eaten there twice. The pizza is average and the service was horrible. Wesat for 10 minutes before the waitress came to get our drink order (I had to talk to the hostess to get that to happen). Our appitizer came with our pizza and that took forever. Looking around, many of the other customers faced similar issues, so Si's is officially Off.The.List.

Sunday we were up and at 9:30 Mass, then on to Matthews, NC for brunch with our friends Lee and Marianne. Lee and I went to grad school together and now he's Dean of the Upper School at Providence Day in Charlotte. They are not far away (40 minutes or so), but we don't really see them that much. We all seem to be so busy. So it was good to have brunch with them and their two children and just hang out for a bit.

Since we were up that way, we headed to Burlington Coat Factory (and their Baby Depot) to look for a crib. I really disliked that store -- cluttered, messy, and generally depressing. They didn't really have anything we liked, either. We then stopped at BabiesRUs on the way home and kicked the tires on a whole bunch of cribs.

Here is our problem: we want nice crib but have cost constraints. I would like something that's solid wood, something we can use either for future children or for a toddler bed/real bed for our little girl. I don't need anything super-fancy, but something safe, sturdy, and that looks like it is safe and sturdy. Those things cost a lot of money, apparently. The things we really liked cost $400+, which we can't afford to spend. (This is my general problem with furniture in general, btw. I see furniture as an investment, something that should last for a long time. I don't want throwaway furniture. But such furniture is beyond our reach at this point).

Sarah and I did more research when we got home, using our books and the internet. We found something that we like and that is rated well. But it's only available at Wal-Mart, which puts us in a bit of a moral dilemma, as we've sworn off that store.

After all that, I was worn out. I was relaxing on the couch and was dozing off at 8:30. I was in bed by 9:30 and asleep by 10:00.

Whew.