I took the day off work today because I kept waking up in the middle of the night feeling like crap. I was really not faking it; there’s no way I’d stay home when the sheetrockers were coming in otherwise. Speaking of which, not only is my brain fuzzy but I could have sworn I wrote something on this blog last night about the sheetrockers coming in. I was hoping that I’d get my DirecTV set up before all the walls went up, but that wasn’t to be. That’s just life.

In any case, I did buy a HUGE new HDTV in preparation for the DirecTV service. It’s a Samsung TWENTY-THREE INCH HDTV. I figure that’s good enough to see if the thing is working or not and I can figure out if I want a bigger TV when we finally get some of the rooms sorted out in the house. I’m not quite sure when that will be, but it surely isn’t right away.

I did stay up too late for a sick guy, having a burger at Laurelhurst Market. They changed up the burger, adding heirloom tomatoes and changing out the pimento cheese for aged cheddar. Now I’m convinced that this is my favorite burger, and I really couldn’t completely taste everything. And now I know just why everyone was raving about the cheesecake. The first bite was tasty, but the second bite was even better. I wish my brain wasn’t full of cotton candy, because I’d really like to say how great both were, but I’m just not quite hitting on all cylinders right now.

Oh, and my doctor told me that my LDL cholesterol was 101. They really like to have it below 100, and he also suggested (without any prompting from me) that I could probably get it down a point by avoiding the cheeseburgers! I wonder if he’s psychic or if there’s some sort of cheeseburger signature that showed up on my bloodwork. I don’t like this waffling sort of cholesterol level. I wonder if I should try jacking it up or try to place it firmly below 100. I mean we almost killed THMFIC at the gym by “making” him eat a Slow Burger and a fried pie. He had to go home sick from the gym because of that. The rest of us were, as they say, fat, dumb, and happy. That makes my think my destiny is to have a higher cholesterol level, but I should probably have more sense than that. Though I don’t, usually.