Weekend Updates!!

Saturday

In the afternoon, we caught the matinée of Avenue Q at the Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa. We laughed our way through the show a few years ago in LA, and I admit to being completely surprised when the tour decided to pass through the OC. Just like in LA, the theater was packed, everyone laughed until they cried, and only one or two couples left before intermission. (Some people can't tolerate puppet doing the nasty. Those damned Puppetphobes!!)

We overate after the show at The Claim Jumper by treating ourselves to a chocolate chip calzone after our stuffed baked potatoes.

Back at the apartment, while CM rested on the couch playing with his Nintendo DS, I finally finished my latest computer mania, Rhem 2. The puzzles seemed more difficult than the Myst series, with lots of math and running back and forth from room to room. The only bad thing I can say about the game concerns the dubbing of the characters. Rhem 2 comes form Germany, but the terrible English dubbing sounds as though it was recorded in a bathroom by a high school theater troupe.

Sunday

I drove to Laguna to visit the folks. My Mom looked much better, more color to her face, brighter eyes, moving about the house more easily. Her only complaint: she'd gained quite a bit of weight since the operation though she'd only eaten tapioca pudding, jello, soup, mashed bananas and applesauce. And her legs had swollen to rock hard consistency during the night. She couldn't move her toes or her feet, and the E/R doctor told her over the phone to increase her diuretic pills and to keep her feet raised above her heart. That apparently did the trick somewhat as her legs weren't as puffy by the time I arrived in the early afternoon. I stayed for a few hours, treating my Dad to lunch while Mom slept.

(She visited the doctor this morning, who ran an ultrasound on her semi-swollen legs in search of any blood clots that may have formed. Luckily, she was given the all clear, though the doctor increased her intake of diuretic pills from two to three, believing that both the weight gain and the swollen legs were due to water weight.)