a good weekend

well, it's been a good, visitor-filled weekend.

friday was visitor-free so i took the opportunity to shave off the transplant beard, which looked like this:
combined with my pre-transplant laziness, it had been growing for about 7 weeks. now, it is gone. it was never quite wayne rooney's unkempt hobo beard, but it was getting a little out of hand. and i swear my chin changed shapes while hidden behind it.

saturday brought with it a visit from 6 friends and my cousin. they came bearing gifts, as though i were jesus. even without the beard. so i got pizza (from nj), bagels (that smelled like home), pie (that was totally worth cheating on the diabetes for), and chocolate mousse cake (sugar free, but surprisingly good). unfortunately, they also brought bad luck, and the us fell to ghana 2-1 on some missed opportunities and ghastly defensive lapses. i hope you never play another game for the national team, ricardo clark. long live benny feilhaber.

lucky for me, all my friends were there to mitigate the misery of defeat. i was reminded how much it hurts to laugh a lot after major surgery. but, of course, it was worth it, and great to feel like things were semi-normal, even if i was in bed by 9 o'clock.

today i got a visit from two college friends. once again, we did very little but talk and watch soccer. and find out that most of the restaurants around me are closed for lunch on sundays. this would, of course, never have happened in dc where the restaurants are always open for sunday brunch. and once again im ready for bed mighty early, but pleased to be exhausted for good reasons.

mom has been here all weekend and made a lovely dinner this evening. she and dad will swap philly and nj tomorrow afternoon.

rehab tomorrow. then more rehab tuesday.
with the u.s. eliminated, ill be cheering for the netherlands. you should, too.


best percocet-induced dream last night: me as a guest on a late night talk show hosted by jack white, discussing jonah hill's new hiphop album, which was produced by jack white. oh, perc.