8 days after birth

1. I can sleep on my back. ALMOST on my stomach
2. I can turn over in bed!
   
3. I can put on my OWN socks and shoes!
4. My shoes FIT!
   
5. No more carpel tunnel - watch me make a fist!
   
6. 1000% less puffy, but no wedding ring yet (booo!)
   
7. Innards straightened out, room for all the important organs who have been squished
   
8. No more heartburn!
9. Runny eggs
10. All the smelliest softest cheeses
11. As soon as I am off pain killers - moderate WINE!!
12. Close hugs with the husband
13. pregnancy hair and nails still nice
14. perma bra at all times
15. everyone smells like sweet condensed milk
16. blankets, muslin squares and glasses of water everywhere I sit
17. held captive to a nursing position
18. deep need for pastries
19. short attention span
20. dream of leaving house some day
21. dream of talking on phone some day
22. thankful for wifi, laptop and internet and itunes for small hours
    
23. getting better every day!
    

my summer

all I really feel like doing 

1. reading
2. cooking
3. eating
4. sleeping
5. watching TV

things I will really need now

1. several sized good umbrellas
2. several hooded  waterproof jackets in varying weights
3. to learn to dress for the weather, not the season (just because it is July doesn't mean you won't wear boots)
4. restraint in the vast array of shopping here, awakening my inner consumer
5. to enjoy the late setting sun of British summertime now as I sense how dark and gloomy it will be when it sets at 3:30 pm

first things first

take down all proof of Christmas

do all left over laundry from all holiday

sleep inordinate amounts of time

TV

avoid M&Ms

make lists of books to get from library

make lists of best films of 2007 not yet out in UK

review

silence

tea

straighten house compulsively

consider calling people

abandon idea

make lists of things to cook

study gym schedule

online shop for sporty clothes on US sites and abandon shopping cart after hours of choosing exact size and colors

pile up papers

TV

nap

repeat

UPDATE

take indulgently long, soaky hot shower and deep condition hair

make social dates to force self out of house

finish M&MS to get them out of head and life

drycleaning

make soup

realise getting groove back is OK and give self permission to ease into life