Thursday: Run

I think there is a bit of sickness in me when I am sort of embarrassed that all I have to write in the title space above is "run".  I only ran today.  It was nice actually, because I was out and back from my run before Ivan ever woke up.  The house was still silent when I started coffee, made my tea and got in the shower.  The house is quiet except for The Beast  who is becoming ever more particular about the amount of food in her dish and the time at which she wants to go outside.  It is the only gliche in my mornings.

Anyway, I was able to get Ivan dressed and out the door for nursery school where he did not cry when I dropped him off.  Today was the first and probably only day where Ivan went to school, AND I did not have to work.  SO, after dropping Ivan off, I headed out to Nashville to pick up my husband's grandmother so that she and I could head out to the Nashville room at the Nashville Public Library.

If you haven't been to the Nashville room, it is thoroughly enjoyable in an obscure and nerdy sort of way.  It is full of non-fiction, out-of-print books that are used for research purposes.  My favorite title today was Tennessee Tombstones: 1700-1800.  Someone, in their spare time, in the 1970's had traveled about to as many graveyards as they could possibly find and made a note of the location and everything written on the tombstone.  There were thousands of tombstone notations in the book and nothing else.  No commentary, no explanation, just a county name and a seemingly endless list of tombstones.  For instance: Josiah Whitley, 1798 - 1818, rode to visit the neighbor, his horse returned without him, body found, head dashed on a rock.  Rest in Peace.   Fascinating.

I took Ivan to swim in the afternoon and arrived home quite exhausted from my day off.  I headed off to Yogurt World where they have two new flavors (German Chocolate Cake and White Chocolate Mousse) that are rocking my world!!!