1.  Day off work.  Let me rephrase that:  DAY OFF WORK!!! Since I’ve only worked a total of one day this week, I’m not entirely sure where the soul-flood of relief is based, but I’m just really glad to not be at work today.

2.  I still love my gallon jug that once held apple juice but now holds my filtered water so I can track how much I’m drinking throughout the day.  I’m STILL not living up to my resolution to drink a full 96 oz. every day.  I seem to have developed this weird aversion to actually drinking water, but then I’ll start drinking a glass, and I’ll drain it immediately.  I think I need to work on not listening to my aversions quite so carefully.

3.  I get to start tapering off of the higher prednisone dose today.  Tonight I’ll be back to 10 mg, and starting next Monday (which is also the last day we do PIO!) I get to start tapering down to 0mg/day.  And that, my friends, will be a very very good thing.

4.  No signs of fever or infection yet.  Only  8 more days til I’m past the scary time.

5.  I’d envisioned the naming process to be, well, somewhat fraught with tension.  Instead, the Boy and I are having a great time.  Ok, I’m probably having a greater time than he is, but still, we’re having a blast.  He’s started to call Sprog “Little Mel” since I’ve vetoed the name “Melvin”.  It’s fun because it finally feels like the Boy thinks this is real, and I’m really looking forward to having a full-on partner in all this.