We've spent the past couple days avoiding the news as much as we can.
Of course, avoiding means only watching six hours of coverage rather than fourteen.
After last night, we realized that we need to turn off the news, at least for a while, if we're going to try to function somewhat normally.
Last night was really difficult; shock quickly melted away into extreme grief.
Today, we exercised a bit more self-control and watched Valley of the T-Rex on The Discovery Channel. Fascinating stuff -- we learned that all evidence points to the T-Rex being a really ugly scavenger instead of a predator.
And then, we've been watching Heavyweights on the Disney channel.
Slim pickings, I know. But at least it was a diversion.
And then my best friend called. She and her husband are in town from Fresno because her sister-in-law just delivered her baby.
Life goes on.
Tonight we'll be at Ben's parents' house for our birthdays. Mine is tomorrow and Ben's birthday is next Saturday. Being six days apart means that we share birthday parties, an odd thing for an only child to do.
It's the seventh one we are sharing together and I'm very grateful.
