A $40 Value

Suddenly here it is, 11 o’clock on Sunday night, and it feels like it was just five minutes ago that I dragged myself home from work on Friday night. Then again, I didn’t do all that much this weekend, so perhaps that’s why it feels like it shouldn’t really be time to go back to work yet.

Yesterday I felt like crap. I was ready to go back to be about five minutes after I got up. Instead I ran errands, and then came home and sat on the couch, knitting and watching NYPD Blue reruns on Court TV. I don’t know if you’ve spent much time watching Court TV, but as I discovered yesterday, most of the commercials on Court TV are for products not available in stores. And when you’re lounging on the couch not feeling particularly well, these commercials start to exert a strange pull over you. All at once, the solar powered fan that keeps your car cool – a $40 value for only $14.95 – starts looking really good. Why, I bet I would feel better if I just had that fan, you think. I mean, my car was really hot the other day, and now here I am, not feeling well. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

And then there’s the inevitable chopping/slicing/dicing tool. Which, since I didn’t feel well, made me think about how I could use it to make soup. Vegetarian matzoh ball soup, to be precise, which would magically cure all that ailed me. And then there’s the massaging, exfoliating, dermabrading shower loofah thingy. A massage for my achy shoulders would probably solve all my problems.

I didn’t buy any of them, but if there was a way I could have done it without moving off the couch , say psychically or something, it would have been a near thing. I did make myself some soup, which was delicious and may have made me feel marginally better. Either way, I feel fine now, so I’m not going to worry about it. And luckily, I don’t remember the urls for any of those fine products I saw on TV now that I’m feeling more peppy.