After trying to live with the back discomfort, I gave in and went to the doctor's today. Cool new muscle relaxant. Exciting new pain killer. The label says they'll make me drowsy. My eyelids are getting heavy but I'm still feeling like there's so much to do that I couldn't do while in the worst grip of the agony. Laundry piles high. Books stacked on the floor mid-way to their new homes on the bookshelves cleared by the removal of Rob's CDs to another location. Gifts must need be wrapped before Rob eats them.

Gah!

But at least I got the dishes done. And now I have cool new drugs. Which means, as I observed to the good doctor, that I shall be able to sit through the Two Towers without wincing in pain the entire time. I bought our tickets online for a Christmas night showing. Rob says we're depriving some theater worker the opportunity to take the night off, but I argued that the theater would be open whether or not we showed up. Plus, my experience has been that Christmas night, most movie theaters are fairly quiet. We'll see how it goes.

Hopefully my pain meds won't make me drowse off in the midst of the movie!