The Muckheads have finally left the nest again. Whew. Am I beat. I'm so beat that I feel kinda sick. Why does Christmas always feel like this the day, or two, in this case, after? It's the after Christmas feeling that I would like to figure out how to avoid. I enjoyed the company very much but maybe they stayed a half a day longer than they should have. Oh, it's nothing against them. It's me and getting too tired. Face it, Jo, you just can't feed an Army for a week like you used to. After they left at 2:00, Bill and I faded into the computer room. I wanted to lie down and maybe sleep but my tiredness wasn't that kind of tired. I was overly tired. I sunk myself into The Sims after reading all the e-mail I hadn't for a day. I was really too tired to play The Sims, too, but I had a feeling that if I focused on something as consuming as that it would help get my mind off how icky I felt. And it did. I felt a bit more rested, too, just a bit. I scrounged up a bit of leftover dinner--the last of the lasagna from Christmas Eve, the meatloaf that Todd had made, the overly breaded Brussel sprouts and mashed potatoes from Christmas dinner, and two big, hunking pieces of pumpkin pie smothered with Cool Whip. It felt just good not to cook again. The only activity that was appealing to us for the rest of the evening was to shut the computers down and go watch a movie. Trouble was, I really didn't have any movies for us to watch. The only way to get good movies from the library was to reserve them. I had several on my reserve list but they hadn't come through yet. So, I looked through my old supply and came across "Star Trek: The Next Generation, Insurrection." I had watched that before without Bill. But, tonight I was in just the right mood to watch it again. I was glad that I hadn't taped over it a few months ago, though I had been tempted. I just couldn't do it knowing that Bill hadn't watched it yet. Finally, I could get him to watch it and not worry about it anymore. It proved to be a good choice. There had been a sufficient interval between now and the last time I watched it so that it was fairly fresh to me. Since we've been watching the TNG TV series reruns this past year, I had grown more familiar with the characters again so the movie had a fresh impact on me. It was even more enjoyable this time. Usually, once I watch a movie, I'll not watch it again. Oh, there have been some exceptions. Like "Last of the Mohicans" with Daniel Day-Lewis. For some reason, my kids and I used to rewatch that one on a regular basis. That movie is still in their possession. That's also the only soundtrack from a movie that I have ever bought. Oh, and another movie that we watched several times over was "Jaws." And "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There are just some days that you need to immerse yourself in a few good movies, aren't there? Ever stop to think about how many movies you may have watched in your lifetime? It will be quite a few. And Hollywood, and like companies, keep churning them out. How do they do that?