Today was my first mental/personal health day I’ve ever taken…..and I’ve come to the conclusion that they are totally underrated.

It was awesome for many reasons. First, i got a full compliment of sleep for the first time in a long time (weekends don’t count because i wake up to watch soccer). Secondly, I did not reply to a single email, because I decided to treat this as a real mental health day. That meant little to no contact with the outside world. Now I’ll admit that i did check twitter and email throughout the day, but did not reply to anything. I did retweet one thing during the day, but that was all. The reason behind today’s mental health day was for Melody and I (yes…Melody took the day off too), to spend a day with each other trying to feel better (Melody was feeling pretty sick for real) after being kicked in the cosmic stomach a few times yesterday. If you’re interested in more personal stuff, check the recent blog entries and you’ll get the idea. Otherwise, trust me, yesterday sucked….big time.

Today started with sleeping in…..and then awakening to Melody having cooked some peanut butter infused French Toast (awesome). Yeah….even though she felt terrible, she cooked breakfast. That’s how awesome she is. Gotta say, the only thing better than being woken up to breakfast in bed is being woken up to breakfast in bed with bacon on top (yeah….even though i’m a vegetarian, bacon still smells freakin awesome!).

We then proceeded to watch some TV….”The Buried Life” was awesome as usual. This one was about their attempt to tell a joke on one of the Late Night television shows (Leno, Letterman, Conan).

We then added significantly to my movie list, by watching a few films. First it was ‘The Taking of Pelham 123,” which was alright….not bad, not great, just average. Then we watched ‘The Box,’ which was quite interesting, but generally wierd. It’s one that might make more sense when I see it again, but I am not rushing for that second viewing to happen any time soon. It was like there was a 30 minute stretch of story that they cut out, and expected you to make the connections yourself. Wierd, interesting, intriguing, but in the end left me kind of annoyed.

Next up was ”Running the Sahara,’ a documentary about 3 guys who ran from the West Coast of Africa to the Red Sea on the East Coast. Something like 7500 kilometers all by foot. Pretty impressive, and quite similar to ‘Long Way Round,’ or ‘Long Way Down.’ The ‘Long Way’ films are much better in my opinion, and even if you’re not interested in motorcycles or documentaries, you will be by the end of those films. Make sure you watch Long Way Round first. That reminds me…i have to watch the other two films with Charlie Boorman: ‘Race to Dakar‘ and ‘By Any Means‘ and ‘By Any Means 2‘

Next up was a little drive-thru Chinese from Panda Express…..great for a vegetarian appetite. Then we watched ‘Where the Wild Things Are,’ — the film adaptation of the must-read children’s book. I gave it a 7.5/10 just for being different, but it did not live up to the level I had hyped it to in my head. Nevertheless, it was worth a watch, and I’m glad we did. It only came out on DVD today, so it was like a new release.

After that (yes, by now it was 9:20pm), we watched the new episode of LOST. I won’t spoil anything, so don’t worry about reading ahead if you’re a LOST fan. I will just say that their commercials this week about ‘The time for questions is over. The time for answers is here!” is quite possibly the biggest lie i’ve heard since….well…..ever. If you watch this episode, and don’t have any questions, then i want to meet you, because you can obviously see into the future or have a copy of the LOST scripts.

All in all, this was a great day. I enjoyed spending the day without distractions with Melody, and I think we are better for it. The epic-failure that was yesterday still lingers, but having a day to recover, so-to-speak, was a good choice, and I’m feeling better. I’m sure Melody is a little better too.

My movie list isn’t hurting either:

• 2055 total movies watched
• 161 movies seen in the theater
• 15 movies watched in the last 30 days
• 28 movies watched since January 1st, 2010
• 110 movies seen in the past 365 days

So…onwards and upwards for the second half of this week. I’m looking forward to a couple of things tomorrow and thursday. I’m going to Ignite Raleigh tomorrow night with some friends from work, and then we have our first outdoor soccer game of the Spring season on Thursday night.