Monday Evening***EDIT

Painters finally finished late, late Thursday evening. Good bye. Don’t call us, we’ll call you!!

Yes, it looks fabulous! I love it. It wasn’t long after they left before I was rolling out the runners down the hallways over the hardwood floor, admiring the new fat baseboards, all shiny, clean and white.

Friday we had to go to the car dealership because my lease was up and I was just going to trade my car for a newer one. Terry had received a letter from the dealership, asking to buy back his car. Apparently these are very desired but easier to sell used than new. During that long process of changing both cars, that should have been shorter bur wasn’t, I kept coughing and sneezing, wishing I was home putting the house together. Soon a really bad headache started in my head, which I blamed on allergies, dust from the painters, stress from the week, stress from the day, etc.
Finally car process was completed and we had plans to eat out with friends so I’m still blocked from getting the house in order but it was a fun outing, although I kept coughing and sneezing.

Woke up Saturday with a giant full blown cold. Felt like death warmed over and no energy and still blocked from putting the house back in order. Had two Christmas parties to attend and missed both. Didn’t feel the need to spread this awful germ-filled cold.
Terry tried helping out but I told him to wait until I was better. Didn’t really want to have to re-do what he had done.

So Saturday and Sunday were spent feeling awful but resting a lot to mend quickly.

Woke up this morning, feeling pretty good. Have hustled here and hustled there, getting things in order. Bribed Terry to clean up his disastrous office with me, making his favorite meal tonight, braised short ribs and mashed potatoes and darned, if it didn’t work like magic!

I’m grateful for all the words of comfort and suggestions you’ve made to me. Sometimes life just gets a little crazy and becomes too much for me to handle. I’m glad that I usually can handle it. I probably could have handled it better if we’d done a little at a time but it makes sense to get it all done at once. Next time though, I think I will check into the funny farm.

Today has been good. Nothing feels as good as feeling healthy after being sick. I’ve done so many loads of laundry, changed sheets, made those coveted short ribs and all kinds of other stuff, making the path clear for an ordered house soon. Terry is off teaching karate right now, probably dying to get home for his dinner. Maybe tomorrow we’ll hang many paintings to finish the job of making it our home again.

EDIT:
I’m thinking that it’s just possible that instead of a cold, I may have gotten the flu but since I always get a flu shot, maybe that’s why it was so very short. This was different from a cold. I can’t remember not having a cold where I didn’t end up blowing my nose for a good two weeks even after I thought it was gone. And I sure don’t have that this time. I looked it up and you can get the flu even with a flu shot but it will be very mild. hmmm….
I always get a flu shot since it seemed like I would come down with the flu either around Thanksgiving or Christmas. Since getting the flu shot annually, that doesn’t happen anymore. And I say Amen.