Wednesday, home with the crud, Dangit!

 We had a great time with the kids.  The boys loved the 4-wheeler, although it was so expensive to drive the truck down there and back, fully loaded. But to see Dannie's face as he drove the wheeler around made it worth it.

It was nonstop party and chocolate.  Daughter's birthday is the 13th and then Valentine's day and then Dannie's birthday on the 15th.  They also have an anniversary on the 17th.  That is good though one bouquet of flowers can cover 3 holidays.

Hub's mom really enjoyed the time with the great grandkids.

I started to feel a little funky Monday night.  I am pretty attuned to my body, as I need to be with RA.  Any infection really affects me. I was very cold, and my skin felt crawly. I had a hard time sleeping Monday night as I kept waking up with a very dry mouth, like I felt I would break my tongue if I moved it.  I did this over and over. So much sinus drainage.

We left for mom's house Tuesday morning, and I was so cold.  I could not get warm.  I actually made Roscoe sit on my lap even though he weighs about 50 lbs, just so I would warm up. I took a couple of Anacin and tried to sleep but nothing doing.  Got to mom's and laid on her settee covered with a heavy blanket in the sun and slept about an hour.  I finally warmed up.  It is a good  7.5-to-8-hour drive from Twin Falls to Lewiston and poor hubs drove most of it.  I probably drove for a little over an hour.  When we got home, I just unloaded and went right to bed.

I have had appointments all day and I am wearing a mask and just resting some between.  I am going to go to the clinic after 5 for a strep test.  I am pretty sure that is what it is, or a sinus infection.  Either way it is an infection of some sort.  Ow I was supposed to go over to the hospital and have blood work done for my specialist appointment next week, but I know with this fever and infection my rates will be off, so I called and cancelled the appointment next week and rescheduled for a later date when there won't be inflammation markers in my blood.

I did run a fever as high as 101.1 last night, and I was just so thankful to be home and in my own bed with my own pillow.  When you are sick there is no place like home.

There are several loads of laundry to do, but they can wait.  When I woke this morning, I swear every flat surface of the house was covered in just crap.  Mostly mail, newspapers, and just travel things.  I have slowly gotten most of the put away.  My suitcase is empty, but nothing is out away, and it may just stay that way.

I pulled the box for Valentine's decos out of garage, and it also hold St. Patty's Day things, but again no energy so swap things right now.

I did find new wall sconces in Twin Falls for the dining room, as the old ones were broken by my daughter accidentally when she was trying to put up a banner for her son's birthday. I had tried to glue them but one of them refused to stay fixed.  So, these will have to be put up, but not today.  I did finally throw the old ones away.

While I was gone, I found 16 and 20 inch steppingstones that someone was digging up on face book marketplace.  I have wanted to get these for hubs to put a trail down to the chicken coop.  It can get very muddy and slippery during certain times of the year and to buy these new would have been about $300.  Someone had over 20 of the for $5 a piece or $80.00 if you took all.  I asked them to hold them, and I went out first thing this morning about 9:15 to get them.  Now did I think about how heavy these suckers were going to be?  No!  Or that I would be loading them by myself? NO!  They were also not in a convenient spot for getting the truck into where they were, so had to be carried a distance each. Did I even think about the fact that I am kind of under the weather? No! Just so you know, I thought I was going to die.  It took me the entire drive home 8 minutes to get my breathing under control.  Hubs could not believe that I loaded them myself.  I did inform him, that I would not be unloading them.  But he was thrilled with the purchase. I am happy I found them. Put this on the list of stupid Kim things.  It is a very long list.

Hubs, just came in and asked why I was not laying down?  Because I want to get this blog post done.  I almost died this morning loading steppingstones and I need to tell people I survived. Duh....

Have a great and productive day staying positive while you are in the negative.

Going to lay down now.

Kim