Twenty years...

Twenty years has gone by. I am not sure where it went. It's just gone. The class of '89 of the high school Russell and I graduated from are working on the 20 year class reunion. I am still in denial! Has it really been that long? The exciting part is we've run into old friends through facebook and it's nice to see faces along with names. We will be able to go this time as we live close enough!

Today was a....

Today was a very productive day. Especially when you have a teenager who can watch the younger boys. Even though we came home to a house in a much different state than when we left. Shame on them. The house was still standing though so I can be thankful. :) And the boys were still alive. Christopher wasn't home so I am sure that had a great deal to do with it. He spent the day with a friend and had a blast.
Back to the day at hand...
Russell and I took off and went to Hillsboro and braved the myriads of crazy carted shoppers at WinCo. Got what we needed and had a quiet lunch at Burger King. We saw a van on Craig's List we were interested in seeing and reached the owners. It was still for sale so we went to check it out. It drives very nice, low miles, captain's chairs all around (yes!), leather interior, 2 side doors. We are hoping it will still be around next week when our tax money returns. Because we will be going back to hand over a nice check for a new van! Keep your fingers crossed! We are hoping....hoping....hoping....

Then....we took a detour on the way home to Home Depot. We priced shelving for the boys' closet and since Russell was in a very animated discussion with his brother on the cell phone....I picked out some paint, primer, paint tray and painting stuff to do the boys' bathroom this week. I can't wait to see how it will turn out!

$50 an hour...

I cleaned the house today I was going to clean on Monday. I felt tons better today when I woke up so called and arranged to do the housecleaning today. At 3 hours on the job at $50 an hour - it was a good day's work! My nose is still stuffy but I don't feel achy and yucky like I did previously this week.

Warm fuzzies...

No - I am not talking about the kind when you feel really good about something. I am talking about layers and layers of clothes and a fuzzy brain. I am going on day three of feeling yucky. At least I don't need tennis shoes any longer to chase after my nose. I can get things done around the house but it seems to take me longer as I can't think clearly.

I hope to feel tons better by Monday. I have a house to clean. It's due to a divorce and one of the parties involved needs to make sure it's done. I got a phone call today and was offered the job. It's a 3600 sq ft house and needs a cleaning from top to bottom. I charge $50/hr so should be a profitable day!

Colds, naps and frozen pizzas.

I woke up this morning. Freezing. It was a mere 20 or so degrees. The fire had been stoked by Russell but I was still cold nonetheless. I did some grocery shopping not thinking the coldness of the morning would affect me later on in the day. I stocked up on fresh fruits (lots on sale) and cereal and cheese. I came home and started sneezing. I even took airborne this morning. Love that stuff. Then my nose started running. I had to catch it. Several times. I took some benedryll for allergies and colds and picked Nephi up from the bus. Luck would have it he didn't want to eat his lunch this day. So....
He took a 3 1/2 hour nap. Maybe he wasn't feeling very well either. I expected him to wake up after an hour or so. But luck was on my side. I fell asleep too. When I woke up I felt worse. Now my throat was hurting. Where is the honey? Fell back asleep and woke up again just as the boys came home from school. By this time it's almost 4 p.m. Nephi still hadn't woken up yet. Russell came home a few minutes after the boys and sent me back to bed. After I told him we were having frozen pizza for dinner. My rationalization was they were a good pizza brand and on sale for $2.50 a box. I certainly can't buy cheese that cheap.
Now that it is evening and having taken more airborne - I am starting to feel better. I will take another benedryll before I go to bed and tomorrow should be just grand. I hope you are having good health at the moment. If you would like - I could sneeze or cough on you and we could share the germs. :)