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Hey, I just realized it's Friday. *Friday dance* Okay, I admit it. I'm losing track of the days because of the quarantine and our work/school schedules being all wonky. Earlier, I snacked on V8 and Jalapeno flavored Fritos...which should be one of the four basic food groups. I swear, those things are delicious. With V8, they're even better. Now I'm back in the writing cave, picking up where I left off on this project of dread. Writing, revising, and...

It's after midnight. The vaporizer is puffing steam, and everyone in the house is asleep except me. I'm presently sitting here at the comp in my Care Bears pajamas and drinking pineapple-coconut water. There's a Friday the 13th marathon cued up and waiting on me whenever I get around to it. That pretty much sums up home life right now: calm and cozy. I took the last of my antibiotics a couple of days ago, and my cough is much calmer now. It's almost gone. Big yay regarding that. 

We...

The guys went to pick up a batch of crawfish for dinner, so I'm home alone at the moment, aka coughing into the void. I've received so many fun invitations I've had to turn down over the past two weeks, but it can't be helped. I'm on antibiotics for pneumonia and I still have the cough from hell. Yeah, the same cough I've had since Christmas. I'm feeling much better, but the fatigue isn't playing around. I run out of energy really fast.

A couple of days ago, my niece had her baby (!!! adorable...

Last night I dreamed that I went to my aunt's house in Texas with my mother. Mom and Aunt Pam were meeting up there because they were going to fly out to Utah to attend a retreat of some kind. My job was to watch over the house until they got back.

The house was tip-top and clean as usual, and Aunt Pam had stocked the pantry for me and left a list of... I don't know, errands, maybe? Instructions? Emergency numbers? A shopping list? I don't know what it was, but she left it on the table for me....

It's almost midnight... it probably will be well after 12 by the time I finish up this post. Anyway, I can't rest because I'm coughing and stuffy. We are a plague house over here. My cold came roaring back several days ago. Jay came down with it first. I was just getting over my tickly cough when he brought the ick back home to me. Then, because I have it, McBeast ended up with it, too. McBeast has it the worst of us all. His ears are super stuffy from it. Arg.

Last week I was at the doctor's...

This is quite out of the blue, but yes, I am totally crushing on Finland at the moment. It all started when I was surfing around the net and stumbled upon a clip of someone snowboarding through a tunnel of trees in Lapland - at night.

My heart grew three sizes that day. No, not really. I'm not the Grinch (at least not most of the time), but that clip looked like the most beautiful fun thing in the world to do, and thus the love affair began.

I've looked for the clip again, but I can't find it!...

Image by Enrique Lopez GarreI'm two days late for Valentine's Day. Ho-hum. I started this post then, but it turned into a crazy and emotional day, so I gave up trying to write. McBeast had me jumping through hoops first thing that morning. I had to help him with his algebra: solving systems of equations by elimination. FUG. I had to look up the process because I have been out of school way too long for this math business.

Anyway, he had makeup work, and then small engine's class - even though...

I'm finally back from my "health vacation," and I'm just now getting back into the revisions for my nano novel. It feels like it's been an eternity since I've written anything. Anyway, kicking around in revisions is my big plan for the weekend.

I didn't realize how long I'd been away from the computer and journaling until today. It surprised me to see how much time had passed. I had to take time off in January, something I hadn't been planning on, but I'd been pushing myself since the summer...

Hello again. Yes, I am finally feeling better, except for the persistent cough that has worn me down to my last shred of patience. I'm surviving off of Vicks VapoCool Severe cough drops. The package says they are Winterfrost flavored, but really, though, they taste like the devil's asscrack. They are absolutely horrible tasting cough drops, no lie. It's as if you've just taken a heaping tablespoon full of Vicks vapor rub and decided to hold it in your mouth for twenty minutes while it...

I stayed up way too late last night, but I was on an editing kick, so I let it ride. I wrapped up a difficult section and went to bed around 3 am, then was up again at 8:30 am to check on the guys. 
It's been pouring rain for days, and that hasn't changed. I found the doggo-pups snuggled up on the couch in their blankets. Hubz was in the kitchen making some grilled cheese sandwiches for McBeast, and I was super impressed to see that McBeast was able to use the purple snap-top Kcup filter...