Long time no blog

Long time no blog

May 05

Hey everyone. I can’t believe it’s been almost a month since I last updated. It hasn’t seemed that long to me. I apologize in advance for any nonsense that may come spewing from my mouth because I’m on the path to recovering from the worst sickness I’ve had in YEARS. I honestly don’t remember ever being this sick. Starting on Friday and continuing up until today I have had a headache, at one point a fever of over 101, gone through 4 boxes of tissues due to blowing thick yellow grossness out of my nose, also coughed up thick yellow grossness every 10 minutes, been short of breath, had a sore throat from hell, and fatigued like there is no tomorrow. I spent from about 3am yesterday until 6pm in bed, got up for an hour, then back to bed for another hour. I’m not sure if I’m on the path to recovery or not. I’ll decide in the morning when Randy gets home because if I’m not we’re going to the ER. I tried calling doctors but since I don’t officially have one (I haven’t been to a physician since I was like 19) new patients can’t get in for 2 weeks so its my only option.

My saving grace is that my mom helped out a ton with Gracie this weekend and my MIL came and picked her up yesterday afternoon and kept her for two nights. I miss her terribly but since I can barely drag myself out of bed it’s better if she is with someone who can give her attention like she needs. I’m also trying to ensure she doesn’t catch this evil whatever since it seems a few people in my house have already experienced it to some degree. I’d also like to get over this so I can kiss my husband again. These forehead and cheek kisses just don’t cut it I tell you.

Enough about me how about the adorable child now. Gracie just turned 7 months old a week or so ago. She is very independent and refuses to eat purees anymore so it’s all about feeding herself. She loves bath time and splashing half the water out of her tub. She’s afraid of missing anything so there is no way I can hold her to face me because she’ll turn her body completely around to take in her surroundings. She sits up no problem and has started to sit up from a laying down position. She blabs a lot too. She doesn’t crawl but that’s no surprise to me because she has always hated tummy time. She has no teeth yet either but she’ll get them eventually. I still say she looks more like her daddy every day.

As for things with us in general they’re OK. Randy is quickly approaching his year anniversary at Kraft which means vacation and personal days kick in. We’re looking at places to move to that will allow Colby and still coming up with dead-ends. However, we’re saving at the same time but due to a recent turn of events involving my father and his excessive drinking we may be moving out quite a bit sooner and having to find a way to keep Colby in the process. I’m not sure how that’s going to work but we’ll work with what we’ve got once we know full details. (As it looks he may lose his job which includes the house). Alcohol… ugh. I don’t even want to get into what it can do to a person and their families.

I am now going to force myself to get a few articles typed out that my freelancing individuals have been very patiently waiting on since I’ve been sick. I average about $500/month doing articles for about 3 hours a day which isn’t too bad I don’t think.