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Sick house
Why am I finding that having a boarder in the house is similar to having a child under 10 around?
Our first boarder had a cold and a cough while he was here, and tended to sleep a good portion of the time. Our latest boarder has only been here for a week and a half and now she’s got a cold. My boarders have both been language students from Korea. Perhaps they are coming over here and being confronted by North American mutations of the common cold virus which they have no built up immunity to?
Trying not to get a cold myself has been an ongoing battle over the last couple of months! So far so good though. Chris is no help though. I often use the same glass for part of the day as I go back and forth and get some water to drink. Well, Chris often grabs my glass if it’s sitting around. He did that tonight just as I was about to reach for so I could sip some water and take some of my medicine and I accidentally grabbed our boarders glass without noticing it was hers. Ahhh, a nice mouthful of cold germs got in before I realized what I’d done! Darn!
The latest boarder also seems to need a lot of attention. She spends most of her free time with us, and while that’s nice and she’s pleasant to be around, I’m still not used to this whole having a boarder in the house thing yet. I need and want my privacy back.
Between worrying about our boarders illnesses, packing lunches, trying to think up interesting meals and helping with homework I think I’ve become a pseudo mom along the way. Strange.
In other news –
I’ve been waiting for an appointment with a very good specialist for several months now. I was supposed to see her in July, but I managed to get my appointment moved up to tomorrow morning. She’s a gastrointernologist who specializes in Crohns (inflammatory bowel) disease. Finally! Cause my doctor sucks. With any luck she’s increase my meds or try some different ones and hopefully something will knock this ongoing flare of crohns in the pants and help me get better. I want to get my life back, and get back to work too. Please keep your fingers crossed for me! I’m a little nervous about the appointment.
Websites – my two new sites are both up and running and both have nice themes. I still have a little bit of tweaking to do on the layouts, particularly on the gardening site but I’m pleased overall with how they look. Tell me what you think:
As the Garden Grows
Breath of Life photography
Back to renters. It’s time that I put this site up for rent again now that it’s settled into it’s new home. If you want a spot in the left hand corner of my page for a week click on the “rent me” square and put your bid in!
That monster bite me!
I’ve been mauled!
I haven’t been around for the last few days because I needed to get some work done in my very neglected garden. Naturally I decided to garden during a heat wave! Boy am I smart or what?
So I go out into my backyard to give all my plants some much needed love and attention and what do they do to me? They attacked me! Talk about biting the hand that feeds you! Literally.
The ringer leader was this thug of a rose called Antique 89. Some name on that girl huh? I think I’ll just call her monster from now on. I thought I could take her. Yeah, she’s seven feet tall, only a little more than a foot taller than me, but I’m smarter, or at least I thought I was when the battle began.
I chose to wrestle with the monster first because the wind had started to blow her over and she really needed to be straightened out. Turns out I was the one that got a straightening out. She was heavier than I expected and I ended up half underneath her before I knew what was happened.
That’s when the screaming started. She sank her gigantic thorns into my back, into my arms, hands and legs. The more I moved the more entangled I got. There was no winning this battle, or so I thought.
Some time during the eternity that I was fighting with this mother of a rose our boarder came outside looking for me. She didn’t find me. Hello? Roses don’t scream! That was me under neath that huge green thing in the corner that was making all the noise.
I finally shoved a few stakes in beside her thick stems and got untagged from her thorny branches. She was still leaning heavily on me and I’m sure blood was dripping on the ground below her leafy bows. I think I tired her out. I used my trusty garden tape to tie her to the stakes that I had surrounded her with so that she couldn’t harm anyone else.
Just then my husband came outside and said “Oh, I thought you were going to call me if you needed help?” He obviously didn’t hear my screams and the subsequent sobbing that occurred.
I went on to battle several other roses over the weekend and won those fights easily. Oh yes, they bit me, but after tangling with the monster I barely felt their thorns.
You see, my arms are on fire. My battle with the thorny monster was on Friday and still my arms are burning. I have at least 50 scratches from the tips of my fingers to just above my elbows on each arm. I look like I’ve been attacked by ten cats. I was wearing pants when I was struggling with the rose but she still managed to scratch up my legs pretty good. I’ll have to take a better look at those pants and see if there are holes in them now.
I’m going to have to stay on top of this gardening situation from now on, especially where Antique 89 is concerned. She’s tasted my blood, now there will be no stopping her if she’s given a small chance. Nope! I’m either going to have to cage her up to keep her from taking other victims or I’ll have to battle her wearing armor. Now isn’t that pretty picture? Particularly if it’s 100 F out! Whew!
And how was your weekend?
It’s been a busy week
1…. I discovered that an old friend of mine was reading this site and I was thrilled when she decided to contact me. Hi Lisa!
2…. I was also happy that we seem to still be on the same wavelength, and that there are some similarities in what is going on in each of our lives right now.
3…. Lisa contacting me, caused me to get in touch with another friend that I haven’t spoken with for a few months. So it’s been an “old friends” sort of week.
4…. Our new boarder moved in on Saturday, or rather we picked her up from the home that she’d been staying in and helped her move in.
5…. Her former “Homestay Parents” told us she was very demanding and that she was a “princess”. So Chris promptly nicknamed her princess after she’d been here for a few hours.
6…. It turns out that our new boarder is a little demanding but I think we can handle it. She kind of follows me around the house when she comes home from school. However she does offer to help with dinner and sometimes clears the dishes off the table when we’ve finished eating and I do appreciate her doing this occasionally.
7…. The boarder only made me mad on Sunday. We were supposed to be going to Chris sisters when he got off work late Sunday afternoon and we’d told our boarder about our little trip. She said that she would be going out and meeting with friends at a Jazz festival. I asked her if she’d be eating out and she said yes. So great- no one would be home for dinner since we’d all be out. Sunday arrived and she went out to meet some friends in the afternoon but not before informing me that she wanted dinner at 5 pm before she was going to go out with her friends for the evening. Huh? We won’t be home at 5? I ended up making her a dinner and then Chris and I left to go to Waterloo. That will not happen again. So far that’s been the only incident that upset me. Everything else has been pretty good.
8…. Sunday was Chris’ nieces’ first communion. We couldn’t make the ceremony but we showed up at his sisters for the party in the evening.
9…. The party ended up being in and around the hot tub! Unfortunately Chris had forgotten to remind me to bring a bathing suit so I didn’t go in.
10…. Chris did though and he pretty much spent the whole evening soaking in the hot tub. Now he wants us to get one. hmmm where in our tiny backyard shall we put it?
11…. Actually I do have an idea on where we might put a hot tub if we ever got one. We have an enclosed back porch (Florida Room) and it has a very large storage area underneath it. My thoughts are that we should dig down into the cement storage area and sink a hot tub partially under the Florida room. If we dug deep enough we could even put in an entrance to the basement. This would be great in the winter as we could get right into the tub by entering through the basement rather than trudging around the backyard in the snow. I think I like this idea.
12…. The rest of the week has been spent working on my two new sites and moving this one over to it’s brand new domain.
13…. Chris saw the sleep doctor today to get the results of his sleep study. Just as I thought he has sleep apnea. Severe sleep apnea according to the doctor. Now he might need to wear one of those special breath masks when he sleeps, or have some surgery on his throat and sinus’ to see if it helps. We’ll see what happens. Last Thursday I had my appt with the sleep study doctor and found out that I have skipped heart beats when I’m sleeping. So I guess the two of us have some sleep problems after all.
Successful Move!
Well, it looks like everything is working! Tricia’s Musings has moved to it’s new home at https://www.feverishthoughts.com!
If you have any problems with the site please let me know. From my end it appears that everything is functioning as it should.
Please remember to update your links if you were kind enough to bookmark me or add me to your sites links. Thank you!
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