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I had last week off.  It was my last vacation week for the year so I had planned on doing some relaxing etc.  I was gonna get the house work done Saturday and start my vacation(?) Sunday.  Friday night we get home from bowling around 11:30 p.m. and well, I’m starting to get a sore throat.  The PBA (Professional Bowlers Association) is coming to town the week I’m off and we I always end up getting sick the week they’re in town.  Saturday I don’t feel good, don’t do much, but I do help honey unload wood off of the trailer and felt a little better after getting fresh air.  Sunday same thing.  Monday, I must still not have felt good because I don’t even remember it.  Must not have done nothing.  Tuesday I’m half asleep and hear a “thud” outside.  Honey worked Monday and Tuesday we were off so he’s not there.  I jump to look out the window and see SNOW!! YUCK!!!  I think nothing of it thinking snow just fell off the roof.  When I finally drag my butt out of bed and look out the kitchen window I see large branches laying in front of the garage.  Oh, great, heavy wet snow, leaves on the trees, branches coming down on the garage.  I have to go to the garage to get wood for the woodburner but first have to drag the branches out of the way.  In the garage that’s all you can hear is the tree creeking in the wind.  Luckily nothing falls while I’m out there.  I have to keep going out on the porch to clean the snow off of the satellite dish.  The one time I do this is when I was going to go take a shower.  I slip on my boots and I’m wearing a sweatshirt and sweatpants.  Go out and clean it off, go to come back in THE DOOR IS LOCKED!! Without realizing it I locked the door and pulled it too far that it shut enough to latch.  Now, I live in the country.  The nearest house is about an 1/8 of a mile away on top of the hill.  If the porch hadn’t been wet I probably would have walked out on it bare foot to clean the dish off.  So off I trounced in the heavey wet snow and wind to the neighbors to the extra key they have or our house.  Thank god she’s home.  I get the key, warm up a little and trounce back home. That was Tuesday.

Wednesday honey and I volunteered to work at the TQR (Tour Qualifying Round) for the PBA Tournament.  This was supposed to be fun I thought.  He was gonna do scoring and I was gonna be a runner, taking the scores to the tournament director.  They had 6 scorers for 36 lanes and 1 runner (me) .  This bowling alley is 58 lanes so it’s rather large.  Each scorer had 3 sets of lanes to watch.  There were 3 bowlers on each lane.  All the scorers had to do was write down the final scores of each game.  (I could have done that, but we were originally told they would be hand scoring).  I had to pick up the scores after game (there was a total of 7 games) and take the sheets to the office.  I was on my feet going back and forth non-stop for 4 hours.  Nice workout but no time to stop and rest or get a drink.  No lunch, didn’t feel good, throat hurt.  By the time the 7th game was over I was so dehydrated I thought I was gonna pass out.  I sat down and honey got me a bottle of water.  Never made it to the gym of course, I felt ill the rest of the day.  We did however spend an hour or so at the mall just walking around (slowly) because we had a time to kill before we went to dinner and he bowled in his league that night. 

Thursday I was supposed to come into work because my boss had something important he needed done and I’m the only one who knows how to do it.  Wake up in the morning, I ain’t going no where, could barely talk and felt like crap.  Honey tells me not do anything today and just rest.  I even ended up taking nap in the afternoon which I never do.  I was supposed to do more volunteering on Thursday at the tournament.  Nope, have no energy to stay on my feet for 4 hours again.  I got tired just walking from one end of the house to the other.  The only thing I did Thursday was wash some dishes and I didn’t care the house was a mess.  Yup, I’m sick. 

Friday, I slept for like 11 hours Thursday night/Friday morning.  Felt much, much better.  I went into work to do what I had to do and then did a little extra cuz I’m like that.  I abosolutely love where I work and he’s nicest guy anyone could ask to work for.  I tell him he doesn’t need to give me anything for coming in.  I’m not a money person.  I dont’ care about money.  I tell him every time I take off if there’s an emergency I will come in .   He’s done so much for me the 16 years I’ve been it’s the least I can do.  After I’m done we go the bowling alley to watch the round of 16.  It was much nicer being a spectator than a volunteer.  If we had had the money we would have gone to the TV Finals on Sunday. 

Saturday I make chicken soup and work on the house.  Sunday we did some stuff outside and checked out how many branches did come off the tree from Tuesday.  Since the tree is on the side of the garage hadn’t noticed until we walked towards the back.  There’s a huge branch that will probably have to cut into pieces where it lays.  I dragged the rest out and put them in a pile. 

So I’m still a little congested and but it is that time of the year for me and my sinuses.  Haven’t been to the gym in 12 days but between moving and stacking wood and carrying wood into the house and cleaning on Saturday and Sunday and the 4 hours on my feet on Wednesday I got workouts in.  Wednesday I could feel it in my thighs and butt from walking and standing for 4 hours and when I was walking it was a fast paced walk, not leisurely. 

Wow, okay, I’ve rambled enough.  If anyone is still awake and followed this thank you.  Have a great week every one.