I keep wanting to say I’m feeling better.  But I know the moment I start saying that, people will expect me to be back on the ball.  And I’m not quite ready for that.  Because I feel better, I really do.  But I’m not back to a hundred percent.

I finished my Z-Pac yesterday.  I’ve still been taking the Ibuprofen because my chest and shoulder is a bit sore.  No fever for quite a few days.  I still have a rough time sleeping because of the soreness.  I also still have the cough but it’s definitely the rattly kind, not the dry hacking I’ve had the past few weeks.  At least I’m bring something up and it’s not making me sore.  And I’m also still short of breath, particularly if I move around too much too quickly.

But I have energy.  And an appetite.  And an inhaler.  And I still have the codeine for the pain but I’m trying not to rely on that because it makes me feel like a zombie and it makes me sick to my stomach.

As a result, I didn’t get much done this weekend.  Partly because I’m still recovering and partly because we are poor yo!  Not destitute but things are a bit tight this month and will be through the end of the year so we’re trying to conserve money.  It’s kind of boring, more for Steve than me because I’m usually the one content to sit at home and do nothing.

And nothing we did.  We watched Run Fat Boy Run with Simon Pegg (of Shaun of the Dead fame).  It was amusing.  Not hysterical but then British humor has never been my bag.  Yesterday, we were all amped up for a car show that Steve could take the Mustang out and enter.  He spent all Friday night working on it and tweaking the last few touches in order to get it on the road and the show ended up getting cancelled.

It thunderstormed really bad early, early Saturday morning, around 3am.  Steve and I had only been asleep for an hour because we stayed up and actually had a nice heartwarming “relationship” talk.  But no sooner than we had fallen asleep did it thunder so loud the whole damn house rattled.  And poor Sammy was terrified!  He was shivering and shaking and trying to scoot as close as possible to me.  That is the only time at night when he will lay next to me and let me touch him without snapping at me.

We also picked up the house.  Did the dishes.  I did some laundry.  I didn’t want to over exert myself too much, especially because I was still short of breath when moving the laundry around and stuff.

And then Steve went to bed around 8pm and I sat up and finished the laundry.  Now I’m just waiting for that to be done then I’ll go to bed.

Now I guess it’s time to get things back on track and organized for the holidays.  In about a week and a half, we’ll be leaving for Pennsylvania for Thanksgiving, which I’m really kind of excited about.  Then after that, it’s Christmas time.  I haven’t even thought of presents or cards or anything like that.  As a matter of fact, when we were putting the Halloween stuff up, Steve asked me if I wanted him to get down the Christmas decorations and I could shake my head in disgust and say “Ugh, no!”.  I don’t even know how we’re going to do presents this year.  I told everyone I was baking them cookies!

I contemplated buying a sewing machine and teaching myself how to sew.  There’s so many things over the past few weeks that I could’ve saved money if I had known how to sew them myself.  The problem is do I want to spend that kind of money on it?  I usually buy things for hobbies like that and then don’t have time to play with or learn enough about them and then they sit in the corner and collect dust.  But at the same time, it would help out so much around the house.  I could make a window seat cushion for my kitchen and curtains for the guest rooms and Steve’s could have made his Halloween costume.  He keeps saying he’ll get me one for Christmas but again, I don’t know if I want that because I can’t gurantee I’ll use it.

Ah well, I guess we’ll see.  Maybe I’ll start doing my research slowly and work up to something and actually have plans so I can go full force once I get one.

So another weekend gone and now more stuff to do at work and home just to keep life going and keep living.  I have a lot of things to do and a lot of stuff in the long run I need to concentrate on in order to make sure important things in my life don’t get neglected.

I think I’ll just be happy when the New Year is here!