SATURDAY…….
Hmmmm….for some reason “Granny’s House” has become a small hospital this morning!!! Granny(1st Lady’s mother) has contracted a head/chest cold……not to be unexpected as she continues to smoke while in her middle 80’s……the 1st Lady is fighting the onset of a migraine…..and Jeremy still has his hemorrhoid problems. Sooooo, Jeremy and I drove over to Hannibal to pick up his prescript meds from WalGreens. While there, we stopped briefly at Quality Inn…..sat in the parking lot….and I piggybacked onto their Wifi…..checking my email of 110 messages, and posting my blog posts
We returned within an hour…..and the 1st Lady had removed herself from the socializing with us to the darkened bedroom….blinds drawn, a cold pack on her forehead…..the typical things she normally does when she feels a migraine approaching. She also had taken one of her pills that helps to keep it from reaching a horrendous painful peak.
We were all supposed to have another Thanksgiving Dinner with her brother and family at their home out in the countryside……it is a really nice place overlooking their small lake as well as the surrounding hills and valleys. Sooooo, I went by myself…..ate way tooooo much, and enjoyed my nephews/nieces and great nephew/nieces. I took my leave as the afternoon began to disappear into early evening……and returned to “Granny’s Hospital”.
The 1st Lady had recovered….thanks to that WONDERFUL little pill……Jeremy was still laying around (sitting is more difficult)….and Granny was still hacking and snorting. The evening was spent watching a bit of the tellie…..and then later in the evening we located a GREAT special on the Kennedy family….and their supposed “curse”. It is almost easy to become convinced that something such as that is possible…….they have had such a horrific history of untimely and unusual deaths in the family. Sooooo sad….!!
SUNDAY……
A slow morning……Jeremy managed to run over to the local market and pick up a STL Post Dispatch…..and with coffee(NOT Fr. Roast, damn it) in hand…..the talking political heads on the tellie…and the STL paper in my lap, the morning passed in a slow and quiet way.
The afternoon was a lazy one…..warm outside, but a sleepy one inside. Jeremy finally got his things together and left for Evansville around 5:30pm. And true to his word, he called around 10:30pm saying he had arrived back ok…….even if it was a bit miserable sitting for that long. He had said it would take 5 hours….and so it did!
After watching “The Amazing Race”…….and enjoying it as much as ever, we also viewed the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation. (What else is there to do in Monroe City???) The Hallmark show was …..just, OK…..that’s about it. The acting was somewhat amateur, to say the least…..which made it difficult to “get involved” in the storyline. Oh well……..
MONDAY…….
Left around 9:30am this morning for STL and then on to F’Town. Stopped in STL to check on our cab. doors that are having the glass inserts put in them…..and they were to be picked up late this afternoon, but we couldn’t wait for them today. Then we stopped at Home Depot and picked up the paint for the rooms that we plan on painting a mellow yellow.
Arrived home a little after 3pm……and slowly opened the door, greeted by fumes from the clear coat on the newly refinished floors,…..and then took off our shoes and began looking around at the DUSTY mess!!!! Even tho we had covered almost everything possible……it was HORRIBLE!!!!! We had to dust off ALL of the walls in the house, and everything….EVERYTHING that was under the sheets and plastic sheeting…….it was such a job that we are not yet finished with everything just yet.
We managed to get through to the bedroom in a couple of hours after we arrived home…..and then got our luggage inside. The floors really do look great, including the new floor in the kitchen and the new steps into the sun room and the entertainment room. I dusted the kitchen cabinets, the granite countertop, the walls, of all that I could reach and get to, and the 1st Lady quickly put a coat of paint on the coat closet in the hallway/foyer. SOOOOOOOO much dusting to do tomorrow……and then we want to paint the study/den before we move the furniture back into that room. We need to get ALL of the “stuff” out of the guest room so that the floor man can return later this week and get it refinished…….and then check to see when they will get the appliances installed. Still work for the construction crew to complete……!!!!!!!! I WANT IT DONE!!!!!!!! SICK OF LIVING LIKE THIS!!!!!!!
We finally gave up…..our noses thick with the dust from dusting….even with the attic fan sucking up as much as it could with all doors open. It will take ALL week to get this put back……and not including the piano (have to wait for 3 weeks before we can set it on the floor!!)
UGH!!!!!!!
Life is good…..and I hope it is great for all of you, also!!!!
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