I've been in bed since the 21st Feb with a nasty strain of flu now complicated by the obligatory pneumonia. It's a good way to drop a stone in weight without trying. Everyone else had it in varying degrees except dh, Steven and Katie. Dibs is still poorly and had febrile convulsions which was an eeek moment but everyone else seems to have got over it and are back to normal. During it Gemma moved out, a fact I haven't actually processed yet but makes me feel like crying if I think about it. I was so out of it when she left I thought it was a dream. We lost Kerri's 21st birthday during it too. I was too ill to even get her a card and she was too ill to do anything anyway. One of our rabbits died today too. Everything seems a bit dream like and weird......
Culinary expertise is so lacking around here. Everyone is waiting for the day I get out of bed and start cooking again. Dh has kept the house cleanish once he realised that me getting some exercise wasn't going to cure me and this wasn't a 24 hour thing, but no one can cook! Good job I am not hungry and they can eat take out.
The LA saw my evidence of ed and pronounced it excellent. I was in bed at the time and we were all dying of flu and it just seemed hilarious. I don't think we were that good this year but anyway.......they're happy.
So I'm still here - bit fragile and prone to crying but I will improve and the weather is much better and I am learning loads of new recipes from Food Network.
Why not cry, Ruth? It's a great stress reliever and you've had enough on your plate that you deserve to allow yourself to feel. I
ReplyDeleteoh dear hun !!!! I hope you soon feel much much better, how horrible for you all xx
ReplyDeleteJust want to wish you and all your family well x
ReplyDeleteOh dear, poor you - sounds dreadful! Hope your health and happiness pick up soon.
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone. I feel like Gemma moving out was monumental Anne in ways I can't even begin to think about until I feel better. It is truly the end of an era and I was not prepared for how bereft I would feel. Her cat is still here and she is on about taking her away when they get a house ( after bf has sold the one he has which isn't even on the market yet) and it all so horrible at the moment cos the cat could, realistically, be here for at least 3-4 years and her sister is here and we all love her and it just seems mean to take her after all that time....so I've that to sort out along with dealing with how I feel about the actually going. "Fostering" a cat was never on my agenda. I don't foster cats as I get too attached to them. They come here and they stay or they don't come here at all. We've had her since 8 weeks :(
ReplyDeleteI wondered where you'd gone Ruth, I hope the fact that you're back blogging means that you're on the road to recovery. Best wishes to you.
ReplyDeleteThanks Bridget. I 'm not great but am getting the boys back in the saddle tomorrow so have printed off all their English today and have their maths, history and science ready.
ReplyDeleteI just want to give you a huge cyber ((hug)) x
ReplyDeleteFWIW the cat would upset me too. Gemma has a choice and has made it. The cat hasn't. And if that makes me daft, then fine, I am daft.
ReplyDeleteI'd put that one on the pile marked 'worry about later' if I were you and go and plan a quilt. You can control those, especially if you buy more fabric than you need. And if it all goes wrong you can shove it in the back of a cupboard and no one will know. If only life was that simple...
Thanks Higglepea :) I had a chat with her about the cat yesterday but got nowhere. It seems bf is allergic to them after he had his own for 7 years he has also left with his ex. Even tho the cat came racing out to see her and was all over her yesterday she made every excuse going not to take her now even tho the landlord has said she can. I doubt now the cat will ever be going anywhere with her. I told her I felt she was being cruel and the cat needed her more than a huge garden but she wasn't buying it even tho it is true. I think the bigger picture is moving abroad and that is why neither of them have taken their respective pets but they are not admitting this it's just what I suspect. To make it better for the cat I have bought Katie a double bed to place in the same position as Gemma's old one so she will, at least, have the same place to sleep and we are all making a fuss of her and that's all I can do expect plan a quilt :) xx
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