Somebody please explain to me how a person can have crazy chills and sweats and still not have a fever!!?
Went into the walk in clinic today and basically got told off for daring to infect the rest of the world...apparently I should have gone to emergency, waited for who knows how long, and infected all the already weakened immune systems there instead.
Turns out I have a flu (NOT swine flu) but it still sucks, and the doctor says I'm contagious for a least a week, so no work all week... If anyone has any brilliant ideas to keep me entertained when I'm not sleeping (which is most of the time) please pass them on!
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Results
Dinner was really good. About 15 people in total, still some leftovers, but everyone had more than enough to make them burst, plus pumpkin chiffon pie on top...
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Turkey Dinner Number 2
Well I have officially been a "hone-owmer" for a full year (as of Aug.28 actually) and this is now my second turkey dinner to be cooked in this place. I was looking back over the year's worth of renovations and work and was pretty happy with the list that I got done:
1. I deep cleaned a very dirty, dusty, grimy, and overall fairly filthy house that was full of garbage... until it shined!
2. Emptied a yard full of everything from a fooze-ball table to portable car park tents, to scrap wood, to the kitchen sink....with a few trips to the dump/recycle with my handy honda civic.
3. Re-painted: 2 bathrooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 living rooms, a kitchen, and a couple halls
4. Re-finished (scraped, sanded, stained, and varnished) all the wood trim in my bedroom (a VERY dusty procedure)
5. Sewed a set of curtains
6. Had the outside of the house painted
7. Replaced the hot-water heater
8. Framed in, fixed electrical, dry-walled, puttied, puttied and puttied some more, and painted my now beautiful and clean laundry room
9. Plumbed in a functioning laundry room sink
and
10. Somehow managed to figure out a little of what is going on in my yard, realize I have blackberries now, and got my compost bucket up and running.
Among a myriad of smaller projects like pillows and bedspreads.
I've realized that I love owning my own home, it's like having a permanent and never ending project that you can (mostly) choose to work at on your own pace. It feels fulfilling to actually be putting my money towards something, rather than paying someone else's mortgage. The house even managed to hold its own in the downturn of this economy. Fingers are crossed that year two goes by smoothly and the market values start to head back uphill.
As for that second turkey dinner. I'll let you know tomorrow...
1. I deep cleaned a very dirty, dusty, grimy, and overall fairly filthy house that was full of garbage... until it shined!
2. Emptied a yard full of everything from a fooze-ball table to portable car park tents, to scrap wood, to the kitchen sink....with a few trips to the dump/recycle with my handy honda civic.
3. Re-painted: 2 bathrooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 living rooms, a kitchen, and a couple halls
4. Re-finished (scraped, sanded, stained, and varnished) all the wood trim in my bedroom (a VERY dusty procedure)
5. Sewed a set of curtains
6. Had the outside of the house painted
7. Replaced the hot-water heater
8. Framed in, fixed electrical, dry-walled, puttied, puttied and puttied some more, and painted my now beautiful and clean laundry room
9. Plumbed in a functioning laundry room sink
and
10. Somehow managed to figure out a little of what is going on in my yard, realize I have blackberries now, and got my compost bucket up and running.
Among a myriad of smaller projects like pillows and bedspreads.
I've realized that I love owning my own home, it's like having a permanent and never ending project that you can (mostly) choose to work at on your own pace. It feels fulfilling to actually be putting my money towards something, rather than paying someone else's mortgage. The house even managed to hold its own in the downturn of this economy. Fingers are crossed that year two goes by smoothly and the market values start to head back uphill.
As for that second turkey dinner. I'll let you know tomorrow...
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