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Flu Shot

I just looked at my last post and realized it was a week ago! Where have the past 7 days gone or for that matter the last two weeks?

I went to the doctor’s the first week of October and got a flu shot; the next day I got a sore throat, and the next day the sore throat got worse and by the third day I could hardly talk and spent the day sucking on green tea drops and Hall’s honey lozenges.   What made that third day worse was the fact that we did an antique show.  The night before we spent 3 hours setting up and were there all day Saturday and it was pretty much a bust as far as I’m concerned.  The sales were SO SLOW and SO SMALL, it wasn’t worth while at all.  NOW, we should have known better; first of all it was Yom Kippur – granted Ocean Grove is pretty much a Christian community but really now!  Then it was an absolutely beautiful day and the town held its Fall Harvest Festival which I understood was just MOBBED!  But did anyone on the street know there was an antique show going on near the Great Auditorium?  Apparently NOT.  Lesson learned, will not do that again.

The next day I worked and the income for that day was certainly less than the effort – overall not a very lucrative weekend and I used up a box of tissues blowing my nose while my  sinuses drained and then drained some more.  Mmmmm I think I’m probably entering into the TMI zone – Sorry!

When I started this blog over a year and a half ago, I made a decision to write about life, love, friends, family, events, movies, news, politics, recipes…well just about anything whether it be Smooth or Crunchy just like my favorite PB & J sandwich.  I even stated that I knew it would be essentially what every other blog is and that is: an egomaniacal stream of consciousness.  I did however also decide that I would not use the blog as my personal online diary, documenting every thought that crossed my mind or every problem, every family event, everything going on in my life, my husband’s or my kid’s.

And the reason I’m bringing this up is my way of telling you all that the reason  a week has gone by since I wrote a blog is that there is a LOT going on in my life at this time that has kept me distracted.  And of course as life would have it, many incidents have clustered together to make this a very stressful time.  I know in the past sometimes I have litanized a series of crazy events and done so in a satirical tongue in chic  but not this time.   Life has become too serious at the moment but I’m still here and am not giving up on my blog or my readers so hang in guys, there’s more to come.

So now it’s been 10 days; I’m still blowing my nose and got a cold sore from all that action and although the sore throat is gone, I am coughing and then coughing again!