What happened to May??

Time is really starting to be on a fast forward. It was just the middle of May, and you turn to your left and it's almost the middle of June. We've been really lucky in Texas - usually the temp hits 100 degrees for the first time in April or early May. We've gotten in the 90's, but no triples yet. I woke up yesterday to a rousing thunderstorm with lightening and torrential rain. Yes! (As I like to say, every drop that falls out of the sky is a drop that doesn't come out of my faucet that I have to pay for.) Today it hit 90 and Friday is finally supposed to hit 100. Well. It was nice while it lasted.

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Huh. Well, guess Jypsy told you I've been really sick. Some sort of upper respiratory thing going around and wow, did it kick my butt. My doctor wanted to call in a prescription for antibiotics, but I told him to forget that and just get me some cough syrup....and make it the good stuff. Jeez. It was definitely the good stuff. The dosage was a teaspoon every 12 hours. Since I was at home I took a teaspoon, and didn't wake up for about 4 hours (which was actually good for me as I hadn't slept in about 3 days). I started dialing the dosage down until I hit a quarter teaspoon. That seemed to work to keep me from coughing like an emphasemic cigarette smoker and didn't knock me out. It took three weeks, but I think I'm finally well. I finally swam last Friday morning and didn't do too badly - my guess is all the coughing acted like exercise and I now have Ahhnold lungs. Went in this past weekend to do a workout, and today I feel like I got hit by a truck. Everything seems to be sore. Which in a way is a good thing. I guess. (ooh. Ouch!)

I am two and a half months from making my probation. The other admin on our team retired and so it's been a little difficult to keep up, but I'm doing it. It's so much more pleasant w/o my former co-worker around - this is a piece of cake.

This week the roommate/cuz is going out to take care of the cats at the lake. I'm looking forward to having the house to myself and Jypsy for the next three months. I might even be able to get the house clean. What a novel concept :o ! I'm going tomorrow to protest my property taxes and think I've developed a pretty good defense. We'll see. I'm also going to try and get my book onto Amazon this weekend. It's going to involve taking it off the other indie site and getting my 'webmaster' to take it off my web site (funny how Amazon is about being the only seller...) and see if it goes anywhere. Wish I could find an agent in this area to help, but am doing what I can.

Now. If you're a follower of this blog and have kept up with my posts, I have to admit something. I...am not writing 30 minutes a day. I have writers block and sit down to write and just sit and stare at the screen. When I swim I sometimes come up with some good plot lines, but cannot figure out how to get from where I am now to where I want to be. Of course if I really wanted to whine, I'd say, "I've been siiick!" Which I have been. But I was also home a couple of days and sure could have used the time to write. Except for the fact that I was knocked out by the uber cough syrup, of course. Lately I've been doing research to protest my property taxes, which I have to do tomorrow at 4pm.The cat got sick again too (don't worry though, she's fine now). There's been other things that have come up that seemed much more preferable to sitting staring at a screen trying to come up with the next line of a book. Remember Roseann Roseannadanna? That's my life in a nutshell. "...it's always somethin'..."