I am trying to just get a grip on all the stuff that piles up when you can’t seem to get to it in time. Sometimes those things pile up because you cannot get to them, at other times they pile up because you make some changes and the learning curve puts you behind……for me, both are true.

Wow…..walking around the house with carpet under our feet is pretty awesome. And, if I live through the night, I get to begin taking the aspirin again, which may not seem like much to you, but it is really the only preventative med I take post-stroke. I have been off it for 12 days!

I am a bit out of sorts today, having spent much of the day at the doctor’s (a specialist). He told me to take it easy for the next few days, which made me laugh because I live with a three year old (currently dressed as Superman) and such advise is nearly impossible. What I can say was that my uncontrollable laughter made me clearly happy he was not a psychiatrist…….I’d probably then be resting in the unit!

Mercy me, the house is a mess. I have been removing carpet, padding, staples, and doing laundry. What I haven’t been able to do is to get it all done, so things are a bit of a mess. I did however, get all the carpet done. Amanda and Ben will be returning from Lindenwood this evening.

I thought about writing a particularly serious entry this evening, because something happened to me a while ago, and I have been meaning to address it. BUT, I have been working feverishly on our house today, and I just do not have it in me. And, I am currently VERY BEHIND on where I thought I would be.

Well it’s just Viper and I, and the cat I suppose, here at home alone tonight. Amanda has abandoned me for a weekend at Lindenwood to see Steph, and I am left with pulling up carpet in preparation for its replacement early next week. We are putting our house up for sale, and are carpeting the upstairs and stairwell, as well as having new counter tops installed. If you know of anyone looking for a house with an awesome back porch, please let them know that I will throw in the cat.

One of the disadvantages of being away at a meeting in a facility where email and electronic communication is limited is that all that you have been missing is waiting for you when you return to electronic civilization. I will be working to catch up with that all weekend.

I am once again in the north, although I am not yet home. I am in a hotel in Effingham, Illinois where I am hopefully going to bed soon. The great part is that I will be home tomorrow and perhaps can pick Ben up to go goof off a little after lunch.