Some progress

Woke up this morning and quickly remembered that mornings are the worst.  My head, neck and back were all killing me.  Plus all of the sinus soup in my head draining out, not pleasant at all. 

Fed Rudy and Mora was after me, she wanted me to eat.  Normally I am the one after her asking her to eat.  Well, I gave in and had some oatmeal, a banana and some milk.  Then took my morning pills and returned to my room to watch TV for a bit.  Eventually I wound up back in bed.  Rudy and Mora both guarding me as I slept, so did they. 

No movies today, it’s been a day of YouTube videos and Home Improvement. 

Skipped lunch just had a soda and some black olives.  Rudy begged me for more food despite the fact I just put his lunch down.  He’s figured out that he can be picky and I will give in.  I hate that because it’s a bad habit and it causes me to cycle through their food quicker. 

Remembered that it was Thursday so I had to take the trash out.  Rudy was after me to get a shower.  He climbed up on top of my chair and started to wash my scalp.  Just like Momma used to do.  I stopped him long before he got started.  I knew that I smelled but oddly it was a low key turn on and now I get why some guys like to sniff arm pits.  I’m not into that but I don’t have a problem watching it. 

I got that shower and man it felt good.  I started to itch in places that I didn’t know I had.  I couldn’t scrub hard enough or long enough.  It had only been 5 days and if Rudy hadn’t come along I would have easily fallen into a trap to go another day. 

After the shower I got dressed and man that was a task.  I was a bit winded afterwards.  I had a dizzy spell for a moment in the shower but I didn’t fall.  I rested and watched more TV.  After a half hour I got going. 

Got the trash ready to go out and then I left to head to the Olive Garden.  I wasn’t about messing with food at home.  Was greeted by a hot guy when I entered and man he had a nice butt, his face was cute too.  I didn’t make any moves, just ate my meal and went back home. 

Working on Laundry.  The room felt oddly colder.  That’s when I looked up and saw that something chewed through that dryer vent that I had foam sealed shut.  It was a door for rodents to enter, which is how I got my mouse problem in the first place.  Glad that I caught it, hopefully early.  I cleared out the old foam and then used a hammer to close up the vent.  Stuffed it with some paper and a plastic bag.  Then went over it with foam sealer again.  For good measure I put down a glue board trap so if anything is inside and tries to escape its feet will get stuck and it will die.  I’ve checked and don’t see any of the mouse traps tripped so hopefully I dodged a bullet.  I did what I thought was best.  I realize that whatever it is will probably chew through the foam sealer again so I did my google research.  I need to get some chicken wire or other mesh metal to stuff the hole with.  I’d crush the vent from the outside but it’s buried beneath my deck.  If the damn city inspector would have let us keep the dryer vent where it was none of this would be an issue today.  It’s not an insurmountable problem but it sure has caused me quite the aggravation and money. 

I’m watching mail at work on my phone and man they are really racking up.  I so do not look forward to Tuesday.  I’m thinking about taking some time to try to get ahead because provided I do return on Tuesday as I expect to, I will be on-call and it will be hellish trying to manage that plus playing catchup.  I’ve done it before and said never again but here I am. 

Headed upstairs to bed, I’m sure I won’t sleep for a bit but I like to keep my regular routine up so it won’t be so difficult when things do get back to normal. 

I feel some progress but I still have the bouts where I don’t care about anything and can sit and watch TV for hours.  My phone powered off and me disconnected from the world.  I’m starting to wonder if I didn’t pick up a case of COVID.  Part of me wants to know and part of me doesn’t want to know. 

Who knows what tomorrow holds but I do hope that I make more progress and feel much more like my normal self from the moment I wake up. 

Stay warm and be well.  Hope all is going good in your neck of the woods!