A really good morning, so far!

Even though I literally coughed my lungs out for about 4 hours last night, around 1AM, I finally fell deeply asleep and slept for about 3 solid non-coughing hours, and my cold appears to be 99% gone this morning. Finally.

And for the last 3 days, I had been doing a goldenseal root protocol, not necessarily to help the cold but I’d been getting worried that the “morning sickness” thing with my stomach every morning was maybe more than just stress. I still think it was stress, but this morning, that was totally gone, too.

So I am feeling almost totally back to myself.

And Dennis wants to go out for lunch, soon.

And Steve — the guy I’ve been friends with since we were 11 years old — wants to go out for lunch again, soon.

So I’m starting to feel like I might actually be able to go out and see people again, which is great because the weather is starting to feel like Spring…

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Some of the great things that happened yesterday:

The publisher at Parisian Phoenix Publishing sent over a sample for the back cover blurb for The Curse of Our Profound Disorder and I thought it was fantastic.

She sent it over just as I was getting ready to try to work on that back cover blurb thing again, and what a relief!! I really liked what she’d come up with.

And the carpenters did a really incredible job on my basement stairs, gang. They both agreed that the stairs they removed were original to the house — 125 year-old wooden steps. That were rotting through, collapsing. And now the stairs feel so sturdy and safe. Plus, they gave me a new handrail, which they didn’t need to do.

And they fixed my basement door, at no extra cost. The door is also original to the house, so I really wanted to keep it, but the hinges needed to be sort of re-attached to the wood frame. Anyway, they did all that and now the basement door shuts all the way, and closes really easily. And I don’t have to worry at all that the cats will get down there.

After the carpenters had gone, I went down to the basement to get photos for my rep at the USDA and the whole room just seemed different somehow. Like the whole place was less scary now. It is just such a relief.

And Monday morning, the electrician comes to do preliminary work on replacing my breaker panel. So the fire hazard will soon be gone, too.

How the stairs look now:

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Okay, I still have a few things on my list of “things to do immediately” but everything is starting to feel manageable again, gang.

I usually get very stressed when we go back to Daylight Saving Time, which, this year, begins March 8th. Because I lose that extra hour in the morning. So I’m trying to just psych myself up for it and be ready, you know? Find a way to still get yoga done, get my writing stuff done, while still doing my caregiving shifts and take care of the many, many cats. And somehow also RELAX.

I just have to make it all work, somehow, because I want my happy life back!

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Okay!

Here’s this.

Yesterday was Johnny Cash’s birthday. I re-posted a bunch of photos of Johnny Cash on my Instagram page, but here’s this:

Keith and a bunch of other famous musicians with Johnny Cash:

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And here are a couple of Keith & Mick photos I liked:

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And another great photo of Keith with one of his grandsons:

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And actually that is it for today, gang!

I gotta get ready to scoot to town and see my favorite 95-year-old Japanese man! I believe it is Sashimi & Sake Day! It’s very sunny out there, so we’ll see if he feels like going out. Methinks he will say “Yes!”