February 27, 2009
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I have been fighting a flu thingie that finally moved into a walking pneumonia thingie. *sigh* So have been home the last two days, sleeping and sleeping and sleeping and trying to get myself back to a functioning state. Joe has had it as well, so we take turns being totally useless!
But in other news, we are busy having the bathtubs replaced in two bathrooms. When we re-did the house, we were trying to save money, so we re-coated the tubs, rather than replace them. The old ones are badly chipped and the drain plumbing has frozen and was not removable without replacing the tub. So all in all, it was time.We also learned that recoating is a waste of money and just peeled off over and over. While the coating was under warranty, after the third ‘fix’ it was obvious it was never going to work.
So Megan’s bathroom was done first and is just about complete and looks great with new plumbing, tiles, tub and fixtures. They are now in the middle of doing Becca’s and there is dust all over her room at the moment. We are also going to replace all the windows in March, to hopefully improve the insulation of the house, which seems to leak hot and cold now.
Megan is busy taking an after school class in creative writing. They are writing a short chapter book and she is doing a story about a mystery at a haunted house – very Nancy Drew-ish. She is really enjoying it and has had a lot of fun.
Becca just finished making a DNA model for her science class out of beads, pipecleaners and colored straws that looks pretty darn good. The teacher didn’t want any ‘food’ items or ‘toys’ used to build it, just ‘household’ items, which made it challenging to figure out what to use, but we managed it in the end.
I just realized it has now been 10 years since I had a gastric bypass to loose weight. Wow! While I have gained some of the weight back, I am still 100 lbs lighter than I was before surgery. I am busy doing a diet with Joe to get down even more, but I certainly have never regretted doing the surgery and getting my weight down.
Anyhow, hope everyone is well and that each of you have a great week!
Oh, one last thing! My brother-in-law, Ian, has published his first book. I urge you to go over to Amazon and consider buying a copy. It has really good reviews (4 out of 5 stars on average) and looks good. I have my own copy on order. The link is here and it is called The Rainbow Connection.
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I have just started the Zookeepers Wife. It is a bit dry as the author sets the stage, but the subject is one of my interests, so I can get through a bit dry first chapter. Any story of rescuing people from the nazis, double crossing them, surviving them, etc is always an encourgement to me. Probably has something to do with Tim. He would have made a good Nazi.
Mom said that Megan is really liking some Cherry Ames books. Sometimes half-price books have them here. Which ones did you get her, so I can keep my eyes out for other ones. Megan is so much like what I would have for a daughter.
At this point, she has books 1 – 8. I saw some used ones in a bookstore, but they wanted $14 a piece for them! OMG!
Get well quickly, both of you.
I got the book your BIL wrote. It downloaded to my Kindle in under a minute.
Good to see you, but sorry you & Joe are both under the weather! I’ve been fortunate this year to have had nothing. ::knocks on wood:: Hopefully it stays that way!
I’ll have to check out Ian’s book!
I hope you will be feeling better quickly. Pneumonia is exhausting. Ian’s first book signing is next Saturday! Very exciting.
Hugs, Mom