Autumn is flying by

I think this year has sped by incredibly fast. I barely remember how it was as a kid waiting for Halloween to come. It is this week, and I am not prepared at all. Well, it isn't as though I am going anywhere, in fact, it will be the first time I am actually home for the tricker treaters. I need to get some treats.


My heat and air has been replaced and I am excited about that. Now I just need to get the house cleaned up. I also need some other things done like digging some drains for the foundation vents so water stays out of my nice clean crawlspace. Also, the new door they put on needs paint, and the mud needs tending to as well. One of the installers said he is avaialbe for handyman hire, and I think I will try him out. I felt comfortable with him being in and around my house, and he was nice to my kitties. He also replaced the too small p[ipe to my gas logs and now I can have them work too. No charge, he said he saw it was the wrong type and size of pipe and so he fixed it.

It is too soon to say if I have improved since the mold has been removed. I still have been coughing up crud, but I think I feel a return of energy and I don't feel as spent and lack lustre as I had been. I have an appointment with the pulmonologist Thursday, so we shall see. I did contract thrush from the inhaler. This is not a fun thing to have. I got some nasty stuff to swish and swallow, but it didn't get rid of it totally. For babies, they give some purple stuff to paint inside the mouth. I think that would be preferable to swishing and swallowing that vile nystatin.

There has been another layoff at work, I can safely expect that I am included, although I haven't been given any official notice. But I understand there is to be a 60 day notice, so that puts me through Christmas. This is good, as my company gives a bonus in December, and I would like to be there to get it, especially if I am soon to be unemployed.

I went to meet my cousin and her children two weekends ago. It was fun. I took my girls too, and it was the first meeting ever of cousins and second cousins (or whatever the relationship is). We are attempting to end the 50 year avoidance of the families to mingle. It wasn't intentional, but it happened. In this circumstance, I started playing in ancestry.com and began a new hobby, perhaps. I have been totally obsessed with linking my relatives and I am even dreaming of linkage, as I once dreamt back in the beginning of the internet and the abiity to click backwards and wherever it takes you. Funny how it affects me with dreams of linkage.