Today I woke up and felt like a brand new woman.� I nearly jumped up and did a dance of joy.� Instead, I ate a light breakfast, drank some juice, downed some of the last of the pills I had to take (antibiotics for the recovery and antibiotics for the severe kidney infection I also had when admitted to the hospital), I took a shower, shaved my legs, washed AND conditioned my long long hair and then I did something I haven�t done for over a week.� I blew my hair dry with the hairdryer, I put on some makeup, I styled my hair and I put on shorts and a new summer shirt and a new pair of shoes I had bought prior to the hospital insanity.� Tommy Hilfiger summer sneakers�cute cute.� (photo�s someday�they�re that cute!)�

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Then, I cleaned up the apartment.� I cleared away the last two weeks of disarray and dirty juice cups.� I moved all of the dirty clothes to one neat and tidy place in a laundry basket and I attempted to put my clean clothes away but do not own enough hangers to hang everything up.� (note to self: buy more hangers)

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I called and spoke to my grandmother in PA again even though I just talked to her a few days ago.� She�s been worried about my health.� Grandmother�s are that way.� I then spoke to my Aunt (my mother�s sister) who just got back from visiting my first cousin who now lives in Chicago.� Apparently there�s a beach in Chicago, I never knew.�

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Then I drove to the nail salon and got my nails done.� I chit chatted to my nail stylist as best as one can when your nail stylist speaks poor Engrish.� Then I went to Walmart and bought a new hairbrush (my old one bit the big one when I had to untangle my long hair after days of high fevers and no washing in the hospital) and soap for the dishwasher (since we ran out and I was anxious to get the dishes all cleaned up)

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I walked around Walmart and considered buying some candles but decided to skip them.� They were cheap but I didn�t have much faith that they�d burn consistently.� I felt surreal walking around Walmart.� And then I heard the thunder outside and decided to leave.� I didn�t miss the downpour and found myself running through the parking lot to get to my vehicle.� The rain felt cool and came down in big fat droplets and when I nearly reached my vehicle I slowed down and let myself concentrate on how good the cool drops felt on my feverish skin.� Life is good and I feel like I appreciate my health in a new and improved way.

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The man worked the majority of the day away like he seems to do most of them as of late.� He went to work this morning at 6:30 a.m. and didn�t come through the door until 9:10 p.m. tonight. And yah he works that much on some days, and his paycheck proves it.� We decided to go out to Bennigan�s for dinner.� I got shrimp tempura and he got a steak.� It was the first meal that actually tasted half ok to me.� I haven�t had an appetite and the looseness of my jean shorts were evident of it.� I could not however finish my meal and that�s ok too.� Rick enjoyed his steak and it was nice to spend some time with him without the worries of the last two weeks that we�ve endured.� He was pretty tired though.� We�re back home, and he�s already in bed snoring away.� He has to work again in the morning.�

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It�s been raining on and off all evening and there�s tons of news here regarding Hurricane Dennis.� It�s moving over Cuba right now.� I have a hair appointment to get my hair cut and highlighted tomorrow and am hoping it doesn�t get cancelled because I finally feel pretty good and want to get my hair cut bad.� It�s so long and I love it long but it needs to be trimmed and highlighted badly.� Also, it�ll probably rain most of the rest of the weekend and it�d be nice to spend the rainy day getting my hair done doing something constructive than sitting inside watching it rain all day.

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We�ve been lucky in the Tampa Bay as we�ve been able to avoid all of the storms that have come near the coastline of Florida.� We seem to be tucked into the safe place.� But with the storms come the threat of tornado�s and they�re pretty wicked sometimes.� I hope that Rick doesn�t have to work very long tomorrow if at all because I�ll just worry about him being out there amongst the weather threats all day.

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It�s fairly late but I�m feeling wide-awake and full of energy for the first time in days.� Time to go check out the information for my upcoming course in school.� Get a head start since I�ll be doubling up my schedule for the next ten weeks pretty soon.� I�m going to take some MTH courses on site, meaning I�ll be in a regular classroom with a physical teacher present.� It should be interesting since I know the teacher from my former position with the company and he�s great.� I look forward to the experience, however I don�t look forward to working from 9 a.m. until my class starts at 6 p.m. and walking down the hall and being in the same building at class until 10 p.m.� Should make for a long miserable break free day.� That�ll be the day I�ll be taking my lunch hour for sure.� I think it�ll be fun though.� MTH courses don�t have much teamwork involved and so I look forward to that break in the game plan as well.

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My staples are itchy, my eyes are tired and I need to go get a glass of water and stretch, my back is sore from too much rest.� Oh one last thing, Rick got a haircut yesterday and he looks so dang hot I�m resisting attacking him while he sleeps right now.� I did sneak in there a few paragraphs ago to retrieve my favorite pillow before he falls asleep on it.�� I kissed him good night.� I wonder if he even knows�..how much I love him.

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And�and�.I can finally breath like a normal person according to my breathing toy the hospital gave me�.ahhhh lung capacity rocks!!

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On a very sad side note....I haven't heard from BraN...yet. :-(

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