Well...I'm STILL not feeling 100% after getting sick at the beginning of January. I still have a bad sore throat off and on, a dry cough (especially at night), and occasionally an earache. At first just my right ear was hurting so I thought maybe the pain in my jaw was causing my ear to hurt...but this week my left ear has been hurting, too, and that side of my jaw doesn't hurt. I'm not sure why everything keeps lingering. My sleep is all messed up, too. I've been super tired and end up going to bed earlier than normal...just to wake up 2-4 hours later. I've even been taking a nap frequently during the day...but I'm still tired all the time.
I think part of the reason why I keep waking up--other than the cough--are the lovely night sweats of perimenopause. I'm so over it. We keep the bedroom really cold...but it actually seems to make it worse. It's like...because I'm cuddling under the blanket, it makes me too hot. I might talk to my doctor the next time we're there and see if trying HRT would help.
FINALLY got the fridge fixed. Our freezer stopped working on January 20th. The first time they came out was January 24th. He said there was a freon leak (and he's not certified to work with freon so someone else had to come with him) and the compressor and evaporator needed to be replaced. The guy told Johnny it'd only take a day or two to get the parts...but apparently they didn't come in until Johnny called on February 3rd. Then they couldn't get out to our house to fix the fridge until today. I'm glad it wasn't any later...because the refrigerator section started losing cooling yesterday. They were here for just over 2 hours this morning. Bozley hid in the bedroom with me while they were here...he's not a fan of strangers. Every once in awhile he'd go to the doorway to see what's going on...but most of the time he just laid on the bed making little growly barks. Nova laid in the hallway behind the gate watching them work. They set the smoke detector (twice) and that freaked Nova out. They had to weld something together...something about they use an aluminum something or other now and it's common for it to break down. They went ahead and replaced the compressor (I don't know if they replaced the evaporator) too. So far it seems to be working again.
January and February have been kinda slow for work. It was the same last year, too. But...I had only 35 orders in January last year versus 100 orders for January this year. And for the first 7 days in February last year, I had 6 orders and I've already had 14 orders so far this February. Last February picked up more during the second half of the month, so hopefully it'll be the same for this year. I'm honestly kinda glad for a bit of a break at the moment since I haven't been feeling well.
Oh! The dogs went to the groomer! They are so soft and smell so good. :) And no more grinch toes!
Well...I think that's about all for now.