February in a Nut Shell

Well here it is , I used to write in here a lot and had more time to do this, now I am looking for work, finishing a house renovation and concentrating on my health so this will probably be my last posting for a while. Sorry to say that, but I just need to concentrate on other things and this will stop my family from knowing anything about our lives as some of them still read this unfortunately.

So here is what we have done in the last month in the house, we have sanded all the dry wall and painted the main floor and hung pictures finally. Sanded all the floors in preparation for staining and varnishing, will be 4 to 7 coats of varnish, so we have a glass finish on the floors when completed.

Also this month we have prepared the upstairs floors for painting and finished with mudding the dry wall , all we have to do now is sand everything and then it will be completed up there and all done, holy shit. So happy to be this near to completion and looking back at all the work we have done, am so proud of both of us. We moved in to a house built in 1906 and had carpeting with no underlay, glued to the original hardwood and falling apart, literally dust in parts and certain areas. Walls that were chipping plaster, disgusting mismatched baseboards throughout, then when we took down walls and ceilings we found knob and tube wiring and junction boxes from hell all on our lovely 6 fused electrical panel, no insulation in most of the walls.

So all and all we have done one hell of a lot of work and it has been great. Now both of us going back to work in the very near future.

So that catches you all up on the house, February has been hell for us both as far as colds and flu, Matt was sick for over a week with a cold and he is feeling much better the last week. I have now been down for the count for over two weeks and went back to the doctor on Wednesday and now have pneumonia which has really taken a toll on my body. I have to go back to the doctor on Monday to see if things are getting any better and if the pills that I am on are helping at all. This sucks completely.

I am suffering and I hate it, not out of bed for more than an hour at a time and my chest hurts so bad. I get up to eat and that is about all. my appetite is not quite what it was a couple weeks ago and I am afraid that all the weight I gained the last month I may loose again. I have now quit smoking for 2 months.

Well not much else to say at the moment, except wish us luck to get employment, finish the house and better health. Thank you all for reading and I will be back at least once a month, but that's about all for now. have a great weekend.