April Already
Hard to believe it is April already, but it is. In just a few weeks, Jazz Fest will be beginning. I already have my tickets to two consecutive Fridays since I can't attend the weekends like I always have in the past (because of my current work schedule). Of course...the way things are going around here, I am going to be lucky to be able to be able to break free from here and be able to go on the Fridays.

I didn't think I would EVER get over the pneumonia. Man, it was rough! I am still coughing. I have, however, been able to sneak outside the past two days and get some sanding done on the house. I say sneak, because my husband would throw a fit if he knew that I was doing it, because he still thinks that I should hire someone else to do it. I can't seem to make him understand that the insurance money only goes so far, and that thanks to the crook Raul...it is now impossible for me to be able to hire someone to do the sanding and still have enough money left over to buy the necessary supplies to finish priming the house and caulking it and painting it, not to mention replacing the bad weather boards and wood around the windows.

So...I wait till he goes to work, then till the neighbors have had time to wake up, then it's out to the grind I go. I've been working on the rear of the house to get away with it, so he doesn't notice, and I should get hazard pay for it. We have been infested with Buck Moth caterpillars!!!! They are vicious! If they get you, they leave huge sores, and it isn't funsies. The oak tree in the back yard is about 50 feet tall and is absolutely covered up with them. So in addition to having to wear a full face respirator, eye and ear protection, something over my hair, now I am having to use my peripheral vision to watch for those creatures and do the "constant buck moth dance" to keep them off me. It has to be quite a sight. The up side of it all, is that I suspect I could lose up to 12 pounds this week as a result of this.

Another thing I have found in this process is that sanding creates upper body toning. You ever hold onto a sander for 8 hours non-stop? Well, I've done it for 2 days now. It's like riding a Harley hardtail on gravel! When I tell you my hands are still vibrating and my shoulders are aching, that doesn't even begin to describe it. I guess that could have an upside too, as we are planning to go on vacation during the second week of May, and we are planning to go motorcycle riding with my friend, John Clod, in Missouri. I should be in better shape.

Tomorrow I think I am going to take the day off, however. With my weekend work schedule. I have been getting screwed in the grandmother department. My grandsons are in school, and the only time I get to really see them is on school nights and that just isn't enough time before they have to go to sleep, or on the weekends, when I have to worry about getting enough sleep before I have to wake up at 04:20. So since my daughter wants me to babysit tonight while she goes on a date...I am going to just plan on the boys playing hookie from school tomorrow, and they can have a day with Grandmama. We may just go fishing, or do something else together...just us. I need some one on one time with my guys.